The MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt (literally: cultures and arts of the world), is a Hamburg museum of ethnology. Located in the Rotherbaum district, it is one of the largest ethnology museums in Europe, with a collection comprising around 350,000 objects. Inaugurated in 1879, the museum's collection is divided into three large sections: a section that collects objects and artifacts from civilizations from around the world, a photographic collection (with almost 450,000 images) and a documentary archive, with numerous original studies by ethnologists , anthropologists, geographers, linguists and explorers. The collection of artifacts is organized and divided according to different geographical and cultural areas: North Africa and West and Central Asia, Africa, East and South Asia, Oceania, Europe and America. Particularly rich are the collections dedicated to the Egyptian civilization, American Indians and pre-Columbians. Temporary exhibitions are also regularly organized in the museum.
