Humboldting!

Humboldting! (2021-2026)

Inspired by Alexander von Humboldt’s five-year expedition to America, 30 school pupils from Berlin’s Märkisches Viertel are setting off on a five-year voyage of discovery around the Humboldt Forum. Their journey will be completely in the spirit of the Humboldt brothers: courageous, creative and full of the joy of discovery.

With the help of a varying line-up of international artists, they will investigate every centimetre of the Humboldt Forum: the museum collections, the building, the history of the site, the ethical questions, the staff, the air conditioning, the museum shops, the cuisine, the international cultural sector and the pigeons on the roof. Everything!

For the duration of this five-year artistic educational programme, these young researchers will examine a new aspect of the Humboldt Forum every six months. They will then present their results to a wider audience in a series of public events.

The Humboldting! project will not only introduce the students to the many different themes of the Humboldt Forum, but above all will create meaningful and hopefully lasting personal and professional bonds between the young people, the Humboldt Forum staff and the wider museum community and cultural world.

Humboldting! is lead by Darren O’Donnell and Alice Flemming. Patrick Blenkarn and Milton Lim are the Humboldting! artists for Autumn 2024.

For more information about the project, visit The Humboldt Forum