The Mission Museum in Steyl is very special. It is a museum of a museum. Maintained in its original style, it exudes the atmosphere that must have been tangible at the beginning of the last century. Nothing has been changed here since 1931. The division of the museum into ethnological and natural history sections actually stems from that time.

Missionaries at that time brought exhibits to Steyl from all over the world. The purpose of the museum was to give their contemporaries information and insight into distant lands and cultures. It has been preserved for our times as an impressive wonderland full of curiosities.