Brown University: Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology

User Review:

• This is a little known, but wonderfully endowed museum tucked away from the bustle of Providence in the small enclave of Bristol, RI. It's primary purpose is to educate the students of Brown University, but it is open to the public as well. This museum has acquired archaeological and ethnological collections of RI and American native populations through fieldwork, gift or purchase, enhancing the museum's value for research and teaching. It has set priorities for acquisitions by upholding appropriate conventions, resolutions, and laws on cultural property, by ensuring that new collections can be responsibly conserved and stored, by establishing policy for deaccessions, and by reserving proceeds from any deaccessions for strengthening collections. The museum believes in the preservation of it's artifactual and archival collections, the irreplaceable human cultural heritage, in a manner consistent with respect for traditions of their makers, and by conserving all collections in secure, ample storage facilities and according to established professional practices in conservation, fulfilling thereby the commitment of the university/museum to the public trust, to museological practice and ethics, and to the museum's donors.
• The description was provided by John Fazzino