List of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology
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This is a list of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology.
- Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
- 500,000 objects[1]
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
- 800,000 objects[2]
- British Museum, London, UK
- 350,000 objects[3]
- Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
- 196,488 objects [4]
- Horniman Museum, London, UK
- 58,000 objects[5]
- Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 500,000 objects[6]
- Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
- 200,000 objects[7]
- Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
- 500,000 objects[8] (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.)
- Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
- 150,000 objects[9]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
- 11,000 objects[10]
- Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
- 634,000 objects[11] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)
- American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
- 119,000 objects[12]
- Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico
- 120,000 objects[13]
- Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects[14]
- Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- 3.75 million artifacts[15]
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
- More than 1 million items[16]
