List of museums of Greek and Roman antiquities

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
  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. Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
  7. 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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