List of Egyptological museums and collections
Europe, the Caucasus and the Middle East |
Africa |
Asia |
America |
Australia and Oceania |
The list of Egyptological museums and collections provides an overview of museums, universities and other publicly accessible collections that are wholly or partially dedicated to collecting and exhibiting Egyptian antiquities. Private collections inaccessible to the public are not included. Egyptological museums and collections exist in over 60 countries, with most and also the most important institutions in Egypt itself, in several European countries and in the United States .
Egypt
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Ahmim | Achmim Open Air Museum | Excavation site | |
Alexandria | Bibliotheca Alexandrina , Archaeological Museum | 2002 | |
Alexandria | Greco-Roman Museum Alexandria | October 17, 1892 | currently closed |
Alexandria | Kom ed-Dikka Open Air Museum | Excavation site | |
Alexandria | Maritime Museum | planned | |
Alexandria | Museum of the Faculty of Literature | ||
Alexandria | Alexandria National Museum | December 31, 2003 | |
Alexandria | Underwater museum | Artifacts are underwater | |
al-Arish | Sinai Heritage Museum | ||
al-Asmunain ( Hermopolis Magna ) | El Ashmunein Open Air Museum | ||
Assyut | Es Salam High School, Archaeological Collection | Former collection of Sayed Chaschaba Pasha | |
Assyut | National Museum | planned | Palace of Alexan Pasha |
Aswan | Nubian Museum | November 23, 1997 | |
Aswan ( Elephantine ) | Aswan Museum | 1912 | |
Aswan ( Elephantine ) | Excavation museum | Excavation site | |
al-Bawiti , Bahariya | Mummy Museum | Corpses from the so-called "Valley of the Golden Mummies" | |
Beni Suef | Museum of Beni Suef | 1997 | |
Kharga | Kharga Museum | 1976 | |
Edfu | Archaeological Museum | planned | identical to the Open Air Museum at the Temple of Edfu? |
al-Fayyūm | Archaeological Museum of the Fayyum | planned | |
al-Fayyūm | Kiman Faris Open Air Museum | planned | |
al-Fayyūm | Palace of Culture, Prehistoric Collection | planned | |
Giza | Boat museum | around 1985 | |
Giza | The Grant Egyptian Museum | planned | |
Hirriyyat Razna , at Zagazig | Sharkeya National Museum | 1973 | The museum has been permanently closed since 2006, the finds are to be exhibited in the new museum in Tell Basta. |
Hurghada | National Museum | planned | |
Ismailia | Ismailia Museum | 1932 | |
Kafr el-Sheikh | Kafr el-Sheikh Museum | ||
Cairo | Egyptian National Library | ||
Cairo | Egyptian Museum | ||
Cairo | Gayer Anderson Museum | around 1942 | |
Cairo | Institut français d'archéologie orientale | ||
Cairo | Coptic Museum | 1908 | Coptic art |
Cairo | Agricultural Museum | ||
Cairo | Medicine Museum | planned | |
Cairo | Military museum | ||
Cairo | Museum of the Archaeological Faculty of Cairo University | ||
Cairo | Museum of Historic Cairo | planned | |
Cairo | National Museum of Egyptian Civilization | 2017 | Location in Fustat |
Cairo | Postal Museum | ||
Cairo | Textile museum | Old Cairo | |
Cairo | Center for Papyrology at the Ain-Schams-University | ||
Karnak | Karnak Open Air Museum | April 22, 1986 | |
Kom Auschim (Karanis) | Kom Auschim Museum | ||
Kom Ombo | Crocodile Museum | ||
Luxor | Luxor Museum | 1975 | |
Luxor | Mummification Museum | 1997 | |
Mallawi | Mallawi Museum | 1963 | The museum was devastated on August 15, 2013. |
Marina el-Alamein | museum | planned | |
Marsa Alam | Marsa Alam Museum | planned | |
Mersa Matruh | Archaeological Museum | planned | |
al-Minya | Minya Museum | under construction | |
With Rahina ( Memphis ) | Memphis Open Air Museum | ||
Courage ( Dachla Oasis ) | Archaeological Museum | planned | Establishment indefinite |
Port Said | Military museum | ||
Port Said | National Museum | planned | |
Qina | Predynastic Museum | planned | |
al-Qurna | Museum in the mortuary temple of Merenptah | ||
al-Quseir | Al Quseir Museum | planned | |
rosette | National Museum | July 30, 2009 | |
Saqqara | Imhotep Museum | 2006 | |
San el-Hagar (Tanis) | San el Hagar Museum | ||
Sharm El Sheikh | Egyptian Museum | 2015 (planned) | |
Shibin al-Hardly | Minufiyya University , Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality | planned | |
