Collections

Collections Database The collections database contains over 250,000 ethnographic and archaeological objects. Collections Highlights This section presents objects from the Textile Collection. Exhibition History Artifacts from current and recent past exhibitions at AMNH which draw substantially from its collections. Thesaurus Anthropology Thesaurus provides a controlled vocabulary for use in searching across the collections. The goal of this thesaurus is... Collections History Articles about scientific fieldwork carried out by ethnographers, archaeologists, and biological anthropologists in the Americas,... Collections Management Learn how the Collections Management personnel work to preserve anthropological objects. Objects Conservation The Objects Conservation Lab ensures the preservation of the collections for the future. Digital Imaging Since 1989, with major support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Division of Anthropology has captured over 250,000... 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...