Ethnological Museum of Berlin
Location of Ethnological Museum in Berlin, Germany Ethnological Museum of Berlin (Germany) | |
Former name | Museum für Völkerkunde Berlin-Dahlem |
|---|---|
| Established | Original in 1873, new building in 1886, and after World War II rebuilt in present form in 1970 |
| Location | Mitte |
| Coordinates | 52°31′03″N 13°24′10″E / 52.5175°N 13.402778°E |
| Type | Ethnological |
| Director | Viola König |
| Website | Ethnologisches Museum |
The Ethnologisches Museum Berlin (English: Ethnological Museum of Berlin) is an ethnological museum, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (English: State Museums of the Prussian Heritage Foundation), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. Its exhibitions are located in the Humboldt Forum in Mitte, along with the Museum für Asiatische Kunst (English: Museum of Asian Arts).
The museum holds more than 500,000 objects and is one of the world's largest important collections of works of art and culture from outside Europe. Its highlights include objects from the Sepik River, Hawaii, the Kingdom of Benin, Cameroon, Congo, Tanzania, China, the Pacific Coast of North America, Mesoamerica, the Andes, as well as one of the first ethnomusicology collections of sound recordings (the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv).