Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum

LC control no.	n 50047757
Descriptive conventions	rda
Corporate name heading	Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Cologne. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne (Germany). Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Museen der Stadt Köln. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum RJM
See also	Successor: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Biography/History note	Founded 1899/1900
Beginning date	[1899,1900]
Ending date	1906
Associated country	Germany
Located	Cologne (Germany)
Found in	Its Städtisches Museum für Völkerkunde. Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kulturen der Welt = Cultures of the World website, viewed September 14, 2022: banner (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Kulturen der Welt, in German; Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, cultures of the World, in English) RJM history (founded in 1901, the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde (Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum of Ethnology) was opened in 1906 in the south of Cologne, on Ubierring; it emerged from the private collection of over 3,500 objects belonging to the traveller Wilhelm Joest, son of a Cologne sugar manufacturer; after his death in 1897, the holdings became the property of his sister Adele, married to Eugen Rautenstrauch and living in Cologne; in memory of her brother and her husband, who passed away 3 years later, she financed construction of the museum, whose collection today comprises 65,000 objects from Oceania, Africa, Asia and the Americas, about 100,000 historical photographs, and 40,000 reference books; building was damaged during Second World War, rebuilt but soon became too small for its collections and exhibitions despite an extension in the early 1960s; after floods in 1993 and 1995, a new building became imperative; the new RJM appeared in Cologne-Neumarkt in autumn 2010; photo captions for early 20th-century building and new building: the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum)
Not found in	König, V. Mexiko, Volkskunst, Volksglaube, Volksfeste, 1982: t.p. (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde, Köln); Internat. direct. of arts, 1982 (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum für Völkerkunde der Stadt Köln)