Museums - Museum der Weltkulturen
Museum der Weltkulturen
Schaumainkai 29-37
60594 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
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The Museum der Weltkulturen was created in 1904, bringing together in the process all the nineteenth-century ethnological collections that existed in Frankfurt at that time. The museum's permanent collections presently number approximately 67,000 objects from Africa, America, Oceania, Europe, Asia, and Southeast Asia. The museum also houses a 70,000-image archive and 43,000-volume reference library. Gallery 37 holds the museum's contemporary non-European art collection, featuring works of Indian, African, Oceanic, and Indonesian origin which are still nearly unknown in Europe.
Happenings
Tribal art Exhibition
On January 24th, the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt has celebrated the inauguration of its first exhibition in the newly refurbished villa at Schaumainkai 29.
Object Atlas - Fieldwork in the Museum presents objects from the Museum’s collections plus new works produced by seven international artists who undertook fieldwork in the Museum during 2011. Paintings, films, and three dimensional installations by Thomas Bayrle (D), Marc Camille Chaimowicz (UK/F), Antje Majewski (D), Otobong Nkanga (Nigeria), and Simon Popper (UK) are installed in close proximity to objects from Papua New Guinea, Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Venezuela, Brazil and Peru. Helke Bayrle (D) and Sunah Choi (Korea) show a film shot in the Museum’s stores that investigates the figurative detail on over one hundred ethnographic artefacts.