View objects from the Nova Scotia Museum’s Ethnology collection online with the Reciprocal Research Network (RRN). The Nova Scotia Museum has 477 objects that are publically visible on the RRN. These items have been available since June 29, 2011, and have been viewed 11870 times.

The Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) is a key component of the Museum of Anthropology's Renewal Project, "A Partnership of Peoples." In addition to the RRN, the Renewal Project comprises several complementary and innovative components, including a new Research Centre, Major Temporary Exhibition Gallery, and Community Suite. Together, they support collaborative, socially responsible, and interdisciplinary research across local, national, and international borders.

The RRN is an online tool to facilitate reciprocal and collaborative research about cultural heritage from the Northwest Coast of British Columbia. The RRN enables communities, cultural institutions and researchers to work together. Members can build their own projects, collaborate on shared projects, upload files, hold discussions, research museum projects, and create social networks. For both communities and museums, the RRN is groundbreaking in facilitating communication and fostering lasting relationships between originating communities and institutions around the world.

The RRN is for people who are interested in and researchers of Northwest Coast Culture. This includes but is not limited to Originating Communities, First Nations Organizations, Researchers, Students, Museum Professionals, Academic and Cultural Heritage Organizations and more. If you would like to use the RRN, you can request an account!

The RRN is different because of its collaborative nature. From conception through development and into its use the RRN sees collaborative research as the foundation of the project.
The Reciprocal Research Network (RRN) is a database of hundreds of thousands of objects from holding institutions such as museums and co-developing communities. Each object has images, as well as an item record of information provided by the institution. The RRN revolutionizes access to these objects, images and knowledge. It enables geographically dispersed users and institutions – including originating communities, academics and museum staff – to carry out individual or collaborative cultural heritage research projects. It allows you to see and learn about objects that were never easily accessible on the Web. The RRN is reciprocal because it instigates a mutual learning environment where information can be shared between institutions and researchers, including originating communities. It also gives the ability to undertake research projects, currently primarily within the domain of universities, museums and other international institutions, to originating communities.