Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum
Cologne's only ethnography museum displays a collection of over 3,500 items that belonged to Wilhelm Joest, a 19th-century German ethnographer and traveler. The permanent exhibition looks at, among other things, the practicality of life in a Native American teepee, explains the importance of tattoos to Maori people, and reveals European perceptions of other cultures in the world as portrayed in travel reports and art. The largest—and perhaps most popular—item in the collection is a 7.5 meter-tall rice granary from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
