USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
2,000,000 works
One of the largest and most comprehensive art museums, covering 5,000 years of global art across multiple departments.
National Gallery of Art
Washington D.C.
150,000 works
US national collection of European and American painting, sculpture, and decorative arts, across two main buildings and a sculpture garden.
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York
200,000 works
Flagship museum for modern and contemporary art, defining many 20th-century movements and canonical works.
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago
300,000 works
Major encyclopedic museum with standout collections in Impressionism, American art, and design.
J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles
120,000 works
Museum with strong European painting, sculpture, and decorative arts, plus photography, housed in a hilltop campus with major research facilities.
United Kingdom
National Gallery
London
2,300 works
Central collection of Western European painting from the 13th to early 20th century, free to visit and highly influential.
British Museum
London
8,000,000 works
Global museum of art and archaeology with vast holdings of ancient, medieval, and early modern objects from around the world.
Tate Modern
London
70,000 works
Britain's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, housed in a converted power station on the Thames.
Tate Britain
London
70,000 works
Focuses on historic and modern British art, from Tudor portraiture to Turner and postwar artists.
France
Louvre Museum
Paris
38,000 works
World's most visited and arguably most important art museum, with encyclopedic collections from antiquity to the 19th century.
Musée d'Orsay
Paris
6,000 works
Major museum of 19th-century art housed in a former railway station, focused on Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism.
Russia
State Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg
3,000,000 works
Vast imperial collection spanning Western European painting, antiquities, decorative arts, and Russian art, housed in the Winter Palace complex.
State Tretyakov Gallery
Moscow
180,000 works
Principal museum of Russian art from medieval icons to modern painting.