Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich

The Ethnological Museum of the University of Zurich is an ethnological science museum that preserves and researches objects from all over the world. Through research, teaching, and public outreach activities, it focuses on human skills and showcases the full range and diversity of human competences. 

In exchange with members or descendants of those communities who invented, produced and used them, the objects in our collections are explored in the light of topical questions and, if possible, researched in a collaborative manner. The provenance of the objects and the circumstances of their acquisition, as well as the colonial past of collections, are also addressed. Moreover, (self-) critical questions are asked about who actually talks about cultures and societies and how they are represented. 

As a place of dialogue, the Ethnographic Museum  at the University of Zurich encourages the public to reflect on what it means to be human.