Ethnological Museum in Dahlem

The Ethnological Museum in Berlin is part of the huge museum complex of the Berlin-Dahlem Museum Center. The museum’s extensive collection makes it one of the largest in the world. It was founded in 1873 by Adolf Bastian.

Visitors can view more than one million exhibits showing the beauty and diversity of the pre-industrial world. Among them are unique and amazing artifacts from around the world (mainly from Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Australia, the Pacific and South America) - traditional objects of worship, terracotta and bronze sculpture, masks, jewelry, musical instruments and much more. Each culture and geographical region corresponds to the hall in the museum. There is also a small museum for children and a museum for the blind.