German Ethnographic Museums

Tatyana Dianova · 13th September 2009, 09:10 PM

Tim, I have visited ethnographic museums in Munich, Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. In Dresden the museum building is still under the reconstruction, so they have only some exhibitions and no regular museum rooms.
In Berlin I have had only 2 hours for the Dahlem museum, so I haven't visited the rooms that may be of interest to you. I have looked only at the Indian and South-Eastern exposition, and, well, I was more disappointed than impressed. For example, the Indian arms shown at the Indian museum you may count on the fingers of one hand :-( The same for Munich (but I was lucky to see there a Japanese exhibition :-)
The Grassi museum in Leipzig is my favorite: it has very well made and interesting exposition, with many arms shown, among them many African arms. Although this museum was newly restored, its exposition resembles by its style old museums, unlike Berlin (or Leiden, which was another disappointment to me – a lot of museum space - and not so many items shown…)

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13th September 2009, 09:10 PM	#2
Tatyana Dianova Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 734	Tim, I have visited ethnographic museums in Munich, Berlin, Leipzig and Dresden. In Dresden the museum building is still under the reconstruction, so they have only some exhibitions and no regular museum rooms. In Berlin I have had only 2 hours for the Dahlem museum, so I haven't visited the rooms that may be of interest to you. I have looked only at the Indian and South-Eastern exposition, and, well, I was more disappointed than impressed. For example, the Indian arms shown at the Indian museum you may count on the fingers of one hand :-( The same for Munich (but I was lucky to see there a Japanese exhibition :-) The Grassi museum in Leipzig is my favorite: it has very well made and interesting exposition, with many arms shown, among them many African arms. Although this museum was newly restored, its exposition resembles by its style old museums, unlike Berlin (or Leiden, which was another disappointment to me – a lot of museum space - and not so many items shown…)