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.
  1. Canadian Museum of History, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
  2. : 3.75 million artifacts
  3. Musée du quai Branly, Paris, France
  4. : 1,170,495 objects in 2014 including an iconotheque of about 700,000 pieces
  5. Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  6. : The Museum houses over 1.35 million objects, with one of the most comprehensive collections and Middle and Near-Eastern art in the world.
  7. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia
  8. : 1 117,000 objects
  9. University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
  10. : 800,000 objects
  11. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
  12. : 634,000 objects
  13. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
  14. : 500,000 objects
  15. Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
  16. : 500,000 objects
  17. Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
  18. : 500,000 objects
  19. Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
  20. : 500,000 objects
  21. British Museum, London, UK
  22. : 350,000 objects
  23. National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan
  24. : 335,000 objects
  25. National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Leiden, Netherlands
  26. : 200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.
  27. Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
  28. : 200,000 objects
  29. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
  30. : 150,000 objects
  31. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico
  32. : 120,000 objects
  33. American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
  34. : 119,000 objects
  35. Anima Mundi, Vatican City
  36. : 80,000 objects
  37. Horniman Museum, London, UK
  38. : 80,000 objects
  39. Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  40. : 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects
  41. Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK
  42. : 30,000 objects
  43. Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  44. : Over 30,000 ethnographic objects and 10,000 photographs
  45. Xalapa Museum of Anthropology, Xalapa, Mexico.
  46. : 25,000 objets
  47. Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,
  48. : 29,000 objects
  49. Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa
  50. : 13,000 items
  51. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia
  52. : 11,500 items
  53. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
  54. : 11,000 objects
  55. Wooden Spoons Museum, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
  56. : Over 6,000 objects