Sammlung für Völkerkunde, Ethnographic museum at University of Göttingen, Germany

The Sammlung für Völkerkunde is the ethnological collection of the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology at the University of Göttingen, funded by the state of Lower Saxony. It holds about 17,000 items, shown on roughly 300 m² across two floors. Its core are the Cook-Forster collection from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga and New Zealand and the Baron von Asch collection from Siberia and the polar regions.

Johann Friedrich Blumenbach brought the Cook-Forster collection and the Baron von Asch collection to Göttingen in the 18th century, forming the early core of the holdings. In 1926 Hans Hermann Plischke was tasked with organising the ethnological collection, and in 1933 the Seminar for Ethnology and Ethnographic Collection was established. The independent institute with its museum first opened in 1936.

The collection's name, Sammlung für Völkerkunde, means ethnological collection, and it belongs to the Institute of Ethnology of the University of Göttingen, funded by the state of Lower Saxony. Its two named holdings, the Cook-Forster collection and the Baron von Asch collection, are what researchers and students still work with today.

The collection has been closed to the public since 2018, and no reopening date has been announced. The permanent exhibition, shown on about 300 m² across two floors, was reopened on 6 February 2000 and had been open on Sundays. The institute is based in Göttingen, and the collection is funded by the state of Lower Saxony.

The South Seas holdings stem from the Cook-Forster collection, brought to Göttingen in the 18th century by naturalist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, with pieces from Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga and New Zealand. The Siberia and polar holdings come from the Baron von Asch collection. The permanent exhibition reopened on 6 February 2000 and was open on Sundays before closing again in 2018.