Institutions

Institutions

Study each institutional collection of Benin objects and sort the list of institutions by name, object count and country. Selecting an institution gives access to an introduction page with details about the institution, the collected data and an overview of object groups in the collection.
Archivio Storico di Propaganda Fide
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino
Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo
Barnes Foundation
Bernisches Historisches Museum
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
British Museum
Bryn Mawr College
Buffalo Museum of Sciences
Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham
Cambridge University Library
Davis Museum at Wellesley College
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Glasgow Life Museums
Imperial War Museums
Institut für Ethnologie und Afrikastudien, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Institute for Benin Studies
Institute of Commonwealth Studies Library, University of London
Ipswich Museum
Krannert Art Museum | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Landesmuseum Hannover, Das WeltenMuseum
Linden-Museum Stuttgart, Staatliches Museum für Völkerkunde
Manchester Museum
Maritime Museum, Liverpool National Museums
MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste der Welt
Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University
Metropolitan Museum of Art
MKG Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe
Museum der Kulturen Basel
Museum Fünf Kontinente, Staatliche Museen in Bayern
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Museum Rietberg Zürich
Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève
musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
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Description

The archives at the musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac provide access to the combined historical archive of the Musée du Trocadéro, later renamed the Musée de l’Homme, and the Musée national des Arts d’Afrique et d’Océanie. It also holds the private archive of the important Parisian dealer Louis Carré. The museum archives have all been digitised; however, until autumn 2023 they are only available for consultation onsite at the museum. For full access conditions see the museum’s website. It should be noted that these are set to change, as the museum plans to make all publicly available archives accessible online at the end of 2023, which will include most of the archives referenced here. However, specific access conditions will be maintained for recently acquired documents that provide sensitive personal information.

Archival units
Nationaal Archief, The Hague
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and Wereldmuseum
National Archives, Ibadan
National Army Museum
National Gallery of Art
National Museum of the Royal Navy
National Museum, Benin
National Museum, Lagos
Nationalmuseet, National Museum of Denmark
Phonogrammarchiv of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Pitt Rivers Museum
Powell-Cotton Museum
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim
Royal Anthropological Institute
Royal Armouries
Royal Museums Greenwich
Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
SOAS University of London
South Australian Museum
Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen und Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Stadtarchiv Freiburg
Statens museer för världskultur
Städtische Museen Freiburg
The Bernie Grant Archive, The Bishopsgate Insititute
The British Library
The National Archives, Kew
University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Penn Museum)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Wellcome Collection
Weltkulturen Museum Frankfurt am Main
Weltmuseum Wien
World Museum, National Museums Liverpool
Übersee-Museum Bremen