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Family: (Nearly) everyone has a family, and yet every family is different! But what’s the stitching that keeps families together? And who’s really responsible for spinning it? In a year-long programme, the Humboldt Forum is exploring the stuff that family ties are made of. Are they full of holes or tightly woven; do they hang on a thread, or are they patchwork or perhaps macramé? It is all about networks of relationships – from artistic, historical, scientific, and international perspectives, and in dialogue with the people of Berlin.

Explore what and who family and family relations can encompass, and the broad variety of ways in which living together is experienced. Everyone involved with the project at the Humboldt Forum is collectively looking at the theme of family relations in the present, past, and future, in a variety of formats including exhibitions, performances, discussions, workshops, guided tours, and interventions throughout the museum.

 

The programme and the exhibition have been jointly curated by all the stakeholders involved at the Humboldt Forum: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss (SHF), Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Overall curatorial directorship: Dr. Laura Goldenbaum (SHF)

 

Selected Events

Programme for Children and Families

Programme for Schools and Kita

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