Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum

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 an 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.[1]

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