antiquities museum

Also known as: archaeological museum

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  • National Gallery of Art
    In museum: Museums of antiquities

    …of the Black Sea, four archaeological museums were opened, at Feodosiya, Kerch, Nikolayev, and Odessa (all now located in Ukraine). The Museum of Northern Antiquities was opened in Copenhagen in 1819 (it was there that its first director, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, developed the three-part system of classifying prehistory into the…

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  • National Gallery of Art
    In museum: History museums

    …that specializes in it: the antiquities museum. Collections of material of the ancient world can be found in national museums in a number of cities—for example, Amman, Jordan; Athens; Cairo; Copenhagen; Edinburgh; Madrid; and Mexico City. The antiquities museum is particularly common in Europe and Asia. Specialized archaeology museums also…

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