List of museums of Egyptian antiquities explained

The following is a list of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities:

Museum collections with specified number

5,000+

  1. Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts[1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
  2. British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts[2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory)[3] [4]
  3. Ägyptisches Museum, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts[5]
  4. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England: About 80,000 artifacts[6]
  5. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: 77,404 artifacts[7] [8]
  6. National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifacts
  7. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts[9]
  8. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts[10]
  9. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts[11]
  10. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 artifacts[12]
  11. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts[13]
  12. Oriental Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts[14]
  13. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts[15]
  14. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 25,250 artifacts[16]
  15. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts[17]
  16. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts[18]
  17. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts[19]
  18. World Museum, Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts[20]
  19. Manchester Museum, Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts[21]
  20. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts[22] [23]
  21. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts[24]
  22. Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts[25]
  23. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts[26]
  24. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
  25. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts[27]
  26. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts[28]
  27. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 7,500 objects[29]
  28. Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham, England: Over 6,700 artifacts
  29. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts[30]
  30. National Museum in Warsaw (MNW), Warsaw, Poland: 6,000 artifacts[31]
  31. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland: 6,000 artifacts[32]
  32. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts[33]
  33. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England: About 8, 000 artifacts[34]

Over 1,000

  1. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts[35]
  2. The Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts[36]
  3. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts[37]
  4. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France: Over 4,900 artifacts[38]
  5. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts[39]
  6. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts[40]
  7. Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts[41]
  8. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts[42]
  9. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts[43]
  10. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts[44]
  11. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts[45]
  12. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts[46]
  13. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland: 2,300 artifacts[47]
  14. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts[48]
  15. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts[49]
  16. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts[50]
  17. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts[51]
  18. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts[52]
  19. , Barcelona, Spain: 1,100 artifacts
  20. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1000 artifacts[53]
  21. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts[54]
  22. Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts[55]
  23. Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum, Salem, Oregon, USA; over 900 artifacts

Over 100

  1. Maidstone Museum, Kent, England: over 600 artifacts[56]
  2. Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, England: Over 400 artifacts
  3. Odesa Archaeological Museum, Odesa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts[57]
  4. Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, England: over 300 artifacts[58]
  5. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; 38 artifacts

Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts

Other or minor collections

See also

Notes and References

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