Ethnological Museum
Hofburg, Museum of Ethnology, Vienna, Austria
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The Museum of Ethnology is located in the 1st district of the Inner City of Vienna. It has been located since 1876 in the southern wing of the facade of the former Imperial Hofburg Palace. The exposition of the museum consists of exhibits devoted to ethnography and anthropology, interethnic non-European cultures. The large collection of the museum is collected with the help of researchers, travelers, ethnographers and anthropologists. The first exhibits date back to 1806.
In the royal marble halls: Africa, Asia, Oceania, North and South America, more than 200 thousand interesting exhibits, 25 thousand unique photographs and scientific works are widely presented. They reveal the culture, life, crafts of these peoples.
In the collections of the Vienna Ethnological Museum you can see unusual products of the Aztecs from feathers, the crown of their leader Montezume deserves special attention. The attention of visitors is attracted by jewelry and products made of bronze and ivory from Benin, mysterious Mexican artifacts. Among them are items brought by James Cook himself from his first expedition. The Museum of Ethnology is also famous for the collection of K. von Hügel, collected by him during his travels in India, Southeast Asia and China.