Sohag , Nasr City | Archaeological Museum | under construction | |
Sue | National Museum |
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Taba | Taba Museum | currently closed | |
Aunt | Tanta Museum | currently closed? | |
Tell Basta (Bubastis) | Tell Basta Museum | Sculpture garden, museum under construction | |
Tell el-Daba (Auaris) | Tell el-Daba museum | planned | |
Zagazig | Zagazig University, Archaeological Museum | 1992 |
Algeria
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Cherchell | Cherchell Museum |
Argentina
Armenia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Yerevan | Picture gallery | ||
Yerevan | historical Museum |
Azerbaijan
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Baku | National Museum of the History of Azerbaijan |
Australia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Adelaide | Museum of Classical Archeology | ||
Adelaide | South Australian Museum | 1847 | |
Armidale | Museum of Antiquities | ||
Brisbane | Antiquities Museum | ||
Melbourne | Australian Institute of Archeology | ||
Melbourne | Ian Potter Museum of Art | ||
Melbourne | Melbourne Museum | 2000 | |
Melbourne | Museum of Mediterranean Antiquities | ||
Melbourne | National Gallery of Victoria | 1861 | |
Melbourne | Queens College, University of Melbourne, Egyptian Collection | ||
Perth | Museum of Western Australia | ||
St. Lucia | University of Queensland Museum | ||
Sydney | Australian Museum | 1827 | |
Sydney | Ancient History Teaching Collection | ||
Sydney | Museum of Ancient Cultures | ||
Sydney | Nicholson Museum |
Belgium
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Antwerp | HeadquARTers | ||
Antwerp | Museum aan de Stroom | ||
Antwerp | Vleeshuis Museum | ||
Arlon | Luxembourgois Museum | ||
Brussels | Royal Library of Belgium | ||
Brussels | Royal Museums of Art and History ( Jubelparkmuseum ) | ||
Brussels | Musical instrument museum | ||
Ghent | University collection | ||
Lokeren | Stedelijk Museum | ||
Louvain-la-Neuve | Musée de Louvain-la-Neuve | ||
Liege | Musée Curtius & Musée du Verre | ||
Morlanwelz | Royal Museum of Mariemont | ||
Verviers | Musée d'Archéologie et de Folklore |
Brazil
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Curitiba | Museu Egípcio e Rosacruz | Sponsor: Universidade Rose-Croix, established in the 1990s | |
Ponta Grossa | Archeology Museum | ||
Rio de Janeiro | Museu Nacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | 1818 | Exhibition copies under sub-categoria: Egito Antigo |
São Paulo | Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia | 1989 |
China
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Beijing | Peking University , Museum | Stelae brought to Beijing by Ambassador Duang Fang in the early 20th century |
Denmark
Germany
Estonia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Tallinn | Estonian History Museum | ||
Tartu | University Museum of Classical Antiquity |
Finland
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Espoo | Paper museum | ||
Helsinki | Suomen Egyptologinen Seura | 1969 | Finnish Egyptological Society |
Helsinki | Helsinki University Museum | ||
Helsinki | Finnish National Library | ||
Helsinki | Finnish National Gallery | ||
Helsinki | Didrichsen Art and Cultural Museum | The (Finnish) Didrichsenin taide- ja kulttuurimuseo , or Didrichsen Museum for short , only collects a limited amount of artifacts from the Middle East | |
Tampere | Sara Hildén Art Museum |
France
Georgia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Sukhumi | Abkhaz State Museum | ||
Tbilisi | State Museum of Arts of Georgia | ||
Tbilisi | Simon Janaschia State Museum of Georgia |
Ghana
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Accra | National Museum |
Greece
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Athens | National Archaeological Museum | The Egyptological collection is rather small in comparison to the prehistoric and classical-antique collections and is exhibited with its outstanding pieces in halls 40 and 41. The majority of the collection came to the museum through two private collections: in 1892 and 1898 by Ioannis Dimitriou from Alexandria and in 1904 by Alexandros Rostovic from Cairo. The collection includes pieces from the predynastic to Roman times. | |
