Most of the museum collection comes from the field research of our faculty. Other specimens were donated by non-institute members, exchanged with other institutes, purchased or temporarily loaned. The collection, which amounts to approximately 8,000 specimens, can be divided into categories which include Austronesian artifacts, archeological artifacts of Taiwan, Han-Chinese folk and religious artifacts, artifacts from the Pacific Rim countries, and artifacts of minority ethnic groups in Southwestern China, which originally belonged to the Institute of History and Philology. These artifacts are primarily for research and academic purposes, and are also used for exhibition and education.
Users can conduct general searches in the database on the museum collection. For advanced searches, please refer to “Regulations Concerning the Borrowing and Use of Artifacts Collected in the Museum of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica”.