The Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne is a museum in Marseille. It is located on the first floor of the Vieille Charité, a 17th century building built to house the poor and the sick of the city of Marseille. On the second floor of the same building there is also the MAAOA, the ethnographic museum "d'Arts Africains, Océaniens et Amérindiens. The Musée d'Archéologie Méditerranéenne is divided into two departments: Egyptology and classical antiquities. Most of the collection of the department of Egyptology consists of objects collected by Doctor Clot-Bey between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had stayed for a long time in Egypt and had created medical schools there. The collection was then purchased by the city of Marseille, implemented with other collections to create the museum. This department consists of five rooms, in which it is possible to find statues, sarcophagi and various other objects grouped by theme. The last room consists of a burial chamber. As for the classical antiquities department, the museum preserves a vast panorama of Mediterranean and near-eastern civilizations, such as Mesopotamia. the long hall where all the different civilizations are found, including Cyprus, Greece, the Etruscans, the Romans.