Heraklion | Heraklion Archaeological Museum |
India
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Delhi | National Museum New Delhi | ||
Hyderabad | State Museum | ||
Jaipur | Central Government Museum | ||
Calcutta | Indian Museum | ||
Lucknow | State Museum | ||
Mumbai | Framji Dahabhoy Alpaiwalla Museum | ||
Mumbai | Prince of Wales Museum of Western India | ||
Vadodara | Museum and Picture Gallery |
Iraq
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Baghdad | State Antiquities Authority | ||
Mosul | Egyptian collection |
Iran
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Hamadan | Avicenna Museum | ||
Persepolis | Persepolis Museum | ||
Susa | Susa Museum | ||
Tehran | Iranian National Museum |
Ireland
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Dublin | Irish National Museum |
Israel
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Haifa | Reuben and Edith Hecht Museum | ||
Jerusalem | Bible Lands Museum | ||
Jerusalem | Israel Museum | ||
Jerusalem | Museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum |
Italy
Japan
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Coca | Miho Museum |
Yemen
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Aden | Egyptian collection | ||
Aden | General institution for antiquities, museums and manuscripts |
Jordan
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Amman | Amman Archaeological Museum |
Canada
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Montreal | Redpath Museum | ||
Toronto | Royal Ontario Museum |
Croatia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Zagreb | Archaeological Museum |
Colombia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Bogotá | Museo Nacional de Colombia | 1823 |
Cuba
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Havana | Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes | ||
Santiago de Cuba | Museo Bacardí | 1928 |
Latvia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Riga | Museum of Foreign Art |
Lebanon
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Beirut | National Museum |
Libya
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Cyrene | Sculpture Museum | ||
Susah | Museum of Apollonia |
Lithuania
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Kaunas | National Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Art Museum | ||
Vilnius | Lithuanian Art Museum | ||
Vilnius | Historical-Ethnographic Museum |
Malta
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Valletta | National Archaeological Museum of Malta |
Mexico
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Mexico city | Museo Nacional de las Culturas |
Monaco
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Monaco | Musée l'Egypte et le Monde Antique |
Netherlands
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Amsterdam | Allard Pierson Museum | ||
Amsterdam | Bijbels Museum | ||
The hague | Museon | ||
The hague | Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum | ||
Suffer | Rijksmuseum van Oudheden |
New Zealand
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Auckland | Auckland War Memorial Museum | ||
Christchurch | Canterbury Museum | ||
Dunedin | Otago Museum | ||
Palmerston North | Library | ||
Wellington | Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa |
Norway
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Oslo | Universitetets Kulturhistoriske Museum |
Austria
city | state | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Bad Deutsch-Altenburg | Lower Austria | Carnuntinum Museum | ||
to bathe | Lower Austria | Rollett Museum | ||
Graz | Styria | State Museum Joanneum | ||
Michelstetten | Lower Austria | School museum | ||
Vienna | Vienna | Institute for Egyptology | ||
Vienna | Vienna | Egyptian-Oriental Collection of the Art History Museum | ||
Vienna | Vienna | Sigmund Freud Museum | ||
Vienna | Vienna | Papyrus collection of the Austrian National Library |
Poland
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Krakow | Archaeological Museum | ||
Krakow | Czartoryski Museum | ||
Poses | Archaeological Museum | ||
Warsaw | National Museum Warsaw | 1862 |
Portugal
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Lisbon | Museu Calouste Gulbenkian | ||
