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Grand Egyptian Museum, Giza, Egypt: Over 100,000 artifacts [1] (due to being partly opened in 2018, currently housed in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo); British Museum, London, England: Over 100,000 artifacts [2] (not including the 2001 donation of the six million artifact Wendorf Collection of Egyptian and Sudanese Prehistory) [3] [4]
The British Museum conducted its own excavations in Egypt where it received divisions of finds, including Asyut (1907), Mostagedda and Matmar (1920s), Ashmunein (1980s) and sites in Sudan such as Soba, Kawa and the Northern Dongola Reach (1990s). The size of the Egyptian collections now stand at over 110,000 objects. [3]
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...
Earth & Space Science Museum: Elizabeth: Jo Daviess: Northern Illinois: Science: Operated by the Planetary Studies Foundation, includes dinosaur bones, fossils, and the U.S. space program: Homepage: Easley Pioneer Museum: Ipava: Fulton: Western: Local history: Includes history of World War II Army Camp Ellis: Eastern Illinois University Lab ...
The British Museum houses the biggest collection of Chinese relics anywhere in the West – at least 23,000 objects – ranging from paintings that date back to the Tang dynasty (618 to 907 AD) to ...
Egypt: Museum of Science and Industry: Chicago: 1933 Science and technology: 37,000 m 2 (400,000 sq ft) [12] more than 35,000 United States: Minneapolis Institute of Art: Minneapolis: 1883 Art 50,600 m 2 (545,000 sq ft) [13] 32,000 m 2 (340,000 sq ft) [14] More than 100,000 [15] United States: National Museum of Natural History: Washington, D.C ...
The museum's first notable addition towards its collection of antiquities, since its foundation, was by Sir William Hamilton (1730–1803), British Ambassador to Naples, who sold his collection of Greek and Roman artefacts to the museum in 1784 together with a number of other antiquities and natural history specimens.
5.1 Egypt. 5.2 Israel. ... Museum of the History of Science, ... Royal British Columbia Museum, Victoria; Science World at Telus World of Science, ...