Museos

Online museum collections of Maya artefacts

Museums with direct collection portals or filtered browse pages

• Museo Amparo – Museum collection portal with a dedicated Cultura Maya tag page and individual object records. Useful because it also connects many pieces to talks, essays, and digital publications. Link

• British Museum: Maya collection search – Filtered search page for Maya material in the British Museum collection. Useful for browsing objects by culture/period and findspot. Link

• The Walters Art Museum: Artwork by Maya – Browse page for works attributed to Maya makers in the Walters online collection. Individual object pages include images, object data, and often downloadable files. Link

• Penn Museum Online Collections – Searchable digital collections portal with object records, images, highlights, videos, and bibliography. Especially useful for Maya material from sites such as Piedras Negras, Tikal, Caracol, and Chama. Link

• Harvard Peabody Museum Collections Online – Large collections database connected to the Peabody Museum. Useful for exploring Maya objects, casts, expedition materials, and other collection records, although the interface may require JavaScript. Link

• Denver Art Museum: Arts of the Ancient Americas – Collection overview page for the museum’s Ancient Americas holdings. The Maya material is noted as a particular strength, especially stone reliefs and ceramics. Link

• Cleveland Museum of Art: Indigenous Art of the Americas – Collection overview page for the museum’s Indigenous American holdings. Especially strong in Classic Maya works in stone, ceramic, and shell. Link

Representative public object records from major museums with strong Maya holdings

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art (example Maya object record) – Public collection record from the Met’s online collection. A useful entry point for the museum’s Maya ceramics, jade, relief sculpture, and other works in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing. Link

• Los Angeles County Museum of Art / LACMA (example Maya object record) – Public collection record from LACMA’s online collections. Useful as an entry point into one of the stronger museum collections of Maya painted ceramics and related Ancient Americas material. Link

• Brooklyn Museum (example Maya object record) – Public collection record from the Brooklyn Museum’s online collection. A useful entry point into the museum’s Maya holdings in jade, stone, and other media. Link

Useful museum highlights and related collection pages

• Penn Museum: Stela 14 highlight page – Highlight page for one of the Penn Museum’s best-known Maya monuments from Piedras Negras. Useful as a museum-written introduction to the collection and its historical importance. Link

• Penn Museum: Stela 14 full object record – Full object page with images, details, and bibliography for Piedras Negras Stela 14. Link

• Museo Amparo: Figurilla de mujer maya – Example object record from the Museo Amparo Maya holdings. Useful for seeing the level of catalog detail on individual pieces. Link

• The Walters Art Museum: Maya Polychrome Lidded Urn with Seated Figure – Example object record from the Walters Maya holdings, with image download and catalog information. Link

• Denver Art Museum: Effigy Drum Vessel with Hieroglyphic Inscription – Example object record from the Denver Maya collection, useful because it includes a substantial discussion of the hieroglyphic text. Link