Lisbon | Museu da Farmácia | ||
Lisbon | Museu Nacional de Arqueologia | ||
postage | Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis | 1833 |
Romania
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Bucharest | Muzeul Național de Antichități | ||
Sibiu | Muzeul de Etnografie Universală "Franz Binder" |
Russia
city | Federal subject 1 | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Abramzewo | Moscow Oblast | Museum of Literature and Art | ||
Arkhangelskoye | Moscow Oblast | State Museum of the Arkhangelskoye Estate | Box of a cat mummy, brought from Saqqara by Lev Nikolajewitsch Volkov in 1850 | |
Irkutsk | Irkutsk Oblast | Art museum | ||
Ivanovo | Ivanovo Oblast | Art museum | ||
Ekaterinburg | Sverdlovsk Oblast | Art museum | ||
Ekaterinburg | Sverdlovsk Oblast | historical Museum | ||
Kazan | Republic of Tatarstan | National Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan | ||
Moscow | Moscow | Glinka Museum for Music Culture | ||
Moscow | Moscow | Pushkin Museum | ||
Moscow | Moscow | State Museum of Oriental Art | ||
Moscow | Moscow | University Museum of Anthropology | ||
Murom | Vladimir Oblast | Culture and history museum | ||
Perm | Perm region | State Art Gallery | ||
Perm | Perm region | Perm State University | ||
Polenowo | Tula Oblast | State Historical, Artistic and Natural History Museum | ||
Prigorodnoye | Chechnya | |||
Rostov on Don | Rostov Oblast | Regional museum | ||
St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Hermitage | ||
St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Institute for Oriental Studies of the Russian National Library | ||
St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Museum of Religious History | ||
St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Russian National Library | ||
Sarapul | Udmurt Republic | Museum of History and Culture of the Central Kama Region | ||
Smolensk | Smolensk Oblast | |||
Sochi | Krasnodar Territory | city Museum | ||
Taganrog | Rostov Oblast | Regional museum | ||
Tambov | Tambov Oblast | Regional museum | ||
Voronezh | Voronezh Oblast | Kramskoi Art Museum |
Sweden
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Linkoping | Östergötland County Museum | ||
Lund | Kulturhistoriska museet | ||
Stockholm | Medelhavsmuseet | ||
Uppsala | Gustavianum |
Switzerland
Serbia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Belgrade | Archaeological Collection of the Philosophical Faculty | ||
Belgrade | Museum of the History of Yugoslavia | ||
Sombor | city Museum | ||
Vršac | city Museum |
Slovakia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Betliar | Státny Kultúrny Majetok | ||
Bratislava | Archaeological Museum Bratislava | ||
Bratislava | Slovak National Museum | ||
Bratislava | Bratislava City Museum | ||
Bratislava | Natural History Museum Bratislava | ||
Levice | Tekovské múzeum | ||
Nitra | Ponitrianske múzeum | ||
Prievidza | Hornonitrianske múzeum | ||
Rimavská Sobota | Gemer Malohont Museum |
Slovenia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Ljubljana | National Museum of Slovenia |
Spain
Sri Lanka
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Colombo | National Museum of Colombo |
South Africa
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Cape Town | Iziko South African Museum | 1825 |
Sudan
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Karthum | National Museum of Sudan |
Syria
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Aleppo | Aleppo National Museum | ||
Damascus | National Museum Damascus | ||
Latakia | Ras Shamra Museum |
Tajikistan
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Dushanbe | Institute for History, Archeology and Anthropology |
Czech Republic
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Prague | Náprstek Museum |
Tunisia
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Carthage | Musee National de Carthage | ||
Tunis | Musee National de Bardo |
Turkey
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Bodrum | Museum of Underwater Archeology | ||
Istanbul | Istanbul Archaeological Museum | 1891 |
Turkmenistan
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Ashgabat | Institute for History |
Ukraine
