Talk:Museum Godeffroy

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There are a few incorrect statements:

-	The Museum had belonged to the company “Johan Cesar Godeffroy & Son”. This company stopped their business in December 1879. So since that date no vessels had gone in the direction of the south sea.

-	At that time the collectors had stopped their work for the company.

-	Once can read “Captains of vessels, traders and missionaries received exact instructions “. There is only one exact instruction well known, the one to the female collector Amalie Dietrich.

-	“Throughout the museum's history it also sold human skulls from the Pacific regions (including Australia) where the company had a monopoly“. This is a incorrect conclusion. Some collectors spent a time in parts of New Guinea, Samoa and in parts Australia. And on what business they had a monopoly? The company J.C. Godeffroy & Son ambition was to import copra from Samoa to Hamburg/ Germany.

-	“This was very profitable“. Up to today there is known no document, which confirms this statement. On the other hand there exists also no document about all the payments to the collectors or the clerks in the museum, or for the material, the collectors had been equipped with. There exists no document about the cost for all the printings, the museum had done and so on. The number of plausible causes for a not-profit museum are bigger than having an honest profit.

-	“The more important material was sold to Otto Finsch and Rudolf Virchow, then preminent German physical anthropologists.” Otto Finch had been an ornithologist and no anthropologist. In most cases the later named curator Johann Schmeltz send the collected material to universities or there specialized institutes mostly in Europe (and not worldwide). So Otto Finch got birds from the south sea, and he had not to buy them. On one hand side Mr. Schmeltz had been glad that the well known scientist had acertained the birds and on the other hand Otto Finsch had been very glad to do this. If someone buys into the obit to Dr. Rudolph Krause than all Australian skulls went to Berlin to Rudolph Virchow.

-	“The exhibition on two floors covered the natural history, ethnography and anthropology of the South Seas.” The museum had moved in 1876 from Alter Wandrahm 25 to the other side of the street, where the “exhibition starts on two floors”.

-	The sales catalogues had been released eight times between 1864 and 1881.

-	“Before his death in 1885, Godeffroys sold the collection after lengthy negotiations.” The collection had been lent against security in 1879 to the (not direct) cousin Wilhelm von Godeffroy. Since then he had been the owner. He had tried to sold the museum as a whole. Sorgenlos (talk) 17:01, 5 October 2011 (UTC)

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