Revisited: Tatar cultural heritage in Berlin, Germany
Journal: Historical Ethnology
Year: 2019

This article presents an overview of the Berlin Museum of European Cultures' (MEK 1 ) collaborative work concerning Kazan and Crimean Tatars and most of all of the Crimean Tatar collection of the Museum. This consists of more than 990 objects of everyday life, photographs, and paintings dating from the middle of the 19 th century up to today. Most of them were collected in the late 1920s by the Berlin researchers Nata and Hans Findeisen on the Crimean Peninsula and some of them by the Berlin jou