Brown University has announced a $5 million gift from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.
The museum's collection includes nearly one million ethnographic objects, archeological specimens, and images documenting cultures and societies from around the world, much of it currently housed in Bristol, Rhode Island, in storage facilities that are nearly eighty years old. In support of the museum's goal of consolidating its operations and moving its ho