List of museums of Greek and Roman antiquities

This is a list of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. This list is controversial, in so far as it contains only qualitative analysis of museum holdings. These may or may not reflect actual artistic quality of collections in question.

1. State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

   106,000 objects [1] (Misleading collection, includes many objects from ancient settlements on the Northern Black Sea coast)

2. British Museum, London, UK

   100,000 objects [2]

3. National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece

   100,000 objects [3]

4. Antikensammlung Berlin, (Held at the Altes Museum and Pergamon Museum), Berlin, Germany

   60,000 objects [4] [5] [6]

5. Istanbul Archaeology Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

   53,000 objects [7] (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)

6. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France

   45,000 objects ^[1]

7. Getty Villa, Malibu, USA

   44,000 objects [8]

8. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

   35,000 objects [9]

9. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Pennsylvania, USA

   30,000 objects [10]

10. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

    18,000 objects [11] (Misleading collection, includes Nubian and Ancient Near East collections)

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