Master List of Museums with Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and/or Near Eastern Antiquities in the United States of America

This post was originally posted on Tumblr, October 16, 2018, at this URL: https://theancientgeekoroman.tumblr.com/post/179105816745/master-list-of-museums-with-greek-roman 

These collections may not be extensive or on display (and may contain only one culture from the above list), and I am including museums with minimal collections as well; please check with the museum before you visit or check their collections search online if the object(s) you wish to see is/are on view.

Feel free to message me if I’ve missed a museum! I’ll be constantly updating this post. (Initial Post: October 16, 2018; First Update: October 16, 2018, 2:18 p.m. Pacific; Second Update: October 16, 2018, 7:15 p.m. Pacific; Third Update: October 17, 2018, 6:29 p.m.; Fourth Update: October 21, 2018, 10:36 p.m.; Fifth Update: November 4, 2018, 9:06 a.m.)





Alabama:

• Anniston Museum of Natural History (Anniston, AL) 
• Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, AL) 

California:

• Badè Museum of Biblical Archaeology (Berkeley, CA) 
• Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University (Stanford, CA) 
• J. Paul Getty Museum (“the Getty” which includes the Getty Center and the Getty Villa) (Los Angeles, CA) 
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) 
• Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA) 
• Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) at the California State University, San Bernardino (San Bernardino, CA) 
• Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) (San José, CA) 
• San Diego Museum of Man (San Diego, CA) 
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA) (Collection for Greek and Roman Art not on view, but can be found in Collections Search) 

Colorado:

• Denver Museum of Nature & Science (Denver, CO) 
• University of Colorado Boulder Art Museum (Boulder, CO) 

Florida:

• The John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art at Florida State University (Sarasota, FL) 
• Lowe Art Museum at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL) 
• Museum of Dinosaurs and Ancient Cultures (Cocoa Beach, FL) 
• Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, FL) 
• Tampa Museum of Art (Tampa, FL) 

Georgia:

• Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University (Atlanta, GA) 

Illinois:

• The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) 
• The Field Museum (Chicago, IL) 
• The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago (Chicago, IL) 
• Spurlock Museum of World Cultures at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Urbana, IL) 
• Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Champaign, IL) 

Indiana:

• Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (Bloomington, IN) 
• Gustav Jeeninga Museum of Bible & Near Eastern Studies at Anderson University (Anderson, IN) 

Kansas:

• Museum of World Treasures (Wichita, KS) 

Maryland:

• Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, MD) 
• John Hopkins Archaeological Museum (Baltimore, MD) 
• Walters Art Museum (Baltimore, MD) 

Massachusetts:

• Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) 
• Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield, MA) 
• Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA) 
• The Harvard Semitic Museum (Cambridge, MA) 
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA) 
• The New Bedford Museum of Glass (New Bedford, MA) 
• Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) 
• Worcester Art Museum (Worcester, MA) 

Michigan:

• Institute of Archaeology & Siegfried H. Horn Museum at Andrews University (Berrien Springs, MI) 
• Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, MI) 
• Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) 

Minnesota:

• Minneapolis Institute of Art (Minneapolis, MN) 

Mississippi:

• The Lois Dowdle Cobb Museum of Archaeology at Mississippi State University (Mississippi State, MS) 
• The University of Mississippi Museum (Oxford, MS) 

Missouri:

• Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri (Columbia, MO) 
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO) 
• Saint Louis Art Museum (St. Louis, MO) 

Nevada:

• Las Vegas Natural History Museum (Las Vegas, NV) (Note: the artifacts are replicas of the tomb of Tutankhamun and other Egyptian antiquities and are one of only two sets that were authorized by the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities) 

New Hampshire:

• Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) 

New Jersey:

• Newark Museum (Newark, NJ) 
• Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, NJ) 

New York:

• The Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) 
• Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY) 
• The Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY) 
• Museum of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Art in the William D. Walsh Family Library at Fordham University (New York, NY) 
• Onassis Cultural Center (New York, NY) (Note: exhibitions vary but may contain art from Ancient Greece) 
• Steinberg Museum of Art at Long Island University (Brookville, NY) 

North Carolina:

• Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, NC) 
• Gregg Museum of Art & Design at North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC) 
• Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham, NC) 
• North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC) 

Ohio:

• Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH) 
• Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland, OH) 
• Museum of Classical Archaeology at Ohio State University (Columbus, OH) 
• Museum of Natural History & Science (Cincinnati, OH) 
• Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, OH) 

