Germany

last update: Oct 27, 2008 01:42 PM

List of Museums in Germany

Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde — by Kris Molle — last modified Oct 27, 2008 12:24 PM: The Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde München was founded in 1868. The first collectors of artefacts and objects from outside Europe, which are today part of the museum's collections, were members of the Wittelsbacher family, the royal dynasty of Bavaria. In 1830, for example, King Ludwig I bought a large collection of ethnographical objects from India and Oceania. Today, the museum is the second largest in Germany, surpassed by Berlin only, with a collection of 200,000 objects and an exhibition area of 4,500 square meters.

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