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Curators

The curators of The Tropics. Views from the Middle of the Globe are
Alfons Hug, director of the Goethe Institute in Rio de Janeiro; Peter Junge, curator of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin; and Viola König, director the Ethnological Museum in Berlin.

The exhibition is a joint project of the Goethe Institute and the Berlin Ethnological Museum and was made possible by the support of the Federal Cultural Foundation. The programme of events in Berlin was organised in co-operation with the Ibero-American Institute, Hebbel am Ufer and the Friends of the German Cinematheque / Cinema Arsenal.