MuseumDB
106 world museums and galleries, from the Louvre and the Uffizi to the Smithsonian and the Hermitage. Cities, founding years, collections, and the stories behind the institutions that keep world culture.
Key Museums
Louvre
The world's most visited museum, a royal palace turned public museum during the French Revolution. Its 35,000 works span antiquity...
British Museum
The first national public museum in the world, free since its founding act of 1753. Its eight million objects document human histo...
Uffizi Gallery
The Medici's offices turned into Europe's first modern art gallery, bequeathed to Tuscany by Anna Maria Luisa in 1743. Botticelli'...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
The largest art museum in the Americas, two million works from every civilization. The Temple of Dendur in a glass hall, Washingto...
Hermitage Museum
Catherine the Great's palace complex along the Neva, six buildings including the Winter Palace. Over 3 million items: Rembrandt to...
Vatican Museums
Founded when Julius II bought the Laocoon in 1506, the papal collections fill miles of corridors. The Sistine Chapel ceiling and L...
Musee d'Orsay
A Beaux-Arts railway station of 1900 converted into the great museum of 19th century art. It holds the world's finest collection o...
Prado
Spain's national art museum, built to display the royal collections of the Habsburgs and Bourbons. Velazquez's Las Meninas, Goya's...
National Museum of Natural History
The Smithsonian's most visited museum, on the National Mall. The Hope Diamond, the Nation's T-rex, the insect zoo, and the Sant Oc...
Tokyo National Museum
Japan's oldest and largest museum, in Ueno Park since 1882. National treasures crowd the Honkan: samurai swords, kimono, Hokusai's...