Anthropology Museum
Founded in the 1960’s by Dr. Walt Foster as a hands-on teaching museum, the El Camino College Anthropology Museum is a safe space where we are dedicated to offering a perspective that represents the diversity and equality that all human beings share.
A student-centered component, taking place in the Anthropology Museum, is ANTH 20: Introduction to Museum Studies, where students learn to conceive, design, and present their own museum exhibits. These student-conceived displays, tailored to their peers, function as instruments in crafting equitable and diverse exhibits that reflect the lived experiences and attributes of the campus community.
Explore the CollectionOpen Hours
Monday-Thursday - 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Events, Dates to be announced:
September 2024:
- Latin Dance event
- Maker’s Fair
- Film Screening of Chavez Ravine in 9 Innings for Hispanic Heritage Month
- “Foodie Talk” Food served and speaker to be announced
- Anthropology Book Club, “Manufacturing Celebrity” discussion
October 2024:
- Marigold making workshop and discussion
- Dia de los Muertos lecture by Prof. Mannen
- Two paper-mâché skull decorating workshops
- Day of the Dead ofrenda to be displayed in the Anthropology Museum
November 2024:
- Flute exhibition by Dr. William Doyal
- “American Identity and the Centric View” discussion
- Anthropology Book Club, “Mohawk Interruptus” discussion
El Camino College stands on the ancestral homeland of the Gabrielino-Tongva people, the traditional caretakers of Tovaangar (the Los Angeles Basin and Southern Channel Islands). We recognize that this institution benefits from the violent displacement and disenfranchisement of those who inhabited and stewarded this land for generations. We pay our respect to the Gabrielino-Tongva people, past and present, and their connection to this space.
We are also aware of the racially discriminatory condemnation of the Gordon Manor tract, a Black residential development project proposed for this land in 1926. As a disseminator of truth in education, we acknowledge a history of involuntary sacrifice that allowed for the establishment and continued existence of El Camino College.