The Ethnological Museum of Berlin ( German : Ethnologisches Museum Berlin ) is one of the Berlin State Museums ( German : Staatliche Museen zu Berlin ), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is presently located in the Humboldt Forum in Mitte , along with the Museum of Asian Art ( German : Museum für Asiatische Kunst ). The museum holds more than 500,000 objects and is one of the largest and most important collections of works of art and culture from outside Europe in the world. Its highlights include important objects from the Sepik River , Hawaii , the Kingdom of Benin , Cameroon , Congo , Tanzania , China , the Pacific Coast of North America, Mesoamerica , the Andes, as well as one of the first ethnomusicology collections of sound recordings (the Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv ).
22-612: Eastern Outer Islands may refer to: Santa Cruz Islands , an island group in the Solomon Islands Eastern Outer Islands constituency , a former constituency in the Solomon Islands Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eastern Outer Islands . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
44-747: A German anthropologist, carried out research at Graciosa Bay on Nendö Island (Ndende/Ndeni) in the Santa Cruz Islands and on Pileni and Fenualoa in the Reef Islands , and returned with documentary film, photographic and audio material. The films that Koch completed are now held by the German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hanover. He brought back to the Ethnological Museum of Berlin
66-596: A child. More than 100 houses on the island were damaged, and the water and electricity services were interrupted. It was reported that almost all houses in Nela village were washed away, and some homes in Venga village were shifted by water. 11°00′S 166°15′E / 11.000°S 166.250°E / -11.000; 166.250 Ethnological Museum of Berlin The Ethnological Museum
88-606: A specialized reference library of more than 140,000 volumes relating to ethnology, non-European art, and global art. These collections are all housed in the museum complex in Dahlem. Long-term plans are being made to relocate the collections not on display to Friedrichshagen , an eastern suburb of Berlin, where the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation ( German : Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz ) has already constructed storage facilities for
110-487: Is the capital of Temotu Province. Other islands belonging to the Santa Cruz group are Vanikoro (which is actually made up of two islands, Banie and its small neighbour Teanu ) and Utupua . The table below provides basic data on these three islands. The Santa Cruz Islands are less than five million years old and were pushed upward by the tectonic subduction of the northward-moving Indo-Australian Plate under
132-693: The Berlin State Library ( German : Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ). In 2021, the museum announced plans to return some of its holding of Nigerian artifacts, including a large collection of Benin Bronzes, to Nigeria. The Bronzes had been looted during the British Benin Expedition of 1897 . In 2022, a group of 23 artifacts from the collection, including precious jewelry and pottery, was returned indefinitely to Namibia. The items were taken between 1884 and 1915, when Namibia
154-694: The Pacific Plate . The islands are mostly composed of limestone and volcanic ash over limestone. The native languages of the islands are classified as the Reef Islands – Santa Cruz languages , within the Oceanic subgroup of the Austronesian language family. Historically, the people of Santa Cruz made long-distance ocean-going voyages using Tepukei . Tepukei are ocean-going outrigger canoes specific to some Polynesian societies of eastern Solomon Islands including Santa Cruz. In 1966 Gerd Koch ,
176-661: The Ethnological Museum began the process of dismantling its exhibitions in preparation for its move to the Humboldt Forum . Until January 2017, the museum will remain open to the public, and its permanent exhibitions of works from Africa, Mesoamerican archaeology, and South Asia can still be viewed. Highlights include the collections of painted Maya vases and drinking cups, Benin bronzes , sculpture from Cameroon , and power figures from Congo . The collections themselves encompass more than 500,000 from around
198-608: The collections of the Ethnological Museum remained in Dahlem. Starting in 2000, concrete plans were developed to relocate the collections back to the center of the city. In 2021, the Ethnological Museum and Museum of Asian Art were reopened in the Humboldt Forum in the reconstructed Berlin City Palace ( German : Berliner Stadtschloss ) immediately south of the main Museum Island complex. Beginning in January 2016,
220-634: The growth of the German overseas colonial empire after the Berlin Conference . By 1906, the first construction began on a second facility for the museum in Dahlem . The museum intended to use space in Dahlem to store and conduct research on the large collections, but to continue to exhibit portions of the collection in the building in the city center. Plans were developed for a large complex in Dahlem, consisting of four large buildings, one for each of
