Museums · Curated list
Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, British Museum and 27 more, ranked by how much of the world has written about each one.
Most written-about first. Each description summarises the art museum's Wikipedia article, which its name links to.
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Art museum in Paris, France
A national museum of art in Paris, France, standing by the Seine on its Right Bank, within the 1st arrondissement, the city's first district. Its holdings include several of Western art's most canonical works, the Winged Victory, the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa among them.
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Art museum in Paris, France
A museum on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris, France, housed in the old Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900.
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National museum in London, England
A public museum of human history, art and culture in London's Bloomsbury district. With eight million artefacts, its permanent collection is the biggest in the world.
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National museum of Israel in Jerusalem
A museum of art and archaeology in Jerusalem, founded in 1965 as an encyclopedic museum and as Israel's largest and leading cultural institution.
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Art museum in New York City
Known informally as the Met, an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. It is the world's third-largest museum by floor area, and the Americas' largest art museum.
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National art museum in Madrid, Spain
Officially the Museo Nacional del Prado, Spain's main national art museum, in central Madrid. Built on the former Spanish royal collection, it holds European art from the 12th century to the early 20th, and is the finest single collection of Spanish art.
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Art museum in Florence, Italy
A leading art museum beside the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence, in Tuscany, Italy. Among Italy's most important museums and its most visited, it also ranks with the largest and best-known museums anywhere.
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National museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The national museum of the Netherlands, devoted to Dutch art and history, on the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, near the Royal Concertgebouw, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Van Gogh Museum.
Wikidata · Photo: Marco Almbauer, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Art museum in New York City, US
Usually shortened to MoMA, an art museum in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Sixth and Fifth Avenues. Its collection runs from the late 19th century to today, with over 200,000 works: paintings, drawings and prints, sculpture, photographs, architecture and design, film and electronic media, and illustrated books and artists' books.
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Art museum in São Paulo, Brazil
An art museum in São Paulo, Brazil, well known for the architecture of its main building, a structure of concrete and glass from 1968 designed by Lina Bo Bardi.
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Archaeological museum in Jerusalem
An archaeological museum in Jerusalem exploring the cultures of peoples the Bible mentions, among them the Jews, Persians, Phoenicians, Elamites, Hittites, Arameans, Philistines, Canaanites and ancient Egyptians.
Wikidata · Photo: zeevveez from Jerusalem, Israel, CC BY 2.0
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Museums of the Vatican City
The public museums of Vatican City, showing works from the huge collection the papacy and the Catholic Church have built up over the centuries, including several of the most famous Roman sculptures and some of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance art anywhere.
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History museum in Cairo, Egypt
A national history museum in Cairo, Egypt. Its official name is the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities; people mostly call it the Egyptian Museum, and it also goes by the Cairo Museum or the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC).
Wikidata · Photo: Holger Uwe Schmitt, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Art museum in France
A private museum of contemporary art in Montsoreau, France, open to the public since 8 April 2016.
Wikidata · Photo: ChateaudeMontsoreauArtContemporain, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Museum in Berlin, Germany
A listed building on Museum Island, in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. It was built between 1910 and 1930 on the orders of Emperor Wilhelm II, to plans by Ludwig Hoffmann and Alfred Messel, in the Stripped Classicism style.
Wikidata · Photo: Raimond Spekking, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Art museum in London, England
A museum in the United Kingdom, the world's largest devoted to design and the applied and decorative arts, with a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.
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Modern art gallery in London, England
A London art gallery holding the United Kingdom's national collection of international contemporary and modern art. It belongs to the Tate group, with Tate St Ives, Tate Liverpool and Tate Britain.
Wikidata · Photo: Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Art museum in Washington, D.C.
An art museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States, between 3rd and 9th Streets, on Constitution Avenue NW. Free and open to the public, it was founded privately in 1937, for the American people, under a joint resolution passed by the United States Congress.
Wikidata · Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Art museum in Manhattan, New York
Often called The Guggenheim, an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue, between 88th and 89th Streets, on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City. Its permanent collection covers Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern and contemporary art, and it holds special exhibitions all year round.
Wikidata · Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 3.0
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Art museum in Moscow, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, a Moscow art gallery regarded as the world's leading collection of Russian fine art.
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National art museum in the Netherlands
A Dutch art museum devoted to Vincent van Gogh and the artists of his time, on the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, near the Concertgebouw, the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum. It opened on 2 June 1973, in buildings designed by Kisho Kurokawa and Gerrit Rietveld.
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Museum in Derby, England
A museum and art gallery in Derby, England, founded in 1879, together with Derby Central Library, in a new building that Richard Knill Freeman designed and Michael Thomas Bass gave to the town.
Wikidata · Photo: Janet Roberts from UK, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Renaissance palace and museum in Florence, Italy
Sometimes called the Pitti Palace in English, a vast palace, mostly Renaissance in style, in Florence, Italy, on the south side of the River Arno, not far from the Ponte Vecchio.
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Art museum in Vienna, Austria
An art museum in Vienna, Austria, in a festive palace-like building on the Vienna Ring Road, topped by an octagonal dome.
Wikidata · Photo: Andrzej Otrębski, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Art museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia
The State Russian Museum, once called the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg: the largest collection of Russian fine art in the world, and one of the world's biggest art museums, covering more than 30 hectares.
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Art museum in Brooklyn, New York
An art museum in Brooklyn, a borough of New York City. At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m²), it is the city's second-largest museum, with an art collection of around 500,000 objects.
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Archaeological museum in Giza, Egypt
Usually shortened to GEM, a national archaeological museum in Giza, Egypt, devoted to Ancient Egypt, its culture, society and artefacts, and the world's largest museum about one civilisation.
Wikidata · Photo: Amr F.Nagy, Public domain
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Art museum in Baku, Azerbaijan
The biggest art museum in Azerbaijan, founded in Baku in 1936 and named in 1943 after Rustam Mustafayev, a leading Azerbaijani theatre artist and stage designer.
Wikidata · Photo: Urek Meniashvili, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Museum of European art in Moscow
Moscow's biggest museum of European art, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, which stands on Volkhonka street facing the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.
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Historic site, exhibition hall in Paris, France
An art museum in Paris's 8th arrondissement, in France.
Every Wikidata item that is an art museum, and whose one-line description on Wikidata names a museum or gallery in its first clause, and that has its own English Wikipedia article, ranked by the number of Wikimedia sites with a page about it — Wikipedia's language editions, mostly, and sister projects such as Wikiquote. That counts how many communities independently thought it worth describing, and nobody can buy a place on it. The top 30 are shown.
Fetched from Wikidata on 2026-09-25. Each description is this site's summary of the entry's Wikipedia article, which its name links to: the wording is ours, the facts are Wikipedia's, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. To correct an entry, correct it there; the next refresh carries the change.
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