Berndt Museum of Anthropology

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The Berndt Museum of Anthropology is an anthropological museum in Perth, Western Australia, founded in 1976 by Ronald Berndt and Catherine Berndt. It is currently, as of 2024^[update], located with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on the western side of the University of Western Australia's (UWA's) Crawley campus.

Housing 12,000 objects and 35,000 photographs,^[1] the museum contains one of the finest collections of Indigenous Australian art and cultural artifacts in the world, according to the Collections Australia Network.^[2] The collection consists of contemporary and historical Aboriginal Australian material culture from regions such as Arnhem Land, the Kimberley, Pilbara, the South West and the Western Desert. The museum also houses substantial Asian and Papua New Guinean collections.