Berlin Ethnological Museum ( German: Ethnologisches Museum , until 1999 Museum für Völkerkunde ) - one of the largest ethnological museums in the world. It exhibits about one million exhibits of the pre-industrial era, collected mainly by German travelers and colonialists in the late XIX - early XX centuries. It is part of the State Museums of Berlin and is located in the Museum Center Berlin-Dahlem .
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The museum is especially proud of the reconstructed dwellings of various peoples of the world, boats, as well as Benin bronze items. The museum also houses one of the first collections of ethnic music - sound recordings of the Berlin archive of phonograms, an archive of films, a mini-museum for children and a museum for the blind.
The museum was founded in 1873 by Adolf Bastian , who became its first director, on the basis of the art collection and cabinet of antiquities of the Brandenburg Electors, later united in the Prussian Royal Kunstkamera . In 1829, an ethnographic collection that became part of the New Museum was allocated from it. In 1881–1885, for the ethnographic collection, its own museum building was destroyed, destroyed during the Second World War , and the collection was housed in the storage building. In 1999, the museum was named the Ethnological Museum.