Linden-Museum

The Linden- Museum in Stuttgart on Hegelplatz is a state museum of Ethnography.

It is one of the largest ethnographic museums in Europe. In addition to special permanent exhibitions on the non-European ethnic groups are shown in the departments Africa, East Asia, South Asia, East Asia, South Pacific, North America, South America.

History

Business leaders from the region in 1882 the Württemberg Association of Trade Geography and promote German interests abroad eV with the aim of promoting geography, economy and culture. The name of the museum dates back to the chairman of the association, Count Karl von Linden (1838-1910), who did not live but the inauguration. In 1889 Linden transformed the that emerged from so-called trade Geographic Museum in the trade hall into a system based on scientific principles Ethnology Museum. Significant contributions to the construction of the collection was made by the last Württemberg King Wilhelm II

The still existing neoclassical building was designed by the prizewinner and architect Georg Eser together with the Stuttgart architects firm Bihl & Woltz in 1911, after approx. 18 months of construction, completed and opened on 28 May 1911. At this time the collections already included some 63,000 objects.

The state of Baden -Württemberg and the city of Stuttgart took over in 1973, public sponsorship for the Linden-Museum as a National Museum of Ethnology. Since then, the society of Earth and Ethnology Stuttgart strives eV as Friends of the Linden-Museum to the spread earth and ethnographic knowledge.

Museum

The Linden- Museum sees itself as a forum of cultures: Multifaceted support programs such as workshops, lectures, concerts, performances of dance and ceremony, movies, theme days, children's events and special tours complement the exhibition program.

Exhibitions

In addition to the seven regionally organized permanent exhibitions on non-European cultures, the Linden -Museum Stuttgart shows regular exhibitions, including:

• From Cape Town to Windhoek: " Hottentots " or Khoekhoen? The rehabilitation of a group of nations (November 29, 2007 - April 27, 2008 )
• Greenland Inuit: Life at the Edge of the World (May 17, 2008 - September 21, 2008 )
• Shamans of Siberia: magician, mediator, healer (December 13, 2008 - June 28, 2009 )
• South Seas oasis: living and surviving in the western Pacific (December 5, 2009 - June 6, 2010 )
• India's Tibet - Tibet India: The cultural heritage of the Western Himalayas ( October 23, 2010 - May 1, 2011)
• Merhaba Stuttgart - 50 Years of German - Turkish labor recruitment ( 5 June to 18 December 2011)
• Worldviews - Great National Exhibition in 2011 (17 September 2011 - January 8, 2012 )
• Maori - The first inhabitants of New Zealand ( 1 April to 14 October 2012)
• Discovery Korea! - Treasures from German Museums (October 13, 2012 - January 13, 2013 )
• Maya Code ( December 21, 2012 - June 2, 2013 )
• Incas - Kings of the Andes ( October 12, 2013 - March 16, 2014 )