Museum of Anthropology
University of British Columbia
University of British Columbia
MOA houses over 48,000 ethnographic objects (as well as 535,000 archaeological objects under the care of UBC’s Laboratory of Archaeology). The ethnographic materials derive from all over the world, including Asia, the Americas, Australia and the Pacific Islands, Africa and Europe. There are approximately 9,800 objects from B.C’s First Nations in MOA’s collections; we also house over 15,000 objects from Asia, over 6,700 textiles from around the world, over 5,000 coins from Europe and Asia, and over 6,200 paintings or works on paper.
Visit the Museum of Anthropology on the web at http://moa.ubc.ca.
The RRN contains 53,310 items from the Museum of Anthropology. Items from the Museum of Anthropology have been available on the RRN since launch. Since then, their items have been viewed on the RRN 66,705,141 times. Data from the Museum of Anthropology was last updated May 18, 2025.