What is it about?
Ethnographical Museums are the forerunners for the current multicultural Museums worldwide. They have been invented in the late 19th century in central Europe.
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Why is it important?
Ethnographical Museums Show how diversity can be represented - in the past and in the present.
Perspectives
I did like to give an overview in the development of Museums in Europe.
Reinhard Johler
Ludwig-Uhland-Institut fuer Empirische Kulturwissenschaft
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This page is a summary of: The Invention of the Multicultural Museum in the Late Nineteenth Century: Ethnography and the Presentation of Cultural Diversity in Central Europe, Austrian History Yearbook, April 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0067237814000095.
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