This is a list of museums with major collections of Egyptian antiquities.
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt
- 120,000 objects
- British Museum, London, UK
- 100,000+ objects Excludes the 6 million objects from the Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory, donated to the museum in 2001
- Ägyptisches Museum, Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany
- 80,000 objects Website source quotes 80,000 objects, published book quotes 100,000 objects (http://www.museumshop.de/msdetails.asp?id=579)
- Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, London, UK
- 80,000 objects
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- 50,000 objects
- University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA
- 42,000 objects
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
- 40,000 objects
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
- 36,000 objects
- Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
- 32,500 objects
- Oriental Institute, Chicago, USA
- 30,000 objects
- World Museum, Liverpool, UK
- 16,000 objects
- Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK
- 15,000 objects
- Egyptian Museum, Florence, Italy
- 14,000 objects
- Roemer-und-Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
- 9,000 objects
- Egyptian Museum Leipzig
- 8,000 objects
- Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna, Italy
- 4,000 objects
- Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
- more than 2,000 objects
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Danmark
- 1800 objects
- Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon
- Egyptian Museum, Milan, Italy
- Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst, Munich, Germany
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