Logan Museum of Anthropology is a museum of

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, located in

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, United States. It was founded in 1894 by Beloit trustee and patron of the arts Frank Granger Logan and contains about 300,000 archaeological and ethnological objects from around the world. Its collections and exhibitions relate to indigenous cultures of the Western Hemisphere, Oceania, and other parts of the world, including European and North African Paleolithic cultures.A. H. Whiteford, 1956. "The Museum in the School." ''American Anthropologist'' 58:352-356. The Logan Museum was accredited by the

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in 1972 and again in 2007.

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