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]
- National Museum of Iraq. Over 170,000 objects.
- Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA. 20,000 objects[5]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 7,000 objects[6]
- Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey.
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA.[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, MA, USA.
References
- ↑ British Museum.
- ↑ Research, SMB.museum.
- ↑ Article, The Guardian.
- ↑ 2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185.
- ↑ New exhibit, University of Chicago, USA, 2003.
- ↑ Works of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.
- ↑ Near East, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, USA.
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