Museum der Völker [SEP] inception
Museum der Völker
The Museum der Völker in the Austrian Schwaz in the county of Tyrol was founded in 1995 as a cultural association Haus der Völker by Gert Chesi and belongs to the well known Ethnology museums in Europe. After a new construction and remodeling the exhibition operation opened on the 12th of April 2013 as Museum der Völker. Translated the name means museum of the peoples or museum of the tribes.
History.
Gert Chesi, photographer, journalist and author, had collected more than a thousand exhibits from all over
, the scientific part is reduced.
As the founder, director and owner of the Haus der Völker museum, Chesi presented his collection as a permanent exhibition in the following years and supplemented it with numerous special exhibitions in collaboration with international museums and collectors. Outside of his own business, Chesi also curated eight other exhibitions, including the Ethnological Museum Hamburg.
In 1996, Gert Chesi founded the „Kulturverein - Museum der Völker“, which was under his leadership until 2016.
Under the direction of Gert Chesi,