State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony

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The State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony (SES for short) were founded on January 1, 2004 .

They are made up of the now merged institutions Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig , Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden and Völkerkundemuseum Herrnhut . While maintaining the traditional names and locations of the three museums, such as the Grassimuseum in Leipzig or the Japanese Palace in Dresden , the second largest ethnographic collection in Germany was created . The facility has a total of 6,000 square meters of exhibition space. The anthropologist Claus Deimel was the head of the collections from 2004 to 2013. In September 2014, the Dutch anthropologist Nanette Jacomijn Snoep was appointed as the new director of the museum network on January 1, 2015. Jacomijn Snoep will move to the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne as director on January 1, 2019, and Léontine Meijer-van Mensch , previously Deputy Director and Program Director of the Jewish Museum Berlin , will be the new director on February 1, 2019 .

On January 1, 2010, the State Ethnographic Collections of Saxony were incorporated into the Dresden State Art Collections . The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, like the Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig, are among the cultural "beacons" and are members of the Conference of National Cultural Institutions .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Völkerkundemuseum Dresden ( Memento of December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
  2. ^ Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - press release from September 17, 2014
  3. https://www.jmberlin.de/leontine-meijer-van-mensch
  4. Sachsen.de Medienservice of November 27, 2018: Léontine Meijer-van Mensch becomes director of the State Ethnographic Collections of the Dresden State Art Collections , accessed on November 27, 2018
  5. Admission of the SES to the SKD