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The following is a list of
museums with major collections of
Egyptian antiquities:
Museum collections with specified number
5,000+
Grand Egyptian Museum , Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts
[1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the
Egyptian Museum, Cairo )
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]
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 artifacts
Boston 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]
Royal Ontario Museum , Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts
[16]
Hearst Museum of Anthropology , Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts
[17]
Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts
[18]
World Museum , Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts
[19]
Manchester Museum , Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts
[20]
Egyptian Museum ,
Florence , Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts
[21]
[22]
Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts
[23]
Art & History Museum , Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts
[24]
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden , Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 9,000 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 artifacts
Roemer- 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 artifacts
National 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]
Over 1,000
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 artifacts
Cleveland 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 artifacts
Odesa Archaeological Museum , Odesa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts
[57]
Weston Park Museum ,
Sheffield , England: over 300 artifacts
[58]
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
[59] + other artifacts from the area of the third cataract)
Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology , Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
[60]
Alexandria National Museum , Alexandria, Egypt
Allard Pierson Museum , Amsterdam, Netherlands
[61]
American Museum of Natural History , New York City, New York, USA
Anniston Museum of Natural History , Anniston, Alabama, USA
[62]
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig , Basel, Switzerland
Australian National University Classics Museum , Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
[63]
Bass Museum , Miami Beach, Florida, USA
[64]
Bible Lands Museum , Jerusalem
The Box, Plymouth ,
Devon , England
[65]
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery , Brighton, England
[66]
Canterbury Museum ,
Christchurch ,
New Zealand
[67]
Chau Chak Wing Museum ,
University of Sydney , New South Wales, Australia
[68]
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis ,
Indianapolis ,
Indiana , USA
[69]
Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk, Virginia, USA
[70]
Denver Museum of Nature and Science , Denver, Colorado, USA
Egyptian Museum ,
Milan , Italy
Egyptian Museum of Mississauga,
Mississauga , Ontario, Canada
[71]
Fleming Museum of Art , Burlington, Vermont, USA
[72]
Garstang Museum of Archaeology,
University of Liverpool , England
[73]
Gulbenkian Museum , Lisbon, Portugal
Houston Museum of Natural Science , Houston, Texas, USA
[74]
Indian Museum, Kolkata ,
Kolkata , India
Israel Museum , Jerusalem
Imhotep Museum , Saqqara, Egypt
Iziko South African Museum , Cape Town, South Africa
[75]
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum ,
Baltimore ,
Maryland
Museum August Kestner , Hanover, Germany
Krannert Art Museum ,
Champaign ,
Illinois , USA
Leeds City Museum ,
Leeds , England
[76]
Luxor Museum , Luxor, Egypt
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
[77]
Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[78]
Milwaukee Public Museum , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
[79]
Musée d'Art et d'Histoire , Geneva, Switzerland
Musée royal de Mariemont , Morlanwelz, Belgium
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg , Hamburg, Germany
National Archaeology Museum ,
Lisbon ,
Portugal
Museo Gregoriano Egiziano , Vatican City
Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa ,
Wellington ,
New Zealand
National Gallery of Victoria , Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
[80]
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, Missouri, USA
[81]
The Newark Museum of Art , Newark, New Jersey, USA
[82]
Oriental Institute ,
University of Chicago , Illinois, USA
Redpath Museum , McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
[83]
Rhode Island School of Design Museum , Providence. Rhode Island, USA
Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art , California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA
San Antonio Museum of Art , San Antonio, Texas, USA
[84]
Museum of Us , San Diego, California, USA
[85]
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
[86]
Sir John Soane's Museum , London, England
[87]
South Australian Museum , North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
[88]
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond, Virginia, USA'
[89]
Wadsworth Atheneum ,
Hartford ,
Connecticut , USA
Western Australian Museum , Perth, Western Australia, Australia
[90]
Other or minor collections
Albany Institute of History and Art ,
Albany , New York, USA
[91]
Grand Rapids Public Museum ,
Grand Rapids ,
Michigan , USA
[92]
Kalamazoo Valley Museum ,
Kalamazoo , Michigan
[93]
[94]
Louisiana Art and Science Museum ,
Baton Rouge ,
Louisiana
[95]
Museum of Antiquities (
University of Saskatchewan ),
Saskatoon , Saskatchewan, Canada
[96]
Museum of Old and New Art ,
Hobart ,
Tasmania , Australia
Otago Museum ,
Dunedin ,
New Zealand
[97]
Reading Public Museum ,
West Reading ,
Pennsylvania , USA
[98]
Wayne County Historical Museum,
Richmond ,
Indiana , USA
[99]
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