Museum Fünf Kontinente
Museum Fünf Kontinente—formerly the Bavarian State Museum of Ethnology (Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde) until 9 September 2014—traces Munich’s collecting ambitions far beyond Europe. The museum’s collections grew from the interests of the Wittelsbach dynasty, with the collection officially founded in 1868. Behind today’s ethnological focus is a building with royal intent: the complex was constructed between 1859 and 1865 for the Bavarian National Museum, along one of Munich’s four royal avenues, Maximilianstraße. Its architecture follows the Perpendicular Style. The scale of the museum’s work is concrete. It holds around 200,000 objects across an exhibition area of 4,500 square metres, within a total site area of about 12,000 m². …
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