Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel

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Museum of Ethnography

The Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel (MEN), in German Ethnographic Museum of the City of Neuchâtel , is a Swiss ethnographic museum that is primarily oriented towards the African continent. The museum and its collections have a history of over 200 years and go back to General Charles Daniel de Meuron (1738–1806).

The subjects of the special exhibitions go far beyond classical ethnography into the area of everyday culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.

The main building was planned for James de Pury from 1870 to 1871 as a bourgeois villa by Léo Châtelain and is one of the main works of the Neuchâtel architect.

literature

  • Jean Gabus: 175 ans d'ethnographie à Neuchâtel . Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel. Neuchâtel 1967
  • Roland Kaehr: Le mûrier et l'épée: le Cabinet de Charles Daniel de Meuron et l'origine du Musée d'ethnographie à Neuchâtel . Musee d'Ethnographie, Neuchâtel 2000, ISBN 2-88078-025-X

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Léo Châtelain: Villa de James M. Pury à Neuchâtel . In: The Railway . tape 11 , no. 1 , 1879, p. 2 ff ., doi : 10.5169 / seals-7695 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 59 ′ 27 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 14"  E ; CH1903:  560590  /  204550