Museum↕ | City↕ | Founded↕ | Collection Focus↕ | Annual Visitors (millions)↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Louvre Museum | Paris, France | 1793 | Art & antiquities (Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo) | 8.9 |
British Museum | London, UK | 1753 | World history & archaeology (Rosetta Stone) | 5.8 |
Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York, USA | 1870 | Encyclopedic art spanning 5,000 years | 5.4 |
Vatican Museums | Vatican City | 1506 | Renaissance art (Sistine Chapel ceiling) | 5.1 |
National Museum of China | Beijing, China | 2003 | Chinese history & art across 5,000 years | 7.3 |
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | Washington D.C., USA | 1910 | Natural history (Hope Diamond, dinosaurs) | 4.2 |
Hermitage Museum | Saint Petersburg, Russia | 1764 | Art & culture (3 million items, Impressionists) | 3.5 |
Uffizi Gallery | Florence, Italy | 1581 | Italian Renaissance (Botticelli, da Vinci) | 2.2 |
Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1800 | Dutch Golden Age (Rembrandt, Vermeer) | 2.7 |
Musée d'Orsay | Paris, France | 1986 | Impressionism & Post-Impressionism (Monet, Van Gogh) | 3.7 |
Prado Museum | Madrid, Spain | 1819 | European art (Velázquez, Goya, El Greco) | 2.9 |
National Gallery | London, UK | 1824 | Western European painting (Van Eyck to Cézanne) | 3.3 |
Tate Modern | London, UK | 2000 | Modern & contemporary art (Rothko, Warhol) | 3.9 |
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | New York, USA | 1929 | Modern art (Starry Night, Campbell's Soup Cans) | 2.6 |
Egyptian Museum | Cairo, Egypt | 1902 | Ancient Egyptian artifacts (Tutankhamun's mask) | 1.5 |
Acropolis Museum | Athens, Greece | 2009 | Parthenon sculptures & ancient Athenian artifacts | 1.8 |
National Palace Museum | Taipei, Taiwan | 1925 | Imperial Chinese art & calligraphy (696,000 objects) | 3 |
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao | Bilbao, Spain | 1997 | Modern & contemporary art in Frank Gehry building | 1.2 |
National Gallery of Art | Washington D.C., USA | 1937 | Western art from Middle Ages to present | 3.2 |
Victoria and Albert Museum | London, UK | 1852 | Decorative arts & design (fashion, ceramics, textiles) | 2.4 |
Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, USA | 1879 | Impressionism & American art (Grant Wood, Seurat) | 1.6 |
Tokyo National Museum | Tokyo, Japan | 1872 | Japanese art & Asian antiquities (120,000 objects) | 1.3 |
Pergamon Museum | Berlin, Germany | 1930 | Ancient Near East (Ishtar Gate, Pergamon Altar) | 1.1 |
Museo Nacional de Antropología | Mexico City, Mexico | 1964 | Pre-Columbian civilizations (Aztec Sun Stone) | 2.3 |
Centre Pompidou | Paris, France | 1977 | Modern & contemporary art (Europe's largest collection) | 3.1 |
National Museum of Korea | Seoul, South Korea | 1945 | Korean history & art (350,000 objects) | 3.4 |
Australian Museum | Sydney, Australia | 1827 | Natural history & Indigenous Australian culture | 0.9 |
Topkapi Palace Museum | Istanbul, Turkey | 1924 | Ottoman Empire (Spoonmaker's Diamond, Prophet's relics) | 2 |
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) | São Paulo, Brazil | 1947 | Latin America's premier European art collection (Raphael, Renoir) | 0.7 |
Natural History Museum | London, UK | 1881 | Natural history (dinosaur gallery, 80 million specimens) | 4.6 |
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