Happenings

The Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig is inaugurating its new Americas Wing with a permanent exhibition entitled Die Amerikas. Lebenswelten vom Eismeer bis nach Feuerland. The new galleries occupy over 6,000 square feet of space and cover a wide variety of areas and indigenous cultures. Objects from the museum's collections of Nazca, Chimu, and Moche ceramics complement sculptures from pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica and Tarahumara works, which in turn relate to pieces from North American Indian and Amazonian cultures. This permanent exhibition offers a complete and panoramic overview of the traditional cultures and societies that developed and evolved on the vast continents of the Americas.