Ethnological Museum of Berlin

Ethnological Museum of Berlin, Germany

Location of Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany
Established	Original in 1873, new building in 1886, and after World War II rebuilt in present form in 1970
Dissolved	Destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in present form in 1970
Location	Dahlem
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Type	Ethnological
Website	http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objectId=56

The Ethnological Museum in Berlin (German: Ethnologisches Museum; until 1999 Museum für Völkerkunde) is one of the largest ethnological museums in the world. It houses half a million pre-industrial objects, acquired primarily from the German voyages of exploration and colonialization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is famous for its reconstructed houses from around the world, its boats, and its many Benin bronzes.

The museum is located in the Dahlem neighborhood of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Berlin. It shares a building with the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, and the Museum Europäischer Kulturen. It is one of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (National Museums in Berlin).

The museum includes one of the first ethnomusicology collections of sound recordings (the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv), a film archive, a children's museum, and a museum for the blind.

Gallery

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  The Melanesian room, with reconstructed houses

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  Exhibit featuring artefacts from the indigenous communities of North America

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  Exhibit deaturing artefacts from Mesoamerica

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  Tepukei (ocean-going outrigger canoe) from the Santa Cruz Islands collected by Dr Gerd Koch

External links

• Media related to at Wikimedia Commons
• Museum website (English)
• Site map of National Museums in Berlin
• Flickr 205 images