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The Linden Museum (German: Linden-Museum Stuttgart. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde) is an ethnological museum located in Stuttgart, Germany. The museum features cultural artifacts from around the world, including South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Islamic world from the Near East to Pakistan, China and Japan, and artifacts from North ...
The history of the Linden-Museum begins with the founding of the ” Württemberg Association for Trade Geography and the Promotion of German Interests Abroad” on February 27, 1882. When the economic crisis hit Germany in the 1870s and domestic markets threatened to collapse, the Association felt compelled to open up new markets overseas.
The majority of the Linden Museum’s collections are owned by the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Stuttgart. The museum is an important point of contact for the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg, which ultimately decides on restitution together with the City of Stuttgart.
The Linden-Museum is named after the chairman of the association at that time, Karl Graf von Linden (1838 – 1910). Today the Linden-Museum is one of the largest museums of ethnology in Europe.
The The Linden Museum is an ethnological museum in Stuttgart that holds and exhibits a collection of cultural artifacts from around the world, including South and Southeast Asia, Africa, the Islamic world from the Near East to Pakistan, China and Japan, and North and Latin America and Oceania.
With around 160,000 everyday objects, works of art and sacred objects from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Australia and Oceania, the Linden Museum is home to one of the largest ethnological collections in Europe. In addition, the collection also includes photographic media and archival materials.
Non-European Art and Heritage. As one of the largest ethnological museums in Europe, the Linden Museum in Stuttgart invites visitors to transcultural encounters. The collection contains around 160,000 objects - from everyday utensils to top objects of international rank.
