Stockholm Ethnographic Museum
The Stockholm Ethnographic Museum (Swedish Etnografiska Museet ) shows exhibits from China, Japan, Korea, South and Southeast Asia, Oceania, Africa, North and South America. The ethnographic collection contains around 220,000 objects. The museum is also the seat of the Sven Hedin Foundation .
Since 1999 it has been part of the Världskulturmuseerna , which is made up of the Etnografiska Museet, the Medelhavsmuseet and the Östasiatiska Museet in Stockholm and the Världskulturmuseet in Gothenburg.
history
The beginnings of the collection go back to the Royal Academy of Science , which was founded in 1739. The first items were introduced to Sweden in the first half of the 18th century. The museum was founded as an independent institution in 1900. The first director was the archaeologist, entomologist and ethnologist Hjalmar Stolpe (1841–1905). At first the museum was housed in the center of Stockholm , later in the former military barracks at Ladugårdsgärdet. The new award-winning building, typically Swedish with a Falun red facade, was inaugurated at the same location in 1980 .
Collections
The earliest, historically received collections come from the former colony of New Sweden in today's USA . Extensive collections were z. B. brought to Sweden by Swedish participants in James Cook's trips (e.g. Anders Sparrman ), as well as from trading companies in different parts of the world, e.g. the Caribbean (e.g. Samuel Fahlberg Collection).
In the 19th century the collections were expanded through numerous expeditions, donations, exchanges and purchases. Important holdings are e.g. B. the Francisco da Silva Castro collection from South America (received in 1865), the Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld collection from Greenland (collected in Greenland in 1870/71 and handed over in 1873 and 1881) and the collections of the Vega expedition (1878–80) from the polar regions and Japan and the Vanadis Expedition , a Swedish circumnavigation of the world in 1883–85.
When the museum was founded as an independent institution in 1900, a phase of targeted acquisitions began. In 1913, the museum's second director, Carl Vilhelm Hartman (1862–1941), made a shopping trip around the world. Before that he was involved in excavations in Costa Rica for several years. More than 6,000 objects in the holdings of the Etnografiska Museet come from these. About 12,000 objects come from Sven Hedin's (1865–1952) journeys . From the second half of the 20th century there were hardly any major additions to the collection.
tea house
In the garden of the museum there is a Japanese tea house , Zu-Ki-Tei. The first tea house was donated to the museum around 1935, but it was destroyed by fire in 1969. Thanks to the initiative of the Swedish-Japanese Society, a new Japanese tea house was set up in 1990. It is open to visitors every Wednesday between May and October. Tea ceremonies are held regularly in the tea house in summer .
Return of works of art
The museum also deals with the problem of the illegal acquisition of collection objects. In 1994 a jaguar relief was returned to Guatemala, in 2004 the remains of Aborigines were returned to Australia and in 2006 a totem pole was returned to Canadian Indians.
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Coordinates: 59 ° 19 ′ 57.3 ″ N , 18 ° 7 ′ 14.6 ″ E