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Wereldmuseum Leiden (formerly known as Museum Volkenkunde) is a Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands located in the university city of Leiden. As of 2014, the museum, along with Wereldmuseum Amsterdam , in Amsterdam, and Wereldmuseum Rotterdam , together make up the National Museum of World Cultures .
Rijksmuseum (Dutch, 'state museum') is the general name for a national museum in the Dutch language. When only "Rijksmuseum" is used, it usually refers to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam . Current and former Rijksmusea in the Netherlands include the following:
The Dutch National Museum of World Cultures (NMVW) was founded in 2014 by a merger of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, the Museum Volkenkunde in Leiden and the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal. It also oversees the Wereldmuseum in Rotterdam, whose collection belongs to that city. According to the museum's webpage, these collections contain "nearly ...
The VCM is originally a project of the ASEMUS - the Asia-Europe Museums Network. The VCM is now led by a consortium of five Asian and European museums: [1] National Museum of Korea, Seoul, South Korea; Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland; National Museum of Ethnology (Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde), Leiden, The Netherlands
The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (left) on the Rapenburg in 1880. The building on the right is the Physisch Kabinet which was used for demonstrations of physics and public lectures. The Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie [ 1 ] ( National Museum of Natural History ) was a museum on the Rapenburg in Leiden , the Netherlands .
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Nebesky-Wojkowitz also made several excursions among the Lepcha of Sikkim (nos. 7, 10, 14, 15). In 1954 he spent five months in Leiden identifying the collection of Lepcha manuscripts at the National Museum of Ethnology, where he had already made a list of the titles of Tibetan xylographs and manuscripts during a seven-month stay in 1953.
The Association for Folklore The Dutch Open Air Museum (Dutch: Vereniging voor Volkskunde Het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum) was created that same month. It was opened to the public on July 13, 1918. At the time of its opening, the museum contained 6 buildings that had been moved in from other locations across the country.