With the discovery of the New World in the 15th century, people's everyday lives changed. This also changes the perspective of the visitors: from Lower Saxony to the cultures of the world. Particularly valuable exhibits from the South Seas come from Captain James Cook's second voyage around the world between 1772 and 1775. They are among the oldest examples of material culture from the South Seas in the world and are considered examples of a "still unchanged culture" before contact with Europeans .
In the exhibition, multiperspective approaches repeatedly break through the one-sided, Europe-centered reading of objects. At the end of the tour, so-called "colonic figures" symbolize the colonized's view of the colonizers. At the beginning of the exhibition stands the evolution of man, which took place especially in Africa; at the end, it comes back to Africa again, but this time as a culturally highly exciting place of the present. Thus, relations can be established here between millions of years, between natural history, archeology and ethnology.