Ethnographic objects, reflecting world cultures, are held by the National Trust at several properties.

Colonial service in several families led to the collecting of ethnographic objects.

The Maori house at Clandon Park in Surrey is the most important single item held, but there are extensive collections made by Maurice, 4th Baron Egerton at Tatton Park in Cheshire: and the Verney museum at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire contains the remains of Edmund Hope Verney’s important collection of North American objects.