09/12/2024
Can someone please do me a favor and add up these numbers for me
" Can anyone imagine how much of our antiquities are outside Egypt?!
Most of us might imagine that one piece is in the British Museum and one piece in two or three other museums.
The truth is no, Egyptian antiquities actually fill all the museums in the world.
Do you know how many pieces can you count?! Well, count with me..
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom: It has more than 100 thousand pieces
The Egyptian Museum in German in the Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany: About 80 thousand pieces
The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, United Kingdom: It has about 80 thousand pieces
The Louvre Museum, Paris, France: It has about 50 thousand artifacts.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA: Approximately 45,000 objects
Kesley Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, USA: Approximately 45,000 objects
University of Pennsylvania Museum, USA: Approximately 42,000 objects
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK: Approximately 40,000 objects
Egyptian Museum, Italy: Approximately 32,500 objects
Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA: Approximately 30,000 objects
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA: Approximately 26,000 objects
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada: Approximately 25,000 objects
Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Berkeley, California: Approximately 17,000 objects
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK: Approximately 16,000 objects
World Museum, Liverpool, UK: Approximately 16,000 objects
Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK: Approximately 16,000 objects
Egyptian Wing, National Archaeological Museum, Florence, Italy: over 14,000 objects
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria: over 12,000 objects
National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece: over 8,000 objects
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia: over 8,000 objects
State Museum of Egyptian Art Munich, Germany: around 8,000 objects
Römer and Belizius Museum Germany: around 8,000 objects
Egyptian Museum of the University of Leipzig-Saxony, Germany: around 8,000 objects
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia: over 5,500 objects
National Museum of Antiquities Leiden, Netherlands: 5,000+ objects
Peabody Museum of Natural History New Haven, USA: 5,000+ objects
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Hungary: 4,000+ objects
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum San Jose, California, USA: 4,000+ objects
Field Museum of Natural History Chicago: 3,500+ objects
Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, USA: 3,000+ objects
Carnegie Museum of Natural History Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: 2,500+ objects
Carlsberg Museum (in Danish) Copenhagen, Denmark: more than 1900 pieces.
National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA: more than 1900 pieces.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, USA: more than 1600 pieces.
Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon, France: 1500 pieces.
University of Memphis Art Museum, Tennessee, USA: more than 1400 pieces.
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA: more than 1000 pieces.
Free Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA: more than 1000 pieces.
There are many other museums other than those in countries that have around 1000 pieces, these are not counted. "
