France  

Abbeville:

Musée Boucher-de-Perthes

 10 not on display

Aix-en-Provence:

Musée Granet

 ? not on display

 Aix-les-Bains:

Musée archéologique (Temple de Diane)

  

Altkirch:

Musée Sundgovien

 1 (normaly not on display) Has a mummy of a man 40 - 50 years old from the 30th dynasty in it's collection.

Amiens:

Musée de Picardie

 402 (257 on display) Most objects are from the collection "Albert Maignan". Top pieces are the famous Amiens Papyrus (20th dyn), sjabti op Amenhotep and a Sarcofagus + mummy of Sedjamengau (Late Period).

 Angers:

Musée Turpin de Crissé (Musée Pincé)

  Museum is closed since 2004 untill...

Annecy:

Musée-Château d'Annecy

 Photography only possible with special permission of the curator. not on display

Arles:

Musée de l'Arles et de la Provence antiques

 40 not on display Collection contains: 2 canopic jars, shabtis, bronzes of Isis and Osiris, jewelry.

Auch:

Musée des Jacobins

 350 (100 on display)

Autun:

Musée Rolin

 ? not on display The collection is in depot at the Musée Déchelette in Roanne.

 Auxonne:

Musée Bonaparte

 

Avallon:

Musée de l'Avallonais

 not on display

Avesnes-sur-Helpe:

Musée de la Société Archéologique d'Avesne-sur-Helpe

  

Avignon:

Musée Calvet

300 Collection includes arcophagi, animal mummies, a child mummy from the Roman era, papyri, stelae, canopic jars, offering tables, statues, shabtis, bronzes, jewelry, a stela of Horus on a crocodile and a fragment of a wall painting.

 Avranches:

Musée Municipal

  

Bagnoles-sur-Cèze:

Musée Leon-Alègre

 ? on display At least a mummy.

Barcelonnette:

Musée de la Vallée

  

Bavay:

Forum Antique de Bavay - Musée Archéologique du Département du Nord

2 Two glass bead necklaces, one with gold elements.

Bayeux:

Musée Baron Gérard

 3 This museum contains 3 shabti's (faience), from unknown origine dating back to the Late Period. The main piece is the Hor-em-Akh-Bit shabti. The pieces are currently not on display because of renovation works which last untill 2008.

Bayonne:

Musée Bonnat

  

 

Beaufort en Vallée:

Musée Joseph Denais

 ? on display Reopens in 2010

Beaune:

Musée du vin de Bourgogne

 1 on display Fragment of a wine jar from the 19th dyn found in Deir el-Medina (loan from the Louvre)

Musée des Beaux-Arts

 90 / 4 on display 52 objects belong to the museum; 38 belong to the Louvre; only 4 bronzes are on display (2015)

Besançon:

Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie

 350 (150 on display)

Bordeaux:

Musee d'Aquitaine

 ? not on display The coffin of It-nefer-Amun, amulets.

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux

1 Part of a mummy mask from the Roman period.

 Boulogne-sur-Mer:

Château-Musée

 250 (30 on display)

Bourges:

Musée du Berry (Hôtel Cujas)

 130 (30 on display)

Brest:

Musée des Beaux-Arts

  

Cahors:

Musée Henri Martin

 307 Part of this collection is on display at the Musée Champollion in Figeac.

Calais:

Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle

  

Cannes:

Musée de La Mer de Cannes

  

Musée des Explorations du Monde

 ? on display

Châlon-sur-Saône:

Musée Vivant Denon

 ? on display

Châlons-en-Champagne:

Musée Jules Garinet

 1 on display The fragment of a painted tissue depicting Anubis is a loan from the Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie.

Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

 1 not on display The fragment of a painted tissue depicting Anubis is on display at the Musée Jules Garinet.

Chambéry:

Musée Savoisien

  

Chantilly:

Musée Condé (Château de Chantilly)

 54 (36 on display) Contains a collection of shabti's.

