| LC control no. | n 82069841 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) |
| Variant(s) | Neuchâtel. Musée d'ethnographie MEN (Musée d'ethnographie (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)) Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel Musée d'ethnographie Neuchâtel Neuchâtel (Switzerland). Musée d'ethnographie |
| Beginning date | 1904-07-14 |
| Associated country | Switzerland |
| Located | Neuchâtel (Switzerland) |
| Field of activity | Ethnological museums and collections |
| Found in | Its Iles des dieux: Indonésie ... 1956- Cent ans d'ethnographie sur la colline de Saint-Nicolas, 1904-2004, 2005: t .p. verso (MEN) Sahara, mondes connectés, 2019: page 6 (Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel, Suisse) Musée d'ethnographie Neuchâtel website, viewed June 26, 2019: banner (MEN, Musée d'ethnographie Neuchâtel) Historique (Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel (MEN); the first holdings came from the Cabinet d'histoire naturelle of general Charles Daniel de Meuron, given to the City in 1793; after several relocations, the ethnographic fonds was transferred to the villa offered by James-Ferdinand de Pury on the hill of Saint-Nicolas, where MEN was inaugurated 14 July 1904; in 1954-55 another building was constructed for temporary exhibitions; in 1986, a new construction was built between the two, permitting extension of the Institut d'ethnologie de l'Université (financially separate); today, MEN houses some 50,000 objects, about half of which are African collections) |
| Invalid LCCN | n 50004038 |
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