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.

University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
800,000 objects^[1]
Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
500,000 objects^[2]
British Museum, London, UK
350,000 objects^[3]
Horniman Museum, London, UK
80,000 objects^[4]
Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK
30,000 objects^[5]
Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
1,170,495 objects in 2014 including an iconotheque of about 700,000 pieces^[6] (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives)^[7]
Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
500,000 objects^[8]
Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
500,000 objects^[9] (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^[10]
Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
200,000 objects^[11]
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia
1 117,000 objects^[12]
Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
500,000 objects^[13]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
11,000 objects^[14]
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
634,000 objects^[15] (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^[16]
Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico
120,000 objects^[17]
Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.
Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects^[18]
Canadian Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
3.75 million artifacts^[19]
Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia, 11,500 items.
National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan
335,000 objects^[20]
Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
30,000 ethnographic objects, 10,000 photographs ^[21]
Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil, 29.000 pieces

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