Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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- Summary
- The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. The museum is caretaker to over 1.2 million objects, some 900 feet (270 m) of documents, 2,000 maps and site plans, and about 500,000 photographs. The museum is located at Divinity Avenue on the Harvard University campus. The museum is one of the four Harvard Museums of Science and Culture open to the public. Wikipedia
- Inception
- 1866 [2]
- 1927 [1]
- Country
- United States [1][2]
- Location
- Cambridge, Mass. [1]
- Cambridge [2]
- Website
- https://peabody.harvard.edu/ [2]
- Organization Type
- museum [2]
- Native American organization [2]
- Parent Organization
- Harvard University [1][2]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [2]
- Sources
- 1. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 2. Wikidata
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