List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology
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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 ...
and anthropology. It is sorted by descending number of objects listed. #
Canadian Museum of History The Canadian Museum of History (french: Musée canadien de l’histoire) is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of C ...
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Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
, 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 The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, also known as MAA, at the University of Cambridge houses the university's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world. The museum ...
, Cambridge, UK #: 800,000 objects #
Phoebe 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 pat ...
, 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) The is one of the major museums in Japan. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Museums"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', pp. 671-673. It is Japan's largest research institute in the academic disciplines of humanities and social sciences, which was esta ...
, 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 The American Museum of Natural History (abbreviated as AMNH) is a natural history museum on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. In Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from Central Park, the museum complex comprises 26 inter ...
Division of Anthropology, New York, USA #: 119,000 objects #
Anima Mundi The ''anima mundi'' (Greek: , ) or world soul is, according to several systems of thought, an intrinsic connection between all living beings, which relates to the world in much the same way as the soul is connected to the human body. Although ...
, Vatican City #: 80,000 objects # Horniman Museum, London, UK #: 80,000 objects #
Museum of 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, P ...
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 The Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa, in Ethiopia, is a public institution dedicated to ethnology and culture. The Ethnological Museum houses anthropological, musicological and cultural objects. The Ethnological Museum is the first university mu ...
#: 13,000 items #
Berndt Museum of Anthropology The Berndt Museum of Anthropology is an anthropological museum in Perth, Western Australia, founded in by Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt. The Berndt Museum is currently located with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on the western side of th ...
, Perth, Australia #: 11,500 items # Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA #: 11,000 objects # Wooden Spoons Museum,
Câmpulung Moldovenesc Câmpulung Moldovenesc (; formerly spelled ''Cîmpulung Moldovenesc'') is a town in Suceava County, northeastern Romania. It is situated in the historical region of Bukovina. Câmpulung Moldovenesc is the fourth largest urban settlement in the c ...
, 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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