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museums 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 ...
conserve, display and contextualize items relevant to the field of ethnography, the systematic study of people and cultures. Such museums include:


List by country/region


Albania

* Ethnographic Museum of Kavajë, * Gjirokastër Ethnographic Museum * National Ethnographic Museum (Berat) * Solomon Museum,
Berat Berat (; sq-definite, Berati) is the ninth most populous city of Albania and the seat of Berat County and Berat Municipality. By air, it is north of Gjirokastër, west of Korçë, south of Tirana, and east of Fier. Berat is located in ...


Argentina

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Juan B. Ambrosetti Museum of Ethnography The Juan B. Ambrosetti Museum of Ethnography ( es, Museo Etnográfico "Juan B. Ambrosetti") is an Argentine museum overseen by the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Philosophy and ...


Azerbaijan

* Gala State Historical Ethnographic Reserve, Baku * Historical-ethnographic museum of Khinalug village *
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography The Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography is a museum in Baku, Azerbaijan, that was established in 1976. It bears the name of the Azerbaijani architect-Mikayil Huseynov. The museum has two parts. The ethnography section displays materials related ...
, Baku *
National Museum of History of Azerbaijan The National Museum of History of Azerbaijan ( az, Milli Azərbaycan Tarixi Muzeyi) is the largest museum in Azerbaijan. It is located in Baku, in the former residential house of Azerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghi ...
, Baku * Nizami Ganjavi Ganja State History-Ethnography Museum


Bulgaria

* Ethnographic and Archeological Museum,
Elhovo Elhovo ( bg, Елхово ) is a Bulgarian town in Yambol Province, located on the left bank of the Tundzha river, between Strandzha and Sakar mountains. Second largest city in the region after Jambol, the city is located at 36 km from bo ...


Brunei

* Malay Technology Museum


China

* China Ethnic Museum, Beijing


Croatia

* Ethnographic Museum, Zagreb, Croatia


Czech Republic

* Ethnographic Museum of the National Museum,
Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and List of cities in the Czech Republic, largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 milli ...


Ethiopia

* Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa


France

* '' Musée alsacien'', Strasbourg * '' Musée alsacien'', Haguenau * ''
Museon Arlaten Museon Arlaten ("Arles Museum" in Provençal dialect of Occitan) is a museum dedicated to the ethnography of Provence. It is located in Arles, at 29, rue de la République, and it is housed in the 15th century Hôtel particulier Laval-Castellan ...
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Arles Arles (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Arle ; Classical la, Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the former province of ...
* '' Musée Arménien de France'', Paris * (MAAOA),
Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
* Calvet Museum, Avignon * Château de Boulogne-sur-Mer * '' Musée dauphinois'' * Departmental Museum of archaeology Gilort (Jérôme) Carcopino, Corsica * Georges Labit Museum * ''
Musée de l'Homme The Musée de l'Homme (French, "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne ...
'' * '' Musée des Jacobins'', Auch * Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris * Municipal Museum (Saverne)


Germany

* Dresden Museum of Ethnology *
Ethnological Museum of Berlin The Ethnological Museum of Berlin (german: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin) is one of the Berlin State Museums (german: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is presently located in ...
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German Emigration Center The German Emigration Center (german: Deutsches Auswandererhaus) is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), comm ...
* '' Hessenpark'' *
Karlsruhe Palace Karlsruhe Palace (german: Karlsruher Schloss) was built in 1715 for Margrave Charles III William of Baden-Durlach after a dispute with the citizens of his previous capital, Durlach. The city of Karlsruhe has since grown around it. The building i ...
* Landesmuseum Hannover *
Leipzig Museum of Ethnography The Leipzig Museum of Ethnography (german: Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig) is a large ethnographic museum in Leipzig, Germany, also known as the Grassi Museum of Ethnology. Today it is part of the Grassi Museum, an institution which also in ...
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Linden Museum The Linden Museum (German: ''Linden-Museum Stuttgart. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde'') is an ethnological museum located in Stuttgart, Germany. The museum features cultural artifacts from around the world, including South and Southeast Asia ...
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Museum August Kestner Museum August Kestner, previously ''Kestner-Museum'', is a museum in Hanover, Germany. It was founded in 1889. The museum was renamed ''Museum August Kestner'' in December 2007 to avoid confusion with the Kestnergesellschaft, a local art gallery. ...
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Museum der Weltkulturen The Museum of World Cultures (german: link=no, Museum der Weltkulturen) is an ethnological museum in Frankfurt, Germany. Until 2001 it was called the Museum of Ethnology (''Museum für Völkerkunde''). History It was founded in 1904, as ...
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Museum Europäischer Kulturen The Museum of European Cultures (german: Museum Europäischer Kulturen) – National Museums in Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation came from the unification of the Europe-Department in the Berlin Museum of Ethnography and the Berl ...
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Museum Godeffroy The Museum Godeffroy was a museum in Hamburg, Germany, which existed from 1861 to 1885. The collection was founded by Johann Cesar VI. Godeffroy, who became a wealthy shipping magnate a few years after the expansion of the trade towards Austral ...
* Museum am Rothenbaum * Overseas Museum, Bremen * '' Sammlung für Völkerkunde'' * State Museum for Nature and Man


