IPCAA is physically housed in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, a charming turn-of-the-century building located in the heart of the University’s central campus. The Museum contains over 100,000 objects, thousands of photographs from the early 1900s, several galleries, curatorial and administrative offices, a small, dedicated library, and computer facilities. All IPCAA students have access to the large and diverse collections housed in the Museum, mostly in the climate-controlled SAFE storage area on the third floor, with a conservation laboratory and the office of the Museum’s Registrars nearby.

Space for IPCAA students extends over several floors. The basement provides desks, bookshelves, a photographic copystand, a drafting table, and computer facilities, which include a digitizing table and special computers dedicated to GIS work. Most of the ground floor is devoted to museum display galleries, open to the public, but there is also a “smart” classroom in which take place most of the discussion sections associated with introductory archaeology classes taught by IPCAA Graduate Student Instructors. The second floor contains additional desk space, computers, bookshelves, and storage space. Immediately adjacent is the Museum's research library, one part of which is given over to all of the (non-circulating) books and articles prescribed for the IPCAA Qualifying Exams. On this floor there are also located the offices of IPCAA’s Director and administrative Student Services Assistant, as well as of all faculty who hold joint professorial and curatorial appointments.

This historically-registered building creates an intimate atmosphere in the middle of a busy campus and a place for IPCAA students to convene, work, and teach.