Ethnological Museum in Hamburg

The Hamburg Ethnological Museum invites visitors to explore objects of African and South American cultures.

The museum was founded in 1879. Then it was located in the city library and had 645 exhibits, which began to collect in 1849. The task of the museum staff was to collect all possible data on a particular country after the expeditions. In 1909, an expedition to the Marshall Islands was made. They collected data on the geographical environment, people, the economic system, religious concepts, medical knowledge and art. All the artifacts collected are unique and valuable from a historical point of view.

The collection of the museum, consisting of 350 thousand exhibits and 400 thousand historical photographs from all parts of the world, is placed on the exhibition area of the museum, occupying 5000 square meters. These exhibits will tell about the history of Africa, Australia, America, Europe, South Seas and Indonesia.

The museum also hosts open discussions, screenings of informative films, lectures with the aim of getting to know different cultures from around the world.