Ethnological Museum Heidelberg

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Heidelberg Ethnographic Museum
Statue in front of the Ethnographic Museum

The Ethnographic Museum of the J. and E. von Portheim Foundation in Heidelberg houses collections on religion, art and everyday life from the regions of Asia, Africa and Oceania. The art and culture of these regions are presented in changing special exhibitions.

The museum is housed in the historical rooms of the Palais Weimar . It was founded by Victor Goldschmidt , who in 1919 established the Josefine and Eduard von Portheim Foundation for Science and Art . During the National Socialist era , considerable parts of the collection were outsourced and sold cheaply. In the 1980s, the main building was expanded with an extension. In an artificially created garden at the level of the main street there is a magnolia specimen that has since grown into a natural monument . In spring it offers a unique picture from the banks of the Neckar together with the castle ruins. The house's boat collection can be seen in the arcades below on Neckarmünzplatz.

Since 2016, a dispute over the composition of the foundation's board of trustees and mismanagement has burdened the work of the museum foundation; the dispute was partly carried out in court.

literature

  • Frank Engehausen: The Josefine and Eduard von Portheim Foundation for Science and Art 1919–1955. Heidelberg patronage in the shadow of the Third Reich. Verlag regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher, 2008. Book series by the city of Heidelberg (Ed. Peter Blum). ISBN 3-89735-531-0 (Review by Volker Oesterreich: A long repressed chapter ... In: RNZ, April 10, 2008, p. 15)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Provenance research. Völkerkundemuseum VPST, accessed on December 27, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b Adrian Schulz: Controversy over Völkerkundemuseum: Raised head. www.faz.net, December 27, 2017, accessed December 27, 2017 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 24 '48.1 "  N , 8 ° 42' 53.9"  E