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Museum↕ | City↕ | Country↕ | Annual Visitors↕ | Founded↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Louvre | Paris | France | 8.9M | 1793 | World's largest art museum; home to the Mona Lisa and Venus de Milo |
| National Museum of China | Beijing | China | 7.3M | 2003 | Covers 5,000 years of Chinese history; one of the largest museums in the world |
| Vatican Museums | Vatican City | Vatican City | 6.8M | 1506 | Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo; papal art collection spanning centuries |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | United States | 5.9M | 1870 | Largest art museum in the Americas; 2 million+ works spanning 5,000 years |
| British Museum | London | United Kingdom | 5.8M | 1753 | Rosetta Stone, Parthenon Marbles; first public national museum in the world |
| Tate Modern | London | United Kingdom | 5.7M | 2000 | Modern and contemporary art in a converted power station on the Thames |
| National Gallery | London | United Kingdom | 5.2M | 1824 | Western European paintings from the 13th to 19th centuries; free admission |
| Natural History Museum | London | United Kingdom | 5.0M | 1881 | Iconic blue whale skeleton; 80 million specimens spanning 4.5 billion years |
| Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | Washington D.C. | United States | 4.9M | 1976 | Wright Brothers' Flyer and Apollo 11 command module |
| Shanghai Science and Technology Museum | Shanghai | China | 4.8M | 2001 | Interactive science exhibits; one of China's most popular museums |
| Musee d'Orsay | Paris | France | 3.7M | 1986 | Impressionist masterpieces in a converted railway station; Monet, Van Gogh, Renoir |
| Victoria and Albert Museum | London | United Kingdom | 3.5M | 1852 | World's largest museum of decorative arts and design; 2.3M objects |
| National Palace Museum | Taipei | Taiwan | 3.4M | 1925 | Houses imperial Chinese artifacts; Jadeite Cabbage is the star exhibit |
| Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 3.3M | 1800 | Rembrandt's Night Watch; Dutch Golden Age masterpieces |
| National Museum of Natural History | Washington D.C. | United States | 3.2M | 1910 | Hope Diamond; 145 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, and minerals |
| Hermitage Museum | Saint Petersburg | Russia | 3.1M | 1764 | Second largest art museum in the world; 3 million items in the Winter Palace |
| Prado Museum | Madrid | Spain | 2.9M | 1819 | Spanish royal collection; Velazquez, Goya, and El Greco masterworks |
| Centre Pompidou | Paris | France | 2.8M | 1977 | Inside-out architecture; largest collection of modern art in Europe |
| Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | United States | 2.6M | 1879 | American Gothic by Grant Wood; major Impressionist collection |
| Australian Museum | Sydney | Australia | 2.1M | 1827 | Oldest museum in Australia; extensive natural history and Indigenous Australian collections |
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