Indiana University’s museum of ethnography and cultural history in Bloomington grew from the Indiana University Museum, announced in 1963, into a major teaching and research institution devoted to traditional and folk arts from around the world. It expanded rapidly under Dr. Wesley Hurt, earned accreditation in 1971, and later moved into the William Hammond Mathers Museum building. Over time it assembled more than 40,000 ethnographic objects and images, with notable strengths in African, Latin American, Native American, musical, and Indiana-related materials. In 2020 it merged with the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology to form the Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.