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
 * 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 (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives)
 * 1) 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.
 * 1) Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia
 * 1 117,000 objects
 * 1) University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
 * 800,000 objects
 * 1) Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
 * 634,000 objects (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)
 * 1) Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
 * 500,000 objects
 * 1) Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
 * 500,000 objects
 * 1) Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
 * 500,000 objects (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.)
 * 1) Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
 * 500,000 objects
 * 1) British Museum, London, UK
 * 350,000 objects
 * 1) National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan
 * 335,000 objects
 * 1) National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Leiden, Netherlands
 * 200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.
 * 1) Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
 * 200,000 objects
 * 1) Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
 * 150,000 objects
 * 1) Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico
 * 120,000 objects
 * 1) American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
 * 119,000 objects
 * 1) Anima Mundi, Vatican City
 * 80,000 objects
 * 1) Horniman Museum, London, UK
 * 80,000 objects
 * 1) Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
 * 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects
 * 1) Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK
 * 30,000 objects
 * 1) Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
 * Over 30,000 ethnographic objects and 10,000 photographs
 * 1) Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.
 * 25,000 objets
 * 1) Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,
 * 29.000 pièces
 * 1) Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa
 * 13,000 items
 * 1) Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia
 * 11,500 items
 * 1) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
 * 11,000 objects
 * 1) Wooden Spoons Museum, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
 * Over 6,000 objects