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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde


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    • Cologne (Germany). Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde
    • Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum for Culture Anthropology
    • Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology
    • RJM
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        Museums
    • Associated Locale

        Germany
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    • found: König, V. Mexiko, Volkskunst, Volksglaube, Volksfeste, 1982 (a.e.)t.p. (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Köln)
    • found: Internat. direct. of arts, 1982(under Köln: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde der Stadt Köln)
    • found: Piriya Krairiksch. Das zeitlose Bildnis, 1984:t.p. (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde; Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum for Culture Anthropology)
    • found: Namibia-Deutschland, eine geteilte Geschichte, c2004:t.p. (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde) spine (RJM, Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde)
    • found: Der Mensch in seinen Welten : das neue Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum--Kulturen der Welt, c2010:p. 8 (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum--Kulturen der Welt; newly built museum opened in summer 2010, replacing the existing Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde)
    • found: Wikipedia, German, April 16, 2020(Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, according to an image it was called in about 1910 "Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum"; located in Cologne, Germany) - https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
    • found: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kulturen der Welt = Cultures of the World website, viewed September 14, 2022:banner (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kulturen der Welt, in German; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, cultures of the World, in English) RJM history (founded in 1901, the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology) was opened in 1906 in the south of Cologne, on Ubierring; it emerged from the private collection of over 3,500 objects belonging to the traveller Wilhelm Joest, son of a Cologne sugar manufacturer; after his death in 1897, the holdings became the property of his sister Adele, married to Eugen Rautenstrauch and living in Cologne; in memory of her brother and her husband, who passed away 3 years later, she financed construction of the museum, whose collection today comprises 65,000 objects from Oceania, Africa, Asia and the Americas, about 100,000 historical photographs, and 40,000 reference books; building was damaged during Second World War, rebuilt but soon became too small for its collections and exhibitions despite an extension in the early 1960s; after floods in 1993 and 1995, a new building became imperative; the new RJM appeared in Cologne-Neumarkt in autumn 2010; photo captions for early 20th-century building and new building: the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum)
    • notfound: Das Lächeln Mexikos, 1980: t.p. (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum)
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    • 1983-05-10: new
    • 2022-09-30: revised
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