Châteaudun:

Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts et d’Histoire Naturelle

 ? on display The Egyptian collection of Le Musée des Beaux-Arts of Chartres is on display here (permanent?) and untill 2018 a mummy from the reserves of le Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Militaire de Fontainebleau.

 

Château-Gontier:

Musée d’Art et d’Archéologie (Hôtel Fouquet)

  

Châteauroux:

Musée Hôtel-Bertrand

 ? on display Textiles and shabti's from Antinoe, a coffin, conopic lids, terracotta statuettes from the Graeco-Roman period.

Cherbourg-Octeville:

Muséum Emmanuel-Liais (Musée d'histoire naturelle d'archéologie et d'ethnographie)

 470 (? on display)

Clermont-Ferrand:

Musée d’archéologie Bargoin

   Bronze statuettes of Osiris and Isis with Horus child (local)

Cluny:

Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie (Palais Jean de Bourbon)

 3 or 4 not on display A mummy is on loan at the Musée Déchelette in Roanne.

Colmar:

Musée d’Histoire Naturelle et d’Ethnographie

 ? on display Aside from it's own collection the museum has a depot of Egyptian objects from the Sociétée Industielle de Mulhouse.

Compiègne:

Musée Municipal Antoine Vivenel

 482 Collection contains mainly material from the Late Period. Amulets form the majority further it contains also fragments of wall decoration, funerary vases, stelae, canopic jars, fragments of sarcophagi, shabtis, statues and statuettes of gods and sacred animals and the mummy of a child.

Dieppe:

Musée de Dieppe (Château Musée)

 ? on display The Chateau-Musée de Dieppe houses a small egyptian archaeological collection, mainly offered by the famous composer Camille Saint-Saëns and the painter René Ménard, who both visited the country, and had strong local orgins and settlement. The collection is mainly composed of funeral statuettes (shabtis), one canopy vase, and the stonehead of a priest.

Digne-les-Bains:

Musée Gassendi

  

Dijon:

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Dijon

  

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon

 320 (128 on display) Collection of 11 Fayoum portraits and plastre funerary masks; funerary and religious statuary, 2 sarcophagi, ceramics and glass ware, cult objects and cosmetic objects.

 

Dôle:

Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie

 20 (on display) Contains a small collection of Egyptian art. The main piece is a sarcophagus (with mummy) from the 19th dyn., also contains some shabti's.

Domfront:

Musée Charles-Léandre

 not on display? Has at least a Sokar-Osiris statuette.

Doullens:

Musée Lombart

   Reopens november 2007

Dunkerque:

Musée des Beaux-Arts

 

Eymet:

Musée d’Archéologie à Eymet

  

Fécamp:

Musée des Pêcheries

  Opens in 2010. Former collection of the Musée centre des Arts (Musée des Arts et de l’Enfance).

Figeac:

Musée Champollion

 350 (300 on display) Figéac is the birthplace of the famous J.-F. Champollion.

Fontainebleau:

Musée d&rsquoArt et d&rsquoHistoire Militaire

not on display Has at least 1 mummy in the reserves which is currently on loan to the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Châteaudun.

 

Fontaine Chaalis:

Abbaye Royale (Annexe du Musée Jacquemart André)

 ? on display

 

Gordes:

Musée de l’Histoire du Verre et du Vitrail

   Glass paste objets, alabaster, Roman glass

Grasse:

Musée International de la Parfumerie

 ? on display Museum is closed until june 2008. Objects relating to perfume in ancient Egypt.

Grenoble:

Musée de Grenoble

 300 (150 on display)

 Guéret:

Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie  (Musée de la Sénatorerie)

 89 on display

Issoudun:

Le Musée de l'Hospice Saint-Roche

 2 not on display Contains a sarcophagus from the 21st Dyn. and a shabti.

Langres:

Musée d’art et d’histoire (Musée Guy-Baillet)

 ? on display canopic vases, mummy coffin, shabti, stelae, scarab amulets and Ptolemaic coins.

Laon:

Musée Municipal de Laon

 200 (170 on display)

La Roche-sur-Yon:

Musée Municipal d'Art

 ???

