Museum Director Steven Engelsman discusses the Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna)

For more than 15 years Steven Engelsman was the Director of the National Museum of Ethnology in Leiden, the Netherlands. In 2013, he became Director of the Weltmuseum Wien (World Museum Vienna) in Austria.

In this two minute interview the museum director discusses the transformation of the two hundred year old Museum of Ethnology into the Weltmuseum Wien.

"The most important aspect in the re-branding is that ethnology is a term that we no longer want to use...the whole mindset of ethnology is out of date...This museum will be a museum where the world meets Vienna and Vienna meets the world...and it will celebrate cultural diversity...by all means possible..."

Steven Engelsman, Museum Director, Weltmuseum Wien

The benefits of the Asia-Europe Museum Network and its upcoming General Conference at the Weltmuseum Wien were also discussed.

"As a member of ASEMUS we will host the ASEMUS General Conference in our museum...so we will have all our partners from Asia and Europe stay with us...and discuss issues of great importance for this museum."

Steven Engelsman, Museum Director, Weltmuseum Wien

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