List of museums of Egyptian antiquities

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

Museum collections with specified number

50,000+

  1. Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts
  2. Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts
  3. British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory)
  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. National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifacts

5,000+

  1. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts
  2. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts
  3. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts
  4. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 artifacts
  5. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts
  6. Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts
  7. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts
  8. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 25,250 artifacts
  9. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts
  10. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts
  11. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts
  12. World Museum, Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts
  13. Manchester Museum, Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts
  14. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts
  15. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts
  16. Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum, Bolton, England: About 12,000 artifacts
  17. Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts
  18. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts
  19. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
  20. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts
  21. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts
  22. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 7,500 objects
  23. Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham, England: Over 6,700 artifacts
  24. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts
  25. National Museum in Warsaw (MNW), Warsaw, Poland: 6,000 artifacts
  26. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland: 6,000 artifacts
  27. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts
  28. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England: About 8, 000 artifacts
  29. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts
  30. The Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts
  31. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts

Over 1,000

  1. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France: Over 4,900 artifacts
  2. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts
  3. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts
  4. Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts
  5. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts
  6. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts
  7. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts
  8. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts
  9. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts
  10. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland: 2,300 artifacts
  11. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts
  12. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts
  13. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts
  14. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts
  15. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts
  16. Egyptian Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: 1,260 artifacts
  17. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts
  18. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts
  19. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts
  20. Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts
  21. Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum, Salem, Oregon, USA; over 900 artifacts

Over 100

  1. Maidstone Museum, Kent, England: over 600 artifacts
  2. Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, England: Over 400 artifacts
  3. Odesa Archaeological Museum, Odesa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts
  4. Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, England: over 300 artifacts
  5. Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland: about 100 artifacts on display
  6. Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 50 artifacts
  7. 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 + other artifacts from the area of the third cataract)
  • Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
  • Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
  • Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA
  • Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, Alabama, USA
  • Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland
  • Australian National University Classics Museum, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
  • Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, USA
  • Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
  • The Box, Plymouth, Devon, England
  • Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, England
  • Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
  • The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
  • Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
  • Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, USA
  • Egyptian Museum, Milan, Italy
  • Egyptian Museum of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
  • Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont, USA
  • Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, England
  • Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Indian Museum, Kolkata, Kolkata, India
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem
  • Imhotep Museum, Saqqara, Egypt
  • Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
  • Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
  • Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany
  • Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, USA
  • Leeds City Museum, Leeds, England
  • Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt
  • McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
  • Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
  • 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
  • Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
  • The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA
  • Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  • 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
  • Museum of Us, San Diego, California, USA
  • Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
  • Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England
  • Son of the Pharaoh, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA'
  • Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
  • Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • National Archaeological Museum (Madrid), Madrid, Spain

Other or minor collections

  • Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, USA
  • Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
  • Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan
  • Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
  • Museum of Antiquities (University of Saskatchewan), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
  • Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
  • Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand
  • Reading Public Museum, West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
  • Wayne County Historical Museum, Richmond, Indiana, USA

See also

  • List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections

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