Museum of Ethnology, Vienna

The World Museum Vienna, previously the Museum of Ethnology, is an ethnological museum in the Vienna Hofburg.

History

In 1806, part of a collection of James Cook for "kk was Ethnographic Collection " acquired. From 1876 the holdings of the anthropological-ethnographic department of the Natural History Museum were taken later. On 28 May 1928, the opening of its own " Museum of Ethnology " was. Since 2001, the museum is managed by the Museum of Fine Arts. After extensive renovation, it was reopened in May 2007. But this is true only for special exhibitions. The permanent exhibition is now no longer open to the public since 2001.

In April 2013, the museum was renamed the World Museum in Vienna.

Collection priorities

The museum has more than 200,000 ethnographic objects, 25,000 historical photographs and 136,000 books on the culture and history of non-European peoples. In addition to the collection of Cook, with objects from Oceania and North America, there are pre-Columbian spring works like Montezuma's feather crown, the large collection of Johann Natterer from the Austrian expedition to Brazil, bronzes from the West African kingdom of Benin, as well as about 14,000 objects, the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand on his could gather world trip.

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General Director of the Kunsthistorisches Museum with the Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum since the beginning of 2009 Sabine Haag. From 2010, after the departure of Christian Feest, she headed to the Museum of Ethnology interim basis. On 1 May 2012, the Dutchman Steven Engelsman became the new director.

Pictures

Mukudj mask from Gabon, 19th century

Xipe Totec head of Mexico, around 1500 AD