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Archeological Museums
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Below is a list of the best online Archeological Museums
available.
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Archeological Museums
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Alexandria
Archaeology Museum
- city archaeologists, volunteers, and students work with
citizens and developers to locate sites important to the
community's past, and when necessary, excavate them
scientifically.
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Alutiiq
Museum & Archeological Repository
- preserves and shares the cultural traditions of the Alutiiq
people through exhibits, educational programs, publications,
anthropological research, and the care of traditional objects.
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Archaeological
Museum, Kibbutz Ein Dor
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Archaeological
Resources in Sardinia
- including the National Archaeological Museum of Cagliari.
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Ashmolean
Museum of Art & Archaeology
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Chucalissa
- archaeological site, a museum, and a reconstructed prehistoric
Native American town.
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Dickson
Mounds Museum
- on-site archaeological museum that features ongoing
excavations, exhibits, and interpretive programs.
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Egyptian
Museum in Cairo
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Emory
University - Michael C. Carlos Museum
- collection of objects spanning from the prehistoric cultures
of the seventh millennium B.C. to the twentieth century.
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Peabody
Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
- houses treasures of prehistoric and historic cultures from all
over the world.
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Heuneburgmuseum
- exhibits the archaeology of a Celtic town in upper Swabia,
Germany. Hiking trail to burial mounds, monuments, and an
excavation site.
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Iraklion
Archaeological Museum [dilos.com]
- information on the museum and the archaeological sites on the
island, including Knossos, Phaestos, Gortys, Gournia and
Diktaean Cave.
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Irresistible
Decay
- virtual exhibit on the theme of ruins. The three sections of
the exhibit are: production and framing; recycling,
reconstruction, and preservation; and loss, recuperation and
identity. From the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
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Jorvik
Viking Centre
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Kelsey
Museum of Archaeology
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Kilmartin
House
- Centre for Archaeology and Landscape Interpretation.
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London
Museum of Archaeology
- devoted to the study, display, and interpretation of the human
occupation of Southwestern Ontario over the past 11,000 years.
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Moncur
Gallery
- features an extensive collection of ancient artifacts
portraying the earliest history of southwestern Manitoba.
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Museo
Civico Archeologico di Bologna
- collections of prehistoric, Etruscan, Roman, Greek, and
Egyptian archaeology.
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Museu
Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona
- archaeological museum displaying primarily Roman collections.
Also in Catalan.
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Museum
of Anthropology - University of Kansas
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Museum
of Antiquities
- visited by those who want to know more about the history of
northeast England, especially Hadrian's Wall.
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Museum
of Art and Archaeology - University of Missouri, Columbia
- offers a strong collection of classical and Near Eastern art
and archaeology, European and American art, and South Asian art.
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Museum
of Cycladic Art
- collections of Greek antiquities, specializing in the
prehistoric art from the Cycladic Islands.
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Museum
of Egyptian Antiquities
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Museum
of Indian Arts and Culture
- information about the laboratory of anthropology, educational
programs, native communities, and an events calendar.
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Museum
of Nova Scotia - Archaeology in N.S.
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Musée
National d'Histoire et d'Art
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Musée
Schwab
- museum of prehistory and archaeology.
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Nara
Institute
- researches the history of the Nara area; sponsors
archaeological work and reconstructions of historic structures,
and has an exhibition hall that houses art and other artifacts.
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National
Archaeological Museum of Athens
- one of the richest collections in the world concerning ancient
Greek art. Its scope is representative of all the cultures that
have flourished in Greece.
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Nubia:
Its Glory and Its People
- selection of objects recovered over twenty years ago by the
Oriental Institute Nubian Expedition in the effort to rescue
archaeology from the rising water behind the Aswan Dam.
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Peking
University - Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology
- specializes in Chinese archaeology and museology. Also
includes the Jillian Sackler Sculpture Court and Garden.
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Pointe-à-Callière,
the Montréal Museum of Archaeology and History
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Rockefeller
Archaeological Museum
- houses the extraordinary collection of antiquities unearthed
in digs in the country during the British Mandate period
(1920-1948).
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Roman
Open-air Museum in Hechingen-Stein
- Roman villa dating back to the end of the first century A.D.
Excavated in 1973 and featuring local and virtual tours.
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Roman
Vindolanda and the Roman Army Museum
- offers information about the museums and the archaeological
site Vindolanda, a Roman fort and civilian settlement lying just
to the south of Hadrian's Wall.
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Rosicrucian
Egyptian Museum
- houses several Egyptian-style buildings in a park-like setting
featuring exotic plants and the largest collection of Egyptian
artifacts in the western US.
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Royal
British Columbia Museum
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Simon
Fraser University - Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
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Southold
Indian Museum
- dedicated to the cultural history of the Indians of Long
Island, and a chapter of the New York State Archaeological
Association.
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U
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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