List of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities
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This is a list of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities. This list only contains estimates of collection size, which may or may not reflect the collection's historical, scientific, or artistic value.
- Egyptian MuseumEgyptian MuseumThe Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display, the remainder in storerooms....
, Cairo, Egypt- 120,000 objects http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/about_overview.html
- British MuseumBritish MuseumThe British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, London, UK- 110,000 objects http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/aes/galleries/understand3.html Excludes the 6 million objects from the Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory, donated to the museum in 2001
- Ägyptisches Museum, Neues MuseumNeues MuseumThe ' is a museum in Berlin, Germany, located to the north of the Altes Museum on Museum Island.It was built between 1843 and 1855 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The museum was closed at the beginning of World War II in 1939, and was heavily...
, Berlin, Germany- 80,000 objects http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=2&p=13 Website source quotes 80,000 objects, published book quotes 100,000 objects (http://www.museumshop.de/msdetails.asp?id=579])
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian ArchaeologyPetrie Museum of Egyptian ArchaeologyThe Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London, England, which is part of University College LondonMuseums & Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material...
, London, UK- 80,000 objects http://www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk/index2.html
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- 50,000 objects http://www.clevelandart.org/archive/pharaoh/phabt.html
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyUniversity of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and AnthropologyThe University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, commonly called The Penn Museum, is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-History:An internationally renowned...
, Pennsylvania, USA - Museum of Fine ArtsMuseum of Fine Arts, BostonThe Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, attracting over one million visitors a year. It contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas...
, Boston, USA- 40,000 objects http://www.mfa.org/egypt/explore_ancient_egypt
- Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, New York, USA - Museo EgizioMuseo EgizioThe Museo Egizio is a museum in Turin, Italy, specialising in Egyptian archaeology and anthropology. It houses the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo...
, Turin, Italy- 32,500 objects http://www.museoegizio.it/pages/History.jsp
- Oriental InstituteOriental Institute, ChicagoThe Oriental Institute , established in 1919, is the University of Chicago's archeology museum and research center for ancient Near Eastern studies.- History and purpose:James Henry Breasted built up the collection of the Haskell Oriental Museum...
, Chicago, USA- 30,000 objects http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OI_Museum_Egypt.html
- Egyptian Museum, FlorenceFlorenceFlorence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, Italy - Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-MuseumRoemer-und-Pelizaeus-MuseumThe Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, in Hildesheim, Germany, is one of the most important museums in Europe with regard to Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Peruvian art. The museum also includes the second largest collection of Chinese porcelain in Europe...
, Hildesheim, Germany- 9,000 objects
- Egyptian Museum Leipzig
- 8,000 objects
- Museo Civico Archeologico, BolognaBolognaBologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
, Italy - Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn MuseumThe Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....
, Brooklyn, USA- more than 2,000 objects http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/collections/egyptian_classical_middle_eastern/
- Ny Carlsberg GlyptotekNy Carlsberg GlyptotekThe Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark...
, Copenhagen, Danmark- 1800 objects http://glyptoteket.dk
- Musée des beaux-arts de LyonMusée des beaux-arts de LyonThe Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Lyon. It is housed near place des Terreaux in a former Benedictine convent of the 17th and 18th centuries. It was restored between 1988 and 1998, and despite these important restoration works it remained open...
- Egyptian Museum, MilanMilanMilan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
, Italy http://www.milanocastello.it/ita/visitaSotterraneoEgizia.html - Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische KunstStaatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische KunstThe Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst in Munich is the Bavarian State Collection for Ancient Egypt art. It displays exhibits from all periods of Ancient Egypt's history. The associated small Middle East section displays objects from the areas of Assyrian and Babylonian culture...
, Munich, Germany