Alma M. Karlin Alone Around the World 16 September 2021 to 18 January 2022 About the exhibition About the exhibition The writer Alma M. Karlin was born in 1889. Her birth town, Celje in modern-day Slovenia, was then dominated by the rift between Slovenian and German speakers and nationalism movements in the Habsburg Empire of the time, engendering a political narrow-mindedness that Karlin spent her entire life trying to escape. She studied several languages in London and embarked on a world...

Yussef Agbo-Ola Yussef Agbo-Ola, born 1990, Newport News, Virginia, United States, is an artist and medicinal architect living between London, Lagos, and the Amazon Forest. Born in rural Virginia in a multi-heritage Nigerian, African-American, and Cherokee household, his work reflects hybrid identities and relationships to different landscapes, ecologies, and cultural rituals. Agbo-Ola’s multidisciplinary artistic practice is concerned with interpreting natural energy systems, through...

Colonialism on the Window Sill 28 May 2025 to 25 May 2026 This exhibition shines a spotlight on ten plants that have been favourites of European living rooms and balconies for centuries, though their natural habitats are outside the continent. These plants share a history with our ethnographic collections; some of them joined the objects on long naval voyages to reach Europe and the museums. Beyond the demand for medicinal plants and crops (nowadays ‘cash crops’ that are cultivated on a grand...

cook café & bistro cook café & bistro The exceptional creativity and character of the cook café & bistro will captivate the senses of all visitors in the Hall of Columns, which is accessible also without a ticket. Seasonal and regional products take centre stage at the cook café & bistro: our chefs only work with the freshest of ingredients and accept nothing but highest quality. Treat yourself to our exquisite delicacies prepared with love and passion in comfortable atmosphere before, during,...