Current Exhibitions

Mask Dances? Five Questions on Ritual Costumes from Sri Lanka

The Ethnographic Museum is displaying masks, costumes and ritual objects from Sri Lanka. The exhibition creates space for encounters and questions the museum's own history. Until 15 September 2024.
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/Masks.html
Looted Goods? Five Questions on Objects from China

A new workspace exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich now shines a light on objects that may have been looted from China. Until 12 May 2024.
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2023/looted-cultural-heritage.html
Business Idea? Five Questions on the Noanamá Object Sets

A workspace exhibition at the Ethnographic Museum explores the commercial collecting practice and the relationships it creates. Until 21 January 2024.
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2022/business-model.html
Honeymoon? Five Questions on the Hans Paasche Collection

The workshop exhibition provides insights into current research between ethnology, provenance research and collaboration with experts from the region of origin. Until 21 January 2024.
https://www.news.uzh.ch/en/articles/media/2022/Honeymoon.html
JAPARI – Our living memory

Meet the magic of kené – ancestral Shipibo-Konibo geometric designs, which are usually illustrated in tapestries or ceramics. Online exhibition in Spanish, French, German and English.
https://www.reich-der-bilder.de/360/japari/

Exhibitions

19.9.2023 - 14.10.2023: Ausstellung in Erinnerung an den Physik-Nobelpreisträger K. Alex Müller, 1927 - 2023

Ort: Y24, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zürich

More 19.9.2023 - 14.10.2023: Ausstellung in Erinnerung an den Physik-Nobelpreisträger K. Alex Müller, 1927 - 2023
14.7.2023 - 15.9.2024: Maskenspiel? 5 Fragen an Ritualkostüme aus Sri Lanka

Völkerkundemuseum. PEA, Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zürich

More 14.7.2023 - 15.9.2024: Maskenspiel? 5 Fragen an Ritualkostüme aus Sri Lanka
3.3.2023 - 12.5.2024: Plünderware? 5 Fragen an Objekte aus China am Ende der Kaiserzeit

Ort: PEA, Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zürich

More 3.3.2023 - 12.5.2024: Plünderware? 5 Fragen an Objekte aus China am Ende der Kaiserzeit
7.10.2022 - 21.1.2024: Geschäftsidee? 5 Fragen an ‚das Objekt-Set‘ von Noanamá aus Kolumbien

Ort: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zürich

More 7.10.2022 - 21.1.2024: Geschäftsidee? 5 Fragen an ‚das Objekt-Set‘ von Noanamá aus Kolumbien
22.5.2022 - 21.1.2024: Hochzeitsreise? 5 Fragen an die ‚Sammlung Hans Paasche‘ aus Ostafrika

Ort: Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich, Pelikanstrasse 40, 8001 Zürich

More 22.5.2022 - 21.1.2024: Hochzeitsreise? 5 Fragen an die ‚Sammlung Hans Paasche‘ aus Ostafrika