Dresden Museum of Ethnology

The Dresden Museum of Ethnology (German: Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden) contains an ethnographic collection with more than 90,000 artefacts from all parts of the earth. It is part of the Dresden State Art Collections. Founded in 1875, the museum presents continually changing exhibitions in the Japanisches Palais, a Baroque building complex in Dresden, Germany.

Japanisches Palais which houses the Museum of Ethnology

The collection has its origins in the cabinet of curiosities established by Augustus, Elector of Saxony in 1560.

See also

• List of museums in Saxony

External links

Media related to Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden at Wikimedia Commons

• Ethnographical Museum Homepage of the Dresden State Art Collections
• (in German) Information and history from the Dresden & Saxony tourist site

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