State Museum of Ethnology

The State Museum of Ethnology in the Maximilian Strasse in Munich was founded in 1862. A branch office is located in the Royal Palace Oettingen.

In the museum's collection are claims to more than 160,000 works of art of non-European peoples, 135,000 photographs and over 100,000 books comprehensive technical library. The collections of the Wittelsbach family form a historical basis. Permanent exhibitions and thematic exhibitions show similarities and differences between different cultures.

Building

The museum building was up in 1865 by Eduard Riedel built in 1859 as the Bavarian National Museum, its collections, however, are housed in a new museum building at the Prince Regent Street since 1900. The client was King Maximilian II, on whose initiative the Maximilian street was built. Since 1926, the Museum of Ethnology is located at the Maximilian street in the house. The architecture was influenced by the English Perpendicular style.

Collection priorities

  • North America Leather Clothing
  • Feather headdresses
  • Masks
  • The oldest surviving kayak in the world from the year 1577.
  • South America Ceramics, jewelry, vessels and textiles
  • Objects made ​​of gold, silver and wood
  • Art of the Incas and the Indians of Mexico
  • Gods and War Figures
  • Masks
  • Mapuche
  • Africa Plastic arts with masks and figures
  • Sculptures, bronzes and ivory carvings
  • Arms
  • Silver crafts
  • Body Jewelry
  • Islamic Orient religious Artifacts
  • Tile facade of a mosque
  • Calligraphy
  • Wall cladding of the Holy Shrine
  • Grave steles
  • South Asia statues of gods
  • Fragment of the Buddha Kapardin
  • Buddha heads
  • Statues of Shiva and Krishna
  • East Asia wooden sculptures
  • Buddha Amitabha
  • Ivory model of a pagoda from the Chinese emperor
  • Carvings from China, Japan and Indonesia
  • Japanese temple hall with large enthroned Buddha and guardian figures
  • Oceania Polynesian stick deity (Cook Islands)
  • Melanesian paddle depicting a fishing scene
  • Malangan figure from Melanesia

Special

  • From Samoa with Love? Samoa Völkerschauen in the German Empire. A search for clues. January 31 to October 5, 2014.
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