Dresden Museum of Ethnology

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The Dresden Museum of Ethnology (German: Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden) is an ethnographic museum that is part of the Dresden State Art Collections. It was founded in 1875 and contains a collection with more than 90,000 artefacts from Oceania, Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe. The collection has its origins in the cabinet of curiosities established by Augustus, Elector of Saxony in 1560. The museum presents continually changing exhibitions in the Japanisches Palais, a Baroque building complex in Dresden, Germany. Contributors to the collection include:

Carl Goffried Semper Richard Parkinson W. D. Webster