Oklahoma:

• Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art (Shawnee, OK) 

Oregon:

• Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University (Salem, OR) 
• Prewitt–Allen Archaeological Museum at Corban University (Salem, OR) 

Pennsylvania:

• Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, PA) 
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Pittsburgh, PA) 
• Kelso Museum of Near Eastern Archaeology at the Pittsburg Theological Seminary (Pittsburgh, PA) 
• Reading Public Museum (West Reading, PA) 
• University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (Philadelphia, PA) 

Rhode Island:

• Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI) 

Tennessee:

• Art Museum of the University of Memphis (Memphis, TN) 
• Lynn H. Wood Archaeological Museum at Southern Adventist University (Collegedale, TN) 
• McClung Museum of Natural History and Culture at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN) 
• The Parthenon (Nashville, TN) (Note: the Parthenon is more like a building of art itself as it’s a replica and the art in its galleries are not from the ancient world) 

Texas:

• Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, TX) 
• The Houston Museum of Natural Science (Houston, TX) 
• Kimbell Art Museum (Forth Worth, TX) 
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Houston, TX) 
• San Antonio Museum of Art (San Antonio, TX) 

Utah:

• Utah Museum of Fine Arts (Salt Lake City, UT) 
• Utah State University Museum of Anthropology (Logan, UT) 

Vermont:

• Fleming Museum of Art at the University of Vermont (Burlington, VT) 
• Middlebury College Museum of Art (Middlebury, VT) 

Virginia:

• Chrysler Museum of Art (Norfolk, VA) 
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, VA) 

Washington:

• Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA) 

Washington, D.C.:

• Freer Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.) 

West Virginia:

• Huntington Museum of Art (Huntington, WV) 

Wisconsin:

• Logan Museum of Anthropology at Beloit College (St. Beloit, WI) 
• Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI)

