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Borrow a Media Guide for 3 euros at the information desk in the foyer or use the app free of charge via your own smartphone.
Borrow free of charge on Museum Sunday
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, German Sign Language, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Audiodeskription Deutsch
German Sign Language
Großer Text
45 min • 9 tour stops
Tour: A special place
Countless objects remind us of the long and eventful history of the location where the Humboldt Forum is today.
45 min • 8 tour stops
Tour: Asia
This tour will guide you through the exhibition rooms on the third floor.
45 min • 8 tour stops
Tour: Africa and Oceania
Numerous exciting exhibits from Africa and Oceania await you here.
Tour: Palace of the Republic – Flashbacks
You will encounter flashbacks to the Palace of the Republic in many places in the Humboldt Forum.
30 min • 7 tour stops
Tour: Humboldt Lab
With the “After Nature” exhibition, Humboldt-University zu Berlin opens its spaces in the Humboldt Forum.
45 min • 14 tour stops
Tour: BERLIN GLOBAL
Berlin is the city of stories. And the BERLIN GLOBAL exhibition is as diverse as the city. Revolution, borders and war, fashion, free space and entertainment.
45 min • 9 tour stops
Tour: Architecture
New? Old? Replica or original? Baroque and contemporary architecture – different styles meet at the Humboldt Forum.
Tour: History of the Site – Flashbacks
Go on a hunt for flashbacks!
60 min • 15 tour stops • Humboldt Lab
Tour: »Overtexted«. Literature as Intermedial Practice
In the »Overtexted« tour, researchers invite you to redefine the boundaries of literature.
  • Piktogramm On your smartphone
    On your smartphone

    You can use the Humboldt Forum App free of charge. Simply put on your headphones and turn your smartphone into an audio guide! You can reach the webapp at any time at this address. At the Humboldt Forum you can also scan a QR code to start the Humboldt Forum App – directly at the ticket desk or at the exhibits throughout the building. You can also use the Public WiFi on site.

  • Piktogramm Tours
    Tours

    A special place  · Architecture  · Ethnological Museum  · Museum for Asian Art  · Humboldt Lab  · BERLIN GLOBAL  · Flashbacks. History of the Site  ·  »Overtexted«. Literature as Intermedial Practice  ·

  • Piktogramm QR-Codes
    QR-Codes

    Learn more about your favourite exhibits in audio clips, videos and texts. Simply scan one of the numerous QR codes on site.

  • Piktogramm Languages
    Languages

    Chinese, German, German Sign Language, English, French, Italian, Spanish and Russian, Polish, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese.
    To follow: Easy Language.
    With the BERLIN GLOBAL app on the media guide, you can also experience the “BERLIN GLOBAL” exhibition in eleven additional languages.
Media Guide – Humboldt Forum App
free of charge
Protest
The Tank Man in the exhibition “After Nature” commemorates a young man who confronted a column of tanks in Beijing in 1989.
Cobblestone pavement
One trace of the History of the Site is the Great Palace Courtyard, which was paved with these granite stones in 1836.
Tresor door
Behind this door in the “BERLIN GLOBAL” exhibition was the legendary Berlin techno club “Tresor”, which is considered the birthplace of the techno movement.
Yellow boxfish
This fish specimen comes from the Kunstkammer in the Berlin Palace and, as trace no. 16, is a reminder of the museal history of the site.
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