FETCHED FROM AFAR

Permanent exhibition

FETCHED FROM AFAR represents us

• The early China collection, brought to Finland by traders and seafarers in the early 19th century
  
  
• The Finno-Ugric peoples 
  
  
• The lives of early Finnish explorers and linguists (like M. A. Castrén, Kai Donner, G. A. Ramstedt)
  
  
• Three Finnish social anthropologists and their collections: Edward Westermarck (Morocco), Rafael Karsten (South American Indians) and Gunnar Landtman (Papua New Guinea)
  
  
• Objects obtained from the peoples of the Congo, which were collected by the Finnish machinists who worked on riverboats in the Congo during the early 20th century
  
  
• The C. G. Mannerheim collection of Turkish, Tibetan and Chinese peoples, collected in 1906-1908 in Central Asia 
  
  
• The famous collection from the Inuits, Aleuts and American Indians of Alaska collected by the Finn Adolf Etholén, who worked as a civil servant in Alaska, when it was part of the Russian empire
  
  
• Archaeological items from the mountain Mesa Verde, Colorado, gathered by a Finnish geologist Gustaf Nordenskiöld in 1891