The Longyear Museum of Anthropology is Colgate's on-campus anthropology museum.
Land Acknowledgment
The Longyear Museum of Anthropology at Colgate University recognizes our collective responsibility to acknowledge our colonial history. Our campus sits on the traditional lands of the Onyota’a:ká: known as the People of the Upright Stone and Oneida Indian Nation of New York. The museum is actively committed to building relationships with the Oneida people and with other Native American tribes and nations. It is urgent that we consider the legacies of violence, displacement, migration, and settlement that bring us together today.
Collections
The Longyear collection includes archaeological and ethnological cultural heritage materials from all over the world.
The Longyear Museum of Anthropology educates the Colgate community about the artistic and cultural heritage and continuing work of indigenous peoples of the past and to showcase the work of contemporary artists who explore historical or contemporary issues of social significance in their work.
The collections of the Longyear Museum of Anthropology are an important resource for exhibitions and teaching, and for research by students and faculty.
The Anthropology Museum at Colgate began in the early 1950s as a teaching collection. In 1957, John Longyear, an archaeologist and anthropology professor, purchased a few cases to display fossil casts and local archaeological specimens.
