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National Museum of Anthropology

National Museum of Anthropology is a national museum at Mexico City and Primera Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec. It was established in 1964.

Also recorded as Museo Nacional de Antropología; Museo Nacional de Antropologia; National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico); Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City.

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Identity

What the record establishes about National Museum of Anthropology.

The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology / Ignacio Bernal, Román Piña-Chán, Fernando Cámara-Barbachano; photographed by Irmgard Groth, translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom. is dated 1968 and held by Wellcome Collection. The prehispanic cultures of Peru : guide for the exhibitions in Peruvian archaeology museums / Justo Cáceres Macedo ; translated by Daniel Sandweiss. is dated [1985] and held by Wellcome Collection. Empires of the dead : Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropology / Christopher Heaney. is dated [2023] and held by Wellcome Collection. Classification and arrangement of the exhibits of an anthropological museum / by William Henry Holmes. is dated [1903] and held by Wellcome Collection. Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl]. is dated [1976] and held by Wellcome Collection. Catálogo de la colección de códices [del Museo Nacional de Antropología] / John B. Glass. is dated 1964 and held by Wellcome Collection.

Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris. is dated 1900- and held by Wellcome Collection. National Museum of Anthropology is recorded as held by Primera Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec. 'Cipriani, Prof L' is dated 1929-1934 and held by Wellcome Collection. Wellcome Collection records 23 objects associated with this heading. National Museum of Anthropology is associated with Mexico. National Museum of Anthropology is recorded from 1964.

Holdings and surviving copies

National Museum of Anthropology: Mexico (1983) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive. The Aztecs : Mexica Hall (1985) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.

Authority records

The identifiers under which National Museum of Anthropology may be traced in institutional catalogues.

National Museum of Anthropology is established in the international name authorities as Wikidata Q524249.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

Wellcome Collection: 23 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

4 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Kiowa Drawings. An online exhibition of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Anthropology, 2006. Practical Dyeing and Technical Imaging: Replicating a Colonial Feather Insignia from Mexico, Heritage, 2025. Museums, Memory, and the Just Nation in Post-Civil War El Salvador, Museum & Society, 2015. La representación del poder y el poder de la representación: la política cultural en los museos de Antropología y la creación del Museo del Traje La representación del poder y el poder de la representación: la política cultural en los museos de Antropología y la creación del Museo del Traje, Política y Sociedad, 2005.

Digitised editions and texts

1 digitised item associated with this heading is catalogued by Internet Archive.

National Museum of Anthropology: Mexico (1983) — Internet Archive.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 41 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 8 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

In detail

It is associated with Mexico. The record gives 1964 as its date of establishment or first appearance. The recorded subject matter is anthropology. It forms part of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia.

Its recorded seat is Mexico City.

It is recorded in the collection of Primera Sección del Bosque de Chapultepec.

Chronology

  1. 1900Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris. (Wellcome Collection).
  2. 1900Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris. is dated 1900- and held by Wellcome Collection.
  3. 1903Classification and arrangement of the exhibits of an anthropological museum / by William Henry Holmes. (Wellcome Collection).
  4. 1903Classification and arrangement of the exhibits of an anthropological museum / by William Henry Holmes. is dated [1903] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  5. 1929'Cipriani, Prof L' (Wellcome Collection).
  6. 1929'Cipriani, Prof L' is dated 1929-1934 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  7. 1964National Museum of Anthropology established.
  8. 1964Catálogo de la colección de códices [del Museo Nacional de Antropología] / John B. Glass. is dated 1964 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  9. 1964National Museum of Anthropology is recorded from 1964.
  10. 1964Catálogo de la colección de códices [del Museo Nacional de Antropología] / John B. Glass. (Wellcome Collection).
  11. 1968The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology / Ignacio Bernal, Román Piña-Chán, Fernando Cámara-Barbachano; photographed by Irmgard Groth, translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom. (Wellcome Collection).
  12. 1968The Mexican National Museum of Anthropology / Ignacio Bernal, Román Piña-Chán, Fernando Cámara-Barbachano; photographed by Irmgard Groth, translated from the Spanish by Carolyn B. Czitrom. is dated 1968 and held by Wellcome Collection.
  13. 1976Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl]. (Wellcome Collection).
  14. 1976Cardiovascular physiology in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / [Jerome Joseph Bylebyl]. is dated [1976] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  15. 1983National Museum of Anthropology: Mexico digitised by Internet Archive.
  16. 1983National Museum of Anthropology: Mexico (1983) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  17. 1985The prehispanic cultures of Peru : guide for the exhibitions in Peruvian archaeology museums / Justo Cáceres Macedo ; translated by Daniel Sandweiss. (Wellcome Collection).
  18. 1985The Aztecs : Mexica Hall digitised by Internet Archive.
  19. 1985The prehispanic cultures of Peru : guide for the exhibitions in Peruvian archaeology museums / Justo Cáceres Macedo ; translated by Daniel Sandweiss. is dated [1985] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  20. 1985The Aztecs : Mexica Hall (1985) is digitised and catalogued by Internet Archive.
  21. 2023Empires of the dead : Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropology / Christopher Heaney. is dated [2023] and held by Wellcome Collection.
  22. 2023Empires of the dead : Inca mummies and the Peruvian ancestors of American anthropology / Christopher Heaney. (Wellcome Collection).

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    Kiowa Drawings. An online exhibition of the Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Museum Anthropology, 2006

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    OpenStreetMap gazetteer entry for National Museum of Anthropology, Finance Road, Ermita, Fifth District, Manila, Capital District, Metro Manila, 1000, Philippines

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 4 articles naming National Museum of Anthropology.

    open access index · Unverified

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  4. 4.

    Internet Archive, 2 digitised items catalogued under National Museum of Anthropology as creator.

    digital repository · Unverified

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  5. 5.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 23 works naming National Museum of Anthropology.

    museum collection · Unverified · Wellcome Collection

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  6. 6.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q524249: National Museum of Anthropology

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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  7. 7.

    “National Museum of Anthropology (Mexico)”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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