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] (to open in 2016, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
2. British Museum, London, 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, UK: About 80,000 artifacts^[6]
5. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: About 50,000 artifacts^[7]
6. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA: About 45,000 artifacts^[8]
7. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, MI, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts^[9]
8. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts^[10]
9. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK: About 40,000 artifacts^[11]
10. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts^[12]
11. Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA: About 30,000 artifacts^[13]
12. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts^[14]
13. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada: 25,000 artifacts^[15]
14. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA: over 17,000 artifacts ^[16]
15. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK: Over 16,000 artifacts^[17]
16. World Museum, Liverpool, UK: Over 16,000 artifacts^[18]
17. Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK: About 16,000 artifacts^[19]
18. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts^[20][21]
19. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 12,000 artifacts ^[22]
20. Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts ^[23]
21. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts ^[24]
22. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
23. Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts^[25]
24. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts^[26]
25. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6000 artifacts ^[27]
26. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts ^[28]
27. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 5,000 artifacts^[29]
28. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts^[30]
29. Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts^[31]
30. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA: Over 4,000 artifacts^[32]
31. Field Museum, Chicago, IL: Over 3,500 artifacts^[33]
32. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts^[34]
33. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts^[35]
34. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts^[36]
35. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts^[37]
36. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts^[38]
37. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts^[39]
38. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts^[40]
39. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts^[41]
40. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts^[42]
41. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA: more than 1,400 artifacts^[43]
42. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA: more than 1000 artifacts^[44]
43. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA: More than 1000 artifacts^[45]

Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts

• Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
• Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, USA
• Egyptian Museum, Milan, Italy
• Fleming Museum, Burlington, VT, USA
• Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Indian Museum, Kolkata, India
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
• Imhotep Museum, Saqqara, Egypt
• Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt
• Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA, USA
• Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
• National Archaeology Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA ^[46]
• Museo Gregoriano Egiziano, Vatican
• Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
• San Diego Museum of Man, San Diego, CA, USA
• Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
• Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, USA

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