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Former name | Spurlock Museum of World Cultures |
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| Established | September 26, 2002 |
| Location | 600 S. Gregory Street Urbana, IL 61801 United States |
| Coordinates | 40°06′26″N 88°13′17″W / 40.1073°N 88.2214°W |
| Type | University museum |
| Director | Elizabeth Sutton |
| Public transit access |  MTD |
| Website | www.spurlock.illinois.edu |
The William R. and Clarice V. Spurlock Museum, better known as the Spurlock Museum, is an ethnographic museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Spurlock Museum's permanent collection includes portions of collections from other museums and units on the Urbana-Champaign campus such as cultural artifacts from the Museum of Natural History and Department of Anthropology as well as historic clothing from the Bevier Collection of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. The museum also holds objects donated by other institutions and private individuals. With approximately 51,000 objects in its artifact collection, the Spurlock Museum at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign collects, preserves, documents, exhibits, and studies objects of cultural heritage. The museum's main galleries, highlighting the ancient Mediterranean, modern Africa, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, East Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, celebrate the diversity of cultures through time and across the globe.