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The following is a list of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities:
Museum collections with specified number
5,000+
Grand Egyptian Museum , Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo )
British Museum , London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory)
Ägyptisches Museum , Neues Museum , Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology , London, England: About 80,000 artifacts
Musée du Louvre , Paris, France: 77,404 artifacts
National Museum of Egyptian Civilization , Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifacts
Boston Museum of Fine Arts , Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts
Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, England: About 40,000 artifacts
Museo Egizio , Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts
Oriental Institute , Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts
Royal Ontario Museum , Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts
Hearst Museum of Anthropology , Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts
Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts
World Museum , Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts
Manchester Museum , Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts
Egyptian Museum , Florence , Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts
Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts
Art & History Museum , Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden , Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 9,000 artifacts
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts , Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts
Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst , Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim , Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts
Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig , Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts
Michael C. Carlos Museum , Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 7,500 objects
Durham University Oriental Museum , Durham, England: Over 6,700 artifacts
National Archaeological Museum , Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts
National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) , Warsaw, Poland: 6,000 artifacts
National Museum of Scotland , Edinburgh, Scotland: 6,000 artifacts
The Hermitage , St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery , Birmingham , England: About 8, 000 artifacts
Over 1,000
Peabody Museum of Natural History , New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts
The Egypt Centre , Swansea University, Swansea, Wales: Over 5,000 artifacts
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts
Musée des Confluences , Lyon, France: Over 4,900 artifacts
Museum of Fine Arts , Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum , San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts
Field Museum , Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts
Museo Civico Archeologico , Bologna , Italy: About 3,500 artifacts
Brooklyn Museum , Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts
National Museum of Ireland , Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts
Carnegie Museum of Natural History , Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts
Naples National Archaeological Museum , Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts
Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery , Glasgow, Scotland: 2,300 artifacts
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek , Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts
National Museum of Natural History , Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon , Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts
Art Museum of the University of Memphis , Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts
Museu Egipci de Barcelona [ca ] , Barcelona, Spain: 1,100 artifacts
Cleveland Museum of Art , Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1000 artifacts
Freer Gallery of Art , Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts
Australian Museum , Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts
Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum , Salem , Oregon , USA; over 900 artifacts
Over 100
Maidstone Museum , Kent , England: over 600 artifacts
Leicester Museum & Art Gallery , Leicester, England: Over 400 artifacts
Odesa Archaeological Museum , Odesa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts
Weston Park Museum , Sheffield , England: over 300 artifacts
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 + other artifacts from the area of the third cataract)
Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology , Caboolture, Queensland, Australia
Alexandria National Museum , Alexandria, Egypt
Allard Pierson Museum , Amsterdam, Netherlands
American Museum of Natural History , New York City, New York, USA
Anniston Museum of Natural History , Anniston, Alabama, USA
Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig , Basel, Switzerland
Australian National University Classics Museum , Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Bass Museum , Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Bible Lands Museum , Jerusalem
The Box, Plymouth , Devon , England
Brighton Museum & Art Gallery , Brighton, England
Canterbury Museum , Christchurch , New Zealand
Chau Chak Wing Museum , University of Sydney , New South Wales, Australia
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis , Indianapolis , Indiana , USA
Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk, Virginia, USA
Denver Museum of Nature and Science , Denver, Colorado, USA
Egyptian Museum , Milan , Italy
Egyptian Museum of Mississauga, Mississauga , Ontario, Canada
Fleming Museum of Art , Burlington, Vermont, USA
Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool , England
Gulbenkian Museum , Lisbon, Portugal
Houston Museum of Natural Science , Houston, Texas, USA
Indian Museum, Kolkata , Kolkata , India
Israel Museum , Jerusalem
Imhotep Museum , Saqqara, Egypt
Iziko South African Museum , Cape Town, South Africa
Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum , Baltimore , Maryland
Museum August Kestner , Hanover, Germany
Krannert Art Museum , Champaign , Illinois , USA
Leeds City Museum , Leeds , England
Luxor Museum , Luxor, Egypt
McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture , University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Milwaukee Public Museum , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
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
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City, Missouri, USA
The Newark Museum of Art , Newark, New Jersey, USA
Oriental Institute , University of Chicago , Illinois, USA
Redpath Museum , McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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
Museum of Us , San Diego, California, USA
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East , Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Sir John Soane's Museum , London, England
South Australian Museum , North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts , Richmond, Virginia, USA'
Wadsworth Atheneum , Hartford , Connecticut , USA
Western Australian Museum , Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Other or minor collections
Albany Institute of History and Art , Albany , New York, USA
Grand Rapids Public Museum , Grand Rapids , Michigan , USA
Kalamazoo Valley Museum , Kalamazoo , Michigan
Louisiana Art and Science Museum , Baton Rouge , Louisiana
Museum of Antiquities (University of Saskatchewan ), Saskatoon , Saskatchewan, Canada
Museum of Old and New Art , Hobart , Tasmania , Australia
Otago Museum , Dunedin , New Zealand
Reading Public Museum , West Reading , Pennsylvania , USA
Wayne County Historical Museum, Richmond , Indiana , USA
See also
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