List Of Museums With Major Collections In Ethnography And Anthropology
This is a list of museums with major Collection (museum), collections in ethnography and anthropology. It is sorted by descending number of objects listed. # Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada #: 3.75 million artifacts # Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France #: 1,170,495 objects in 2014 including an iconotheque of about 700,000 pieces (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives) # 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. # Kunstkamera, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia #: 1 117,000 objects # University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK #: 800,000 objects # Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA #: 634,000 objects (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the m ...
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Museum
A museum ( ; plural museums or, rarely, musea) is a building or institution that cares for and displays a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance. Many public museums make these items available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. The largest museums are located in major cities throughout the world, while thousands of local museums exist in smaller cities, towns, and rural areas. Museums have varying aims, ranging from the conservation and documentation of their collection, serving researchers and specialists, to catering to the general public. The goal of serving researchers is not only scientific, but intended to serve the general public. There are many types of museums, including art museums, natural history museums, science museums, war museums, and children's museums. According to the International Council of Museums (ICOM), there are more than 55,000 museums in 202 countrie ...
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