The Museum of Anthropology at Mizzou is a place of continual discovery.

Each year the Museum hosts an extraordinary range of exhibitions and outreach programs, while being stewards to a collection of over 35,000 objects and a vast repository of archaeological research collections and material. The MoA is the only anthropology museum in Missouri and supports the University of Missouri academic community as well as outreach throughout the state.

A gift to the MoA helps provide comprehensive support to a spectrum of programs that serve our neighbors throughout Missouri, visitors and scholars from around the world who seek out our collections, and students who will be the researchers and teachers of the future. If you have a specific program, collection, or other priority that you would like your gift to support or would like to learn more about specific ways to support the MoA, please call 573-882-3573 to speak to a staff member who can assist you in the process.

Please, help provide a bright future for our past, and give today.

Ways to Give

Private giving is essential to the Museum of Anthropology's ability to succeed and provide for the future and we want to thank alumni and friends for the roles they play in furthering our mission to broaden the understanding of human behavior, past and present, through research, interpretation, and preservation of ethnographic and archaeological materials.

Another Way to Leave Your Legacy

Planned giving via large gifts, endowments, or bequests can provide an excellent way for you to create a lasting legacy of support at the Museum of Anthropology. The MoA, working in partnership with the University of Missouri’s Office of Advancement, can tailor bequests and structure gifts of stock, real estate, life insurance, or retirement plans to maximize tax savings for you while providing meaningful support for the Museum.

By publicly recognizing donors, we believe we will motivate others to join their peers in supporting the Museum of Anthropology, however if a donor wishes to remain anonymous, we will respectfully honor that request to the extent allowed by law. MU's Donor Bill of Rights outlines our commitment to confidentiality and the importance of the trust our donors place in us.

If you would like to explore making a planned gift to support the MoA, or have already included the museum in your estate plan but haven't yet notified us, contact us at 573-882-3573 or reach out to MU's Donor Relations —we look forward to hearing from you.