The Central Asian holdings of the Ethnological Collection of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck are truly outstanding. They consist primarily of the large number of objects gathered purposefully and systematically, with the intention of exhibiting them in the museum, by the museum’s director Dr Richard Karutz (1867 – 1945) on three collecting and research trips to the territories of present-day Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan (in 1903, 1905 and 1909).
The majority of the pieces collected by Karutz and donated to the museum are distinguished by the exceptional quality of their craftsmanship and the fact that the details regarding their acquisition have mostly been published.
You can learn more about the topic in the book-album "Collections of the Federal Republic of Germany" (volume XI) in the series "Cultural Legacy of Uzbekistan in the World Collections".
The main sponsor of the project is the oilfield services company Eriell-Group.
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