Here are some links to museums with Archaeology and Anthropology resources in the United States. For a more comprehensive list of Archeology and Anthropology museums please visit the links to online museum lists below. Also, you may want to check with your state archeologist or State Historic Preservation Officer for information on state or regional museums.

American Museum of Natural History (New York, New York)

Arizona State Museum (Tucson, Arizona)

Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawai`i)

Burke Museum (Seattle, Washington)

Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania)

The City Museum of Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)

Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Virginia)

Dumbarton Oaks (District of Columbia)

The Field Museum (Chicago, Illinois)

Florida Museum of Natural History (Gainsville, Florida)

Fowler Museum of Cultural History (Los Angeles, California)

Fruitlands Museums (Harvard, Massachusetts)

Heard Museum (Phoenix, Arizona)

Houston Museum of Natural History (Houston, Texas)

Illinois State Museum (Springfield, Illinois)

Library of Congress: American Folklife Center (Washington, D.C.)

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum (New York, New York)

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology (Berkeley, California)

Smithsonian Institution (Washington, D.C.)

The Robbins Museum of Archaeology (Attleboro, Massachusetts)

University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Washington State University Museum of Anthropology (Pullman, Washington)

Online museum lists
Anthropology Museums on the Web
Archnet - Museums

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