This is a list of museums with major collections in ethnography and anthropology. It is sorted by descending number of objects listed.
- 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[2] (plus a mediatheque of 260,000 and archives)[3]
- 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.[4]
- Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1 117,000 objects[5]
- University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK
- 800,000 objects[6]
- Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA
- 634,000 objects[7] (In addition to Africa, Americas & Oceania, the museum embraces holdings from Europe, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient Egypt, Asia and a large media collection)
- Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, UK
- 500,000 objects[8]
- Musée de l'Homme, Paris, France
- 500,000 objects[9]
- Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany
- 500,000 objects[10] (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.)
- Russian Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 500,000 objects[11]
- British Museum, London, UK
- 350,000 objects[12]
- National Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Osaka, Japan
- 335,000 objects[13]
- National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands), Leiden, Netherlands
- 200,000 objects with 500,000 pieces in the image and multimedia libraries and 40,000 books.[14]
- Museum für Völkerkunde, Vienna, Austria
- 200,000 objects[15]
- Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde, Munich, Germany
- 150,000 objects[16]
- Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology), Mexico City, Mexico
- 120,000 objects[17]
- American Museum of Natural History Division of Anthropology, New York, USA
- 119,000 objects[18]
- Anima Mundi, Vatican City
- 80,000 objects[19]
- Horniman Museum, London, UK
- 80,000 objects[20]
- Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- 36,000 ethnographic objects and 535,000 archaeological objects[21]
- Powell Cotton Museum, Kent, UK
- 30,000 objects[22]
- Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
- 30,000 ethnographic objects, 10,000 photographs [23]
- Museo de Antropología de Xalapa, Xalapa, Mexico.
- 25,000 objets [24]
- Museu Antropológico Diretor Pestana (Brazil), Ijuí, Santa Cataria, Brazil,
- 29.000 pièces
- Ethnological Museum, Addis Ababa
- 13,000 items
- Berndt Museum of Anthropology, Perth, Australia
- 11,500 items
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA
- 11,000 objects[25]
- Wooden Spoons Museum, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, Romania
- Over 6,000 objects[26]