List of museums of ancient Near Eastern art

This is a list of museums with major art collections from the Ancient Near East.

• British Museum, London, UK. 290,000 objects.^[1]
• Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany. 250,000 objects.^[2]
• National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq.170,000 objects.^[3]
• Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. 100,000 objects.^[4]
• National Museum of Iraq. Over 170,000 objects.
• Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA. 20,000 objects^[5]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 7,000 objects^[6]
• Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA.^[7]
• Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• Israel Museum,Jerusalem, Israel.
• Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel.
• Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
• Semitic Museum, Cambridge, MA, USA.

References

1. British Museum.
2. Research, SMB.museum.
3. Article, The Guardian.
4. 2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
5. New exhibit, University of Chicago, USA, 2003.
6. Works of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.
7. Near East, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA.