MISSION STATEMENT

Weltkulturen Museum 2020
Production: Urban Media Project 
We thank the Frankfurt Department of Culture for their kind support.
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MISSION STATEMENT

The Weltkulturen Museum is an ethnological museum which is committed to interdisciplinary cooperation and operates at the intersection of ethnology and art.

As a museum that is part of the city of Frankfurt, it provides a link between the local and global levels. It is engaged in an active process of international exchange with partners from Indigenous cultures and non-European societies.

As a forum for transcultural exchange we promote a diverse spectrum of worldviews, historiographies, religions and aesthetics, as well as an acceptance and appreciation of the same.

We are committed to preserving, looking after and researching the collections by establishing a dialogue with their societies of origin and with artists and scholars. One of our key goals is researching provenance and critically reappraising colonial contexts.

The Weltkulturen Museum stands against any kind of exclusion or stigmatisation and seeks to contribute to processes of decolonisation.

We work together as a team to bring our projects to fruition and value the wishes and needs of our visitors.

The Weltkulturen Museum signed the Heidelberg Statement “Decolonising requires dialogue, expertise and support” in 2019 as well as the Zurich Declaration "Museums, the public, politicians and the media have a duty" in 2024.