Dresden Ethnographic Museum

Dresden Ethnographic Museum is located in the central part of the city, in the Japanese Palace, which is an architectural monument of the XVIII century. The history of the museum began in 1560 with a small “cabinet of curiosities”, founded by the Saxon Elector Augustus. Now the collection of the museum includes more than 160 thousand exhibits brought from around the world, and is of great historical and cultural value.

The museum contains about 90,000 items and 70,000 documents and photographs. The permanent exhibitions "Australia and Oceania", "Africa", "Asia", "America", "Europe" are presented here, as well as various temporary exhibitions are regularly held. All of them tell about the history of the development of peoples and continents, represent their features and characteristics.