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

   3.75 million artifacts[1]

2. 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]

3. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia

   1 117,000 objects[4]

4. University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK

   800,000 objects[5]

5. Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA

   634,000 objects[6] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)

6. Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK

   500,000 objects[7]

7. Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France

   500,000 objects[8]

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.)

9. Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia

   500,000 objects[10]

10. British Museum, London, UK

    350,000 objects[11]

11. National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan

    335,000 objects[12]

12. National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Leiden, Netherlands

    200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.[13]

13. Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria

    200,000 objects[14]

14. Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany

    150,000 objects[15]

15. Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico

    120,000 objects[16]

16. American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA

    119,000 objects[17]

17. Horniman Museum, London, UK

    80,000 objects[18]

18. Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects[19]

19. Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK

    30,000 objects[20]

20. Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA

    30,000 ethnographic objects, 10,000 photographs [21]

21. Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.

    25,000 objets [22]

22. Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,

    29.000 pièces

23. Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia

    11,500 items

24. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA

    11,000 objects[23]

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