GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde

The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden explore, convey, preserve, mediate and present their collections in various institutions: the Green Vault, the Cabinet of Prints, Drawings and Photographs; the Coin Cabinet and the Armoury, the Porcelain Collection, the Royal Cabinet of Mathematical and Physical Instruments, the Old Masters Picture Gallery, the Sculpture Collection, the Albertinum, the Saxon Folk Art Museum with Puppet Theatre Collection, the Archiv der Avantgarden, the Art Fund, the Museum of Decorative Arts and last but not least in the Ethnological Museums in Dresden, Leipzig, and Herrnhut.

Along with the two other ethnographic museums in Saxony, the GRASSI Museum of Ethnology belongs to the network of the Saxon State Ethnographic Collections {SES). The SES houses around 350.000 objects, 200.000 pictorial documents and 350.000 library units at the three locations. This makes the SES the second largest ethnological collection in Germany. In addition to researching their holdings, the three museums position themselves with their respective profiles in the international context between (post-)colonial reappraisal, restitution and repatriation as well as new present- and future-oriented focuses in thematic orientation. In this way, the GRASSI is transforming itse lf into a network museum in several sub-projects by the end of 2023, which reflexively deals with its own history, takes a position in current debates and gives impulses to current and future -relevant questions in thematically oriented exhibition areas