The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, and is particularly strong in New World ethnography and archaeology. The Museum is caretaker to over 1.5 million objects, some 900 linear feet of documents, 2,000 maps and site plans, and approximately 300,000 photographs. The Museum is located at 11 Divinity Ave, on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass.
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