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Art as Loot. 10 stories

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From spring 2024, the Humboldt Forum will be showing the temporary exhibition Kunst als Beute. 10 Stories. Ten case studies illustrate the complex topic of looted art across three different eras: looted art in the colonial period, looted art during the Napoleonic conquests in the 18th century and the period of the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945.

The objects from the collections of the Mauritshuis (The Hague, Netherlands), three Berlin museums (Ethnological Museum, Stadtmuseum and Gipsformerei) and the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes are presented in the original and as replicas. Among other things, visitors will encounter the horse's head of the Quadriga, a self-portrait by Rembrandt or a magic wand from Surinam, replicas and moulds of the Benin bronzes.

With the help of virtual reality applications, selected stories can be experienced and are thought-provoking: In what contexts were these objects looted? How do museums deal with looted art today? And what else should be done in the future?

The exhibition is a cooperation between the Mauritshuis in Den Haag, the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss, the Stadtmuseum Berlin and the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz.


- free of charge
- Languages:German/English
- Location: 3rd floor
- Duration: 21 March 2024 - 26 January 2025
- Opening hours:Exhibitions: Wednesdays to Mondays from 10:30 - 18:30. Tuesday is a regular closing day.

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