Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum St. Gallen, History and ethnographic museum in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

The Kulturmuseum St. Gallen, known until 2022 as the Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, occupies a neoclassical hipped-roof building erected 1915–1921 by the Winterthur architects Bridler & Völki. A columned west facade repeats on the east side, and a central courtyard hosts events. Inside are period rooms, a city-history hall with a model of late-medieval St. Gallen, and ethnographic galleries; the collection numbers about 70,000 objects.

The historical collection began in 1862 with objects gathered by the Historischer Verein des Kantons St. Gallen, shown first in the city library and from 1877 in the Museum im Stadtpark. The ethnographic holdings grew from 1850 through the city's embroidery trade and overseas contacts; the Ostschweizerische Geographisch-Commercielle Gesellschaft took them over and donated them to the Ortsbürgergemeinde in 1917. The Bridler & Völki building opened in 1921, funded by the embroidery boom. Since 2012 it has been an independent foundation, largely financed by the city.

The museum showcases diverse cultural artifacts including glass paintings, religious artworks, masks and sculptures from West and Central Africa, Bronze works from the Kingdom of Benin, and indigenous North American cultural objects.

The museum stands on the Stadtpark, east of the Kunstmuseum, in a neoclassical building by Bridler & Völki with matching columned facades on the west and east sides. The central courtyard hosts events such as the St. Galler Kulturfestival. The historical section occupies period rooms, and a children's museum opened on the upper floor in 2007.

The museum's Benin bronzes were researched from 2021 to 2024 within the Benin Initiative Schweiz, a group of eight Swiss museums that examined whether some 100 bronzes in their holdings came from the 1897 looting of the royal palace in Benin City, and prepared their return to Nigeria.