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Top 15 places in United States for Anthropology
byShiry
Live update: Updated July 26, 2021Copy link
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PEOPLE ARE SAYING:
ShiryThe Shelton McMurphey Johnson House is an Eugene, OR Victorian House Museum. It is open for tours and available for rentals. On display are period furniture, glassware, and photos of historic Eugene, as well as changing exhibits. Experience the elegance of an Afternoon Tea or rent the House for a beautiful Victorian themed wedding!
2. Bainbridge Island Historical Society & Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Bainbridge Island Historical Museum comprises a 1908 schoolhouse, home to long term exhibits, and an annex building housing our extensive research library, office space, amenities and a rotating exhibit gallery. An atrium lobby, gift shop and reception desk joins the one-room schoolhouse to our modern annex building.
3. University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History ("IDs)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryExplore thousands of years of human history and millions of years of natural history, all with an emphasis on Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. Investigate the past and imagine the future through world-class collections and stunning displays—with family-friendly sections throughout.
4. Fleming Museum of Art - University of Vermont
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryA cultural treasure prized by Vermonters and visitors for more than 80 years, the Fleming Museum is located on the campus of the University of Vermont, which, chartered in 1791, is one of the nation's oldest universities. When the Museum opened in 1931, it was hailed as "a practical place of learning — a vibrant, ongoing educational institution for both children and adults." Today, the Museum houses Vermont's most comprehensive collection of art and anthropological artifacts. It presents innovative exhibitions of contemporary and historic art from around the world, complemented by year-round programming for all ages.
5. Chester County Historical Society
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryLocated in beautiful West Chester, outside of Philadelphia, and nestled between such sites as historic Brandywine Valley and Longwood Gardens, CCHS boasts a collection of more than 90,000 artifacts spanning four centuries of history, a research Library, an Archives, a History Lab for children, a Museum store, and permanent and changing exhibits. Programs, lectures, special events, book signings and group programming will appeal to history lovers of all ages.
6. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
7. Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University (MOA)
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryDiscover North Carolina’s only museum dedicated to the study of global cultures. With artifacts from the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania, the MOA’s intimate exhibits illustrate the story of humanity from ancient times to today. Exhibits include hands-on activities for children and adults.
8. Kennedy Museum of Art
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Kennedy Museum of Art is an integral part of the educational, research, and public service missions of Ohio University. The purpose of the Kennedy Museum of Art is to enhance the intellectual and cultural life of Ohio University and the region through quality national and international exhibitions, collection-based research, and diverse formal and informal learning opportunities. The Kennedy Museum of Art exercises its public trust by focusing its collections on those works of art that it has the resources and capabilities to house, preserve, study and exhibit.
9. Lakeshore Museum Center
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe mission of the Lakeshore Museum Center and its Historic Sites is to inspire curiosity and wonder about Muskegon County’s natural and cultural history through our interactive exhibits and experiential programs.
10. Zeeland Historical Society / Dekker Huis Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Zeeland Historical Society proudly presents our rich heritage at the 1876 Dekker Huis / Zeeland Museum.
11. Milwaukee Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Milwaukee Art Museum collects and preserves art, presenting it to the community as a vital source of inspiration and education. The Museum’s four floors of over forty galleries of art are rotated regularly with works from antiquity to the present in the Museum’s far-reaching Collection. Included in the Collection are 15th– to 20th–century European and 17th– to 20th–century American paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, decorative arts, photographs, and folk and self-taught art. Among the best in the nation are the Museum’s holding of American decorative arts, German Expressionism, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960. The Museum also holds one of the largest collections of works by Wisconsin native Georgia O’Keeffe.
12. The Museum of the Red River
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Museum of the Red River is a museum of art and archaeology from around the world and the home of the Oklahoma State Dinosaur, Acrocanthosaurus atokensis.
13. Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Maxwell Museum is the oldest public museum in Albuquerque and actively supports and enhances the University of New Mexico’s mission of education, research and public service. While its primary emphasis on the American Southwest, the Museum’s collections are worldwide in scope. The Museum offers compelling ongoing and temporary exhibits describing and interpreting anthropological subjects for all interested audiences. The Museum is dedicated to providing engaging educational opportunities through exhibitions and public programs, publications, tours, the Museum store and outreach programs to the Albuquerque public schools. The Museum is free and open to all.
14. Museum of Northern Arizona
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryRecommended this place!
15. Asian Art Museum
PEOPLE ARE SAYING:ShiryThe Asian Art Museum holds one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world holding 18,000 objects spanning 6,000 years of history. With Asia as our lens and art as our cornerstone, we spark connections across cultures and through time, igniting curiosity, conversation, and creativity. Asia is not one place. The ideas and ideals that we call Asian are countless and diverse. Some of the works we display pre-date written history. Others were recently created. Many have connections to works from other continents and other millennia. We explore these links, provoking discovery, debate, and inspiration.
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