Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures, University museum in Provo, United States.
The Brigham Young University Museum of Peoples and Cultures is a university museum in Provo that houses over one million objects from South America, Mesoamerica, the American Southwest, and Polynesia. The collection spans from archaeological discoveries to ethnological items representing diverse cultures and time periods.
From about 1980 until 2014 the museum was housed in BYU's Allen Hall. In 2014 it moved to a new facility at 2201 N. Canyon Road, a few blocks north of the BYU football stadium. Its holdings grew around the university's archaeology and ethnology collections, most of them from South America, Mesoamerica, Central America, the American Southwest, the Great Basin and Polynesia.
The collections display ancient textiles from Andean communities, pottery traditions from Mesoamerica, and ceremonial objects from Pacific Island groups. Visitors can observe how different cultures expressed their beliefs and daily practices through material goods.
The museum is at 2201 N. Canyon Road, a few blocks north of BYU's football stadium; it moved there in 2014 after about three decades in Allen Hall. Exhibits such as "Greater than Gold: Textiles of the Ancient Andes" ran through late 2016, so check what is on view before travelling. Objects not on display remain available for study and research.
The museum holds over a million objects, but most of its roughly 7,000 collections come from South America, Mesoamerica, Central America, the American Southwest, the Great Basin and Polynesia. Among them are the 581-item Spoerl Collection of ancient Andean textiles and the 759-item Cheesman Collection, whose Peruvian textiles date mainly to the prehistoric period.
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