Rijksmuseum van Oudheden

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Dutch National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden
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LocationLeiden, Netherlands
Coordinates52°9′29.99″N 4°29′8.99″E / 52.1583306°N 4.4858306°E / 52.1583306; 4.4858306
Egyptian collections of Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
Ancient Egyptian sarcophagus at RMO
Ipuwer Papyrus describing the socio-political turmoil of ancient Egypt during one of its intermediary periods
Ornamental disc (fibula) made of gilded silver. Made in Thracia around 100 BC, it was found in Limburg in 1850.

The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with its Faculty of Archaeology. The museum calls itself "the national centre for archaeology" and focuses on ancient Egypt, the ancient Near East, the classical world of Greece, Etruria and Rome and the early (prehistoric, Roman and Medieval) Netherlands.[1]

  1. ^ Oudheden, Rijksmuseum van. "Rijksmuseum van Oudheden". www.rmo.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2018-02-28.