List of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities
- List of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities
This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. his list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.
# State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
#: 106,000 objects [http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/html_En/03/hm3_1.html] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast)
# British Museum, London, UK
#: 100,000 objects [http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/the_museum/departments/greek_and_roman_antiquities.aspx]
# Antikensammlung Berlin, (Held at the Altes Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany
#: 60,000 objects [http://194.94.133.20/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&objID=3&p=13&PHPSESSID=481ecc5b8ad921eedfa50e79b96fa1cd] [http://www.freundeskreise-berliner-kultur.de/antike_museum/pdf/geschichte_antike.pdf] [http://www.freundeskreise-berliner-kultur.de/antike_museum/wissenswertes.php#sub1]
# Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
#: 53,000 objects [http://www.kultur.gov.tr/EN/BelgeGoster.aspx?17A16AE30572D313679A66406202CCB01966176E3ABFFFF2] (Misleading Collection. Total collection size: 1 million objects of which 800,000 coins, 75,000 books, 75,000 Ancient Neat East cunieform tablets, 2000 enamels and various Ancient Near Eastern objects)
# Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
#: 45,000 objects [Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, pg 185]
# Getty Villa, Malibu, USA
#: 44,000 objects [http://www.getty.edu/art/index.html]
# Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
#: 35,000 objects [http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=13]
# University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA
#: 30,000 objects [http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/worlds_intertwined/etruscan/collections.shtml]
# National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
#: 20,000 objects [http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3249]
# Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
#: 18,000 objects [http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=19] (Misleading collection, includes Nubian and Ancient Near East collections)
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