Field School: Farewell and Sofia

August 6, 2018

     Last night, I stayed up late because I was trying to finish packing and fill out my evaluation form for the Balkan Heritage Field School. There was a lot I had to say, but I kept hearing people being loud, so I went to the landing where Siyu, Madeline, Ivan, and Mathilde were sitting and sat with them for a minute and then headed outside to see what the ruckus was, but they were busy playing a drinking game, so I came back inside and finished packing and went to bed. I woke up at 4 a.m., talked to Folklore Fiancé for a bit, especially because there was a dog barking for a solid hour and a half, and fell back asleep.
     My alarm went off around 7 a.m. so that I could get up and get ready before grabbing some breakfast before I had to leave. I was about 99% packed, and Mathilde had offered to weigh my luggage for me with a little device she had. Once I had brushed my teeth and packed my toothbrush and toothpaste, Mathilde came back to weight my luggage for me (it was 21.60 kilograms, and the limit is 23, I believe). She offered to help me carry down my luggage to the restaurant where I was going to await the bus. She took the heaviest piece of luggage, and I got the rest.
     Once I had my luggage settled and sat back down in my usual seat for breakfast, Mathilde sat back down with me where she usually sat, even though we were both done eating. Then Siyu sat next to me, and Ivan sat across from me, pointed to my suitcases and said, "it's real." We all talked for a bit about various things; tattoos because one of the people I follow on Instagram has a trowel tattoo on their wrist, and I talked about the tattoos I wanted to get and about Folklore Fiancé's tattoo.
     Then, eventually, I told the story of my engagement with Folklore Fiancé and how we had planned it together and set it on a particular day, but we each had our own proposal to the other person so that part was still a surprise. Mathilde thought it was super cute, and I showed them all pictures of our engagement rings, and Mathilde was definitely swooning. Ivan said, "I think Mathilde wants to marry you now, too."
     Ivan then told me he was bad with goodbyes, which is why he ghosts everyone when we're hanging out, so I told him I won't make any eye contact when I said goodbye, I would just show up at his hometown in New Zealand unannounced one day. When it was around the time for the bus to be there, I began to gather my things. Nico gave me a coin from Macedonian coin before I left and offered to help me with my luggage and took it outside for me. I said "Au revoir," and Mathilde said she didn't like that, it's not au revoir, so I told her "see you later" in Japanese instead because she and I both study it.
     We got all the luggage outside, and the bus rounded the corner shortly after. Everyone came outside, and we all hugged. We were wished safe travels by everyone as well. When I got to Ivan, we both sort of avoided eye contact and did some weird punch-in-the-shoulder-fist-bump hybrid nonsense that felt super awkward, so I just said "okay, now give me a real hug," and he did. I said bye to Angela and hugged her and told her I would be back. She helped us with our luggage and we all loaded into the bus (I realized at nearly the last moment that I still had my room key in my pocket, so I hopped off the bus to give it back to Angela before returning onto the bus).
     I waved out of the back of the bus window at everyone, and Shahruz saw me and waved, said something and everyone waved before I shut the curtain. When we started moving, everyone waved again out the side window, and Mathilde was waving with both arms until we couldn't see her anymore.
     The bus driver left around 8:50 a.m., which was a little concerning because Jenny and Lina had a flight back to Sweden at 11:15 a.m. The bus driver stopped once for gas and another time for reasons unknown. However, they made it to their flight and safely home.
     Cyrene and I left with Linda and Jenny, who were on their way straight to the airport, but Cyrene and I had another day left in Sofia before we had to leave Tuesday morning, so we planned a few things. We were able to check into the hotel early, which was nice - the receptionist who helped us even gave us rooms across from each other. Cyrene opened the door, and it hadn't been serviced yet, so she was given a new room, so we were a few rooms down from each other. We both got settled before heading out, and I decided to shower later.
     We headed back down to the lobby to ask where we could find a taxi to take us to the National Archaeological Museum (also known as the National Archaeological Institute with Museum) in the city center. She said that she would call us a taxi and we could wait at the entrance outside. He showed up maybe less than five minutes later, and we got into the cab. He began to drive, and Cyrene and I talked, and when we got closer to the area we knew we had to be in, he pointed to either direction, and neither of us knew, but he went left, which seemed right when we looked at the map on Cyrene's phone. She showed it to him, and he pulled over and called someone. He handed me the phone and said "English," so I tried to talk to the person on the other line.
     This was stressing me out because the meter was still running while we were sitting there and a cab that should have cost only ten leva became almost thirteen once we got there (stay tuned to find out why that's not the worst thing that can happen with a cab money-wise). We got out somewhere nearby and walked the rest of the way. There was an underpass and we ended up right in the Serdica Ruins, which was a place we were planning on seeing anyway. I believe it was the East Gate area of the place, so we stopped to take pictures before we continued. We saw some souvenir shops on the way and decided to hit them on the way back before the walking tour since they closed before the walking tour ended.
     Finally, we found the Archaeological Museum. It wasn't as small as I would have imagined, and I bought the tickets since Cyrene paid for the cab. We were both stoked because as soon as you walk in, you see a ton of statuary, stele, two large sarcophagi (on the right, but they're hard to miss) and glass cases full of figurines and other assorted objects that I've never seen in a museum before. Cyrene and I walked around slowly, taking pictures, and I kept asking to get pictures with the statues - especially the one of Fortuna; that thing was enormous. It took us almost a whole hour to get through just the first floor.
