Vienna Museum of Ethnology
- Vienna Museum of Ethnology
The Vienna Museum of Ethnology "(Museum für Völkerkunde)" is the largest anthropological museum in Austria. It currently resides in the Neue Hofburg and houses a quarter million ethnographical and archaeological objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America. Important collections include Mexican artifacts, with unique Aztec featherwork; part of James Cook's collection of Polynesia and Northwest Coast art; numerous Benin bronzes; the collection of Charles von Hügel from India, Southeast Asia, and China; artifacts collected during the circumnavigation of the globe by the SMS "Novara"; and two of the remaining rongorongo tablets.
The museum's most famous piece is a feathered headdress believed to have belonged to Moctezuma, the last Aztec emperor, which has created friction between the Mexican and the Austrian governments. Although taken from Mexico as war booty by the Spanish in the 16th century, Austria acquired it legally from France in 1880.
The Museum of Ethnology is not to be confused with the Austrian Folklore Museum, (the "Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde)," which has a similar name in German but concentrates on European artifacts.
External links
* [http://www.ethno-museum.ac.at/en/frameset.html Museum website] in English
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