How are climate change, working conditions in a textile factory in Bangladesh and the extinction of insects in the Uckermark region connected? What does science have to do with our own lives? The inaugural exhibition After Nature at the Humboldt Laboratory focuses on crises of ecological and social systems and links objects from historical collections with contemporary debates and present-day research. The guided tour provides an overview of the exhibition’s focal points and thematic areas.

How are climate change, working conditions in a textile factory in Bangladesh and the extinction of insects in the Uckermark region connected? What does science have to do with our own lives? The inaugural exhibition After Nature at the Humboldt Laboratory focuses on crises of ecological and social systems and links objects from historical collections with contemporary debates and present-day research. The guided tour provides an overview of the exhibition’s focal points and thematic areas.

How are climate change, working conditions in a textile factory in Bangladesh and the extinction of insects in the Uckermark region connected? What does science have to do with our own lives? The opening exhibition After Nature in the Humboldt Laboratory focuses on crises of ecological and social systems and links objects from historical collections with contemporary debates and research. The guided tour provides an overview of the exhibition’s focal points and thematic areas in German sign language.

The exhibition “After Nature” is on show at the Humboldt Laboratory. Humboldt University developed the exhibition: It is about topics such as climate change or democracy. The exhibition shows how scientists are researching these topics. There are old and new objects to see: For example, a robot fish, plastic waste from the sea or old computers. Visitors can find out how things are connected. Things can be tried out at many stations.

The guided tour in simple language is for people with learning difficulties or for people with little knowledge of German.

How does a school of fish actually work? How can you reconstruct an entire prehistoric animal from a fossilised footprint? What does science have to do with our own lives? Questions like these can be discovered in the exhibition After Nature in the Humboldt Laboratory.

The interactive tour is aimed at families with children aged 8 and over.

How are climate change, working conditions in a textile factory in Bangladesh and the extinction of insects in the Uckermark region connected? What does science have to do with our own lives? The inaugural exhibition After Nature at the Humboldt Laboratory focuses on crises of ecological and social systems and links objects from historical collections with contemporary debates and present-day research. With a focus on listening and touch experiences, the guided tour provides an overview of the exhibition’s focal points and thematic areas.

What purposes did a „Kunstkammer“ (Chamber of Arts and Curiosities) serve? Do authoritarian populists threaten our democracies? Where does neuroscience stand today? And what are linguists looking for in language? In the new Humboldt Lab series “Meet the scientist”, scientific researchers present their work. Visitors are offered insights into current scientific projects of different disciplines and are welcome to talk to researchers on an eye-to-eye level.

The series takes place in the Humboldt Lab during normal opening hours. Researchers will give short introductions to their projects and are then open to visitors’ questions. Some of them will speak freely, others will work on research installations or talk about specific objects in the exhibition. All visitors of the exhibition “After Nature” are welcome to participate. Admission is free of charge.

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What are scientists researching in the Antarctic? What is it like to live in a research station at -40 degrees outside? And how is the southernmost continent changing in the face of global warming? Visitors of the exhibition After Nature can ask these and other questions to overwinterers at the Neumayer III polar research station.

Look out for the “Call a Scientist” booth in the exhibition and pick up the receiver to enter into a personal video dialogue with the researchers!

The series One Object, Many Questions focuses specifically on a single object – be it an object in an exhibition or an entire room! In a discussion with an expert, exciting topics are explored that may not be dealt with in detail in the exhibition itself. This can be about the production technique or the symbolic meaning, about previous owners or an object biography, about the knowledge stored in the object or its special charisma. By looking at an object from different perspectives, the complexity and contradictory nature of exhibitions becomes clear, as does the dependence of the meaning of an individual object on its context.
The discussion takes place directly in the exhibitions and is open to your questions and observations.

Once a month since 2021, the Humboldt Lab has been hosting artistic freedom to shake up the scientific point of view. Equipped with a microphone and amplifier, two slam poets stroll through the exhibition “After Nature” to recite texts. Between a digitally animated school of fish, a fifteen-metre-wide satellite view of the world and deceptively real-looking, 150-year-old replicas of apples, visitors are taken on a “verballistic flight” through the science exhibition.

The changing artistic duos of the #Logoskop transform the images from the world’s microscopes and periscopes into a poetic show. They offer a deliberately subjective, heretical, humorous look at the exhibits.

If science is queen in the Humboldt Lab, then the #Logoskop is her court jester. With surprise, provocation and anarchic wordplay, the exhibition “After Nature” will be both explored and taken for a ride.

The #Logoskop is curated and moderated by Bas Böttcher, the first German poetry slam champion.

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Was machen Forscherinnen und Forscher eigentlich genau? Was hat Wissenschaft mit unserem Leben zu tun? Wie hängen der Klimawandel, die Arbeitsbedingungen einer Textilarbeiterin in Bangladesch und das Aussterben von Insekten in der Uckermark miteinander zusammen? Was können Proteste und Demonstrationen bewirken? Und wie funktioniert ein Fischschwarm? Fragen wie diese ziehen sich durch die Ausstellung „Nach der Natur“ im Humboldt Labor. Gezeigt wird die Vielfältigkeit von Wissenschaft und Forschung. In Überblicksführungen lernen Schülerinnen und Schüler ab der Jahrgangsstufe 8, was Wissenschaft bedeutet, welchen Nutzen sie für Gesellschaften haben kann – aber auch, dass sie nicht selten selbst problematische Seiten aufweist.

Bitte buchen Sie die Führung telefonisch unter +49 30 99 211 89 89 oder via E-Mail an education@humboldtforum.org.

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