Ethnologisches Museum Berlin

Ethnologisches MuseumLansstraße 8
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

 

Raggiungibile da Berlino con treno di superficie. Di stampo etnografico, rigoroso e didascalico, il Museo Etnologico di Berlino-Dahlem vanta una delle migliori collezioni del mondo suddivise geograficamente. Per una visita generica occorrono più di tre ore.

I depositi del museo contenevano 30000 pezzi solo sulla storia degli Indiani d'America, ma molti di essi sono andati perduti a causa della IIa Guerra Mondiale, che vide la distruzione della sede di Stresemannstrasse. Nel 1992, dopo la partenza dei Sovietici ed acquisizioni di nuovi locali, é stato possibile organizzare la fruizione al pubblico. Gli oggetti esposti risalgono alla prima metà del XIX secolo. Dalle popolazioni delle praterie centrali a quelle che occupavano i territori verso il Messico; dalle grandi distese della Groenlandia, dove vivevano gli eschimesi, al Nord-Est della attuale Alaska popolato da etnie che vivevano di pesca. Una sezione del web della Galleria raccoglie molte immagini e testi che tracciano il quadro di una produzione di grande interesse, spesso segnata da raffinate soluzioni formali e cromatiche, e dalla quale è perfettamente rintracciabile il rapporto con l'arte del Centro America.

Di superbo interesse sono la Sezione del Mare del Sud con Australia e Oceania (compresa l'isola di Pasqua con pregevoli esempi di arte lignea) e la sezione Africa.

 

Ethnological Museum With a total of 500,000 objects from throughout the world and large numbers of sound recordings, documentary photographs and films, the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum) ranks among the largest and best of its kind. The museum collects, preserves and researches cultural products of pre-industrial societies, primarily outside of Europe.   The collection The museum currently embraces the following collections: Africa, American archaeology, American ethnology, Europe, the Islamic World, Eastern and Northern Asia, South and South-East Asia, the South Seas and Australia, as well as the ethnology of music. Other facilities include the Children's Museum and the Museum for the Blind. Permanent Exhibitions American Archaeology The exhibition "American Archaeology" presents the great diversity of pre-Hispanic cultures in Meso-, Central and South America from 2,000 BC to the first half of the 16th century. Exhibits include unique stelae from Guatemala with carved reliefs, painted stoneware vessels of the Maya, Aztec stone figures of gods and a selection of gold objects from Central America, Colombia and Peru. North American Indians The exhibition illustrates past and contemporary culture of the Plains Indians, of the South West, of California and of the Arctic. South Sea The permanent South Seas exhibition presents cultures from Oceania and Australia. The Boat Hall contains a great variety of vessels including a twin-hulled boat from Tonga which visitors can enter. East Asia The display concentrates on traditional everyday culture in China at the end of the imperial period and folk art from Japan - charms, devotional items and cult toys donated by Hannelore Großmann. Africa The exhibition was re-opened at the end of August 2005 under the title "Art from Africa".   The beginnings. 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.

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