The Linden Museum on Hegelplatz houses more than 160,000 objects illustrating the art history, cultural history and everyday culture of non-European peoples. The exhibits come from Africa, Latin America, North America, the Islamic Orient, South Asia and East Asia as well as Oceania. They are presented in four permanent exhibitions and changing special shows.
The Linden Museum sees itself as a cultural mediator and would like to enable visitors to encounter other worlds. For example, visually impaired or blind people can take part in a special tactile tour, and children become explorers themselves with small research assignments. A varied program of events brings the exhibits to life and lets participants have their own cultural experiences.
The history of the Linden Museum goes back to an initiative of the "Württemberg Association for Commercial Geography". Under the chairmanship of Karl Graf von Linden, the latter opened the "Ethnographic Museum" with a focus on ethnology in the Haus der Wirtschaft on June 1, 1889. As the collection grew rapidly, a new location was needed. On May 28, 1911, the new Linden Museum on Hegelplatz was inaugurated under the name of its founder.
