Museum of Ethnology Burgdorf
The Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf has been located in Burgdorf Castle in Burgdorf BE since 2001 . It houses objects from New Guinea ( Nias , Bali ), but also from Africa ( Ethiopia / Abyssinia ) and Asia (South India).
The first curator of the museum, founded in 1908 as the "Schiffmann'sche Sammlung", was Arnold Kordt until 1938 . Many of the exhibits come from the estate of Heinrich Schiffmann , the son of successful Burgdorf cheese exporters, who acquired many ethnographic objects on his travels and bequeathed them to the city.
With an annual budget of CHF 43,000 and a staff of 40 percent (2011), the museum is one of the smaller museums in Switzerland. For lack of money, many exhibits are not properly stored in a screed for conservation purposes and are therefore exposed to deterioration due to temperature and humidity fluctuations.
literature
- Museum für Völkerkunde Burgdorf (ed.): Insights, perspectives, outlooks. Burgdorf 1995
- FV: The ethnographic ship's collection from Burgdorf. In: The Bern Week in words and pictures: a sheet for native art and art , Vol. 9, Issue 45, 1919, pp. 533-536. ( Digitized version )
Web links
- Project. Museum of Ethnology Burgdorf. In: Burgdorf project
- Castle Association Burgdorf. In: Burgdorf Castle
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Reto Wissmann, Uralte Kulturgüter verdammeln , in: Der Bund of October 17, 2011