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Museums and Society - Mapping the Social is a joint project of universities and museums in Berlin. It explores museums as changing social spaces.

Team

The project is a cooperation between Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Museumsforschung at the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin and Museum für Naturkunde Berlin.

The social role of museums is currently the subject of heated debates. With our research, we want to contribute to these debates and lay the foundations for a new joint university-museum research center in Berlin. The interdisciplinary project combines historical perspectives with empirical case studies and practical interventions. Four case studies, closely related to each other, examine:

Digital Image Worlds

Museums as laboratories

Environments

Faces room 314 Museum für Asiatische Kunst Humbolt Forum Berlin photo Ranjamrittika Bhowmik All rights reserved1

Half figure China Xinjiang Yarkhoto 10th 11th c clay with colours Turfan Exhibition1904 1905 photo Ranjamrittika Bhowmik All rights reserved

Affective spaces

News

Insights into our research, our activities, public relations and blog posts:

Events

Booklaunch: "MachtKritikKollaboration. Praxisreflexionen zwischen Aktivismus, Museum und Universität"

Buchvorstellung und Diskussion mit den Beitragenden und der Herausgeberin Dr. Pegah Byroum-Wand am 20. März 2025, 18 Uhr, im FHXB Museum, Adalbertstraße 95A, 10999 Berlin