🎨 Category
The world's best modern & contemporary museums
37 museums in this category, ranked by editorial composite.
#11
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
New York, United States
The defining collection of 20th-century art
⭐ 4.6(75,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#12
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Tate Modern
London, United Kingdom
Bankside power station turned global icon
⭐ 4.6(59,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM Top 10
#13
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Centre Pompidou
Paris, France
Inside-out architecture, Europe's modern art mothership
⭐ 4.5(41,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#25
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
New York, United States
Frank Lloyd Wright's spiral on Fifth Avenue
⭐ 4.5(25,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage (Wright)
#26
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Frank Gehry's titanium catalyst for a city
⭐ 4.7(35,000 reviews)🏆 European Museum of the Year
#50
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
Hobart, Australia
David Walsh's subterranean 'subversive adult Disneyland'
⭐ 4.7(11,000 reviews)🏆 Time 100 Greatest Places
#51
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Humlebæk, Denmark
Modern art on the Øresund coast
⭐ 4.8(9,000 reviews)🏆 European Museum of the Year (1992)
#57
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, United States
20th- and 21st-century American art
⭐ 4.5(13,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#64
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
M+
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Asia's first global museum of contemporary visual culture
⭐ 4.5(6,500 reviews)🏆 Time 100 Greatest Places
#71
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
SFMOMA
San Francisco, United States
Snøhetta's expanded modern art landmark
⭐ 4.6(13,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#79
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Modern art and design in 'The Bathtub'
⭐ 4.4(14,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#80
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts
Rome, Italy
Zaha Hadid's Roman concrete ribbon
⭐ 4.4(4,500 reviews)🏆 RIBA Stirling Prize 2010
#81
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Mori Art Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary art on the 53rd floor of Roppongi Hills
⭐ 4.5(5,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#82
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
teamLab Borderless / Planets
Tokyo, Japan
Immersive digital art collective
⭐ 4.7(25,000 reviews)🏆 Time 100 Greatest Places
#83
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
ARoS Aarhus Art Museum
Aarhus, Denmark
Olafur Eliasson's Rainbow Panorama
⭐ 4.7(8,000 reviews)🏆 European Museum of the Year 2024
#84
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Moderna Museet
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's modern and contemporary classics
⭐ 4.6(7,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry (permanent)
#85
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art
Helsinki, Finland
Steven Holl's contemporary art landmark
⭐ 4.5(4,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#93
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Tehran, Iran
Iran's hidden vault of Western modern masters
⭐ 4.6(1,500 reviews)🏆 Hidden gem of contemporary collections
#94
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA)
Cape Town, South Africa
Africa's largest contemporary art museum
⭐ 4.5(3,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#103
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
MALBA – Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Latin American art from 1900 to today
⭐ 4.6(9,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#114
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
MoMA PS1
New York, United States
Experimental contemporary art in Long Island City
⭐ 4.3(4,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#127
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich, Germany
Four museums in one Munich landmark
⭐ 4.5(4,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#135
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
Europe's largest contemporary art centre
⭐ 4.2(5,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#142
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Lenbachhaus
Munich, Germany
The world's largest Blue Rider collection
⭐ 4.6(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#163
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Tate Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Tate's flagship outside London
⭐ 4.5(5,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#165
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Wakefield, United Kingdom
500 acres of open-air sculpture
⭐ 4.8(7,500 reviews)🏆 Art Fund Museum of the Year 2014
#172
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Dia:Beacon
Beacon, United States
Minimalist art on the Hudson
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#173
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Storm King Art Center
New Windsor, United States
500 acres of large-scale sculpture
⭐ 4.8(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#177
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, United States
Contemporary art with a free sculpture garden
⭐ 4.6(5,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#187
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
MUDAM – Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
I.M. Pei's last museum, on a Vauban fort
⭐ 4.5(2,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#188
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Museo Reina Sofía
Madrid, Spain
Home of Picasso's Guernica
⭐ 4.6(56,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#197
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Venice, Italy
Peggy's Grand Canal palace and modern art
⭐ 4.7(17,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#198
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Punta della Dogana
Venice, Italy
François Pinault's contemporary art at the tip of Dorsoduro
⭐ 4.4(4,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#199
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Palazzo Grassi
Venice, Italy
Pinault Collection's Grand Canal flagship
⭐ 4.4(4,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#201
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Queensland Art Gallery & GOMA
Brisbane, Australia
Two galleries on Brisbane's South Bank
⭐ 4.7(6,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#203
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
Sydney, Australia
Contemporary art on Circular Quay
⭐ 4.5(6,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#213
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Singapore ArtScience Museum
Singapore, Singapore
Moshe Safdie's lotus on Marina Bay
⭐ 4.5(25,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon