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

Museum collections of over 1,000 Ancient Egyptian artifacts

  1. Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts[1] (to open in 2016, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
  2. British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts[2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory)[3][4]
  3. Ägyptisches Museum, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany: About 80,000 artifacts[5]
  4. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, England: About 80,000 artifacts[6]
  5. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: About 50,000 artifacts[7]
  6. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA: About 45,000 artifacts[8]
  7. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, MI, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts[9]
  8. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts[10]
  9. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England: About 40,000 artifacts[11]
  10. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts[12]
  11. Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA: About 30,000 artifacts[13]
  12. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts[14]
  13. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada: 25,000 artifacts[15]
  14. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, CA: over 17,000 artifacts [16]
  15. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England: Over 16,000 artifacts[17]
  16. World Museum, Liverpool, England: Over 16,000 artifacts[18]
  17. Manchester Museum, Manchester, England: About 16,000 artifacts[19]
  18. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts[20][21]
  19. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 12,000 artifacts [22]
  20. Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts [23]
  21. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts [24]
  22. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
  23. Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts[25]
  24. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts[26]
  25. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6000 artifacts [27]
  26. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland: 6,000 artifacts[28]
  27. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts [29]
  28. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 5,000 artifacts[30]
  29. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts[31]
  30. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland: 5,000 artifacts[32]
  31. Szepmuveszeti Museum, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts[33]
  32. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, CA: Over 4,000 artifacts[34]
  33. Field Museum, Chicago, IL: Over 3,500 artifacts[35]
  34. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts[36]
  35. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts[37]
  36. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts[38]
  37. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts[39]
  38. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts[40]
  39. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland: 2,300 artifacts[41]
  40. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts[42]
  41. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts[43]
  42. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts[44]
  43. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts[45]
  44. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN, USA: more than 1,400 artifacts[46]
  45. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA: more than 1000 artifacts[47]
  46. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA: More than 1000 artifacts[48]

Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts

References

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  2. ^ "History of the collection". Ancient Egypt and Sudan Department. British Museum. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  3. ^ "The Wendorf collection". Ancient Egypt and Sudan Departmemt. British Museum. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  4. ^ "British Museum acquires artifacts collected by professor". Southern Methodist University. September 2001. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  5. ^ "Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection". Berlin State Museums. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  6. ^ "The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology". University College London. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  7. ^ "Organization". Department of Egyptian Antiquities. Musée du Louvre. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  8. ^ "Giza Archaeological Expedition Archive (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)". ARTstor. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  9. ^ "Notable collections". Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  10. ^ "Egyptian Section". University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  11. ^ "The Egyptian Collections". Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  12. ^ "The History of the Museum". Museo Egizio. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  13. ^ "Highlights from the Collections: Egypt". Oriental Institute. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  14. ^ "Egyptian Art". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  15. ^ "Galleries of Africa: Egypt". Royal Ontario Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
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  18. ^ "Egyptology". World Museum. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  19. ^ "The Egyptology Collection". Manchester Museum. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  20. ^ "Florence, Egyptian Museum" (in Italian). Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  21. ^ "Museum of Archaeology". The Museums of Florence. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  22. ^ "Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection". Kunsthistorisches Museum.
  23. ^ "Egypt". Cinquantenaire Museum.
  24. ^ "Egypt". Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  25. ^ "Egypt". Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  26. ^ "Ägyptisches Museum" (in German). Leipzig University. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
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  28. ^ "Ancient Egyptian collection". National Museum of Scotland. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  29. ^ "Ancient Egypt". The Hermitage. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  30. ^ "Collections database". Rijksmuseum van Oudheden. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
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  32. ^ "Ancient Egypt". Glasgow Museums. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  33. ^ "Collections, Egypt". Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  34. ^ "About Us". Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  35. ^ "Africa collections". Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
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  37. ^ "Egyptian Collections: History". Brooklyn Museum. Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  38. ^ "Ancient Egypt - Mummies - National Museum - Kildare St". National Museum of Ireland. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  39. ^ "Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt". Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
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  42. ^ "The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek". VirtualTourist. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  43. ^ "Search the Anthropology Collections". National Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
  44. ^ "Search the Collections". Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  45. ^ "The Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon" (in French). L'Égypte ancienne de Bastet. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
  46. ^ "Search Collection". Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology. Retrieved 14 Jan 2014.
  47. ^ "Search Collection". Cleveland Museum of Art. Retrieved 6 Jan 2014.
  48. ^ "Collections: Ancient Egyptian Art". Freer Gallery of Art. Retrieved 13 January 2014.
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