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The world's best art & encyclopedic museums
79 museums in this category, ranked by editorial composite.
#1
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Musée du Louvre
Paris, France
The world's most-visited museum
⭐ 4.6(312,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor #1
#2
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, United States
America's grandest encyclopedic museum
⭐ 4.8(91,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#3
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Vatican Museums
Vatican City, Vatican City
Sistine Chapel & papal collections
⭐ 4.7(178,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#4
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
British Museum
London, United Kingdom
8 million objects, 2 million years of history
⭐ 4.7(156,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor #1 in UK
#5
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
State Hermitage Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Catherine the Great's imperial collection
⭐ 4.8(41,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#6
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museo del Prado
Madrid, Spain
The world's finest collection of Spanish art
⭐ 4.8(64,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#7
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Uffizi Gallery
Florence, Italy
Birthplace of the Italian Renaissance, in collection form
⭐ 4.7(71,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#8
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Dutch Golden Age in one building
⭐ 4.8(58,000 reviews)🏆 European Museum of the Year 2015
#9
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
Impressionism in a Beaux-Arts railway station
⭐ 4.8(89,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#14
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Western European painting from 1250–1900, free to all
⭐ 4.8(38,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#18
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan
The world's greatest collection of Chinese imperial art
⭐ 4.6(25,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#28
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Japan's oldest and largest museum
⭐ 4.6(14,000 reviews)🏆 National Treasures collection
#29
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Galleria dell'Accademia
Florence, Italy
Home of Michelangelo's David
⭐ 4.8(47,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#30
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Vienna, Austria
The Habsburg imperial art collection
⭐ 4.8(19,000 reviews)🏆 World's largest Bruegel collection
#45
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
America's second largest art museum
⭐ 4.8(35,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor #1 worldwide 2014
#46
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center)
Los Angeles, United States
Richard Meier's hilltop campus above LA
⭐ 4.8(24,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#49
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Louvre Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Jean Nouvel's 'rain of light' on Saadiyat Island
⭐ 4.6(18,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#59
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Mauritshuis
The Hague, Netherlands
Vermeer's 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' lives here
⭐ 4.8(9,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#60
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Pinacoteca di Brera
Milan, Italy
Northern Italy's premier picture gallery
⭐ 4.7(9,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#61
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
National Gallery of Art
Washington, United States
America's national art museum on the Mall
⭐ 4.8(19,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#63
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museum of Islamic Art
Doha, Qatar
I.M. Pei's last great commission
⭐ 4.8(13,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#65
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Tate Britain
London, United Kingdom
500 years of British art on Millbank
⭐ 4.6(14,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#67
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
Canadian and Indigenous art on the Ottawa River
⭐ 4.7(7,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#69
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Shanghai Museum
Shanghai, China
Chinese art from prehistory to the Qing dynasty
⭐ 4.6(8,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#70
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, United States
18,000 works spanning 6,000 years
⭐ 4.6(5,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#72
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
Los Angeles, United States
The largest art museum in the western US
⭐ 4.4(14,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#73
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, United States
America's most encyclopedic art museum after the Met
⭐ 4.7(14,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#74
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, United States
Top of the 'Rocky Steps'
⭐ 4.6(11,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#75
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
America's most beautiful free art museum
⭐ 4.8(8,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#76
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, United States
Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry Murals
⭐ 4.8(8,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#77
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, United States
Texas's encyclopedic powerhouse
⭐ 4.7(7,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#78
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Basque, Spanish and European masters
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#90
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
One man's perfect collection in a garden
⭐ 4.8(6,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#95
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
Melbourne, Australia
Australia's oldest and most-visited art museum
⭐ 4.7(16,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#96
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, Australia
SANAA's expansion in the Domain
⭐ 4.8(9,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#99
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford, United Kingdom
Britain's first public museum
⭐ 4.7(7,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#100
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Fitzwilliam Museum
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge's encyclopedic gem
⭐ 4.7(5,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#101
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal's national art collection
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#102
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
Lina Bo Bardi's red-pillared icon on Avenida Paulista
⭐ 4.6(13,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO listed
#104
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo's oldest art museum
⭐ 4.7(11,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#115
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Brooklyn Museum
New York, United States
America's third largest art museum
