What is the Humboldt Forum's position on globally discussed questions about handling collections from colonial contexts? With the opening of the Forum, this volume is bringing international voices together.How can western approaches be broken down? How are ethnological objects in European collections perceived in the societies from which they originated? How do researchers gain free access worldwide to archives, inventories and exhibits in museums? The Humboldt Forum already began dealing with these questions as it was being developed and is supported in this by international museum experts. Berlin's new venue for culture and science presents itself as a forum in the literal sense: a place for diversity of opinion and international debates.