Laval:

Musée du Vieux-Château

  

Le Mans:

Musée de Tessé

 130 on display Aside from it's own collection the museum contains a number of artefacts from the Louvre and The Musée du Château in Laval.

Lens:

Louvre Lens

  The Hunting Palette foto 05 is no longer on display and has been replaced by 3 ceralic vessels fotos 5a and 5b

Le Puy-en-Velay:

Musée Crozatier

 ? on display Museum will be closed from march 2008 untill ?? for renovation works. Small collection, one display case. The collection comprises a canopic vase from the 18th dyn, a sarcophagus from the 26th dyn, 4 canopic vases from the 20th dyn, shabti's and amulets.

Les Eyzies-de-Tayac:

Musée National de la Préhistoire

 1? A flint knife

Lille:

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

 250 (50 on display) Collection consists of 250 objects belonging to the museum, 2500 pieces of the IPEL collection of the University are in depot here.

Musée d’Histoire Naturelle

 6 on display 3 mummies, 1 mummified head, a mummiefied baby crocodile and a package of mummified organs

Musée de l’Institut de Papyrologie et d’Egyptologie

 2500 not on display The collection is in depot in the Musée des Beaux-Arts.

Limoges:

Musée Municipal de l'Evêché

1.700 (300 on display) The museum will close from end march 2008 untill spring 2010 for renovation works. Contains a wide collection covering the complete period of ancient Egypt, The life-work of Jean-André Périchon.

Lons-Le-Saunier:

Musée des Beaux-Arts

  

Musée d'Archéologie

  

Loudun:

Musée Charbonneau-Lassay

1 Collection contains at least the mummy of a falcon.

Louhans:

Musée Municipal

  

Lyon:

Musée des Beaux-Arts

 1.000 on display Aside from it's own collection, the collection of the Institut d'égyptologie Victor Loret is in storage here comprising 2590 artefacts. Some of them are on display in a temporary exhibition until 11 februari 2008. After the 11th a number of objects from the temporary exhibition will be integrated in permanent display of the Musée des Beaux-Arts.

Collection de l'Institut d'égyptologie Victor Loret

 2.590 not on display This collection is in storage at the Musée des Beaux-Arts. Part of this collection is on display as a temporary exhibition at the Musée des Beaux-Arts until 11 februari 2008.After the 11th a number of objects from the temporary exhibition will be integrated in permanent display of the Musée des Beaux-Arts.

Musée des Confluences

 4.900 total Has 2.500 animal mummies in it's collection, the other pieces come mainly from the Prédynastic and Late Period.

Musée de la Faculté des Lettres

? According to the joconde database at least some canopic vases are held here.

Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs

? on display Collection contains a Middle Kingdom tunic and some mummy masks.

 Macon:

Musée Lamartine

 48???not on display

l'Académie de Macon

 15 not on display

Marseille:

Musée d’Archéologie Méditerranéenne

? on display Contains one of the biggest ancient Egyptian collections of France, after the Louvre.

Musée d'Histoire de Marseille

3 on display 3 scarab amulets from the 6th century BC from the Nile Delta.

Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée

1(5) on display

On display is only one model and 5 objects on loan from the Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne.

Meudon:

Musée Rodin Meudon

?on display? Part of the Egyptian Collection of Rodin is probably kept here.

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire

1 Collection contains an offering table.

Montauban:

Musée Ingres

 ???

Montbrison:

Musée d'Allard

1 on display An egyptian mummy.

Montargis:

Musée du Gâtinais

 18 on display

Montpellier:

Musée Languedocien. Hôtel des Trésoriers de France

 200 Papyrus of Pra-em-heb (18th dyn), royal bust in black basalt,side panel of the mummy coffinKhonsu-mes (19th dyn), stelae, anthropomorphic vessel, canopic vases, shabti's, statuettes of gods, amulets, jewelry.

Bibliothèque Universitaire Historique de Médecine

 1 Papyrus from thebes dating to he Ramesside era.

Morlaix:

Musée des Jacobins

  

Mougins:

MACM - Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins

 ? on display

Moulins:

Musée Anne de Beaujeu

 ? on display The collection consist of two mummies and their sarcophagi and some amulets.

Môutiers:

Musée d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Môutiers

  

Nancy:

Museum Aquarium de Nancy

   Collection of 13 animal mummies.

Nantes:

Musée départemental Dobrée

  

Muséum d&rsquohistoire naturelle de Nantes

  Contains at least one mummy.

Nemours:

Château-Musée de Nemours

(partially?) on loan A few shabti's and bronze statuettes of this collection are on display at the Musée Municipal des Beaux-Arts et d&rsquoHistoire Naturelle of Châteaudun. Not clear if this is the full extend of their Ancient Egyptian Artefacts.

Nîmes:

Musée des Beaux-Arts

 ? not on display

Orléans:

Musée Historique et Archéologique de l'Orléanais

 several 100 not on display Sevearl objects were destroyed or dammaged during a fire in 1940.

Paray-le-Monial:

Musée Eucharistique du Hiéron

 2 on display A mummy from the Late Period 400 BC and a canopic vase are on display here.

Paris:

Musée des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques (de la Bibliothèque nationale de France)

 17 on display
Musée d’Histoire de la Médecine ? on display
Musée de l’Homme   A mummy of a child, a grinding stone, pottery, palettes, some flint arrow heads.
Musée National du Louvre +50.000
Musée Rodin ? on display
Fondation Custodia  
Musée Jaquemart-André ? on display A few items are in display in the library.
Musée de la Parfumerie Fragonard ? on display Stone vessels.
Hotel Banke: Egyptian Art  
Petit Palais - Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris 1 on display
Institut de Papyrologie de la Sorbonne   Papyri, mummy masks and cartonnages.
Musée du Quai Branly 6 on display
Societé d'Anthropologie de Paris 1 Collection contains at least one shabti which is on display at the Musée du Quai Branly.

Musée Carnavalet

1

Collection contains one shabti which was a local find (France).

École Pratique des Hautes Études

1

Muséum nationalle d'histoire naturelle

not on display

Collection of mummies of people and animals.

Beaux-Arts de Paris (École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts)

 

Amulets, small stone vessels, shabtis, a few bronze statuettes.

Pauillac:

Musée Privé du Vin dans l’Art

   Granite statue from Saïs, ca. 664-404 BC

Périgueux:

Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie du Périgord

  

Péronne:

Musée Alfred Danicourt

 Photography is only allowed for scientific purposes, a written permission from the city of Péronne is required. 20 Only some scarab-amulets remain, the other material was stolen by German troops prior to the destruction of the museum in 1916-1917.

Perpignan:

Musée d’Histoire Naturelle

 1 on display Contains a mummy of the 21st dyn. from Karnak, named Loef-en-Chonsoe.

Pont-Saint-Esprit:

Musée d'art sacré du Gard

5 on dispay Coffin of Kaa-Iset (330 BC), Fayum portrait (110-130 AD.), 2 shabti&rsquos, mummy of a cat.

Rennes:

Musée des Beaux-Arts

 282 (45 on display) Collection contains: 20 funerary stelae; 10 on display / 57 statuettes of divinities; 12 on display / a cat mummy and it's coffin; on display / 3 sarcophagi; 1 on display / 200 amulets; 20 on display / some fragmentary cartonnages.

Rillieux-la-Pape:

Musée des sciences Médicale et de la santé - Musée Testut Latarjet

   Mummies and mummy parts.

Riom:

Musée Francisque Mandet

 14 (11 on display)

Roanne:

Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie Joseph Déchelette

 100+ (50 on display)

Rodez:

Musée Fenaille

 60 not on display The most important pieces are on loan at the Musée Champolion in Figeac, the rest is in storage.

Rouen:

Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle

 1?

Musée Départemental des Antiquités

 450

Musée Flaubert et d’Histoire de la Médecine

 5 on display A female mummy from 1000 BC, an amulet of Osiris and a wedjet eye from the Late Period and two amulets.

