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[edit] Ancient Egypt and Sudan

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Museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities
  1. Egyptian Museum, Cairo
    140,000 objects [1]
  2. British Museum, London
    110,000 objects [2]
  3. Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London
    80,000 objects [3]
  4. Musée du Louvre, Paris
    50,000 objects [4]
  1. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania
    42,000 objects [5]
  2. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    40,000 objects [6]
  3. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    36,000 objects [7]
  4. Museo Egizio, Turin
    32,500 objects [8]
  1. Oriental Institute, Chicago:
    30,000 objects [9]
  2. Ägyptischesmuseum (Neues Museum), Berlin
    23,000 objects*


* Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, p. 56. ISBN 0-7141-1950-4

All webpages accessed 7 January 2007



[edit] Ancient Near East

  • Musée du Louvre, Paris (90,000 objects)
  • The Oriental Institute of Art, Chicago (20,000 objects)[1]
  • Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (7,000 objects)[2]

[edit] Prints and Drawings

Comparably, other great collections include:

  • Musee du Louvre, Paris (133,000 Drawings, 46,000 Prints)[3]
  • State Hermitage, St. Petersburg (39,000 Drawings, 486,000 Prints)[4]
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (11,000 Drawings, 1.5 million Prints)[5]
  • Kupferstichkabinett, Museum of Prints and Drawings,. Berlin (110,000 Drawings, 500,000 Prints)[6]
  • Royal Collection, London (40,000 Drawings, 150,000 Prints, inc. 600 Leonardo da Vinci Drawings)[7]
  • Fitzwilliam, Cambridge (20,000 Drawings, 180,000 Prints)[8]
  • Uffizi Gallery, Florence (120,000 Drawings and Prints)[9]
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington (100,000 Drawings and Prints)[10]
  • MoMA, New York (6000 Drawings, 50,000 Prints)[11]
  • Brooklyn Museum, New York (2,000 Drawings, 40,000 Prints)[12]
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (11,500 Drawings, 60,000 Prints)[13]
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (150,000 Drawings and Prints)[14]

[edit] References

  1. ^ http://maroon.uchicago.edu/news/articles/2003/10/09/new_exhibit_will_fea.php
  2. ^ http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=3
  3. ^ http://www.louvre.fr/llv/oeuvres/liste_departements.jsp?bmLocale=en
  4. ^ http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page1946.html
  5. ^ http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/introduction.asp?dep=9
  6. ^ http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objectId=8
  7. ^ http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=19
  8. ^ http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/pdp/prints/
  9. ^ http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/disegni/
  10. ^ http://www.nga.gov/resources/dcgdesc.shtm
  11. ^ http://www.moma.org/research/studycenters/index.html#drawstudy
  12. ^ http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/collections/prints-drawings-and-photographs.php
  13. ^ http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/prints/index.php
  14. ^ http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/216-436-429-341.html