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]
• Mosul Museum, Iraq.
• Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq
• Basra Museum, Iraq
• Oriental Institute, Chicago. 20,000 objects ^[5]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 7,000 objects ^[6]
• Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
• Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ^[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, Massachusetts.
• Musei reali, Turin, Italy
• Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

References

1. British Museum.
2. Research Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine , 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 Archived 2004-02-17 at archive.today , University of Chicago, 2003.
6. Works of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.
7. Near East, Penn Museum.