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Munich State Museum
of Ethnology
Permanent and Temporary
Exhibitions
Open: Tuesday - Sunday 9.30 a.m. - 5.15 p.m.
Art and artefacts from Africa, the Americas, South- and East Asia, the
Muslim World and Oceania
Adults € 3.50/ Reduced € 2.50/ on Sundays € 1,00
Free admission for children under 15 and school classes
Guides tours on request
Accessible to the handicapped
Café and Shop
Public Transport
Underground: U4 and U5 to Lehel
City Train (S-Bahn) to Isartor
Tram 17 and 19 to Maxmonument
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, outnumbered by Berlin only, with a collection
of 150.000 objects and an exhibition area of 4.500 square meters.
The total area of the house (facilities, magazines, offices) is about
12.000 sqm, worked by a staff of 50-60 persons.
Seven curators are
responsible for their (regional) departments and the objects are also
under the surveillance of three restaurators. The museum has his own facilities
for carpenting, metalworking, painting and restauration.
The museum has his
own security staff for the building as well as for the exhibitions, and
a permanent security office is working day-and-night-shifts 24 hours a
day. Additionally during the nights an electronical security system is
activated with direct connection to the police department. A modern fire-alarm-system
is also part of the museums' security systems.
A meeting- and conference-room
(200 visitors max.) with a stage for music and dance is to be found in
the first floor.
On the second floor
you find the permanent exhibitions for Art and Culture of the Americas
and of Africa and on the first floor you can see an exhibition about the
Islamic World and - starting at the end of June - there'll be a very fine
exhibition about the Art of Oceania.
Every year the museum
tries to illustrate a special subject in a non-permanent exhibition. This year's subjects are Mazu - Chinesische Göttin der Seefahrt. Greetings of the Seafarer's Goddess Mazu by Lin Chih-hsin (handcoloured wood cut, 11-02 to 04-10-2009) and UrSprung in der Südsee - An Encounter with th Pentecost Landdivers (20-06 to 13-09-2009).
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