Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin

Etnologiska museet i Berlin, fram till 1999 Museum für Völkerkunde. Museet grundades 1873. Under åren 1886 - 1945 (?) låg det på Stresemannstrasse. I början av 1900-talet fanns en Generalförvaltning för de Kungliga museerna i Berlin. Byggnaden förstördes under andra världskriget. Därefter installerades ett nytt i Dahlem. År 2019 flyttar det till den nya byggnaden Slottet (Royal Palace, en del av Humboldt Forum) där det ingår som ett av flera museer.

Göteborgs etnografiska museum (GEM, numera Världskulturmuseet) har bytt många samlingar med detta museum. Från dem har Etnografiska museet, Stockholm förvärvat gipsavgjutningar av föremål från de olika museerna i Berlin.

Bild av Etnologiska museet, Dahlem från Wikimedia (Julius1990, cc: by-sa)

The beginnings of the Ethnological Museum date back to the Cabinet of Art and Rarities belonging to the Electors of Brandenburg. As early as the seventeenth century they collected not only works of European art but also rare objects from distant parts of the world. They eventually formed the Royal Prussian Art Cabinet from which, in 1829, the "Ethnographic Collection" was created. This collection then moved into the Neues Museum on Museum Island.

The Ethnological Museum was founded in 1873 and in 1886 it moved into its own building in Stresemannstrasse. Under its first director, Adolf Bastian, who died in 1905, acquisitions from throughout the world systematically increased the museum's possessions.

The building in Stresemannstrasse was destroyed during World War II. As a result all surviving objects which had been removed for safekeeping were reunited after the war in the former storage building in Dahlem. By 1970 new extensions had been completed providing facilities not only for the Ethnological Museum but also for the Museums of East Asian and Indian Art. (http://smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=56&p=1, 2010-06-16)