Some texts are currently available in German only. We apologize
for any inconvenience. The Museum of European Cultures was
called into being in 1999 and was created by merging the 110
year-old Museum of European Ethnology (Museum für Volkskunde)
with the European collection of the Ethnological Museum. It
focuses on lifeworlds in Europe and European cultural points of
contact from the 18th century until today. Comprising some
275,000 original objects, the museum houses one of the largest
European collections of everyday culture and popular art. The
topics covered by the collection are as diverse as the cultures
of Europe themselves: ranging from weddings to commemorating the
dead, the cult of Napoleon to Halloween, music on Sardinia, the
historically pagan 'Perchten' processions in the Alps ... the
list goes on and on. After two years of extensive renovation
work, the Museum of European Cultures is reopened to the public
since 9 December 2011, in the modernist building designed by
Bruno Paul in Dahlem. The per