North and Central America
The collection offers an overview of the native cultures of Central and North America from the colonial period to the present.
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Overview
North and Central America
South America
The South American collection contains over 18,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects from all countries of the continent.
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East Asia: China, Korea, Japan
The focus of the collection is on artistic and ethnographic objects from Japan
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Insular Southeast Asia
The Insular Southeast Asia collection includes objects from the Nicobar and Andaman Islands and from the countries Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Indonesia, East Timor, and the Philippines.
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North Africa, Middle East, Central Asia and Siberia
The department’s oldest witnesses to history date from the year 1808.
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Oceania and Australia
Three hundred thousand objects tell of the everyday and ritual worlds in Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Australia.
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