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List of museums of ancient Near Eastern art
Last updated
December 09, 2025
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
↑
British Museum
.
↑
Research
Archived
2014-07-14 at the
Wayback Machine
, SMB.museum.
↑
Article
,
The Guardian
.
↑
2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
↑
New exhibit
Archived
2004-02-17 at
archive.today
,
University of Chicago
, 2003.
↑
Works of Art
,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
, USA.
↑
Near East
,
Penn Museum
.
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