Museum der Weltkulturen

The World Cultures Museum (until 2001: Museum of Ethnology from 2001 to 2010: Museum of World Cultures) is an ethnological museum at the Museum Embankment in Frankfurt am Main.

History

The museum was founded in 1904 as a municipal institution, to merge the owned by the city ethnographic collections. 1908 moved into the museum, the Palais Thurn und Taxis in Frankfurt city center. In 1925 the city acquired the collections of the founded by Leo Frobenius Institute for Cultural morphology of today's Frobenius Institute. Frobenius moved on with his bank to Frankfurt and was an honorary professor at the University of Frankfurt and in 1934 director of the Museum of Ethnology. Also under his successors remained the personal union of the museum director and Director of the Institute made ​​until the University of Frankfurt in 1966 transferred to a state university. Since then, the museum is again as a municipal institution.

During World War II went in the destruction of the palace in the bombing substantial portions of the collections lost. The remaining time outsourced stocks were issued in 1973 in an old mansion on the river Main. The Museum of Ethnology was therefore one of the first museums in the Frankfurt Museum shore.

Meanwhile, the museum extends to the adjacent building Schaumainkai 29 ( the main house ), 35 ( the so-called Villa ) and 37 (gallery 37 ), which had been purchased and remodeled in the 1980s. The collections include approximately 65,000 objects from Oceania, Australia, Southeast Asia, America, Africa and Europe. In the Gallery 37 hosts exhibitions of contemporary works of Native American, African, Oceanic and Indonesian artists instead.

Medium term, the relocation of the museum is intended in a new building that will have about 5,000 square meters of exhibition space and finally provides a comprehensive presentation of the mostly stored collections. A decision on a new location shall fall by the end of 2008.

The building of the villa was renovated Schaumainkai 29 June 2011 to January 2012 and is scheduled to open with Nr.einer exhibition on Fieldwork in the Museum again.

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Exhibitions

  • 2012: OBJECT ATLAS - FIELD RESEARCH IN MUSEUM: Neuhängung the expedition paintings and photographs by Alf Bayrle
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