Located on 375 pristine acres overlooking historic Mount Hope Bay in Bristol, Rhode Island, the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology is Brown University’s only major museum. It offers children and adults alike a unique setting to discover the many indigenous cultures of the world. The Haffenreffer was founded in 1923 and the current building opened to the public in 1955. The museum’s substantial ethnographic collection includes 5,000 African pieces (some by contemporary artists); 2,000 Southeast Asian and Asian objects; 14,000 North and South American Native pieces; 41,795 pre-Columbian pieces from North, Central, and South America; and 1,200 European objects. This large and diverse collection was acquired from museum founder R. F. Haffenreffer, various missionary collections, and Brown University anthropologists and graduate students, as well as numerous private collections. The Haffenreffer is also a federally designated repository for 20,000 archaeological objects excavated by Arctic researchers from the National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management lands in Alaska. The museum’s photographic archive contains photographs from the founder’s archives, the Spinden Collection of images of Latin America, and field photographs that accompanied collections. The museum library has some 10,000 volumes. Displayed objects make up less than five percent of the collection. Storage is accessible to researchers by appointment.