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

This article uses bare URLs, which are uninformative and vulnerable to link rot. (August 2022)

Museum collections with specified number

5,000+

1. Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts[1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo)
2. British Museum, London, England, UK: 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, UK: About 80,000 artifacts[6]
5. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France: 77,404 artifacts[7][8]
6. National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, Cairo Egypt: 50,000 artifacts
7. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: About 45,000 artifacts[9]
8. Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA: Over 45,000 artifacts[10]
9. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Over 42,000 artifacts[11]
10. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, UK: About 40,000 artifacts[12]
11. Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy: 32,500 artifacts[13]
12. Oriental Institute, Chicago, Illinois, USA: About 30,000 artifacts[14]
13. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, USA: About 26,000 artifacts[15]
14. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: 25,000 artifacts[16]
15. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California, USA: Over 17,000 artifacts[17]
16. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England, UK: Over 16,000 artifacts[18]
17. World Museum, Liverpool, England, UK: Over 16,000 artifacts[19]
18. Manchester Museum, Manchester, England, UK: About 16,000 artifacts[20]
19. Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy: Over 14,000 artifacts[21][22]
20. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria: Over 17,000 artifacts[23]
21. Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels, Belgium: Over 11,000 artifacts[24]
22. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands: Over 9,000 artifacts[25]
23. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: More than 8,000 artifacts[26]
24. Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany About 8,000 artifacts
25. Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany: 8,000 artifacts[27]
26. Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany: About 8,000 artifacts[28]
27. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: 7,500 objects[29]
28. Durham University Oriental Museum, Durham, England, UK: Over 6,700 artifacts
29. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: Over 6,000 artifacts[30]
30. National Museum in Warsaw (MNW), Warsaw, Poland: 6,000 artifacts[31]
31. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: 6,000 artifacts[32]
32. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia: Over 5,500 artifacts[33]
33. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, England, UK: About 8, 000 artifacts[34]

Over 1,000

1. Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, Connecticut, USA: Over 5,000 artifacts[35]
2. The Egypt Centre, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK: Over 5,000 artifacts[36]
3. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: 5,000 artifacts[37]
4. Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France: Over 4,900 artifacts[38]
5. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary: Over 4,000 artifacts[39]
6. Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, California, USA: Over 4,000 artifacts[40]
7. Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, USA: Over 3,500 artifacts[41]
8. Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy: About 3,500 artifacts[42]
9. Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA: More than 3,000 artifacts[43]
10. National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland: About 3,000 artifacts[44]
11. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: More than 2,500 artifacts[45]
12. Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy: 2,500 artifacts[46]
13. Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, UK: 2,300 artifacts[47]
14. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark: More than 1,900 artifacts[48]
15. National Museum of Natural History, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,900 artifacts[49]
16. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: More than 1,600 artifacts[50]
17. Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France: 1,500 artifacts[51]
18. Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee, USA: More than 1,400 artifacts[52]
19. Museu Egipci de Barcelona [ca], Barcelona, Spain: 1,100 artifacts
20. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA: More than 1000 artifacts[53]
21. Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: More than 1,000 artifacts[54]
22. Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Over 1,000 artifacts[55]
23. Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum, Salem, Oregon, USA; over 900 artifacts

Over 100

1. Maidstone Museum, Kent, England: over 600 artifacts[56]
2. Leicester Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester, England, UK: Over 400 artifacts
3. Odessa Archeological Museum, Odessa, Ukraine: Over 400 artifacts[57]
4. Weston Park Museum, Sheffield, England: over 300 artifacts[58]
5. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; 38 artifacts

Other significant collections with unspecified number of artifacts

• Sudan National Museum, Khartoum, Sudan: (3 relocated temples due to the flooding of Lake Nasser[59] + other artifacts from the area of the third cataract)
• Abbey Museum of Art and Archaeology, Caboolture, Queensland, Australia[60]
• Alexandria National Museum, Alexandria, Egypt
• Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands[61]
• American Museum of Natural History, New York City, New York, USA
• Anniston Museum of Natural History, Anniston, Alabama, USA[62]
• Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel, Switzerland
• Australian National University Classics Museum, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia[63]
• Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida, USA[64]
• Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem
• The Box, Plymouth, Devon, England
• Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, Brighton, England, UK[65]
• Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand[66]
• Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia[67]
• The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA[68]
• Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia, USA[69]
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, Colorado, USA
• Egyptian Museum, Milan, Italy
• Egyptian Museum of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada[70]
• Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, Vermont, USA[71]
• Garstang Museum of Archaeology, University of Liverpool, England[72]
• Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, Texas, USA[73]
• Indian Museum, Kolkata, Kolkata, India
• Israel Museum, Jerusalem
• Imhotep Museum, Saqqara, Egypt
• Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa[74]
• Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
• Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
• Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois, USA
• Leeds City Museum, Leeds, England
• Luxor Museum, Luxor, Egypt
• McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA[75]
• Medusa Ancient Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[76]
• Milwaukee Public Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA[77]
• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
• Musée royal de Mariemont, Morlanwelz, Belgium
• Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
• National Archaeology Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
• Museo Gregoriano Egiziano, Vatican City
• Museum of Ancient Orient, Istanbul, Turkey
• Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
• National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia[78]
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA[79]
• The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, New Jersey, USA[80]
• Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, Illinois, USA
• Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada[81]
• Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence. Rhode Island, USA
• Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, California State University, San Bernardino, California, USA
• San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA[82]
• Museum of Us, San Diego, California, USA[83]
• Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA[84]
• Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England, UK
• South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia[85]
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA'[86]
• Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
• Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia, Australia[87]

Other or Minor Collections

• Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, New York, USA[88]
• Grand Rapids Public Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA[89]
• Kalamazoo Valley Museum, Kalamazoo, Michigan[90][91]
• Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana[92]
• Museum of Antiquities (University of Saskatchewan), Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada[93]
• Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
• Otago Museum, Dunedin, New Zealand[94]
• Reading Public Museum, West Reading, Pennsylvania, USA[95]
• Wayne County Historical Museum, Richmond, Indiana, USA[96]

See also

• List of museums with Egyptian Mummies on display

References

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