List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology explained

This is a list of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology. It is sorted by descending number of objects listed.

  1. Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

3.75 million artifacts[1]

  1. Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France

1,170,495 objects in 2014 including an iconotheque of about 700,000 pieces[2] (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives)[3]

  1. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The Museum houses over 1.35 million objects, with one of the most comprehensive collections and Middle and Near-Eastern art in the world.[4]

  1. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia

1 117,000 objects[5]

  1. University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK

800,000 objects[6]

  1. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA

634,000 objects[7] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)

  1. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK

500,000 objects[8]

  1. Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France

500,000 objects[9]

  1. Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany

500,000 objects[10] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Asia (South, South-East, Far-East and North Asia), the Islamic World, the Children's Museum and the Museum for the Blind.)

  1. Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia

500,000 objects[11]

  1. British Museum, London, UK

350,000 objects[12]

  1. National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan

335,000 objects[13]

  1. National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Leiden, Netherlands

200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.[14]

  1. Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria

200,000 objects[15]

  1. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany

150,000 objects[16]

  1. Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico

120,000 objects[17]

  1. American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA

119,000 objects[18]

  1. Anima Mundi, Vatican City

80,000 objects[19]

  1. Horniman Museum, London, UK

80,000 objects[20]

  1. Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects[21]

  1. Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK

30,000 objects[22]

  1. Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

Over 30,000 ethnographic objects and 10,000 photographs [23]

  1. Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.

25,000 objets [24]

  1. Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,

29.000 pièces

  1. Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa

13,000 items

  1. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia

11,500 items

  1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

11,000 objects[25]

  1. Wooden Spoons Museum, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania

Over 6,000 objects[26]

References

  1. http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/explore/collections Canadian Museum of Civilization
  2. Web site: Musée du quai Branly: Exploring the permanent collections . 2014-11-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129034509/http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/collections/permanent-collections/exploring-the-permanent-collections.html . 2014-11-29 .
  3. Web site: Musée du quai Branly: The mediatheque collections . 2014-11-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129040015/http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/enseignement/the-media-library/the-mediatheque-collections/index.html . 2014-11-29 .
  4. Web site: Our Story. www.penn.museum.
  5. Web site: Home. www.kunstkamera.ru.
  6. Web site: Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. maa.cam.ac.uk.
  7. Web site: Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology . 2007-04-18 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070514085457/http://hearstmuseum.berkeley.edu/collections/collections.html . 2007-05-14 .
  8. Web site: Tango Diva: Travel Stories for Women, by Women – Getaways. Vacations. Voluntourism. 26 May 2023 .
  9. Web site: Les collections | le Musée de l'Homme . 2014-11-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129090806/http://www.museedelhomme.fr/projet/le-parcours-et-les-collections/les-collections . 2014-11-29 .
  10. Web site: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu. Berlin. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
  11. Web site: Российский этнографический музей. ethnomuseum.ru.
  12. Web site: British Museum. www.britishmuseum.org.
  13. Web site: Minpaku-Japan. 2024-05-06. 2016-11-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20161119183925/http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/sites/default/files/english/aboutus/youran/pdf/youran2013_en30-47.pdf. dead.
  14. Web site: Een museum over mensen. Volkenkunde in Leiden.
  15. Web site: Museum für Völkerkunde. April 27, 2007. https://web.archive.org/web/20070427055853/http://www.ethno-museum.ac.at/en/frameset.html. 2007-04-27.
  16. http://www.voelkerkundemuseum-muenchen.de/ Voelkerkundemuseum-Muenchen
  17. Web site: Museo Nacional de Antropología. www.mna.inah.gob.mx.
  18. Web site: Division of Anthropology, AMNH. anthro.amnh.org.
  19. Web site: Ethnological Museum Anima Mundi. Vatican Museums. 21 February 2021.
  20. Web site: Anthropology. Horniman Museum and Gardens.
  21. Web site: History & Organization | Museum of Anthropology at UBC . 2010-05-19 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100507183405/http://moa.ubc.ca/about/history.php . 2010-05-07 .
  22. Web site: Cornucopia . 2013-06-06 . dead . https://archive.today/20130914082919/http://www.cornucopia.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/5596 . 2013-09-14 .
  23. Web site: IU Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Ethnographic Collections . 2024-05-29.
  24. Web site: Collection-Anthropology Museum of Xalapa-Universidad Veracruzana. sapp.uv.mx.
  25. Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas . www.metmuseum.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20040603191843/http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/introduction.asp?dep=5 . 2004-06-03.
  26. Web site: Muzeul lingurilor din Câmpulung Moldovenesc. Marius. Ignâtescu. Asociația Descoperă. 5 July 2009. ro.

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