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Museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities |
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- Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
- 120,000 objects [1]
- British Museum¹, London, UK
- 110,000 objects [2]
- Ägyptisches Museum², Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany
- 80,000 objects [3]
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, UK
- 80,000 objects [4]
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- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- 50,000 objects [5]
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA
- 42,000 objects [6]
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
- 40,000 objects [7]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- 36,000 objects [8]
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- Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
- 32,500 objects [9]
- Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA
- 30,000 objects [10]
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¹ The British Museum - Excludes the 6 million objects from the Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory, donated to the museum in 2001 - ² Ägyptisches Museum; misleading collection, website source quotes 80,000 objects, published book quotes 100,000 objects (http://www.museumshop.de/msdetails.asp?id=579])
This list only contains estimates of collection size, which may or may not reflect the collection's historical, scientific, or artistic value.
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