Museum of World Cultures

This guide to the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt follows Karin Hahn-Hissink, an ethnologist who quietly ended up running the institution after its leaders vanished and its Palais burned in the March 1944 bombing raids, having already trucked the collection's crates to safety in cellars and barns across three regions. It traces what she did once there was no museum left standing, and the two years she later spent in the 1950s living among the Tacana, Chama, and Chimane peoples of Bolivia. Listen for what she carried back from that trip, and how it found its way into these three riverside villas.