Georgia

* Ozurgeti History Museum,
Ozurgeti Ozurgeti ( ka, ოზურგეთი ) is the capital of the western Georgian province of Guria. It was formerly known as Macharadze or Makharadze (named in honor of Filipp Makharadze). It is a regional center of tea and hazelnut processing. Oz ...
* Tbilisi Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi *


Greece

* Museum of Cretan Ethnology * Ethnographic Museum, Pyrsogianni * Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia and Thrace * Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks *
Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina The Municipal Ethnographic Museum of Ioannina is a museum in Ioannina, Greece. It is housed in the Aslan Pasha Mosque, also known as the Mosque of Ali Pasha, in the Ioannina Castle The Ioannina Castle ( el, Κάστρο Ιωαννίνων) is ...


Hungary

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Ethnographic Museum (Budapest) The Museum of Ethnography ( hu, Néprajzi Múzeum) is a national museum in Budapest, Hungary. History It was founded as the Ethnographic Department of the Hungarian National Museum in 1872. Its first director was John Xantus de Vesey. It for ...


Indonesia

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Aceh Museum Aceh State Museum, popularly known as Aceh Museum or Banda Aceh Museum is a museum in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It is one of the oldest museum in Indonesia. History Colonial period The original building of the Aceh Museum was in the form of a tra ...
* Balanga Museum * Balaputradeva Museum * Bengkulu Museum * Benteng Heritage Museum *
Indonesia Museum The Indonesia Museum ( id, Museum Indonesia), is an anthropology and ethnology, ethnological museum located in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII), Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum is concentrated on arts and cultures of various ethnic groups that i ...
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East Jakarta ) in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (TMII), Jatinegara railway station and Museum of Transportation at Taman Mini Indonesia Indah. , image_seal = Lambang Kota Jakarta Timur.png , motto = , image_map ...
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National Museum of Indonesia ) is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as the Elephant Museum ( id, Museum Gajah) after the elepha ...
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Lambung Mangkurat Museum Lambung Mangkurat Museum is a museum in Jalan Ahmad Yani 36, Banjarbaru, South Kalimantan, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It co ...
* Museum Negeri Pontianak


Italy

* Museo delle Genti d'Abruzzo * Regole of Ampezzo Ethnographic Museum *
Sicilian Ethnographic Museum Giuseppe Pitrè The Sicilian Ethnographic Museum Giuseppe Pitrè (Italian: Museo Etnografico Siciliano Giuseppe Pitrè) is a museum in Palermo, Italy. The museum has two locations: the main part is located in one of the Palazzina Cinese's guesthouse, inside ...


Japan

* National Museum of Ethnology,
Suita is a city located in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 378,322 and a population density of 9,880 persons per km². The total area is 36.11 km². The city was founded on April 1, ...


Libya

* Ethnographic Museum of Tripoli


Mexico

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Museo Nacional de las Culturas The Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC; ''National Museum of Cultures'') is a national museum in Mexico City dedicated to education about the world's cultures, both past and present. It is housed in a colonial-era building that used to be the mi ...
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Museo Amparo The Museo Amparo, located in the historic center of Puebla City, is one of the most important historical museums in Mexico. It was inaugurated in 1991 and sponsored by the Amparo Foundation, which was founded in 1979 by Manuel Espinoza Yglesias in ...


Netherlands

* Museum Maluku *
Museon Museon is a museum for science and culture in The Hague, Netherlands. It has collections in the domains of geology, biology, archaeology, history, science and ethnology. __TOC__ Origin The museum was initiated in 1904 by the newspaper director ...
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Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art The Museum of Contemporary Tibetan Art is located in the :nl:Rensenpark, Rensenpark in Emmen, Netherlands, Emmen, in the north-eastern part of the Netherlands, near the Germany, German border. It has permanent and temporary exhibitions of contempor ...
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Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen The (NMVW) () is an overarching museum organisation for the management of several ethnographic museums in the Netherlands, founded in 2014. It consists of the Tropenmuseum () in Amsterdam, the Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal, and the Museum Volk ...
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Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wit ...
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Tropenmuseum The Tropenmuseum ( en, Museum of the Tropics) is an ethnographic museum located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1864. One of the largest museums in Amsterdam, the museum accommodates eight permanent exhibitions and an ongoing series of tem ...
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Africa Museum The Africa Museum ( nl, Afrika Museum) is a museum in Berg en Dal in the Netherlands. The museum on the outskirts of the city of Nijmegen is a complex with indoor as well as open-air display areas, covering art, culture, music, photographs, vid ...
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Wereldmuseum The Wereldmuseum Rotterdam (formerly known as the Museum voor Land- en Volkenkunde) is an ethnographic museum, situated at Willemskade in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The museum was founded in 1883 and shows more than 1800 ethnographic objects fro ...


