The Allard Pierson Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is probably one of the most overlooked mummy museums in the world. With all the hustle and bustle of Amsterdam, most visitors probably walk right past this museum, unaware that it holds many Egyptian treasures. On the Singel Canal, near the Vroom and Dreesmann department store, the museum is not only worth a visit, it's worth the trip itself (especially coupled with a stop in Leiden and Assen).

The archaeological museum for the University of Amsterdam, the Allard Pierson Museum displays a number of animal mummies (three fish are particularly interesting), a few human mummies and many mummy masks and coffins and even some mummy sandals. A recreation of an Old Kingdom burial is also of interest.

Perhaps the most unusual display is the textile used to wrap a Coptic (i.e., Christian) burial around 400 A.D. Because of the dry climate, a person who was not artificially mummified could end up being naturally mummified. A black-and-white photo of one such natural Coptic mummy is included in the display.