Contact Us

Planning a visit? The Cotsen Institute is on the ground level of the Fowler Museum building, which is located in the heart of UCLA’s north campus. Click here for UCLA campus maps. Parking is available nearby:

Enter UCLA from Sunset Blvd. at Westwood Plaza. Drive ahead to the Parking Information Booth in Lot #4. Parking is at the northeast or southeast ends of Lot 4, where automated pay stations accept $1 and $5 bills and credit cards. The parking fee is a maximum of $13. The Fowler Building is visible to your left when you ascend from the elevator or stairs (follow pedestrian walkways, indicated by arrows).

The Cotsen Institute is also a short walk from the UCLA Transit Center at Hilgard and Strathmore Avenues, where several public bus lines stop.

  • Cotsen Institute of Archaeology UCLA

    308 Charles E. Young Drive North
    A210 Fowler Building/Box 951510
    Los Angeles, CA 90095-1510

  • Phone

    (310) 206-8934

  • Fax

    (310) 206-4723

Willeke Wendrich

Willeke Wendrich

Director
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Gregson Schachner

Gregson Schachner

Chair
UCLA Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program

Glenn Wharton

Glenn Wharton

Chair
UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials
UCLA PhD Program in the Conservation of Material Culture