     The upper floor had a lot of Byzantine icons, which didn't interest either of us all that much (once things move to Late Antiquity, both of us tend to lose interest), and then we saw a sign about staying a certain amount of centimeters away from the icons or an alarm would sound. So, we avoided them for the most part but made sure we walked past it. At the end of the upper walkway, there were two more small galleries: one about Bulgarian history from the prehistoric times up until when the church became prominent, and the other one was about Sports in Ancient Thrace, which we were both excited to see. The color scheme (orange and black) seemed like it would be obnoxious but it worked pretty well for the setup they had in the room.
     The next step was the Treasury Room, which we almost missed, but the security guards pointed out the door and that it was open (the other doors to the rooms were just a doorway, but the Treasury had heavy iron gates with a plexiglass-like top door over them that we had to pull open). The artifacts were amazing - there was a lot of armor, gold treasure, a bronze head that still had the eye inlays intact, and several other objects such as death masks and several small beads.
     We eventually made our way to the prehistoric hall and meandered around there for a bit, wondering what certain things were, and imagining what it would be like to fully understand the use of something. Cyrene marveled at the fact that people once owned these things and used them; whenever I think about that, I wonder about the things we use every day and whether in one thousand years, people will be digging up our garbage and classifying it as artifacts.
     Since we had gotten overexcited and started the museum, we hadn't eaten lunch, and it was still early in the afternoon, so we decided to hit the National Museum of Natural History, which was only five leva each. We got our tickets and went on our way - some of the things in the museum were interesting, but overall, it felt more like a cabinet of curiosities than a natural history museum. There was a lot of taxidermies, but also very corny things like badly done displays to simulate water. There was also plenty of specimens floating in vials or jars on every floor (there were four floors). I suggested we start on the fourth floor and then work our way down so that we would be done and on the bottom floor once we finished. The first floor was my favorite because that's where all the rocks and minerals were - the rest of it didn't feel quite like a museum.
     Lunch (or early dinner) was the only things on our minds once we left, so we began to scout out a place for food. On our way towards what looked like a busier area with a few options for food options, we found another part of the Serdica Ruins, so we made a pitstop there. Many pictures were taken, and the hunt for food continued. As we ventured on our journey, we passed a Mosque, and it was the first time I had ever heard a call to prayer in person. I thought it was quite beautiful.
     We finally settled on a place called Pizza Einstein, which had a good amount of traditional Bulgarian food options as well as pizza. I ordered a Margherita pizza because I'm simple and I missed just a plain food after having a lot of traditional Bulgarian food for the past two weeks. I did worry that my taste in Coca-Cola has changed though because it's all made with real sugar in Europe, so I'm going to go home thinking the soda tastes bad. It seems like I'm going to have to drink Mexican Coca-Cola to keep my taste buds satisfied.
     When the food arrived, I devoured the entire 26-centimeter pizza in less than ten minutes. I told Cyrene to not rush herself, I was just a fast eater, and it was no worries if she wanted to take her time. She ended up finishing her pizza, too, and then we were stuck in restaurant limbo because we had decided to eat inside and everyone else seemed to be eating outside. Thus, we didn't see our waitress all that often. She brought us the bill, and Cyrene used her card, but the elusive waitress was nowhere to be seen once more. Eventually, she came but told us to wait a moment for her because we were using a card, so she brought a machine to the table.
     Once we were free, we went to the Raffy stand and bought a couple of gelatos to eat while we walked on our way to the Free Sofia Tour, where guides take people on an English tour of the city and show twenty different monuments or places of interest on the way. The walking tour took two hours, and I was beginning to feel both the pizza and the gelato coming to seek vengeance, so once the tour was over, we headed over to the cafe so I could use the restroom. It cost me 0.50 leva to visit the porta-potty from Hell, but luckily I noticed there was no toilet paper when I sat down and asked for some before I had any issues. Thank the gods I had hand sanitizer in my bag.
     Here is where we both made a mistake because we just wanted to get back to the hotel: we saw a cab sitting and waiting, so we went up and asked about the Ibis Hotel Sofia Airport, and he said yes, yes, get in, and of course the first issue we both had was we couldn't find the clips for the seatbelts, so neither of us ended up wearing one. About halfway through the ride, I leaned over to Cyrene and told her that the meter was already at something like 35 leva, which is ridiculous because it wasn't far from where we were dropped off in the morning, and our final bill was nearly 40 leva. For a ride that couldn't have been longer than ten minutes.
     We got back to the hotel and thought about getting a beer, but Cyrene decided to pass, and I thought that was a better idea. I checked in to my flight, but it said I had to print out my boarding passes, and luckily there was a computer I was able to use in the lobby for it, and it didn't cost anything. I scheduled the airport shuttle for us at 5 a.m. and went back upstairs. I kept charging her tablet for her and then I brought it to her room since my phone and computer were dying (since I couldn't charge things when not in the room because the keycard has to be inserted for the electricity to work, which is annoying). We said goodnight around ten o'clock, and I definitely need to go to bed soon because it's half past midnight and we have to be up in about four hours to get ready and catch our flights.
     I have a lot of long layovers, so hopefully I don't go mad with boredom.


