About the Journal

The scientific journal of the Ethnological Museum of the National Museums in Berlin was founded in 1910 by the traveller and researcher Arthur Baessler (1857-1906), patron of the museum. It is published annually and, with volume 68, also as an open access publication (Diamond) under the licence CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 as well as a parallel print publication.

The Baessler Archive brings together current contributions on cultures and arts of the world, including museum-relevant issues such as provenance research, object biographies and cooperation with societies of origin, research results on material culture as well as essays on central topics of museum work such as collecting, researching, preserving and exhibiting. Since 1926 the journal has been maintained by Reimer Verlag. The individual issues are available there.

The issues before 2022 can be found on the EVIFA Fachportal Ethnologie online.