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From the Amazonian rain forest and the trade routes through India to the remote islands of the Pacific, you can explore cultural diversity around the world with the Museum’s Cultural Halls.

ArchaeOLogy: Clues from the Past

Invite your students to visit OLogy, the Museum’s website for kids. They’ll find cool games and activities, such as Inca Investigation, If Trash Could Talk, and Up Close With a Zapotec Urn.

Resources for Learning

Access the Museum’s rich collection of educational resources, including lesson plans, activities, and articles on more than a dozen topics related to anthropology and world cultures.

Ethnographic Collections Database

Over 170,000 images of the Museum’s objects are available online! Search for artifacts from the collections of North America, Central America, South America, Africa, Asia, Pacific, and Europe.

Voices from South of the Clouds

How are efforts to preserve the biological and cultural diversity in the northwestern part of China's Yunnan Province changing villagers' lives? Find out with this gallery of their photos and stories.

Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit

Take a journey through Vietnam at the start of the 21st century—through different urban neighborhoods, from city to village, and to the upland communities of Vietnam's ethnic minorities.

Totems to Turquoise

Take a look at the innovative artistry of Native American jewelry makers from two very different geographic regions, the American Southwest and the Pacific coastline of Canada and Alaska.

Petra: Lost City of Stone

Explore the historical, technological, and cultural crosscurrents that combined to create a civilization that thrived in peace for over a thousand years.