Building
|
Name
|
Year established
|
Subject
|
Floor area
|
Exhibition space
|
Collection
|
City
|
Country
|
|
Louvre
|
1792
|
Art, architecture, history
|
758,000 m2 (8,160,000 sq ft)[2]
|
72,735 m2 (782,910 sq ft)[3]
|
More than 380,000 (35,000 on display)[4]
|
Paris
|
France
|
|
State Hermitage Museum
|
1764
|
Art
|
233,345 m2 (2,511,700 sq ft)[5]
|
66,842 m2 (719,480 sq ft)[5]
|
3,150,428[5]
|
Saint Petersburg
|
Russia
|
|
British Museum
|
1753
|
Archaeology and art
|
92,000 m2 (990,000 sq ft)[6]
|
65,752 m2 (707,750 sq ft)[6]
|
More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world)
|
London
|
United Kingdom
|
|
National Museum of China
|
1959
|
Archaeology and art
|
191,900 m2 (2,066,000 sq ft)[7][8]
|
65,000 m2 (700,000 sq ft)[9]
|
More than 1.4 million[10]
|
Beijing
|
China
|
|
Grand Egyptian Museum
|
2021 (projected)
|
Archaeology
|
81,000 m2 (870,000 sq ft)[11]
|
38,000 m2 (410,000 sq ft)[11]
|
over 100,000 artifacts
|
Giza
|
Egypt
|
|
Museum of Science and Industry
|
1933
|
Science and technology
|
|
37,000 m2 (400,000 sq ft)[12]
|
more than 35,000
|
Chicago
|
United States
|
|
Minneapolis Institute of Art
|
1883
|
Art
|
50,600 m2 (545,000 sq ft)[13]
|
32,000 m2 (340,000 sq ft)[14]
|
More than 100,000[15]
|
Minneapolis
|
United States
|
|
National Museum of Natural History
|
1910
|
Natural history
|
123,000 m2 (1,320,000 sq ft)[16]
|
30,200 m2 (325,000 sq ft)[16]
|
(Artifacts not samples)
|
Washington, D.C.
|
United States
|
|
Victoria and Albert Museum
|
1852
|
Art
|
|
30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft)[17]
|
2,278,183 (60,124 on display)[18]
|
London
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Metropolitan Museum of Art
|
1870
|
Art
|
190,000 m2 (2,000,000 sq ft)[19]
|
|
|
New York City
|
United States
|
|
Palace Museum
|
1925
|
Archaeology and art
|
150,000 m2 (1,600,000 sq ft)[20][21]
|
|
1,862,690[21][22]
|
Beijing
|
China
|
|
National Museum of Korea
|
1909
|
Archaeology and art
|
138,156.26 m2 (1,487,101.6 sq ft)[23]
|
|
|
Seoul
|
South Korea
|
|
National Gallery of Art
|
1937
|
Art
|
120,000 m2 (1,300,000 sq ft)[24]
|
25,200 m2 (271,000 sq ft)[25]
|
More than 150,000[26]
|
Washington, D.C.
|
United States
|
|
Art Institute of Chicago
|
1879
|
Art
|
93,000 m2 (1,000,000 sq ft)[27][28]
|
|
Almost 300,000[29]
|
Chicago
|
United States
|
|
Israel Museum
|
1965
|
Art
|
80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft)[30]
|
19,000 m2 (200,000 sq ft)[31]
|
|
Jerusalem
|
Israel
|
|
National Museum of American History
|
1964
|
History
|
70,000 m2 (750,000 sq ft)[32]
|
|
More than 1.8 million[32]
|
Washington, D.C.
|
United States
|
|
Museum of Modern Art
|
1929
|
Art
|
65,800 m2 (708,000 sq ft)[33]
|
15,400 m2 (166,000 sq ft)[34]
|
Almost 200,000[35]
|
New York City
|
United States
|
|
National Gallery Singapore
|
2015
|
Art
|
64,000 m2 (690,000 sq ft)[36]
|
|
More than 9,000[37]
|
Singapore
|
Singapore
|
|
National Air and Space Museum
|
1946
|
Aerospace
|
63,800 m2 (687,000 sq ft)[38]
|
14,970.9 m2 (161,145 sq ft)[39][40]
|
More than 60,000[41]
|
Washington, D.C.
