20.06.2024Publication of the Zurich Declaration 2024

At the Annual Conference of Directors of Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums and Collections in German-speaking Countries, the Zurich Declaration 2024 has been drawn up and signed. The Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, the Museum Rietberg and the North American Native Museum NONAM jointly organised this year's annual conference in Zurich and coordinated the joint development of the "Zurich Declaration 2024" by the directors.

In May 2019, the Annual Conference of the Directors of Ethnographic and World Cultures Museums and Collections in German-speaking Countries published The Heidelberg State­ment, entitled 'Decolonisation requires dialogue, expertise and support'. We welcome the fact that the Heidelberg Statement is now being accepted as the voice of our museums.

With this Zurich Declaration 2024, we are raising public, political and media awareness of the potential of ethnographic and world cultures museums and collections in the context of growing global nationalism and crises.

Ethnographic Museum UZH