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© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss; Getty Images / Parimal Bansode; bpk / Museum für Asiatische Kunst, SMB / Ute Franz-Scarciglia; bpk / Museum für Islamische Kunst, SMB / Jürgen Liepe; Getty Images / Stockbyte
PRESS RELEASE | 20 January 2022
Special Terrible Beauty concluding programme
With a discussion and film series, an events and outreach programme, as well as a symposium in collaboration with ICOM, our first major special exhibition programme drew around 80,000 visitors to Terrible Beauty. Elephant – Human – Ivory. On 22 and 23 January, the Humboldt Forum invites its visitors to a weekend of events to mark the closing of the exhibition – with the German premiere of Ai Weiwei’s VR project OMNI, and Turning, a discussion event with human rights and environmental activist Sônia Guajajara.
Special Terrible Beauty concluding programme
PRESS RELEASE | 20 January 2022
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© Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss; Getty Images / Parimal Bansode; bpk / Museum für Asiatische Kunst, SMB / Ute Franz-Scarciglia; bpk / Museum für Islamische Kunst, SMB / Jürgen Liepe; Getty Images / Stockbyte
Piles of African elephant ivory set on fire by the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). This burn included over 105 tons of elephant ivory, worth over $150 million. Nairobi National Park, Kenya, 30th April 2016.
As far back as 40,000 years ago, humans were creating objects from mammoth tusks – like this small mammoth figurine.
© bpk / Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg / Manuela Schreiner
Afrikanischer Elefant (Loxodonta africana) mit abgebrochenem Stoßzahn, Chobe-Nationalpark, Botswana
Elefantenzahn mit Relief, Cabinda (Angola), 19. Jh.
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ethnologisches Museum / Martin Franken
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© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and calf walking on savanna, calf looking at camera, Amboseli national park, Kenya.
© Andreanita /Alamy Stock Photo
Wildlife Cameraman filming African Elephants in Amboseli, Kenya.
© MICHAEL CUTHBERT / Alamy Stock Photo