List of museums of Egyptian antiquities

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

Museum collections with specified number

5,000+

1. Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts ^[1]
2. Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts ^[2]
3. British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts ^[3] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) ^{[4] [5]}
4. Ägyptisches Museum, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts ^[6]
5. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England: About 80,000 artifacts ^[7]
6. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: 77,404 artifacts ^{[8] [9]}
7. National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifacts
8. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts ^[10]
9. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts ^[11]
10. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts ^[12]
11. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 artifacts ^[13]
12. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts ^[14]
13. Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts ^[15]
14. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts ^[16]
15. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 25,250 artifacts ^[17]
16. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts ^[18]
17. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts ^[19]
18. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts ^[20]
19. World Museum, Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts ^[21]
20. Manchester Museum, Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts ^[22]
21. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts ^{[23] [24]}
22. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts ^[25]
23. Bolton Art Gallery, Library & Museum, Bolton, England: About 12,000 artifacts ^[26]
24. Art & History Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts ^[27]
25. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts ^[28]
26. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
27. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts ^[29]
28. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts ^[30]
29. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 7,500 objects ^[31]
30. Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham, England: Over 6,700 artifacts
31. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts ^[32]
32. National Museum in Warsaw (MNW), Warsaw, Poland: 6,000 artifacts ^[33]
33. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland: 6,000 artifacts ^[34]
34. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts ^[35]
35. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England: About 8, 000 artifacts ^[36]
36. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts ^[37]
37. The Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts ^[38]
38. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts ^[39]

Over 1,000

1. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France: Over 4,900 artifacts ^[40]
2. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts ^[41]
3. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts ^[42]
4. Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts ^[43]
5. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts ^[44]
6. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts ^[45]
7. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts ^[46]
8. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts ^[47]
9. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts ^[48]
10. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland: 2,300 artifacts ^[49]
11. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts ^[50]
12. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts ^[51]
13. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts ^[52]
14. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts ^[53]
15. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts ^[54]
16. Egyptian Museum of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain: 1,260 artifacts
17. Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts ^[55]
18. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts ^[56]
19. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts ^[57]
20. Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts ^[58]
21. Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum, Salem, Oregon, USA; over 900 artifacts

Over 100

1. Maidstone Museum, Kent, England: over 600 artifacts ^[59]
2. Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, England: Over 400 artifacts
3. Odesa Archaeological Museum, Odesa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts ^[60]
4. Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, England: over 300 artifacts ^[61]
5. Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland: about 100 artifacts on display ^[62]
6. Eva Klabin House Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; 50 artifacts ^[63]
7. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; 38 artifacts

Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts

• Sudan National Museum, Khartoum, Sudan (3 relocated temples due to the flooding of Lake Nasser ^[64] + other artifacts from the area of the third cataract)
• Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia ^[65]
• Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
• Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands ^[66]
• American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA
• Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, Alabama, USA ^[67]
• Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland
• Australian National University Classics Museum, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia ^[68]
• Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, USA ^[69]
• Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
• The Box, Plymouth, Devon, England ^[70]
• Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, England ^[71]
• Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand ^[72]
• Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia ^[73]
• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA ^[74]
• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA ^[75]
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Egyptian Museum, Milan, Italy
• Egyptian Museum of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada ^[76]
• Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont, USA ^[77]
• Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, England ^[78]
• Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, USA ^[79]
• Indian Museum, Kolkata, Kolkata, India
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Imhotep Museum, Saqqara, Egypt
• Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa ^[80]
• Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
• Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany
• Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, USA
• Leeds City Museum, Leeds, England ^[81]
• Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt
• McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA ^[82]
• Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ^[83]
• Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA ^[84]
• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
• Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• National Archaeology Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Museo Gregoriano Egiziano, Vatican City
• Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ^[85]
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA ^[86]
• The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA ^[87]
• Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada ^[88]
• Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence. Rhode Island, USA
• Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA ^[89]
• Museum of Us, San Diego, California, USA ^[90]
• Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA ^[91]
• Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England ^[92]
• Son of the Pharaoh, Calgary, Alberta, Canada ^[93]
• South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia ^[94]
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA' ^[95]
• Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia ^[96]
• National Archaeological Museum (Madrid), Madrid, Spain ^[97]

Other or minor collections

• Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, USA ^[98]
• Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA ^[99]
• Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan ^{[100] [101]}
• Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana ^[102]
• Museum of Antiquities (University of Saskatchewan), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada ^[103]
• Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand ^[104]
• Reading Public Museum, West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA ^[105]
• Wayne County Historical Museum, Richmond, Indiana, USA ^[106]

See also

• List of museums with Egyptian mummies in their collections

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