Museum der Weltkulturen

It was founded in 1904, as a civic institution, to bring together the ethnographic collections of the city of Frankfurt.

Significant parts of the collection were lost when the Palais was destroyed by bombs in World War II.

However, some items had already been evacuated from the Palais – these survived the war, and in 1973 they were put on display in an old villa on the banks of the Main, where they have been ever since.

The collections include over 65,000 objects from Oceania, Australia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, Africa and Europe.

[1] Gallery 37 hosts exhibitions of contemporary works by Indian, African, Oceanian and Indonesian artists.