Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is an anthropology museum located on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The museum was founded in 1932 as the Museum of Anthropology of the University of New Mexico, becoming the first public museum in Albuquerque. In 1972, it was renamed the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology in honor of philanthropists Dorothy and Gilbert Maxwell. The museum features changing exhibits and two permanent exhibits: the Ancestors Exhibit, an exhibit on human evolution, and the People of the Southwest Exhibit, which highlights 11,000 years of cultural heritage of the American Southwest and features a reconstruction of a room at Chaco Canyon.