List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology

This is a list of museums with major 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.
# 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 museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)
# Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
#: 500,000 objects
# Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
#: 500,000 objects
# 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.)
# Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
#: 500,000 objects
# British Museum, London, UK
#: 350,000 objects
# National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan
#: 335,000 objects
# National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Leiden, Netherlands
#: 200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.
# Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
#: 200,000 objects
# Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
#: 150,000 objects
# Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico
#: 120,000 objects
# American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
#: 119,000 objects
# Anima Mundi, Vatican City
#: 80,000 objects
# Horniman Museum, London, UK
#: 80,000 objects
# Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
#: 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects
# Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK
#: 30,000 objects
# Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
#: 30,000 ethnographic objects, 10,000 photographs
# Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.
#: 25,000 objets
# Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,
#: 29.000 pièces
# Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa
#: 13,000 items
# Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia
#: 11,500 items
# Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
#: 11,000 objects
# Wooden Spoons Museum, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
#: Over 6,000 objects{{cite web, url=https://www.descopera.org/muzeul-lingurilor-din-campulung-moldovenesc/, title=Muzeul lingurilor din Câmpulung Moldovenesc, first=Marius, last=Ignâtescu, publisher=Asociația Descoperă, date=5 July 2009, language=ro

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