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Students conducted research on Philippine objects at the Museum der Kulturen Basel
lb/db. While searching for objects of Philippine material culture held in museum collections in Switzerland and kept in storage, studiyo filipino was contacted by the Museum der Kulturen Basel (MKB)

“Who was Carmen Mory?” and other Insta Stories
sw/lb. Who was Carmen Mory? Carmen Mory was a Swiss gestapo agent. Born in 1906 in Berne, she left for Berlin in 1932 to work there as a journalist. Attracted

The mayumi myth – or what it’s like to be a Filipino woman in Switzerland
«Filipina Beauty» by Lenny Bugayong & Cécile Bünter Discaimer: This text is currently only available in German. You can read an automatically generated (albeit flawed) translation by Google. Als die

“Kultursensibel oder doch Ube-Bashing?” – Ube in Swiss media
(This blog entry is currently only available in German. For an automatically generated English version, click here.) Seit dem globalen Hype um die violette Yams-Wurzel, ist der Ube-Trend unlängst

“Our Bodies Remember: From Display to Dignity” – By BIBAK Group
At the Spring Rumble on 14 March 2026, our friends from BIBAK Switzerland took the stage in the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich. The following contribution is from Lorena

Welcome to Our Residency at V?MZ: “Rumble in the Archive”
lb. In 2014, when a student of mine first pointed out to me that there were objects from the Philippines kept at the Ethnographic Museum University of Zurich (V?MZ*), my curiosity