# Wereldmuseum Leiden (Museum of Ethnology)

Leiden, Netherlands

One of the world's oldest ethnographic museums, founded in 1837 around Philipp Franz von Siebold's Japanese collection. Long known as the National Museum of Ethnology, it gathers objects from across Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania in a former academic hospital.

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Coordinates: 52.16306, 4.4825

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