MARKK, MUSEUM OF WORLD CULTURES AND ARTS
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The MARKK is a very rich ethnological museum, whose museography is sometimes modern, sometimes old-fashioned.
This ethnological museum, which exhibits the pieces and relics of ancient cultures, has a fairly rich collection, but suffers from an uneven image and scenography, sometimes old-fashioned, sometimes modern.
The North American Indians section is very playful for children, the museum houses teepees that you can enter, traditional Katsina dolls, masks and very beautiful traditional costumes.
The permanent exhibition "Africas top models" deals with African beauty ideals. In particular, three booths, designed as peep shows, expose colonial prejudices.
The permanent exhibition "A Dream of Bali" (Ein Traum von Bali) presents, around the reproduction of a Balinese house, a beautiful collection of objects: gamelans, shadow puppets..
The reproduction of a street in a Mayan village is entertaining and playful with its school, shops and houses.
The permanent exhibition of Pacific masks (Masken der Südsee), superbly scenographed and sounded, is a real trip in the islands which gives shivers, not to be missed!
The Raru house from New Zealand is without doubt the highlight of the museum. A traditional Maori "meeting house", it was donated by New Zealand to the museum over a hundred years ago, where it still invites visitors to sit under your roof. Take off your shoes, sit on a mat and enjoy the extraordinary silence.