Directory of Antiquities Resources

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Contains museums which specialize in the collection and exhibition of artifacts from ancient civilizations.

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• Egyptology

Resources in This Category

• Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

  http://www.ashmolean.org/
  Attached to the University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Antiquities collections range from Paleolithic to Victorian, from Egypt to Britain.

• Michael C. Carlos Museum

  http://carlos.emory.edu/
  Information on the art collection that includes objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near East, and the ancient Americas. Located Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia.

• Museum of Antiquities

  http://www.usask.ca/antiquities/
  Features full scale replicas of Greek, Roman, and Medieval sculpture, the originals of which are housed in such famous museums as the British Museum and the Louvre located at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada.

• Museum of Classical Archaeology

  http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/museum/
  Exhibits a collections of pottery shards and of casts of Greek and Roman sculpture, with a public collection numbering over 600 plaster casts. Searchable database. Located in the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

• Museum of Cycladic Art

  http://www.cycladic.gr/
  Ancient Aegean sculpture and artifacts. Located in Athens, Greece.

• Oriental Institute Museum

  http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/
  University of Chicago, Illinois. Part of the university's Oriental Institute, which has supported research and archaeological excavation in the Near East since 1919, the museum exhibits major collections of antiquities from Egypt, Mesopotamia, Iran, Syria, Palestine, and Anatolia.

• The Acropolis Museum

  http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/?la=2
  Houses masterpieces of ancient Greek civilization and art, including sculptures, friezes, and figurines located in Athens, Greece.

• The Menil Collection

  http://www.menil.org/
  Houses and exhibits the permanent collection of John and Dominique de Menil, including art from antiquity, the Byzantine world, tribal cultures, and the twentieth century. In Houston, Texas.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  http://www.metmuseum.org/
  This museum in New York, New York has large collections of ancient art, including Greek, Roman and Near Eastern. Online descriptions and highlights of the collections, current exhibitions and visitor information.

• The Museum of National Antiquities

  http://www.historiska.se/
  Antiquities museum in Stockholm, Sweden. Includes exhibits, activities, collection information, and a virtual tour.

• The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation: Museum of Cycladic Art

  http://odysseus.culture.gr/h/1/eh151.jsp?obj_id=3520
  Houses the collections of Cycladic and ancient Greek art belonging to Nicholas and Aikaterini Goulandris. The Cycladic collection is ancient art from the Cyclades Island culture between 3200 and 200 B.C.E.. Located in Athens, Greece.

• The Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology

  http://www.reading.ac.uk/Ure
  Fourth finest collection of Greek ceramics in Britain, attached to the University of Reading's Classics department. History of the museum, plan and description of exhibits, schools information and tour.

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