Musée de la Céramique

 not on display Keramik statuettes, amulets, a stela of Horus...

Romans:

Musée International de la Chaussure

 25 (6 on display)

Royan:

Musée de Royan

 1 not on display? a wrapped head of a mummy

Rueil-Malmaison:

Musée d'Histoire Locale

2 Mummy and coffin of the girl Ta-Iset from the Ptolomaic Period.

Château de Malmaison

? on display

In the Osiris Pavilion in the garden a number of Egytian artifacts are on display, the Egyptian statuettes from the Billiard Room may heve been moved here also.

 

Saint-Gaudens:

Musée de Saint-Gaudens et du Comminges (Musée Municipal)

  

Saint-Germain-en-Laye:

Musée d'Archéologie Nationale

 8000-9000 Mainly Predynastic material, mostly lithic in nature.

Saint-Just Saint Rambert:

Musée des Civilistions

 ? not on display Un cartonnage funéraire doré (déesse Isis); Un cône funéraire en argile; Une peinture monochrome (hiéroglyphes + chacal) sur bois; Une petite statuette d’Horus en céramique; Un fragment de tablette en bois portant des inscriptions; Un bonnet de momie; Un bas-relief époque Saïte (« stèle d’Horus ») en calcaire; Un petit vase en terre cuite; 8 statuettes diverses en terre, en pierre ou en bois; Masques de sarcophage en cartonnage ou en bois; Un vase canope (tête de faucon); Morceaux de sarcophage.

Saint-Omer:

Musée de l’Hôtel Sandelin

  

Saint-Quentin:

Musée Antoine Lécuyer

 8 Statue of Ptah-Soker-Osiris, a son of Horus, scarab wings, a wooden falcon, Apis bull, 2 shabti's, piece of wood with a ram-headed deity and a cat's head, On display in 2019 otherwise in storage.

Salon-de-Provence:

Château- Musée de l’Emperi

   Coffin lid of a priest from the 21st dyn.

Sault:

Musée municipal de Sault

 ? on display Contains a.o. things a mummy.

Senlis:

Musée d'Art et d'Archeologie

 4 (? on display) 2 shabti's, a wedjat amulet, part of a collar with a lioness head.

Sens:

Musée de Sens

 ? on display Contains some shabti's an two stelae.

Sèvres:

Sèvres Cité de la Céramique

 36 on display (100+ in storage)

Soissons:

Musée de Soissons

 1 not on display Stela of Rer (published extensively)

Stenay:

Musée Européen de la Bierre

  

Strasbourg:

Collection de l'Institute d'Égyptologie de l'Université

 3.000

Musée Archéologique

 283 (17 on display)

Tarascon:

Musée Gadal (or Salle Gadal)

   Not much info is known about this museum. It might be permanently closed.

Toulon:

Musée d'Art

  

Toulouse:

Musée Georges Labit

 ? on display

Tournus:

Musée Greuze

  

Tours:

Musée Archéologique de Touraine (l’Hôtel Gouin)

   Closed in 2008.

Troyes:

Musée Saint-Loup

  

Vannes:

Musée d'Archéologie de la Société Polymathique du Morbihan (Château Gaillard)

 ? (10 on display)

Varzy:

Musée Auguste Grasset

 50 on display

Vesoul:

Musée Georges Garret

 1 1 object was recently rediscovered in the reserves, the rest of the collection has been deposited at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Besançon.

Verdun:

Musée de la Princerie

 140 not on display

Vernon:

Musée de Vernon (Musée Alphonse-Georges Poulain)

 4 on display? 4 shabtis

Vienne:

Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie

1 A mummy from the Late period

Villers-Cotterêts:

Musée Alexandre Dumas

 7 on display? An alabaster dish, two small vases, 3 shabti's and a bronze Osiris statuette.

Vitré:

Musée du Chateau de Vitré

2 not on display A coffin from te Late Period. The mummy from the cemetary of Fougères is in depot here.

 

 

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