Poland

* Ethnographic Museum of Kraków *
National Museum of Ethnography The National Museum of Ethnography (Polish: ''Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie'') is a museum of ethnography in Warsaw, Poland. It was established in 1888. Collection and exhibitions The collection is made up of objects, folk art, ...
, Warsaw


Portugal

* House of the County * Museum of Lavra School * National Museum of Ethnology (Portugal)


Romania

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ASTRA National Museum Complex "ASTRA" National Museum Complex ( ro, Complexul Naţional Muzeal "ASTRA") is a museum complex in Sibiu, Romania, which gathers under the same authority four ethnology and civilisation museums in the city, a series of laboratories for conservation ...
* Dimitrie Gusti National Village Museum, Bucharest *
Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania The Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania ( ro, Muzeul Etnografic al Transilvaniei; hu, Erdélyi néprajzi múzeum) is situated in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With a history of almost 100 years, the ''Ethnographic Museum of Transylvania'' is one of the fi ...
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Mikó Castle The Mikó Castle ( ro, Castelul Mikó; hu, Mikó-vár) is a fortified castle in Miercurea Ciuc (''Csíkszereda''), Romania. It is among the city's most important monuments, and today houses an ethnographic museum devoted to Székely heritage. W ...
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Museum of Oltenia The Museum of Oltenia ( ro, Muzeul Olteniei) is a multidisciplinary museum in the city of Craiova, Oltenia, Romania. The archaeology section of museum was founded on 1 April 1915. The natural history section was founded in 1923 and the museum as ...
* Museum of Popular Architecture of Gorj * Național Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest *
Palace of Culture (Iași) The Palace of Culture ( ro, Palatul Culturii) is an edifice located in Iași, Romania. The building served as Administrative and Justice Palace until 1955, when its destination was changed, being assigned to the four museums nowadays united under ...
* Vergu-Mănăilă House


Russia

* Khokhlovka *
Kunstkamera The Kunstkamera (russian: Кунсткамера) or Kunstkammer (German for "Culture Room" (literally) or "Art Chamber", typically used for a " cabinet of curiosities") is a public museum located on the Universitetskaya Embankment in Saint Pete ...
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Lonin Museum of Veps Ethnography The Rjurik Lonin Museum of Veps Ethnography in Sholtozero (russian: Шeлтозерский вепсский этнографический музей имени Р. Лонина, Sholtozerskiĭ vepsskiĭ ètnograficheskiĭ muzeĭ imeni R. Lonina ...
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Russian Museum of Ethnography The Russian Museum of Ethnography (Российский этнографический музей) is a museum in St. Petersburg that houses a collection of about 500,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples of t ...
, Saint Petersburg * Tomskaya Pisanitsa Museum * Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum


Serbia

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Ethnographic Museum, Belgrade The Ethnographic Museum ( sr-Cyrl, Етнографски музеј) is a museum located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is one of the oldest museums in the Balkans. The Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade fulfills its mission together with t ...


Slovenia

* Kajžnk House * Liznjek Farm *
Workers' Barracks The Workers' Barracks ( sl, Delavska kasarna) is a historic building at 48 France Prešeren Street () in the Stara Sava district of the town of Jesenice, northwestern Slovenia. Formerly a residential block, it now houses an ethnographic museum. Hi ...


Spain

* Black Pottery Museum *
Ethnographic Museum of Dairy The Ethnographic Museum of Dairy is a museum in the village of La Foz, Morcín, Asturias, Spain. Founded in 1993, the museum collects, studies and publicizes the various aspects of science and technology of milk and dairy derivatives, as well as tra ...
* Ethnographic Museum of Grandas de Salime *
Museum of Cádiz The Museum of Cadiz is a museum located in Cádiz, Spain. It was founded in 1970 after the merger of the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts with the Provincial Museum of Archaeology. It is on three floors, archaeology on the ground floor, art on the f ...
* Museum of Jewellery in the Vía de la Plata *
Pontevedra Museum The Pontevedra Museum (formerly the Pontevedra Provincial Museum) is a museum in the Galician city of Pontevedra in Spain. It was founded by the Provincial Deputation of Pontevedra on 30 December 1927 and has six buildings for its exhibitions. ...
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Valencian Museum of Ethnology The Valencian Museum of Ethnology (Museu Valencià d'Etnologia) is a museum located in the city of Valencia, mediterranean Spain. The museum mission defines it as cultural institution primarily devoted to collect, research and communicate the ...
* Zaragoza Museum


