One of the museums located in the Imperial Palace is the Weltmuseum Wien (formerly the Museum of Ethnology) with its magnificient hall of columns. The museum has been closed for several years due to the redesign of the permanent collection and public areas and was reopened in late 2017.
Tonight the Weltmuseum Wien (formerly the Museum of Ethnology) reopens after three years of reconstruction. The museum is dedicated to the cultural diversity of humankind and strives to document the diverse historical ties between Austria and the world in its collections from all around the globe. The roots of the museum can be tracked back to the year 1806 when the "Imperial and Royal Ethnographic Collection" was established as part of the Imperial Natural History Cabinet after the partial acquisition of the collection of Captain James Cook. I had the privilege to visit the museum two weeks ago, when still a lot of work was underway...
