Museum of European Cultures
The Museum Europäischer Kulturen—MEK for short—was formed in 1999 by bringing together the “Europe-Department” of Berlin’s Museum für Völkerkunde and its Museum für Volkskunde. Its exhibitions focus on everyday, lived European culture and on cultural contact, largely in Germany from the 18th century to today. The museum sits in Dahlem’s museum complex, alongside Berlin’s Ethnological Museum and the Museum für Asiatic Art. Here, the exhibition rooms occupy the oldest building in the Dahlem Museums, a structure named after the architect Bruno Paul (1874–1968). The museum’s core ideas trace back to a cabinet within an ethnological collection: at the start of the 19th century, two Sámi shaman drums reached the Königlich Preußische Kunstkammer, and later the “Europa” Cabinet was housed in the collection that followed. In 2019, MEK recorded 24,000 visitors—proof that this history of objects and contacts still draws a steady public.
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