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

Charles Stanish
Director
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Shauna Mecartea
Assistant Director
Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Monica Smith
Chair
UCLA Interdepartmental Archaeology Graduate Program

David A. Scott
Chair
UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials

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

Enter UCLA from Sunset Blvd. at Westwood. 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 $9. 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.