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Permanent collections
The museum is displaying original antiquities and other objects as one of the sources of Western tradition to put the present in a culture-historical perspective by means of insight in and understanding of the past.

Link to collection Roman world
Link to collection Etruria

Link to collection Greek world
Link to collection Southern Italy and Sicily

Link to collection Cyprus
Link to collecton Near East

Link to collection Egypt

The mission of the Allard Pierson Museum - as a University museum and in cooperation with the Department of Mediterranean Archaeology - is to make the Mediterranean Antiquity accessible for scholarly purposes (for Academic and other training and research) as well as for a broad audience with special attention for youths.