If you want to know more about the Free Sofia Tour, here is a link to their website: https://freesofiatour.com/free-sofia-tour/

Field School: Panagyurishte and Koprivshtitsa

August 5, 2018

     The excursion day was optional, so we didn't have Shane, Elizabeth, or Nico with us today. Shane is a supervisor and a previous student, so he's seen probably all he can see in both of these villages (towns?), Elizabeth wasn't feeling well, and I think Nico was just exhausted because before he came to our dig, he did four weeks at another location in Stobi. Since we were going to two different places, I wasn't sure how much we were going to be traveling by bus, but I was stoked to go regardless.
     The bus was scheduled to come at 8:30 a.m., so I slept in longer than I usually did on dig days. I showered and talked to Folklore Fiancé for a little while. Once I told them that I had to go to get to the bus for the excursion, I went downstairs around 8 a.m. to see if anyone was waiting yet. Apparently, I had been mistaken about breakfast, which was still out, so I grabbed a few more things to eat before we went on our excursions.
     The first stop on our excursions was Panagyurishte. The history complex made up The Panagyurishte Museum of History, which included the Panagyurishte Treasure, other archaeological artifacts, an exhibit dedicated to the liberation of Bulgaria, and a group of houses of important Bulgarians in history that are also important architecturally. We were given audio guides for the Treasure exhibition, which I only used about half of the time because I was too busy taking pictures of all of them so that I would have them to reference later (I also bought a book all about the treasure before leaving, so I still have a lot of the information I would have had from the audio tour, which I forgot all of what I listened to as soon as we moved on).
     The Treasure was awesome, and it was so cool to see the originals rather than imitations; the hall in which they were displayed was hard to photograph with just a mobile phone, so I don't have any good photos of the whole thing. (Next time I'm bringing a better camera!) I wanted to listen to the audio tour, but I feel like I can never take my time when I'm in a group, so I just moved on as soon as most people looked like they were done. The next area had more archaeological artifacts, which I got excited about, especially because a lot of the things I have seen in Bulgaria I haven't seen in other museums before.
     After seeing the rest of the archaeology exhibits and the galleries about the liberation and uprising in Bulgaria in the 19th century, we moved on to looking at the house museums. We were given a tour by the guide, which Angela translated as we went. Most of the houses were ornately decorated and had displays of the guest house areas, and traditional Bulgarian dress and daily life laid out to see. The last thing we saw were the workshops that were behind glass windows in little cubicles - things like shoe cobbling, weaving, blacksmithing, and so on - to give us a sense of the ethnography of Bulgaria.
     We finished in Panagyurishte and got on the bus again to head to Koprivshtitsa. It was a little while away, and none of us had had lunch yet. We all were used to our tea and biscuit break at 10:30 a.m. as well during the dig, so we were more hungry than usual. The bus stopped around 2 p.m. in the village and dropped us off at a restaurant where we were eating Bulgarian food. I sat with Shahruz, Mathilde, Cyrene, Ivan, Jianing, and Siyu. The conversation was good, and lunch took almost an hour, which was fine, but that only gave us a couple of hours of free time to explore. The food wasn't anything special to me, so I was anxious to go see what was around.
     After splitting off into groups, Shahruz, Ivan, Siyu, Mathilde, Cyrene, and I all started in the same direction. We wandered around and took some pictures - I remembered the stuffed animal my boss wanted me to photograph abroad, so I was using him a lot. Eventually, we all split off again, and Cyrene and I ran amok in the souvenir shops. I managed to get souvenirs for everyone that I thought of while I was there, so I had everything covered for that (finally). Cyrene and I kind of went into every souvenir shop to make sure we didn't miss anything good. I still wasn't able to find a spoon for my aunt-in-law, who collects them from abroad, so I got ceramic ones instead of the traditional silver souvenir ones.
     Since we had to meet back at the monument at 5:30 p.m., we decided to wander a little bit more and then checked out the other souvenir shops nearer to where we were supposed to meet and then got some ice cream and water. Cyrene and I were concerned because we didn't see anyone else come back yet. Eventually, we spotted Angela and Petja and knew that people would be there soon. The bus came once we had everyone and we headed back to Villa Terres for the farewell dinner and so the people leaving could get ready.
     The farewell dinner was supposed to be at 8 p.m. according to the itinerary, but apparently, they moved it to 8:30 p.m., but no one told me, so I was sitting there for a while by myself. Ivan sat across from me, Cyrene was next to me on my right, and Mathilde was on my left. I had five glasses of wine because I was sad and didn't want to leave; also, I apparently really like their Sauvignon Blanc, and I'm not usually a fan of wine.
     Those of us who were leaving were given Certificates of Attendance, which outlined how many hours we had participated in the field, and how many hours of lectures we attended. We were also given a Balkan Heritage mug, which I am terrified is going to break on the way home.
     Time to pack.