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February 2024
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Brown hopes that moving the long-closed museum from Bristol to Providence's Jewelry District will make it more vital and accessible.
Condensing the two locations into one will make it easier for more people, including staff, students, and faculty, to interact with the museum’s nearly 1 million ethnographic objects and archaeological specimens representing human cultures and societies across the world, according to Brown.
The anthropology museum’s move to Providence’s Jewelry District, slated for Fall 2025, will open new possibilities for scholarship, community outreach and partnership with Indigenous communities worldwide.
Brown University's Haffenreffer Museum is set to move from Bristol to Providence.