List of Museums With Major Collections in Ethnography and Anthropology

This is a list of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology.

  1. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
    500,000 objects
  2. Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
    800,000 objects
  3. British Museum, London, UK
    350,000 objects
  4. Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
    196,488 objects
  5. Horniman Museum, London, UK
    58,000 objects
  6. Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
    500,000 objects
  7. Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
    200,000 objects
  8. Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
    500,000 objects (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.)
  9. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
    150,000 objects
  10. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
    11,000 objects
  11. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
    634,000 objects (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)
  12. American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
    119,000 objects
  13. Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico
    120,000 objects
  14. Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
    36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects
  15. Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
    3.75 million artifacts
  16. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
    More than 1 million items

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