Best Ethnographic Sites?

[ArmsAndAntiques]

Several more museums to visit, I'm surprised some of these have yet to be mentioned.

Newark Museum- One of the finest collections of Tibetan items in the Western Hemisphere (at least on display, the Smithsonian Anthropology archives has some top notch stuff but it's all packed away) They have a magnificent Ottoman dagger in quasi-Sino-Tibetan mounts. Really interesting as well as some Indonesian and other items. Worth the visit if you want to brave downtown Newark. Not so bad really.

Walters Museum of Art (Baltimore)- World class quality Islamic arms and armor, some fine Japanese items, and some European.

Art Institute of Chicago- Awesome section on European arms and armor. They have some wonderful stuff in the archives also.

Museum of Cultural History (Oslo)- great ethnographic collection. I'm always surprised by how much is in Scandinavia, and Norway in particular, until you realize they were part of the Danes for so long and the seafaring merchants and burghers of Oslo must have brought back loads of stuff as well.

Forsvarsmuseet (Oslo)- A great military museum with quite a few ethnographic items in the mix. Main focus on Europe but a real cracker jack collection, with awesome cannons especially. One of the only real sled cannons I've seen in person.

Many more out there. A comprehensive list would be ideal. But not enough time...

[Rich]

While I don't have a list of museums, other than the Smithsonian in DC, I do have a lot of links to other ethnographic weapons sites on my website. The
specific page is:

http://japaneseswordindex.com/world.htm

Hope you find some of the links useful. A few may be out of date as I haven't done a full link check for my entire site in a long time. No doubt most of you know about many of them already.

Rich S

[Pieje]

A must when in the region (Brussels/Belgium): http://www.africamuseum.be/home?set_language=en&cl=en

Unfortunately it just closed its doors for a three year renovation period.

With an online collection database: http://www.africamuseum.be/collectio...humansciences/

[Congoblades]

So when you visit Belgium there is also the musee africain de Namur, not as big as the Africamuseum in Brussels but surely worth a visit. There are lots of weapons on display. http://www.museeafricainnamur.be

[Pieje]

To stay in Belgium...a couple of shots from weapons on display in the Afrika Museum (former Congo Museum) in Tervuren/Brussels.