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 Civilization, 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. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
  6. : 1 117,000 objects
  7. University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
  8. : 800,000 objects
  9. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
  10. : 634,000 objects
  11. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
  12. : 500,000 objects
  13. Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
  14. : 500,000 objects
  15. Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
  16. : 500,000 objects
  17. Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
  18. : 500,000 objects
  19. British Museum, London, UK
  20. : 350,000 objects
  21. National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan
  22. : 335,000 objects
  23. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, Netherlands
  24. : 200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.
  25. Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
  26. : 200,000 objects
  27. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
  28. : 150,000 objects
  29. Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico
  30. : 120,000 objects
  31. American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
  32. : 119,000 objects
  33. Horniman Museum, London, UK
  34. : 80,000 objects
  35. Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  36. : 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects
  37. Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK
  38. : 30,000 objects
  39. Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
  40. : 30,000 ethnographic objects, 10,000 photographs
  41. Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.
  42. : 25,000 objets
  43. Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana, Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,
  44. : 29.000 pièces
  45. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia
  46. : 11,500 items
  47. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
  48. : 11,000 objects