MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum
Ethnographic collection of some three hundred fifty thousand objects, gathered through Hamburg's colonial-era trading networks.
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This guide to MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg follows Ferdinand Worlee, a Hamburg merchant who traded colonial cargo by day and helped shape the museum's founding ethnographic collection in the 1870s. It traces how the same trading networks that filled Hamburg's warehouses with coffee, cacao and pepper filled the museum's shelves instead, and the roughly fifty Benin bronzes that arrived after an 1897 British colonial war. Stand here, inside what the guide calls a Hamburg warehouse of a different kind.
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