List of museums of Greek and Roman antiquities explained

This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities.

1. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

130,000 objects ^[1]

1. State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia

106,000 objects^[2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast)

1. British Museum, London, UK

100,000 objects^[3]

1. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece

100,000 objects^[4]

1. Antikensammlung Berlin, (Held at the Altes Museum, Neues Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany

60,000 objects^{[5] [6] [7]}

1. Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

53,000 objects^[8] (Misleading Collection. Total collection size: 1 million objects of which 800,000 coins, 75,000 books, 75,000 Ancient Near East cuneiform tablets, 2000 enamels and various Ancient Near Eastern objects)

1. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

45,000 objects^[9]

1. Getty Villa, Malibu, USA

44,000 objects^[10]

1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

35,000 objects^[11]

1. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA

30,000 objects^[12]

1. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

18,000 objects^[13] (Misleading collection, includes Nubian and Ancient Near East collections)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Catalogue of the Museo Archeologico di Napoli (Inventory MANN) - Wikimedia Commons.
2. Web site: Collection Highlights: Antiquity. https://web.archive.org/web/20070819064710/http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_1.html . August 19, 2007 . State Hermitage Museum.
3. Web site: Greece and Rome . British Museum . 2015-12-27.
4. Web site: Το μουσείο που γράφει ιστορία . Ethnos.gr . 2009-04-27 . 2015-12-27.
5. Web site: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Museums / Institutes . 194.94.133.20 . 17 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930130457/http://194.94.133.20/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=3&p=13&PHPSESSID=481ecc5b8ad921eedfa50e79b96fa1cd . 30 September 2007 . dead.
6. http://www.freundeskreise-berliner-kultur.de/antike_museum/pdf/geschichte_antike.pdf
7. http://www.freundeskreise-berliner-kultur.de/antike_museum/wissenswertes.php#sub1
8. Web site: :: Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Culture And Tourism . Kultur.gov.tr . 2006-09-15 . 2015-12-27.
9. Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l'état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
10. Web site: The J. Paul Getty Museum : Homepage . Getty.edu . 2015-12-27.
11. Web site: Works of Art: Greek and Roman Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art . August 17, 2007 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070814105603/http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=13 . August 14, 2007 .
12. Web site: Penn Museum - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology . Museum.upenn.edu . 2015-12-27.
13. Web site: Art of the Ancient World. August 17, 2007 . dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070814113954/http://mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=19 . August 14, 2007 . MFA Boston.