Archaeology

The first national public museum in the world, free since its founding act of 1753. Its eight million objects document human histo...

The world's oldest university museum and oldest public museum in Britain, opened to display the cabinet of curiosities of Elias As...

The world's oldest public museums, opened to the people of Rome in 1734 from the papal collections on Michelangelo's Campidoglio s...

The richest repository of Greco-Roman antiquities, holding the Farnese collection: the Hercules, the Bull, and gem cabinets. Fresc...

The oldest Egyptian museum in the world after Cairo, built on the 1824 purchase of the Drovetti collection. The Turin King List, t...

Built to house monumental architecture: the Pergamon Altar's gigantomachy frieze, the Ishtar Gate and Processional Way of Babylon ...

Friedrich August Stuler's temple to the civilizations of the ancient world, bombed in 1943 and resurrected by David Chipperfield i...

Auguste Mariette's museum of pharaonic antiquities, the oldest archaeological museum in the Middle East, in its 1902 pink downtown...

The pits of the Terracotta Warriors, found by farmers digging a well in 1974, each soldier an individual face. Three covered pits ...

Rafael Larco Hoyle's 18th century vice-royal mansion in Pueblo Libre holds 45,000 catalogued Peruvian antiquities. Moche portrait ...

Osman Hamdi Bey's museum complex in the Topkapi outer court, among the first in the Ottoman world. The Alexander Sarcophagus from ...

Bernard Tschumi's glass and concrete building at the foot of the sacred rock, aligned with the Parthenon above. The frieze is disp...

The greatest museum of Greek antiquities, founded in the year of Greek independence. The Mask of Agamemnon, the Antikythera Mechan...