242-772: The last still complete Tepukei from the Santa Cruz Islands. In 1971 Koch published Die Materielle Kultur der Santa Cruz-Inseln (The Material Culture of the Santa Cruz Islands). Navigators from the Santa Cruz islands retained traditional navigation techniques into the 20th century; these techniques were also known by the navigators of the Caroline Islands . In 1969, Tevake accompanied David Henry Lewis on his ketch Isbjorn from Taumako using traditional navigation techniques by studying wave patterns and made landfall at Fenualoa , having navigated for 50 miles (43 nmi; 80 km) without being able to view
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#1732787853237264-597: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Eastern_Outer_Islands&oldid=708073314 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Santa Cruz Islands The Santa Cruz Islands form an archipelago in Temotu Province , Solomon Islands . They lie approximately 250 miles (220 nmi; 400 km) to
286-638: The museum lacked the resources to erect the other three planned buildings. The museum continued to function with two separate facilities housing its collections until the Second World War. Following the Second World War, as a result of the division of Berlin, the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation decided to house the portions of the Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery) that were returned to West Berlin in
308-576: The non-European geographical regions of the globe: Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, the latter department directed by Konrad Theodor Preuss . Construction began in 1914, the architect Bruno Paul was commissioned to build the structure to house the Asian collections on Arnimallee, Dahlem. The work was stopped, however, because of the First World War and was only completed in 1921. However,
330-630: The place also named by the Spaniards as Graciosa Bay, and he died there in 1596. During the Pacific campaign of World War II , the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands was fought north of the Santa Cruz group and some United States Navy seaplanes were based in Graciosa Bay, with one reportedly sinking at the seaplane base there. U.S. Navy Patrol Squadron 23 (VP-23) , known as the "Seahawks,"
352-526: The southeast of the Solomon Islands archipelago , just north of the archipelago of Vanuatu and are considered part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion . The term Santa Cruz Islands is sometimes used to encompass all the islands of Temotu Province, Solomon Islands. The largest island is Nendö , which is also known as Santa Cruz Island proper. Lata , located on Nendö, is the largest town, and
374-439: The stars, due to cloud cover. On a second voyage from Nifiloli to Vanikoro , Tevake navigated by the stars, wave patterns, and the patterns of bioluminescence that indicated the direction in which islands were located. The islands were visited by Spanish explorer Álvaro de Mendaña , the first European to sight them, on his second Pacific expedition in 1595. Mendaña started a colony on Nendö which he named Santa Cruz , at
396-529: The world. In addition, the museum holds more than 280,000 historical photographs, a substantial archive, more than 125,000 sound recordings, and 20,000 ethnographic films. The collection is organized according to geography as well as methodological approaches. The main divisions are Africa, Oceania, East-and North-Asia, South and Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Central Asia, American ethnology, American archaeology, and ethnomusicology. The museum also houses
418-457: Was erected in Dahlem to house the museum’s store rooms and study collections. In the Second World War, the main building of the museum was heavily damaged. It was demolished in 1961, and the buildings in Dahlem (in what was then West Berlin ) were reconfigured to serve as the museum's exhibition spaces. Following German reunification, although many of the Berlin museum collections were relocated,
440-490: Was founded in 1873 and opened its doors in 1886 as the Royal Museum for Ethnology ( German : Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde ), but its roots go back to the 17th-century Kunstkammer of the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia. As the museum’s collections expanded in the early 20th century, the museum quickly outgrew its facility in the center of Berlin on Königgrätzer Straße (today named Stresemannstraße). A new building
462-521: Was part of the German Empire colony German South West Africa . The museum's first building in the center of Berlin on Königgrätzer Straße (now Stresemannstraße at the corner with Niederkirchnerstraße ) was already too small to accommodate the collections when it opened in 1886. The situation deteriorated further in the last years of the 19th century, as the collections expanded rapidly because of increased institutional support for ethnology and
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#1732787853237484-628: Was stationed at Graciosa Bay, from which it operated Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats , including on "Black Cat" night missions. Chemical ordnance stored on Vanikoro Island during World War II was not completely removed until the 1990s. The Santa Cruz Islands were affected by the 2013 Solomon Islands earthquake and subsequent tsunami on 6 February 2013. The earthquake produced a tsunami measuring 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) at Lata, Solomon Islands , that reached about 500 m (1,640 ft) inland. The airport and low-lying areas were flooded, killing nine people, five of them elderly and one
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