Sweden

* Museum of Ethnography


Switzerland

* Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich * '' Musée d'ethnographie de Genève'',
Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaki ...
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Museum of Cultures (Basel) The Museum of Cultures in Basel ( German: Museum der Kulturen Basel) is a Swiss museum of ethnography with large and important collections of artifacts, especially from Europe, the South Pacific, Mesoamerica, Tibet, and Bali. It is a Swiss he ...
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North American Native Museum The North American Native Museum, or Nordamerika Native Museum (NONAM), is a museum run by the City of Zurich, Switzerland. The museum specializes in the conservation, documentation, and presentation of ethnographic objects and artwork of Native ...
, Zurich


Tahiti

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Musée de Tahiti et des Îles The Musée de Tahiti et des Îles ("Museum of Tahiti and the Islands"), Tahitian Te Fare Manaha ("the Museum"), is the national museum of French Polynesia, located in Puna'auia, Tahiti. History The museum was founded in 1974 to conserve and res ...
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Punaauia Punaauia is a commune in the suburbs of Papeete in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. Punaauia is located on the island of Tahiti, in the administrative subdivision of the Windward Islands, themselves part o ...


Turkey

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Adana Ethnography Museum Adana Ethnography Museum ( tr, Adana Etnografya Müzesi), exhibits the ethnographic works, the inscriptions of Adana's landmarks and epitaph and gravestones of Adana's leading figures. The museum was opened in 1983 at the former Greek Church afte ...
* Akşehir Museum * Amasra Museum * Amasya Museum * Elazığ Archaeology and Ethnography Museum *
Ethnography Museum of Ankara The Ethnography Museum of Ankara is dedicated to the cultures of Turkic civilizations. The building was designed by architect Arif Hikmet Koyunoğlu and was built between 1925 and 1928. The museum temporarily hosted the sarcophagus of Mustafa Ke ...
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Ankara Vakıf Museum Vakıf Museum ( tr, Ankara Vakıf Eserleri Müzesi) is an ethnography museum in Ankara, Turkey exhibiting endowed articles. The museum is on Atatürk Boulevard in Ankara. It is to the south of Melike Hatun Mosque and to the east of Gençlik Park ...


Ukraine

* Museum of Folk Life (Mariupol)


United Kingdom

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Pitt Rivers Museum Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford in England. The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed t ...
, Oxford, England *
Horniman Museum The Horniman Museum and Gardens is a museum in Forest Hill, London, England. Commissioned in 1898, it opened in 1901 and was designed by Charles Harrison Townsend in the Modern Style. It has displays of anthropology, natural history and musical ...
, London, England


United States

* Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures * Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture & Industry,
Riverside, California Riverside is a city in and the county seat of Riverside County, California, United States, in the Inland Empire metropolitan area. It is named for its location beside the Santa Ana River. It is the most populous city in the Inland Empire an ...
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Fowler Museum at UCLA The Fowler Museum at UCLA, commonly known as The Fowler, and formerly Museum of Cultural History and Fowler Museum of Cultural History, is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material ...
, California *
Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is Brown University's teaching and research museum. The museum has a gallery in Manning Hall on Brown's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Its Collections Research Center is located in nearby Bristol, Rh ...
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Oconaluftee Indian Village The Oconaluftee Indian Village is a replica of an 18th-century eastern Cherokee community founded in 1952 and located along the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. History The Cherokee "living museum" founded by the Ea ...
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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with ...
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Peabody Museum of Salem The Peabody Museum of Salem (1915–1992), formerly the Peabody Academy of Science (1865–1915), was a museum and antiquarian society based in Salem, Massachusetts. The academy was organized in part as a successor to the East India Marine Socie ...
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Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology The Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (formerly the Robert H. Lowie Museum of Anthropology) is an anthropology museum located in Berkeley, California, on the University of California, Berkeley, campus. History Founded in 1901 under the pa ...
, California
Second Face Museum of Cultural Masks


Vietnam

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Vietnam Museum of Ethnology The Vietnam Museum of Ethnology ( vi, Bảo tàng Dân tộc học Việt Nam) is a museum in Hanoi, Vietnam, which focuses on the 54 officially recognised ethnic groups in Vietnam. It is located on a property in the Cầu Giấy District, ...
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Hanoi Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...


See also

* Museums#Ethnological and ethnographic *
Ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...
* :Ethnographic museums


References

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Ethnographic Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...