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Encyclopedia > Museum of Anthropology

Exciting museum displaying and showcasing the anthropological works primarily of the regions.

This museum includes a number of large sculptures, totem poles as well as cultural artifacts. One highlight is the yellow cedar sculpture the Raven and the First Men by Bill Reid.


Located on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. The building was designed by famous Canadian Architect Arthur Erickson and inspired by the Post and Beam Architecture of the Coastal First Nation.


External links

  • MOA Official Site (http://www.moa.ubc.ca/)

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Science Museum of Minnesota - Anthropology (304 words)
Museum Associate Rose Kubiatowitz has produced a manual on toxic organic material within ethnographic collections that may become a model for museums throughout the world who have yet to undertake such a safety analysis.
The Anthropology Department is working on a joint project with the University of Minnesota's Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies studying cuneiform tablets in the collections of both institutions.
Anthropology staff, in conjunction with Collections Management staff, are working on computerizing anthropology collections records and images to allow for better management of collections as well as access by visiting scholars and scientists and the general public.
Museum Anthropology (1044 words)
Museum Anthropology is published twice a year by the Council for Museum Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association, in partnership with the University of California Press.
Museum Anthropology publishes articles, commentary, review articles, exhibition and book reviews, and research notes relevant to museum anthropology and the study of material culture.
Museum anthropologists (and friends) in, and beyond, the Council for Museum Anthropology (CMA) may be wondering about the state of Museum Anthropology (MUA) and the story behind its spinoff projects, the Museum Anthropology weblog (which you are reading right now) and the seemingly out-of-the-blue emergence of Museum Anthropology Review (MAR).
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