city | area | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Bakhchysarai | Autonomous Republic of Crimea | Historical-Archaeological Museum | ||
Dnepropetrovsk | Dnepropetrovsk Oblast | Dnipropetrovsk Historical Museum, named after DI Jawornizkogo | ||
Yevpatoria | Autonomous Republic of Crimea | |||
Kerch | Autonomous Republic of Crimea | Historical-Archaeological Museum | ||
Kiev | Kiev | Museum of Western and Oriental Art Kiev | ||
Kiev | Kiev | National Historical Museum of Ukraine | A scarab | |
Kiev | Kiev | Kiewer-Petschersky National Historical-Architectural Museum Reserve | Two coffin lids and a coffin box | |
Lviv | Lviv Oblast | Ethnographic Museum | ||
Mykolaiv | Mykolaiv Oblast | Regional Museum of Local History | ||
Odessa | Odessa Oblast | Archaeological Museum | ||
Poltava | Poltava Oblast | Regional museum | ||
Sevastopol | Sevastopol | Historical-Archaeological Museum | ||
Simferopol | Autonomous Republic of Crimea | Regional Museum of the Crimea |
Hungary
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Budapest | Szépművészeti Múzeum |
Uruguay
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Montevideo | Egyptian Museum of the Uruguayan Egyptological Society | ||
Montevideo | Museo de Artes Decorativas | ||
Montevideo | Museo de Historia del Arte (MuHAr) |
Vatican city
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Vatican city | Museo Gregoriano Egizio | 1839 |
Venezuela
city | Facility | founding | Remarks |
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Caracas | Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas |
United States
United Kingdom
literature
- Oleg Berlev , Svetlana Hodjash : Catalog of the Monuments of Ancient Egypt From the Museums of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Bielorussia, Caucasus, Middle Asia and the Baltic States (= Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis. Series Archaeologica. Volume 17). University Press, Friborg 1998, ISBN 3-7278-1169-2 / Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1998, ISBN 3-525-53898-7 .
Web links
Commons : Egyptian Museums - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
- Egyptology Forum - Museums
- Desheret's Online Museum Guide
- The Global Egyptian Museum
- Info - online: The information sheet for German-speaking Egyptology - museums and collections
- España. Museos y colecciones del Antiguo Egipto
- Musei italiani di Egittologia
Remarks
- ↑ webpage ; Highlights
- ↑ MiN Museum in the Nile Delta .
- ↑ MiN Museum in the Nile Delta .
- ↑ Sharaf to open Suez museum , Egypt Online from May 17, 2011.
- ^ Suez national museum open to public on October 24 , Daily News Egypt of October 8, 2012
- ^ Antiquities Minister inaugurates Suez National Museum , Egypt Online, September 29, 2014
- ↑ MiN Museum in the Nile Delta .
- ↑ Willy Clarysse, Haiying Yan: Two Ptolemaic Stelae for the Sacred Lion of Leonton Polis (Tell Moqdam) . In: Chronique d'Egypte 82, 163-164, p. 77 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Isabel Grimm-Stadelmann, Alfred Grimm: A zither part on the Nile. Duke Maximilian's trip to the Orient in Bavaria and his oriental collection. Publication on the occasion of the reopening of the Banz Monastery Museum with the new presentation of the Oriental Collection . State Museum of Egyptian Art, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028288-1 .
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- ↑ Hetjens Museum on: aegyptologie.com , last accessed on January 15, 2015.
- ↑ Stefan Lehmann, Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (ed.): Aegyptiaca and papyri from the Julius Kurth collection (= Archaeological Museum of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, inventory catalog Volume 1). Sandstein, Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-95498-134-2 .
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- ^ The world of Egypt in the National Archaeological Museum . Athens 1995, ISBN 960-7254-16-3
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- ↑ O. Berlev, S. Hodjash; Friborg 1998, No. II 17. 37. 38.
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- ^ Shirley M. Addy: Rider Haggard and Egypt . AL Publications, Lancashire 1998, ISBN 0-9527293-2-6
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