Ethnological Museum of Berlin

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The Melanesian room

The Ethnological Museum (German: Museum für Völkerkunde) in Berlin has half a million pre-industrial objects from around the world, making it one of the largest ethnological museums in the world. It was built primarily upon the German voyages of exploration and colonialization of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The museum collection is famous for its reconstructed houses from around the world, boats, and Benin bronzes.

The museum includes an ethnomusicology collection of sound recordings (the Berlin Phonogrammarchiv), a film archive, a children's museum, and a museum for the blind.