Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
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Established	1866; 159 years ago (1866)
Location	Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts
Coordinates	42°22′41.50″N 71°06′53.30″W / 42.3781944°N 71.1148056°W / 42.3781944; -71.1148056
Type	Archaeology museum Ethnographic museum
Accreditation	American Alliance of Museums
Founder	George Peabody
Director	Jane Pickering William and Muriel Seabury Howells
Curator	Ingrid Ahlgren Ilisa Barbash Patricia Capone Diana Loren Stephanie Mach Michele Morgan Diana Zlatanovski
Owner	Harvard University
Public transit access	Harvard (MBTA)
Nearest parking	Street
Website	peabody.harvard.edu

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas. The museum is caretaker to over 1.2 million objects, some 900 feet (270 m) of documents, 2,000 maps and site plans, and about 500,000 photographs.^[1] The museum is located at Divinity Avenue on the Harvard University campus. The museum is one of the four Harvard Museums of Science and Culture open to the public.^[2]