Mission
The National Museum of Animals & Society is dedicated to enriching the lives of animals and people through exploration of our shared experience. To this end, NMAS promotes reverence for life and compassionate ethics in advancing healthy, meaningful interconnections with the animal world.
Objectives
NMAS employs traditional museum stratagems in achieving its mission: development of scholarly exhibitions, interpretation of objects, and accession of a world-class collection and preservation effort. Moreover, the Museum pursues the following objectives:
• Instituting a multifaceted, interdisciplinary approach in examining our dynamic and evolving relationship with non-human animals.
Fields of study include, but are not limited to:
Humanities – the Arts, History, Linguistics, Literature, Media, Philosophy, Religion
Social Sciences – Anthropology, Cultural/Ethnic, Psychology, Sociology
Natural Sciences – Earth and Life Sciences
Applied Sciences - Agriculture, Environmental and Health Sciences, Social Work
• Serving as the preeminent storehouse for archives and artifacts of the Animal Protection Movement, domestic and abroad, and encompassing both welfare- and rights-based efforts.
• Nurturing humanity’s legacy of compassion for animals through humane education programming.
Explore the human-animal bond
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