Ethnology museum (Museum f? r Volkerkunde)
If Vienna, the capital of Austria, it is accepted to call the city of palaces, the palace of
Hofburgcan be called the city of museums or a kernel of the historical and cultural centre of Vienna, her construction soul.
In the southern wing of a front palace part New Hofburge one of the biggest museums of Austria – the Vienna Museum of ethnology (is located Museum f? r Volkerkunde). This museum has begun the functioning at the end of the XIX century, is more exact since 1876.
Ethnology museum (Museum f? r Volkerkunde)
More than 200 thousand exhibits are now in the Vienna Ethnological museum. These exhibits gathered during many 10-ov years in various corners of the world: America, Africa, Asia, Oceania. In the middle of them there is also the part of a collection brought from expedition by James Cook. The special attention is deserved by the unusual products of Aztecs made of feathers: the unique headdress belonging to Montezuma. Also, and mysterious the collection of the Mexican relics and innumerable bronze products from Benin is mysterious. Known K.fon Hyugel’s collected on travel across South East Asia the collection, to India and China impresses also.
Ethnology museum (Museum f? r Volkerkunde)