Art

The world's most visited museum, a royal palace turned public museum during the French Revolution. Its 35,000 works span antiquity...

A Beaux-Arts railway station of 1900 converted into the great museum of 19th century art. It holds the world's finest collection o...

The inside-out national museum of modern art, with escalators, pipes, and ducts colored on its exterior by architects Piano and Ro...

The 18th century Hotel Biron where Auguste Rodin lived and worked, left to the nation in exchange for a museum. The Thinker sits i...

The national museum of the Middle Ages, built over Gallo-Roman baths beside the Abbot of Cluny's townhouse. The Lady and the Unico...

Britain's national collection of Western European painting from the 13th to the 19th centuries, founded on the Angerstein collecti...

Britain's national museum of international modern art in the former Bankside Power Station by Herzog and de Meuron. Its Turbine Ha...

The national gallery of British art from 1500 to today, opened on Millbank as the National Gallery of British Art. It holds the wo...

The University of Cambridge's museum of art and antiquities, founded on the bequest of the 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam. Its Rembrandt...

Sweden's national museum of art and design, on the Blasieholmen waterfront. Rembrandt's Conspiracy of Claudius Civilis, works by S...

A modern art museum in a series of pavilions threading lawns, lake, and the Oresund coast north of Copenhagen. The Giacometti gall...

The national museum of the Netherlands, home of Rembrandt's Night Watch, Vermeer's Milkmaid, and Hals' portraits of the Dutch Gold...

The largest collection of Vincent van Gogh in the world: over 200 paintings, 500 drawings, and 700 letters. The Sunflowers, The Be...

A jewel box of Dutch Golden Age painting in a 17th century palace beside the Hofvijver. Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring and Vi...

Bruges' museum of Flemish Primitive art, beside the Church of Our Lady. Van Eyck's Madonna with Canon van der Paele, Memling's Mor...

Housed in a neoclassical temple of art reopened in 2022 after an eleven year renewal that hid modern galleries inside the old shel...

Spain's national art museum, built to display the royal collections of the Habsburgs and Bourbons. Velazquez's Las Meninas, Goya's...

Spain's national museum of 20th century art in a converted 18th century hospital. Picasso's Guernica, brought to Spain in 1981, an...

The private collection assembled by the Thyssen family across two generations, bought by Spain in 1993. Nearly 1,000 works fill ga...

Frank Gehry's titanium-clad curves on the Nervion river, the building that launched a thousand cultural regeneration plans. Richar...

Catalonia's national museum in the domed palace of the 1929 International Exposition on Montjuic. The world's greatest collection ...

The Medici's offices turned into Europe's first modern art gallery, bequeathed to Tuscany by Anna Maria Luisa in 1743. Botticelli'...

Founded by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo as Florence's academy of fine arts, today visited for Michelangelo's David, moved here from ...

Founded when Julius II bought the Laocoon in 1506, the papal collections fill miles of corridors. The Sistine Chapel ceiling and L...

Cardinal Scipione Borghese's villa in its gardens, a museum of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and painting. Bernini's Apollo an...

Venice's premier art museum, in the former Scuola della Carita and convent complex beside the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro. Venetian p...

The Habsburg treasury of art in a Ringstrasse palace facing its twin Natural History Museum. Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Tower of B...

Prince Eugene of Savoy's summer palace, opened to the public as one of the world's first public museums in 1781. Gustav Klimt's Th...

Berlin's old master paintings in a purpose-built 1998 gallery at the Kulturforum. One of the world's premier collections of 13th t...

One of the oldest public galleries in the world, built by Leo von Klenze for the Wittelsbach collection. The largest Rubens collec...

Catherine the Great's palace complex along the Neva, six buildings including the Winter Palace. Over 3 million items: Rembrandt to...

The world's largest collection of Russian fine art in the Mikhailovsky Palace. Icons from Novgorod and Andrei Rublev tradition, Re...

Merchant Pavel Tretyakov's national mission, gifted to Moscow in 1892: the preeminent treasury of Russian art. The Virgin of Vladi...

The largest art museum in the Americas, two million works from every civilization. The Temple of Dendur in a glass hall, Washingto...

Founded by three women patrons in rented offices days after the Wall Street crash. Starry Night, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, The Pe...

Frank Lloyd Wright's inverted ziggurat on Fifth Avenue, conceived as a single continuous ramp of art. The founding collection of n...

New York's third largest museum, in an 1897 McKim Mead and White beaux-arts pile. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art...

Andrew Mellon's gift to the nation, a neoclassical West Building by John Russell Pope and an East Building by I.M. Pei. The only L...

Richard Meier's travertine acropolis above Brentwood, reached by a hovertrain. Van Gogh's Irises, the Getty kouros debates, Rembra...

The largest museum in the western United States, straddling Wilshire Boulevard. Urban Light's 202 restored street lamps became LA'...

The grand beaux-arts museum on Michigan Avenue, guarded by the bronze lions. American Gothic, Nighthawks, Seurat's La Grande Jatte...

One of the most comprehensive museums in America, in a 1909 Guy Lowell building facing the Fenway. The largest Monet collection ou...

A Venetian palace built around a glassed courtyard garden, arranged forever by its founder's will. Titian's Europa, Rembrandt's se...

Built for the Centennial Exhibition on a rise at the end of the Ben Franklin Parkway, its steps immortalized by Rocky. The world's...

The Neoclassical 1916 building by Hubbell and Benes on the park lagoon, with Rafael Vinoly's 2013 glass atrium stitching old wings...

Louis Kahn's vaulted masterwork in golden light, small and world-class. The Kimbell owns one canvas each by Caravaggio, Velazquez,...

The Forbidden City, palace of 24 emperors of Ming and Qing, opened as a museum the year after the last emperor left. 1.86 million ...

China's great museum of ancient art in a round-squared People's Square building symbolizing heaven and earth. The finest bronze, c...

Japan's oldest and largest museum, in Ueno Park since 1882. National treasures crowd the Honkan: samurai swords, kimono, Hokusai's...

Assis Chateaubriand's bold museum on Paulista Avenue, floated on red pillars by Lina Bo Bardi above a plaza. The glass easels Bo B...

Australia's oldest and largest art gallery, founded in the gold rush decade. The waterwall entrance leads to Rembrandt, Tiepolo's ...

Israel's national museum on the Hill of Tranquility, crowned by the Shrine of the Book's white dome sheltering the Dead Sea Scroll...

The world's largest museum of contemporary African art, carved by Thomas Heatherwick from the 1920s grain silo on the V&A Waterfro...

A former orangery in the Tuileries Garden, built to shelter the palace's citrus trees in winter. In 1927 it opened Monet's eight m...

Founded by sculptor and patron Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney after the Met declined her gift of works by living American artists. It...

The first national portrait gallery in the world, founded in 1856 to collect likenesses of famous Britons rather than great painti...

Hertford House in Manchester Square displays the treasures assembled by four Marquesses of Hertford and Sir Richard Wallace, beque...

Set inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, the museum grew from the collection of Helene Kroller-Muller, one of the first great collect...

Edvard Munch left his own vast collection to the city of Oslo, and the museum opened in 1963, the centenary of his birth. It holds...

Born of a 30-year agreement signed in 2007 between France and the UAE, the museum opened on Saadiyat Island in 2017 beneath Jean N...

Designed by I.M. Pei, who came out of retirement in his nineties, the museum rises from its own island off Doha's Corniche. Its ge...