List of museums of ancient Near Eastern art explained
This is a list of museums with major art collections from the Ancient Near East.
- British Museum, London, UK. 290,000 objects.[1]
- Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany. 250,000 objects.[2]
- National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq. 170,000 objects.[3]
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. 100,000 objects.[4]
- Mosul Museum, Iraq.
- Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq
- Basra Museum, Iraq
- Oriental Institute, Chicago. 20,000 objects[5]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 7,000 objects[6]
- Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
- Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[7]
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
- Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
- Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel.
- Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
- Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
- Musei reali, Turin, Italy
- Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy
Notes and References
- http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/ British Museum
- http://www.smb.museum/en/museums-and-institutions/vorderasiatisches-museum/research.html Research
- http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,946258,00.html Article
- 2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
- http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/10/09/new_exhibit_will_fea.php New exhibit
- http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=3 Works of Art
- http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/galleries/neareast.shtml Near East
