List of museums of Egyptian antiquities
The following is a list of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities:
Museum collections with specified number
Grand Egyptian Museum , Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts[ 1] Egyptian Museum, Cairo )British Museum , London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts[ 2] [ 3] [ 4] Ägyptisches Museum , Neues Museum , Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts[ 5] Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , London, England: About 80,000 artifacts[ 6] Musée du Louvre , Paris, France: 77,404 artifacts[ 7] [ 8] National Museum of Egyptian Civilization , Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifactsBoston Museum of Fine Arts , Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts[ 9] Kelsey Museum of Archaeology , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts[ 10] University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts[ 11] Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, England: About 40,000 artifacts[ 12] Museo Egizio , Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts[ 13] Oriental Institute , Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts[ 14] Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts[ 15] Rijksmuseum van Oudheden , Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 25,250 artifacts[ 16] Royal Ontario Museum , Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts[ 17] Hearst Museum of Anthropology , Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts[ 18] Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts[ 19] World Museum , Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts[ 20] Manchester Museum , Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts[ 21] Egyptian Museum , Florence , Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts[ 22] [ 23] Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts[ 24] Art & History Museum , Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts[ 25] Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts , Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts[ 26] Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst , Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifactsRoemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim , Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts[ 27] Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig , Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts[ 28]
Michael C. Carlos Museum , Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 7,500 objects[ 29] Durham University Oriental Museum , Durham, England: Over 6,700 artifactsNational Archaeological Museum , Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts[ 30] National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) , Warsaw, Poland: 6,000 artifacts[ 31] National Museum of Scotland , Edinburgh, Scotland: 6,000 artifacts[ 32] The Hermitage , St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts[ 33] Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery , Birmingham , England: About 8, 000 artifacts[ 34] Peabody Museum of Natural History , New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts[ 35] The Egypt Centre , Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts[ 36] Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts[ 37]
Musée des Confluences , Lyon, France: Over 4,900 artifacts[ 38] Museum of Fine Arts , Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts[ 39] Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum , San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts[ 40] Field Museum , Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts[ 41] Museo Civico Archeologico , Bologna , Italy: About 3,500 artifacts[ 42] Brooklyn Museum , Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts[ 43] National Museum of Ireland , Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts[ 44] Carnegie Museum of Natural History , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts[ 45] Naples National Archaeological Museum , Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts[ 46] Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery , Glasgow, Scotland: 2,300 artifacts[ 47] Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts[ 48] National Museum of Natural History , Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts[ 49] Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts[ 50] Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon , Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts[ 51] Art Museum of the University of Memphis , Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts[ 52] Museu Egipci de Barcelona [ca ] , Barcelona, Spain: 1,100 artifactsCleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1000 artifacts[ 53] Freer Gallery of Art , Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts[ 54] Australian Museum , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts[ 55] Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum , Salem , Oregon , USA; over 900 artifacts
Over 100
Maidstone Museum , Kent , England: over 600 artifacts[ 56] Leicester Museum & Art Gallery , Leicester, England: Over 400 artifactsOdesa Archaeological Museum , Odesa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts[ 57] Weston Park Museum , Sheffield , England: over 300 artifacts[ 58] Eva Klabin House Museum , Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro , Brazil; 50 artifacts[ 59] North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh , North Carolina ; 38 artifacts
Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts
Sudan National Museum , Khartoum, Sudan (3 relocated temples due to the flooding of Lake Nasser[ 60] Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology , Caboolture, Queensland, Australia[ 61] Alexandria National Museum , Alexandria, EgyptAllard Pierson Museum , Amsterdam, Netherlands[ 62] American Museum of Natural History , New York City, New York, USAAnniston Museum of Natural History , Anniston, Alabama, USA[ 63] Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig , Basel, SwitzerlandAustralian National University Classics Museum , Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia[ 64] Bass Museum , Miami Beach, Florida, USA[ 65] Bible Lands Museum , JerusalemThe Box, Plymouth , Devon , England[ 66] Brighton Museum & Art Gallery , Brighton, England[ 67] Canterbury Museum , Christchurch , New Zealand [ 68] Chau Chak Wing Museum , University of Sydney , New South Wales, Australia[ 69] The Children's Museum of Indianapolis , Indianapolis , Indiana , USA[ 70] Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk, Virginia, USA[ 71] Denver Museum of Nature and Science , Denver, Colorado, USAEgyptian Museum , Milan , ItalyEgyptian Museum of Mississauga, Mississauga , Ontario, Canada[ 72]
Fleming Museum of Art , Burlington, Vermont, USA[ 73] Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool , England[ 74]
Gulbenkian Museum , Lisbon, PortugalHouston Museum of Natural Science , Houston, Texas, USA[ 75] Indian Museum, Kolkata , Kolkata , IndiaIsrael Museum , JerusalemImhotep Museum , Saqqara, EgyptIziko South African Museum , Cape Town, South Africa[ 76] Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum , Baltimore , Maryland Museum August Kestner , Hanover, GermanyKrannert Art Museum , Champaign , Illinois , USALeeds City Museum , Leeds , England[ 77] Luxor Museum , Luxor, EgyptMcClung Museum of Natural History and Culture , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA[ 78] Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[ 79]
Milwaukee Public Museum , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA[ 80] Musée d'Art et d'Histoire , Geneva, SwitzerlandMusée royal de Mariemont , Morlanwelz, BelgiumMuseum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg , Hamburg, GermanyNational Archaeology Museum , Lisbon , Portugal Museo Gregoriano Egiziano , Vatican CityMuseum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa , Wellington , New Zealand National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne, Victoria, Australia[ 81] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, Missouri, USA[ 82] The Newark Museum of Art , Newark, New Jersey, USA[ 83] Oriental Institute , University of Chicago , Illinois, USARedpath Museum , McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[ 84] Rhode Island School of Design Museum , Providence. Rhode Island, USARobert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art , California State University, San Bernardino, California, USASan Antonio Museum of Art , San Antonio, Texas, USA[ 85] Museum of Us , San Diego, California, USA[ 86] Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA[ 87] Sir John Soane's Museum , London, England[ 88] Son of the Pharaoh, Calgary , Alberta , Canada[ 89]
South Australian Museum , North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia[ 90] Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond, Virginia, USA'[ 91] Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartford , Connecticut , USAWestern Australian Museum , Perth, Western Australia, Australia[ 92]
Other or minor collections
Albany Institute of History and Art , Albany , New York, USA[ 93] Grand Rapids Public Museum , Grand Rapids , Michigan , USA[ 94] Kalamazoo Valley Museum , Kalamazoo , Michigan[ 95] [ 96] Louisiana Art and Science Museum , Baton Rouge , Louisiana [ 97] Museum of Antiquities (University of Saskatchewan ), Saskatoon , Saskatchewan, Canada[ 98] Museum of Old and New Art , Hobart , Tasmania , AustraliaOtago Museum , Dunedin , New Zealand [ 99] Reading Public Museum , West Reading , Pennsylvania , USA[ 100] Wayne County Historical Museum, Richmond , Indiana , USA[ 101]
See also
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