List of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities
- List of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities
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 Museum, Cairo, Egypt
#: 120,000 objects [http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/about_overview.html]
# British Museum, 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 Museum, 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 Archaeology, 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 Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA
#: 42,000 objects [http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/galleries/egyptian.html]
# Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
#: 40,000 objects [http://www.mfa.org/egypt/explore_ancient_egypt]
# Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
#: 36,000 objects [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=10]
# Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
#: 32,500 objects [http://www.museoegizio.it/pages/History.jsp]
# Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA
#: 30,000 objects [http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OI_Museum_Egypt.html]
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