List of museums of ancient Near Eastern art

This is a list of museums with major art collections from the Ancient Near East.

  • British Museum, London, UK. 290,000 objects.[1]
  • Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany. 250,000 objects.[2]
  • National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad, Iraq. 170,000 objects.[3]
  • Musée du Louvre, Paris, France. 100,000 objects.[4]
  • Mosul Museum, Iraq.
  • Sulaymaniyah Museum, Iraq
  • Basra Museum, Iraq
  • Oriental Institute, Chicago. 20,000 objects[5]
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 7,000 objects[6]
  • Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
  • Penn Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[7]
  • Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
  • Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  • Hecht Museum, Haifa, Israel.
  • Bible Lands Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • Semitic Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • Musei reali, Turin, Italy
  • Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy

References

  1. ^ British Museum.
  2. ^ Research Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine, SMB.museum.
  3. ^ Article, The Guardian.
  4. ^ 2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
  5. ^ New exhibit Archived 2004-02-17 at archive.today, University of Chicago, 2003.
  6. ^ Works of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.
  7. ^ Near East, Penn Museum.