Receiving museums — the thirty-eight institutions currently or recently holding Egyptian loans.

The grouped list.

United Kingdom and Ireland (5 institutions).

British Museum, London — the largest single receiving institution by volume of Egyptian-origin loans. Eleven currently active loans, one on the dispute watch. The BM's loan policy follows the institution's published 2019 framework with standard climate-control conditions and a maximum initial loan period of seven years renewable in three-year increments. The registrar's office is contactable through the museum's central registrar correspondence channel; the registrar herself, Margaret Lindsay-Welbeck, is one of the watch's regular correspondents.

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford — six currently active loans. The Ashmolean's loan policy is the most conservative of the major British institutions, with a standard initial loan period of three years and a strong default toward objects of established scholarly importance to the museum's own collection.

Petrie Museum, UCL London — four currently active loans. The Petrie's specific working relationship with the EAA reflects its origins as Sir Flinders Petrie's personal teaching collection and includes a long-running scholarly-exchange agreement that pre-dates the modern loan-policy framework.

Manchester Museum — two currently active loans, both following the Manchester's 2022 reinstallation. The museum's published loan policy is brief and references the wider University of Manchester's collections-stewardship framework.

National Museum of Ireland, Dublin — one currently active loan, the Old Kingdom funerary stela on long-term scholarly loan since 2019. The Irish national museum's loan-policy framework was reformed in 2023 and now includes specific provisions for cultural-property loans from source countries.

Continental Europe (15 institutions).

Major institutions include the Louvre Museum, Paris (eight active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Neues Museum and Pergamonmuseum, Berlin (nine active loans across the two, one on the dispute watch); the Museo Egizio, Turin (six active loans); the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden (five active loans); the Vatican Museums, Rome (four active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Munich State Museum (three active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels (two active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Bibliothèque nationale, Paris (two active loans, restricted to papyrological material); the National Museum, Stockholm (one active loan); the Museo Nazionale, Naples (one active loan); the Egyptian Museum of Berlin (recently active, currently zero outstanding); the Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim (recently active, currently zero outstanding); the Bavarian Egyptology Institute, Munich (two active loans plus the 2019 permanent-transfer agreement); the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum (one active loan); and the Egyptian Museum of Barcelona (one active loan, recently dispatched).

North America (8 institutions).

The major North American holders are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (five active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Brooklyn Museum, NY (four active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (three active loans); the Smithsonian Institution, Washington (three active loans, one on the dispute watch with a pending permanent-transfer request); the Penn Museum, Philadelphia (two active loans, one on the dispute watch); the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (two active loans); the Field Museum, Chicago (one active loan); and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (one active loan).

Asia-Pacific and rest of world (10 institutions).

The Asia-Pacific and rest-of-world group covers ten institutions including the Tokyo National Museum (three active loans, one on the dispute watch); the National Museum of Korea, Seoul (two active loans); the Shanghai Museum (two active loans, recent additions); the National Museum of Australia, Canberra (one active loan); the Australian Museum, Sydney (one active loan); the Auckland War Memorial Museum (one active loan); the Museum of Cairo Egyptology at Madrid Caixaforum (one active loan, the most recently dispatched of the entire roster); the National Museum of Iran, Tehran (one active loan, scholarly exchange agreement); the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg (one active loan, the only Russian institution currently in active loan relationship); and the National Museum of Beirut (one active loan, regional scholarly exchange).

How the list is maintained.

Layla Mursi maintains the list and contacts each institution's registrar's office approximately annually for an updated loan-policy summary. The current summaries are dated between October 2025 and May 2026. Where an institution's policy framework has changed materially (the Royal Ontario Museum's 2024 framework reform, the Berlin Museums' 2022 framework reform) the entry includes a brief note on the change.

What the list does not include.

The list excludes institutions that have received Egyptian-origin loans under one-off touring exhibition arrangements where the institution does not maintain Egyptian-origin collections of its own (Caixaforum Madrid is on the edge of this exception — it is included because of the volume of touring exhibitions of Egyptian material it has hosted since 2017). The list also excludes academic-research institutions that hold Egyptian material under scholarly-exchange agreements that do not formally fall under the loan-exhibition framework (most North American university Egyptology departments fall into this category).

The full institutional list with the registrar contacts and the loan-policy summaries is available as a custom roster extract to Newsroom and Institutional subscribers. The institutions currently on the dispute watch are identified by the asterisks in the institutional entries. The active-loans roster connects each institution to the specific loans currently in their care.