Ethnographic Museum in Cologne will tell not only about the folk customs

In Cologne, 15 years later, resumed work Ethnological Museum Rautenshtrauha-Jost (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum). In 1990 local authorities decided to move the exhibition into the new building - the southern part of Cologne's city center - but because of funding problems moving lasted more than a decade. Now the museum is located next to the Museum Shnyutgen (Schnutgen), dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages, and forms with a single complex. In his collection raised more than 60,000 ethnographic artifacts, more than 100,000 historic photographs, and in the library collection contains over 40,000 monographs and journals. Thanks so impressive collections, the museum is the fifth largest ethnological museums in Germany. From other such museums Rautenshtrauha-Jost different unusual exhibition concept: the exhibits here are not parts of the world, and the clusters. At the core of the exhibition two topics - awareness of the world and its design. Visitors tell us about what motivates people around the world, the role of religion in different societies, the rituals of farewell to the dead, the treatment of guests, the coexistence of several generations under one roof, or about how men and women get along with each other various social structures. A special section is devoted to the world of childhood and represents a true Children's Museum (Juniormuseum) - a small room, divided into children's rooms. This is - a kind of global flat where maturation conceptualized as a ritual process of initiation into the adult world: there are, for example, room girls from Cologne, which has just been the first communion; room Turkish boy, who just made the cutoff. In addition to the permanent exhibition, the visitors will be offered temporary exhibitions. Soon to open one of them - "Afropolis," which will be presented by contemporary artists look at urban life, human interaction and the city, reports Deutsche Welle.