Collections

Database Collections Database Over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects representing the peoples of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe and the Pacific... Database Collections Highlights This section presents objects from the Textile Collection, as well as Mexico & Central America Virtual Hall, The Buddha Project,... Database Exhibition History Artifacts from current and recent past exhibitions at AMNH which draw substantially from its collections. Database Thesaurus Anthropology Thesaurus provides a controlled vocabulary for use in searching across the collections. The goal of this thesaurus is... Article Collections History Articles about scientific fieldwork carried out by ethnographers, archaeologists, and biological anthropologists in the Americas,... Article Collections Management Collections Management personnel work to preserve over 500,000 anthropological objects by providing them with stable environments,... Article Objects Conservation The primary function of the Objects Conservation Laboratory in the Division of Anthropology is to ensure the preservation of the... Article Digital Imaging Since 1989, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Division of Anthropology has captured over 250,000... Interactive Widget AnthroDaily AnthroDaily is a widget for Mac computers that presents every day a different object from the collections (the same one as on the...