Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel

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Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel
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place Kiel , Germany
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Ethnological Museum
opening 1884
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ISIL DE-MUS-076215

The Museum of Ethnology of the University of Kiel is one of the museum facilities of the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . It is located together with the Zoological Museum in the Walter Gropius building at Hegewischstrasse 3 in Kiel .

history

The Museum of Ethnology was founded in 1884. However, ethnology did not exist as a university subject. Some of the exhibits came from the travel acquisitions of Kiel captains and other travelers who were on trade and military expeditions in the South Seas at the end of the 19th century . Among them are exhibits from Admiral Eduard von Knorr , the sea captain Hans Gygas from SMS Moltke , sea captain Georg Janke ( SMS Zähringen ), lieutenant Götz from SMS Elisabeth or the doctor general of the Imperial Navy Gutschow.

The museum was ultimately founded by the Schleswig-Holstein anthropological association . The anatomy professors Adolf Pansch (1841–1887) and Arnold Heller (1840–1913) played a key role. In 1888 the museum was handed over to the University of Kiel. In the following years, the directors were mainly geographers: 1888 Otto Krümmel (1854–1912), from 1888 to 1903 Richard Schepping , from 1904 to 1907 Max Eckert (1868–1938) and from 1912 to 1913 Leonhard Schultze (1872–1955) . Baron Wolfgang von Buddenbrock (1884–1964) followed Adolf Remane (1898–1976) as museum director shortly before the Second World War . The museum was put into storage from 1930 to 1947. The collection could then be housed in the rooms of the Zoological Museum. The museum management was incumbent on Katesa Schlosser until 2010 , who offered ethnology as a minor at the University of Ethnology until 1986. Until 1995 the museum housed ethnographic collections from the South Seas, Africa and East Asia, including musical instruments. After a large part of the collection was moved to the State Archaeological Museum in Schleswig for reasons of “securing the holdings”, only the South Seas department remained in Kiel. The lack of an ethnological institute has always been characteristic of the Kiel collection.

Museum inventory

The South Sea Collection contains extensive stocks of weapons, equipment and shell jewelry, fabrics, clothing (bark cloth blankets), carvings, dance masks, South Sea money, an outrigger boat and boat models. The Africa collection includes clothing, jewelry (iron and copper), small and large sculptures, drawings, a chief's chair, etc. a. The East Asia collection is an important collection of samurai knight armor and weapons, as well as Japanese and Chinese small sculptures. The musical instrument collection includes exhibits from Africa, the South Seas and East Asia.

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Publications

  • Katesa Schlosser (ed.): Works from the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel . Kiel (Schmidt & Klaunig), Volume I-XXI (1952-2008).
  • Horst Brix, Katesa Schlosser: The Museum of Ethnology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. A photographic documentation of the showrooms of the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel . Kiel 1995.
  • Rule von Bismarck (Red.): Museums and collections . Kiel 1989.
  • Museums and collections in Schleswig-Holstein . Edited by Dr. Matthias Landt, Neumünster (Karl-Wachholtz-Verlag) 1986, 6th revised. u. exp. Edition.
  • Katesa Schlosser: The Museum of Ethnology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Photo documentation of the collection items . Kiel 2002.
  • Katesa Schlosser: History of the Museum of Ethnology of the University of Kiel . Christiana Albertina. Research report and half-yearly publication of the University of Kiel, 1985, issue 20 (new series), pp. 17–28
  • Rainer Schmidt: Making the life-size figure of a Zulu man . In: Der preparator 33 (1987), No. 1, pp. 37-40.
  • Nathalie Scholz: Ethnological collections at German universities and their use in teaching . Master's thesis in ethnology, social sciences and philosophy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg 2009.
  • Renate Wente-Lukas: The situation of the ethnographic collections . In: Museumskunde 48, 1983, issue 1, pp. 12-16.
  • Tobias Delfs, Martin Krieger: The Völkerkundemuseum of the CAU . In: Oliver Auge (ed.): Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. 350 years of work in city, country and world, Kiel (Wachholtz Verlag) 2015, pp. 853–880.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Katesa Schlosser: History of the Museum of Ethnology at the University of Kiel . In: Christiana Albertina. Research report and half-yearly publication of the University of Kiel, published by the Press and Information Office of the University of Kiel, 1985, Issue 20 (new episode), pp. 17–28
  2. ^ University museums and collections in Germany
  3. ^ Museums in Kiel
  4. ^ Notices from the Anthropological Association in Schleswig-Holstein (Kiel). Volume 1 (1888) to 19 (1911)
  5. ↑ Nathalie Scholz: Ethnological collections at German universities and their use in teaching . Master's thesis in ethnology, social sciences and philosophy, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Marburg 2009
  6. ↑ Website of the museum ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uni-kiel.de

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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 41 ″  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 39 ″  E