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After Nature

The Humboldt Lab’s inaugural exhibition
Until 22.6.2025

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	Free admission
	Timed ticket required
	English, German
	Accessible for wheelchairs
	Humboldt Lab, 1st floor

Free admission

What do climate change and species extinction have to do with the crisis of democracy?

Swarm Intelligence

An interactive school of fish reacts to the movements of the audience referring to the sensitivity of and threat to eco-systems and biodiversity.

Orobates Papsti

This colorful model of a primordial dinosaur shows what top-notch research can achieve, and also reveals what we still have left to discover.

“Fairy Liquid”

Consumption and pollution: In the oceans, it would take 450 years for this plastic bottle to decompose into micro-particles.

“=I DOUBT THAT!=”

Doubt as the engine of research, here in a comment in the margin of a lecture transcript from 1885.

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Orobates pabsti

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Kunststoffflasche „Fairy Liquid“

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"I DOUBT This!" – the commentary on the margin of a lecture transcript from the summer semester of 1885 reads as if it were an exclamation. Friedrich Blanck uses capital letters, equality and exclamation marks to reinforce his doubt. The author was a student at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (today's Humboldt-Universität) in Berlin.

What to expect

Global environmental changes not only pose a threat to the very basis of our livelihoods; they also have far-reaching repercussions for the political and social structures of societies. The Humboldt Lab’s inaugural exhibition After Nature deals with the interdependencies of climate change and the loss of biodiversity and with worldwide challenges to democratic principles of order.

Event series

Humboldt Labor Medienguide Tour

Zugetextet Medienguide Tour

Curatorial Direction Dr. Gorch Pieken Project Management Maria Ollesch Curatorial Team Dr. Friedrich von Bose, Andreas Geißler, Katja Widmann Free Curatorial Collaboration Dr. Ibou Diop, Katharina Grosch, Franka Schneider, Antonia von Trott zu Solz Exhibition Design Inside Outside | Petra Blaisse Media Scenography schnellebuntebilder

To the Humboldt Lab’s Website

The Humboldt Lab is a project by Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Programme overview

After Nature

What do climate change and species extinction have to do with the crisis of democracy?

An interactive school of fish reacts to the movements of the audience referring to the sensitivity of and threat to eco-systems and biodiversity.

This colorful model of a primordial dinosaur shows what top-notch research can achieve, and also reveals what we still have left to discover.

Consumption and pollution: In the oceans, it would take 450 years for this plastic bottle to decompose into micro-particles.

Doubt as the engine of research, here in a comment in the margin of a lecture transcript from 1885.

What to expect

The interactive exhibition is a sort of wunderkammer of diverse items that reconsider the political ideologies inextricably entwined in scientific research.

The mix is surprising and makes you curious.

… achieved a masterpiece of science communication that does not eschew complexity but makes you curious about it.

… the Humboldt-Universität has shown the courage to design a multi-media, non-linear exhibition that is able to effectively highlight current issues and connections.

Event series

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After Nature

What do climate change and species extinction have to do with the crisis of democracy?

An interactive school of fish reacts to the movements of the audience referring to the sensitivity of and threat to eco-systems and biodiversity.

This colorful model of a primordial dinosaur shows what top-notch research can achieve, and also reveals what we still have left to discover.

Consumption and pollution: In the oceans, it would take 450 years for this plastic bottle to decompose into micro-particles.

Doubt as the engine of research, here in a comment in the margin of a lecture transcript from 1885.

What to expect

The interactive exhibition is a sort of wunderkammer of diverse items that reconsider the political ideologies inextricably entwined in scientific research.

The mix is surprising and makes you curious.

… achieved a masterpiece of science communication that does not eschew complexity but makes you curious about it.

… the Humboldt-Universität has shown the courage to design a multi-media, non-linear exhibition that is able to effectively highlight current issues and connections.

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