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 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 Neat 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

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