this museum has great examples of first nations masks, bowls, baskets, carving and various other arts. i spent a few days there once watching the tibetan monks make a sand mandala.
The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
(UBC) campus in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is renowned for its displays of world arts and cultures, in particular works by First Nations peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast First Nations . As well as being a major tourist destination, MOA is also a research and teaching museum, where UBC courses in art, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, and museum studies are given. MOA houses 38,000 ethnographic objects, as well as 535,000 archaeological objects in its building alone
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Art, History, Natural Sciences...
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Apart from the famous museums there are many interesting ones as well even if they are not well known.
Which ones are in your country or in other countries that you know about?