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Weltmuseum Wien
Anthropological museum in Austria / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Weltmuseum Wien (translating to "World Museum Vienna"; until 2013 the Museum of Ethnology, German: Museum für Völkerkunde) in Vienna is the largest anthropological museum in Austria, established in 1876. It is housed in a wing of the Hofburg Imperial Palace and holds a collection of more than 400,000 ethnographical and archaeological objects from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and America.
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