Archeology & Anthropology Museums

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virtual exhibits

•  Australian Stone Tools - basic appraisal of a collection of Aboriginal Stone artifacts currently on loan to the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University from the Australian Museum, Sydney
•  Cave of the Warrior - American Museum of Natural History exhibition featuring a rare find from the fourth millennium BCE: a unique burial assemblage that included unusual textiles, sandals, and the oldest bow known to be preserved in the Near East
•  Empires Beyond the Great Wall: The Heritage of Genghis Khan - exhibit at the Royal British Columbia Museum
•  Exhibit of Paleolithic Figurines
•  Fossil Evidence for Human Evolution in China - introduction to the study of human evolution in China featuring a picture gallery of specimens
•  Southwestern Ontario: The First 11,000 Years - follow this virtual tour
•  Spanish Colonial Military Artifacts - online exhibit interpreting ca. 1650-1821 Spanish colonial military artifacts from southeastern North America focusing upon such uniform-related materials as buttons, buckles, and insignia

anthropology & archeology museums by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & the Middle East
•  Australia & Oceania
•  Europe
•  North America (USA) & Central America
•  South America

•  Egyptian Museum in Cairo

•  Nara Institute - researches the history of the Nara area; sponsors archaeological work and reconstructions of historic structures, and has an exhibition hall that houses art and other artifacts

•  Vanuatu Cultural Centre - includes the National Museum of Vanuatu

•  Archaeologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Wurttemberg - Aussenstelle Konstanz State Museum
•  Heuneburgmuseum - exhibits the archaeology of a Celtic town in upper Swabia, Germany. Hiking trail to burial mounds, monuments, and an excavation site
•  Neanderthal Museum - focuses on human evolution in its entirety, from man's emergence in the African savannah right through to the present day

•  National Archaeological Museum of Athens - one of the richest collections in the world concerning ancient Greek art. Its scope is representative of all the cultures that have flourished in Greece
•  Archaeological Museum, Kibbutz Ein Dor
•  Yahoo! Iraklion Archaeological Museum [interkriti.org]
•  List of Archaeological Sites

•  Archaeological Museum of Bologna - Important collections of prehistoric, Etruscan, Roman, Greek and Egyptian archealogy
•  Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Cagliari - spans time period starting from remote Neolithic, to an overview of nuragic bronzes, to material of Punic and Roman origin, and finally, numerous objects from the late medieval period

•  Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art

•  Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona - archaeological museum displaying primarily Roman collections. Also in Catalan

•  Statens Historiska Museum - Musuem of National Antiquities, featuring Swedish archaeology from prehistoric to medieval times
•  Foteviksmuséet - where local, regional, national and international interests are bound together through a joint Baltic-sea history
•  Nordiska Museet - national museum of cultural history, in Stockholm

•  Musée Schwab - museum of prehistory and archaeology
•  University of Zurich Institute and Museum of Anthropology - provides information about the members and ongoing research projects

•  Jorvik Viking Centre
•  Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
•  Museum of Antiquities - visited by those who want to know more about the history of northeast England and especially Hadrian's Wall
•  Yahoo! London Museum of Archaeology
•  Kilmartin House - Centre for Archaeology and Landscape Interpretation
•  Visit the EH Archaeology Store at Helmsley

•  Cayman Islands National Museum - dedicated to the preservation, research and dissemination of all aspects of the Caymanian heritage for present and future generations

•  Simon Fraser University - Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

•  Yahoo! Royal British Columbia Museum
•  University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology

•  Moncur Gallery - features an extensive collection of ancient artifacts portraying the earliest history of southwestern Manitoba

•  Museum of Nova Scotia - Archaeology in N.S.

•  Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History

•  Museum of Indian Arts and Culture - information about the laboratory of anthropology, educational programs, native communities, and an events calendar
•  Arizona State Museum - collecting, preserving, researching and interpreting the cultures of the Greater Southwest, including Arizona and northern Mexico
•  Old Pueblo Archaeology Center Dig for a Day - in Tucson; October 21- 24, 2004; participate by excavating or take an archaeologist-guided public tour, Yuma Wash Site

•  Yahoo! Fowler Museum of Cultural History@
•  California Academy of Sciences - online exhibit updated frequently
•  San Diego Museum of Man - an educational, non-profit corporation founded in 1915. Collecting for posterity and displaying the life and history of mankind

•  Denver University Museum of Anthropology - with links to student-curated exhibits

•  Rockefeller Archaeological Museum - houses the extraordinary collection of antiquities unearthed in digs in the country during the British Mandate period (1920-1948)
•  Nubia: Its Glory and Its People - selection of objects recovered over twenty years ago by the Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition in the effort to rescue archaeology from the rising water behind the Aswan Dam
•  Dickson Mounds Museum - on-site archaeological museum that features ongoing excavations, exhibits, and interpretive programs

•  Museum of Anthropology - University of Kansas

•  Hudson Museum at the University of Maine - where exhibits of traditional and contemporary cultures excite the imagination and open doors to greater understanding of indigenous peoples around the world
•  Abbe Museum - Maine Indian history, arts, culture, and archaeological research

•  Emory University - Michael C. Carlos Museum - collection of objects spanning from the prehistoric cultures of the seventh millennium B.C. to the twentieth century
•  Yahoo! Harvard University - Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

•  Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

•  Museum of Art and Archaeology - University of Missouri, Columbia - offers a strong collection of classical and Near Eastern art and archaeology, European and American art, and South Asian art

•  Maxwell Museum of Anthropology - University of New Mexico - the only museum in the Southwest whose mission encompasses the entire history of mankind and culture around the world

•  Southold Indian Museum - dedicated to the cultural history of the Indians of Long Island, and a chapter of the New York State Archaeological Association

•  Wake Forest University Museum of Anthropology

•  Museum of the Red River - housing collections of Native American art, artifacts, and ethnographic works originating throughout the Americas

•  Yahoo! University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

•  Chucalissa - archaeological site, a museum, and a reconstructed prehistoric Native American town

•  Alexandria Archaeology Museum - city archaeologists, volunteers, and students work with citizens and developers to locate sites important to the community's past, and when necessary, excavate them scientifically

•  Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata - in Spanish

•  Museu do Indio - dedicated to Brazilian Indigenous People and related subjects; in Portugese

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last edited Saturday, March 01, 2008