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List of museums of Greek and Roman antiquities

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This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities.

  1. Naples Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy
    130,000 objects [1]
  2. State Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
    106,000 objects[2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast)
  3. British Museum, London, UK
    100,000 objects[3]
  4. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece
    100,000 objects[4]
  5. Antikensammlung Berlin, (Held at the Altes Museum, Neues Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany
    60,000 objects[5][6][7]
  6. Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
    53,000 objects[8] (Misleading Collection. Total collection size: 1 million objects of which 800,000 coins, 75,000 books, 75,000 Ancient Near East cuneiform tablets, 2000 enamels and various Ancient Near Eastern objects)
  7. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
    45,000 objects[9]
  8. Getty Villa, Malibu, USA
    44,000 objects[10]
  9. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
    35,000 objects[11]
  10. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA
    30,000 objects[12]
  11. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
    18,000 objects[13] (Misleading collection, includes Nubian and Ancient Near East collections)

References

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  1. ^ "Catalogue of the Museo Archeologico di Napoli (Inventory MANN) - Wikimedia Commons".
  2. ^ "Collection Highlights: Antiquity". State Hermitage Museum. Archived from the original on August 19, 2007.
  3. ^ "Greece and Rome". British Museum. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  4. ^ "Το μουσείο που γράφει ιστορία". Ethnos.gr. 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  5. ^ "Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Museums / Institutes". 194.94.133.20. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ^ [1] Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ [2] Archived March 19, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ ":: Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Culture And Tourism". Kultur.gov.tr. 2006-09-15. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  9. ^ Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l'état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
  10. ^ "The J. Paul Getty Museum : Homepage". Getty.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  11. ^ "Works of Art: Greek and Roman Art". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
  12. ^ "Penn Museum - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology". Museum.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2015-12-27.
  13. ^ "Art of the Ancient World". MFA Boston. Archived from the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007.
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