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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
[1]
Musée du quai Branly ,
Paris , France
1,170,495 objects in 2014 including an iconotheque of about 700,000 pieces
[2] (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives)
[3]
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.
[4]
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) , St. Petersburg, Russia
1 117,000 objects
[5]
University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ,
Cambridge , UK
800,000 objects
[6]
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology ,
Berkeley, California , USA
634,000 objects
[7] (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
[8]
Musée de l'Homme , Paris, France
500,000 objects
[9]
Ethnological Museum ,
Berlin , Germany
500,000 objects
[10] (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
[11]
British Museum ,
London , UK
350,000 objects
[12]
National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) ,
Osaka , Japan
335,000 objects
[13]
National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands) ,
Leiden , Netherlands
200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.
[14]
Museum für Völkerkunde ,
Vienna , Austria
200,000 objects
[15]
Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde ,
Munich , Germany
150,000 objects
[16]
Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology),
Mexico City , Mexico
120,000 objects
[17]
American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
119,000 objects
[18]
Anima Mundi , Vatican City
80,000 objects
[19]
Horniman Museum , London, UK
80,000 objects
[20]
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia,
Vancouver , BC, Canada
36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects
[21]
Powell Cotton Museum , Kent, UK
30,000 objects
[22]
Mathers Museum of World Cultures ,
Indiana University , Bloomington, Indiana, USA
30,000 ethnographic objects, 10,000 photographs
[23]
Museo de Antropología de Xalapa , Xalapa, Mexico.
25,000 objets
[24]
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
[25]
Wooden Spoons Museum ,
Câmpulung Moldovenesc ,
Romania
Over 6,000 objects
[26]
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