List of museums of Greek and Roman antiquities: Difference between revisions

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Museums with major collections of Greek & Roman antiquities

State Hermitage¹, St. Petersburg, Russia
106,000 objects [1]
British Museum, London, UK
100,000 objects [2]
Antikensammlung Berlin, {Held at the Altes Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany
60,000 objects [3] [4] [5]
Istanbul Archaeology Museum², Istanbul, Turkey
53,000 objects [6]
Musée du Louvre³, Paris, France
45 000 objects

Getty Villa, Malibu, USA
44 000 objects [7]
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
35,000 objects [8]
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA
30,000 objects [9]
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
20,000 objects [10]
Museum of Fine Arts*, Boston, USA
18,000 objects [11]
n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.

Please Note: ¹ Hermitage - Misleading Collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast - ² Istanbul Archaeology Museum; Misleading Collection. Total collection size = 1 million objects of which 800,000 coins, 75,000 books, 75,000 Ancient Neat East cunieform tablets, 2000 enamels and various Ancient Near Eastern objects - Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, pg 185 - * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Misleading Collection, includes Nubian and Ancient Near East collections

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 : 18,000 objects [http://www.mfa.org/collections/index.asp?key=19]
+n.b. it should be noted that this list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.
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