Museum in Göttingen, Germany
Sammlung für Völkerkunde, Göttingen (2007)
The Sammlung für Völkerkunde (
German for Ethnological Collection ) at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology of the
University of Göttingen is one of
Germany 's most important
ethnological collections. The museum was founded around 1780 and revived around 1930, and is now funded by the state of
Lower Saxony .
The collection consists of approximately 17,000 items and focuses on the
South Pacific with the
Cook -
Forster collection , containing items from
Hawaii ,
Tahiti ,
Tonga , and
New Zealand , and on
Siberia and the
polar regions with the
Baron von Asch collection .
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