Allard Pierson Museum
Museum in 2006
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 Location in the city center of Amsterdam
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| Established | 12 November 1934 |
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| Location | Oude Turfmarkt 127 Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Coordinates | 52°22′8.2″N 4°53′34.6″E / 52.368944°N 4.892944°ECoordinates: 52°22′8.2″N 4°53′34.6″E / 52.368944°N 4.892944°E |
| Type | Archaeological museum |
| Accreditation | ICOM, Official Museums of Amsterdam |
| Visitors | 60,430 (2012) |
| Director | Wim Hupperetz |
| Owner | University of Amsterdam |
| Website | www |
The Allard Pierson Museum is the archaeological museum of the University of Amsterdam. It is situated at the Oude Turfmarkt 127 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Artifacts from the ancient civilizations of ancient Egypt, the Near East, the Greek World, Etruria, and the Roman Empire are curated and exhibited in this museum.
The name of the Allard Pierson Museum derives from the first professor of classical archaeology at the University of Amsterdam, Allard Pierson (1831–1896). This former clergyman was invited in 1877 to occupy the chair of Aesthetics, Art History, and Modern Languages at the newly founded university. His passion for antiquity, fuelled by his travels to the Mediterranean area, led to his assembling a collection of plaster casts from 1877 to 1895.
The second professor of archeology at the University of Amsterdam, Jan Six, had a large personal collection of books and antique objects. At his death in 1926, the university had interest in acquiring his collection. In 1932, Pierson's son Jan Lodewijk established the Allard Pierson Foundation in order to make the antiquities collection available for research and teaching. The collection was brought to a building on the Weesperzijde in Amsterdam, with the top floor serving as a museum.
The collection grew due to purchases, gifts, and loans of artifacts and documents. On 12 November 1934, the Allard Pierson Museum was officially opened in a building at Sarphatistraat 129-131 (corner of the Roeterstraat). The museum eventually outgrew its building.
A new building became available when the Nederlandse Bank vacated their office at the Oude Turfmarkt in 1976. H.R.H. Princess Beatrix attended the re-opening of the museum on 6 October 1976.
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