⭐ 4.6(7,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#116
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Frick Collection
New York, United States
Henry Clay Frick's Gilded Age mansion museum
⭐ 4.8(6,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#119
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Nezu Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Pre-modern Japanese art and a hidden Tokyo garden
⭐ 4.7(1,800 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#120
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Singapore National Gallery
Singapore, Singapore
Two civic landmarks linked into Southeast Asia's biggest art gallery
⭐ 4.6(13,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#128
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Alte Pinakothek
Munich, Germany
Old Master European painting in Munich
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#129
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Belvedere Museum
Vienna, Austria
Klimt's The Kiss in Prince Eugene's palace
⭐ 4.7(39,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#130
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Albertina
Vienna, Austria
One of the world's finest graphic art collections
⭐ 4.6(21,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#131
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Musée de l'Orangerie
Paris, France
Monet's Water Lilies in two oval rooms
⭐ 4.7(25,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#133
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Petit Palais
Paris, France
Paris's free Beaux-Arts gem
⭐ 4.7(7,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#136
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Bode Museum
Berlin, Germany
Sculpture and Byzantine art on Museum Island
⭐ 4.6(5,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO Museum Island
#138
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Alte Nationalgalerie
Berlin, Germany
19th-century painting on Museum Island
⭐ 4.7(6,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO Museum Island
#145
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's national museum of fine arts
⭐ 4.7(7,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#150
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Ateneum
Helsinki, Finland
Finland's national art museum
⭐ 4.6(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#152
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Glasgow's Spanish-Baroque cathedral of art
⭐ 4.8(17,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#153
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Burrell Collection
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Sir William Burrell's bequest in Pollok Country Park
⭐ 4.8(4,500 reviews)🏆 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2023
#157
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Wallace Collection
London, United Kingdom
An aristocratic London town house museum
⭐ 4.8(5,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#162
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The 'National Gallery of the North'
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#167
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, United States
Moshe Safdie's American art masterpiece in the Ozarks
⭐ 4.9(9,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#168
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Norton Simon Museum
Pasadena, United States
Hidden gem of Los Angeles
⭐ 4.8(3,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#169
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Gardens
San Marino, United States
Gainsborough, gardens and the Gutenberg Bible
⭐ 4.9(14,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#170
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Kimbell Art Museum
Fort Worth, United States
Louis Kahn's most beautiful museum
⭐ 4.8(4,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#171
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Menil Collection
Houston, United States
Renzo Piano's first museum, set in a Houston neighbourhood
⭐ 4.8(3,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#175
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, United States
America's first museum of modern art
⭐ 4.6(1,800 reviews)🏆 Oldest contemporary art biennial
#176
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Barnes Foundation
Philadelphia, United States
An eccentric salon-style hang of Impressionist masterpieces
⭐ 4.8(9,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#181
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Art Gallery of Ontario
Toronto, Canada
Frank Gehry's hometown museum
⭐ 4.7(9,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#182
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Rijksmuseum Twenthe
Enschede, Netherlands
Dutch & European art in the eastern Netherlands
⭐ 4.5(1,500 reviews)🏆 European Museum of the Year nominee
#183
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Kröller-Müller Museum
Otterlo, Netherlands
Van Gogh and a sculpture garden in a national park
⭐ 4.8(6,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#184
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Boijmans Van Beuningen
Rotterdam, Netherlands
The world's first publicly accessible art depot
⭐ 4.5(3,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#186
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Rijksmuseum Schiphol Airport branch
Schiphol, Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age between flights
⭐ 4.5(1,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#189
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Madrid, Spain
The third leg of Madrid's Golden Triangle
⭐ 4.7(25,000 reviews)🏆 Madrid's Golden Triangle of Art
#191
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
MNAC – Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
Barcelona, Spain
1000 years of Catalan art on Montjuïc
⭐ 4.7(9,500 reviews)🏆 Largest Romanesque mural collection
#195
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Villa Borghese (Galleria Borghese)
Rome, Italy
Bernini sculptures in Cardinal Scipione's villa
⭐ 4.8(16,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#200
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland, New Zealand
Aotearoa's most-visited art gallery
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 World Building of the Year 2013
#207
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Suzhou Museum
Suzhou, China
I.M. Pei's homecoming gift
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#208
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Hong Kong Museum of Art
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chinese art with a Victoria Harbour view
⭐ 4.6(2,500 reviews)🏆 Recently renovated
#211
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Kyoto National Museum
Kyoto, Japan
Heian and medieval Japanese art
⭐ 4.6(4,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#212
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Nara National Museum
Nara, Japan
The world's finest Buddhist art museum
⭐ 4.6(2,500 reviews)🏆 Most important Japanese Buddhist art collection
#214
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Pera Museum
Istanbul, Turkey
Orientalist painting in Beyoğlu
⭐ 4.6(5,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#215
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
1400 years of Islamic art and science
⭐ 4.6(2,200 reviews)🏆 Sharjah UNESCO Cultural Capital