Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology was founded in 1892, and the basis of his collection were collections donated by the English writer and traveler Amelia Edwards. The collection currently has 80,000 exhibits from ancient Egypt and Sudan. They were obtained, among others thanks to excavations carried out by William Matthew Flinders Petri (1853-1942), whose name was given to the museum.

The museum's collections include the oldest Egyptian fragments of the canvas from the fifth millennium BC, lion statues from the Mina temple in Koptos, the calendar from 2900 BC and the oldest known cylindrical seal of ancient Egypt, dated 3500 BC The world's largest collection of portraits of mummies from the Roman period is also noteworthy.

The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology collection is considered the fourth most significant in the world - only the Cairo Museum, The British Museum and the Ägyptisches Museum in Berlin have a larger collection.