|
United States
|
|
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
|
1870
|
Art
|
57,315.3 m2 (616,937 sq ft)[42][43]
|
20,556.4 m2 (221,267 sq ft)[43]
|
Almost 500,000[44]
|
Boston
|
United States
|
|
MASS MoCA
|
1999
|
Art
|
56,000 m2 (600,000 sq ft)[45]
|
23,000 m2 (250,000 sq ft)[46]
|
No permanent collection
|
North Adams
|
United States
|
|
National Gallery
|
1824
|
Archaeology and art
|
46,396 m2 (499,400 sq ft)[47]
|
|
|
London
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Three Gorges Museum
|
2005
|
Archaeology and art
|
45,098 m2 (485,430 sq ft)[48]
|
23,225 m2 (249,990 sq ft)[48]
|
|
Chongqing
|
China
|
|
Vatican Museums
|
1506
|
Art
|
42,000 m2 (450,000 sq ft)[49][50]
|
|
|
Vatican City
|
Vatican City
|
|
National Museum of Anthropology
|
1825
|
Archaeology
|
|
|
600,000[51]
|
Mexico City
|
Mexico
|
|
Shandong Art Museum
|
1977
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Jinan
|
China
|
|
Birmingham Museum of Art
|
1951
|
Art
|
17,000 m2 (180,000 sq ft)[52]
|
|
27,000[52]
|
Birmingham
|
United States
|
|
Arsenal (Biennale)
|
1895
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Venice
|
Italy
|
|
Musée National d'Art Moderne
|
1947
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Paris
|
France
|
|
Musée d'Orsay
|
1986
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Paris
|
France
|
|
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
|
1935
|
Art
|
|
|
|
San Francisco
|
United States
|
|
Museo del Prado
|
1819
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Madrid
|
Spain
|
|
Denver Art Museum
|
1918
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Denver
|
United States
|
|
Egyptian Museum
|
1902
|
Archaeology
|
|
|
|
Cairo
|
Egypt
|
|
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
|
1951
|
Art
|
|
|
|
São Paulo
|
Brazil
|
|
Dia Beacon
|
2003
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Beacon
|
United States
|
|
Dallas Museum of Art
|
1903
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Dallas
|
United States
|
|
Museo Reina Sofía
|
1992
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Madrid
|
Spain
|
|
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
|
1969
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Gwacheon
|
South Korea
|
|
Detroit Institute of Arts
|
1885
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Detroit
|
United States
|
|
Tokyo National Art Center
|
2007
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Tokyo
|
Japan
|
|
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
|
1988
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Taichung
|
Taiwan
|
|
National Gallery Prague (Veletržní)
|
1796
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Prague
|
Czech Republic
|
|
Indianapolis Museum of Art
|
1883
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Indianapolis
|
United States
|
|
Bavarian National Museum
|
1855
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Munich
|
Germany
|
|
Capital Museum
|
1981
|
Archaeology and art
|
|
|
|
Beijing
|
China
|
|
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
|
1860
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Montreal
|
Canada
|
|
National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda Road)
|
1861
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Melbourne
|
Australia
|
|
Palais de Tokyo
|
2001
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Paris
|
France
|
|
Salar Jung Museum
|
1855
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Hyderabad
|
India
|
|
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
|
1934
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Richmond
|
United States
|
|
Tate Modern
|
2000
|
Art
|
|
|
|
London
|
United Kingdom
|
|
Cleveland Museum of Art
|
1913
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Cleveland
|
United States
|
|
National Gallery of Canada
|
1880
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Ottawa
|
Canada
|
|
Art Gallery of Ontario
|
1900
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Toronto
|
Canada
|
|
Hamburger Kunsthalle
|
1869
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Hamburg
|
Germany
|
|
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
|
1849
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Rotterdam
|
Netherlands
|
|
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
|
1900
|
Art
|
|
27,870 m2 (300,000 sq ft)
|
~70,000
|
Houston
|
United States
|
|
National Gallery of Modern Art
|
1954
|
Art
|
|
|
|
New Delhi
|
India
|
|
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille
|
1809
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Lille
|
France
|
|
Pinakothek der Moderne
|
2002
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Munich
|
Germany
|
|
Rijksmuseum
|
1800
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Amsterdam
|
Netherlands
|
|
Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val)
|
1985
|
Art
|
|
|
|
Moscow
|
Russia
|
|
MUDAM
|
2006
|
Art
|
10,500 m2 (113,000 sq ft)[53]
|
|
|
Luxembourg City
|
Luxembourg
|