About the Peabody Museum

Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is one of the oldest museums in the world devoted to anthropology and houses one of the most comprehensive records of human cultural history in the Western Hemisphere.

The Peabody Museum...

  • Engages in ongoing anthropological discourse through exhibitions, workshops, symposia, and publications;
  • Allows faculty and students to draw upon the collections to enrich classes and research; and
  • Serves a wide public audience through educational programs developed in collaboration with Harvard’s Museum of Natural History.  

View of the Peabody Museum exterior, ca. 1899. PM 2004.24.1828.

 

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