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Introductory tour

What is the Humboldt Forum?  What do the brothers Alexander and Wilhelm von Humboldt have to do with the building? What models inspired the architect Franco Stelle besides the Berlin Palace? What traces of the site's eventful history can still be found here today?


This tour of the Humboldt Forum will give you an orientation to the building and its core themes.

  • Language: In English
  • 8,00 EUR per person
  • Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the Foyer.
  • Dates and ticket booking for the coming month are released at the end of the previous month.
  • Maximum 15 persons
  • Duration:  60 minutes

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Additional information
Our tip: Find good stories in good books and catalogues. Two new interesting books came out in autumn: Contemporary Art at the Humboldt Forum and The Humboldt Brothers. Stories from the Present, as always in a German and an English edition. 

Contemporary Art in the Humboldt Forum is devoted in impressive photographs and inspiring text to the works of art on the building, but also to selected works of art on the premises of the Ethnological Museum, the Museum of Asian Art and BERLIN GLOBAL. Deutscher Kunstverlag, hardcover, 192 pages, 34.- Euro

The Humboldt Brothers. Stories from the Present links the life and work of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt with the programme of our museum. The book is based on the Humboldt exhibition in the Staircase and the Passage and continues it in an associative way. Prestel Verlag, softcover, 128 pages, 12.50 euros

Therefore, also visit the shop at the Humboldt Forum, or order online.
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July 2024
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