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Ethnographic museum in Cologne, Germany

Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum


Location	Cologne, Germany
Coordinates	50°56′05″N 6°57′02″E / 50.934639°N 6.950531°E / 50.934639; 6.950531
Type	Ethnographic museum
Website	museenkoeln.de/rautenstrauch-joest-museum

The Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum is a museum of ethnography in Cologne, Germany. It was reopened in 2010. The museum arose from a collection of over 3500 items belonging to ethnographer Wilhelm Joest. After his death in 1897, the collection was left to his sister Adele Rautenstrauch.

In 2018, the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum returned a tattooed Maori skull, which had been in its collection for 110 years, to a delegation representing the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington; the skull was purchased in 1908 by the first director of the Rautenstrauch Joest Museum, Willy Foy, from a London dealer.

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Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum (history)
Catherine Hickley (July 13, 2018) German museum returns tattooed Maori skull to New Zealand The Art Newspaper.

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