List of museums of Egyptian antiquities

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

Museum collections of over 1,000 Ancient Egyptian artifacts

1. Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts[1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
2. British Museum, London, England, UK: Over 100,000 artifacts[2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory)[3][4]
3. Ägyptisches Museum, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts[5]
4. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England, UK: About 80,000 artifacts[6]
5. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: 77,404 artifacts[7][8]
6. National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifacts
7. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts[9]
8. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts[10]
9. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts[11]
10. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, UK: About 40,000 artifacts[12]
11. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts[13]
12. Oriental Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts[14]
13. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts[15]
14. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts[16]
15. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts[17]
16. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, UK: Over 16,000 artifacts[18]
17. World Museum, Liverpool, England, UK: Over 16,000 artifacts[19]
18. Manchester Museum, Manchester, England, UK: About 16,000 artifacts[20]
19. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts[21][22]
20. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts [23]
21. Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts [24]
22. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 9,000 artifacts[25]
23. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts [26]
24. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
25. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts[27]
26. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts[28]
27. Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham, England, UK: Over 6,700 artifacts
28. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts [29]
29. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: 6,000 artifacts[30]
30. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts [31]
31. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts[32]
32. The Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK: Over 5,000 artifacts[33]
33. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: 5,000 artifacts[34]
34. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts[35]
35. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts[36]
36. Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts[37]
37. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts[38]
38. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts[39]
39. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts[40]
40. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts[41]
41. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts[42]
42. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: 2,300 artifacts[43]
43. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts[44]
44. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts[45]
45. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts[46]
46. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts[47]
47. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts[48]
48. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1000 artifacts[49]
49. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts[50]
50. Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts[51]
51. Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, England, UK: Over 400 artifacts

Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts

• Sudan National Museum, Khartoum, Sudan: (3 relocated temples due to the flooding of Lake Nasser[52] + other artifacts from the area of the third cataract)
• Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia [53]
• Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
• Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands [54]
• Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, Alabama, USA [55]
• Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland
• Australian National University Classics Museum, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia [56]
• Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA [57]
• Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
• Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, England, UK [58]
• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA [59]
• Egyptian Museum, Milan, Italy
• Egyptian Museum, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada [60] (opened in September 2013)
• Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont, USA [61]
• Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, England, UK[62]
• Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, USA [63]
• Indian Museum, Kolkata, India
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Imhotep Museum, Saqqara, Egypt
• Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa[64]
• Louvre Museum, Paris, France[65]
• Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
• Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt
• McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA [66]
• Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[67]
• Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA [68]
• Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [69]
• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
• Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany
• National Archaeology Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Museo Gregoriano Egiziano, Vatican City
• Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia[70]
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA [71]
• Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA [72]
• Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia [73]
• Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [74]
• Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA [75]
• San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, California, USA [76]
• Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA [77]
• Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England, UK
• South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia [78]
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA [79]
• Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia [80]

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