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This is a list of
museums with major collections of
Greek and
Roman antiquities.
Naples Archaeological Museum , Naples, Italy
130,000 objects
[1]
State Hermitage , St Petersburg, Russia
106,000 objects
[2] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast)
British Museum , London, UK
100,000 objects
[3]
National Archaeological Museum , Athens, Greece
100,000 objects
[4]
Antikensammlung Berlin , (Held at the
Altes Museum ,
Neues Museum and
Pergamon Museum ), Berlin, Germany
60,000 objects
[5]
[6]
[7]
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)
Musée du Louvre , Paris, France
45,000 objects
[9]
Getty Villa , Malibu, USA
44,000 objects
[10]
Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York, USA
35,000 objects
[11]
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology , Pennsylvania, USA
30,000 objects
[12]
Museum of Fine Arts , Boston, USA
18,000 objects
[13] (Misleading collection, includes Nubian and Ancient Near East collections)
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[1]
Archived September 26, 2007, at the
Wayback Machine
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[2]
Archived March 19, 2005, at the
Wayback Machine
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":: Republic Of Turkey Ministry Of Culture And Tourism" . Kultur.gov.tr . 2006-09-15. Retrieved 2015-12-27 .
^ Musée du Louvre; 2005 Annual Report - Tableau récapitulatif de l'état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
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"The J. Paul Getty Museum : Homepage" . Getty.edu . Retrieved 2015-12-27 .
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"Works of Art: Greek and Roman Art" . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Archived from
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"Penn Museum - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology" . Museum.upenn.edu . Retrieved 2015-12-27 .
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"Art of the Ancient World" . MFA Boston. Archived from
the original on August 14, 2007. Retrieved August 17, 2007 .