Editorial Ranking
The world's 220 best museums
Our editorial composite ranking, drawn from TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice winners, AECOM/TEA attendance reports and the verdicts of Condé Nast Traveler, Time Out, National Geographic and The Times.
See also: Ranking by Country · Ranking by City
#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
#10
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Acropolis Museum
Athens, Greece
Bernard Tschumi's modern temple to ancient Athens
⭐ 4.8(47,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor #1 Athens
#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
#14
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Western European painting from 1250–1900, free to all
⭐ 4.8(38,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#15
🦖 Natural History
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Washington, United States
145 million specimens of Earth's natural heritage
⭐ 4.7(47,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM Top 10
#16
🦖 Natural History
American Museum of Natural History
New York, United States
Dinosaurs, dioramas and the Hayden Planetarium
⭐ 4.7(87,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#17
🦖 Natural History
Natural History Museum
London, United Kingdom
Hope the blue whale and a Romanesque cathedral of nature
⭐ 4.8(96,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM Top 10
#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
#19
👑 Palace & Royal
Palace Museum (Forbidden City)
Beijing, China
The world's largest palace complex
⭐ 4.7(32,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#20
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Musée Rodin
Paris, France
The sculptor's mansion and rose-filled garden
⭐ 4.7(18,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#21
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The world's largest Van Gogh collection
⭐ 4.7(41,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Top 10 worldwide
#22
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Picasso Museum (Musée Picasso Paris)
Paris, France
Picasso's personal collection in the Marais
⭐ 4.4(12,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#23
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Egyptian Museum
Cairo, Egypt
120,000 Pharaonic treasures on Tahrir Square
⭐ 4.5(22,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO Cairo
#24
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Grand Egyptian Museum
Giza, Egypt
The world's largest archaeological museum, beside the pyramids
⭐ 4.9(8,500 reviews)🏆 Newest world wonder
#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
#27
🔬 Science & Industry
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Washington, United States
The world's most popular flight & space museum
⭐ 4.7(41,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM Top 5
#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
#31
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Pergamon Museum
Berlin, Germany
Reconstructed monuments from antiquity
⭐ 4.7(27,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage (Museum Island)
#32
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Israel Museum
Jerusalem, Israel
Dead Sea Scrolls and the Shrine of the Book
⭐ 4.7(11,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#33
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
Yad Vashem
Jerusalem, Israel
World Holocaust Remembrance Center
⭐ 4.9(14,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#34
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Oświęcim, Poland
Preserved on the site of Nazi Germany's largest death camp
⭐ 4.9(53,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#35
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, United States
America's national memorial to the Holocaust
⭐ 4.8(22,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#36
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
Anne Frank House
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Secret Annex on Prinsengracht
⭐ 4.6(110,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#37
🏛️ History & Civilization
Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Washington, United States
America in objects
⭐ 4.6(18,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM Top 10
#38
🏛️ History & Civilization
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Washington, United States
America seen through the African American lens
⭐ 4.9(17,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#39
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
9/11 Memorial & Museum
New York, United States
Bedrock of the original World Trade Center
⭐ 4.8(78,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#40
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Hiroshima, Japan
Atomic bombing remembrance and peace advocacy
⭐ 4.8(14,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO inclusion (Genbaku Dome)
#41
🪑 Design & Decorative
Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom
The world's leading museum of art, design and performance
⭐ 4.7(35,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#42
🔬 Science & Industry
Science Museum
London, United Kingdom
Three centuries of scientific innovation
⭐ 4.7(30,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#43
🔬 Science & Industry
Deutsches Museum
Munich, Germany
Europe's largest museum of science and technology
⭐ 4.6(13,000 reviews)🏆 Largest STEM museum in Europe
#44
🦖 Natural History
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago, United States
Home of SUE the T. rex
⭐ 4.7(30,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#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
#47
👑 Palace & Royal
Topkapi Palace Museum
Istanbul, Turkey
Four centuries of Ottoman court life
⭐ 4.6(75,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#48
🏛️ History & Civilization
Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque & Museum
Istanbul, Turkey
1500 years of sacred architecture
⭐ 4.7(96,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#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
#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)
#52
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Museo Nacional de Antropología
Mexico City, Mexico
Mesoamerica's pre-Columbian masterpieces
⭐ 4.8(35,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#53
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Frida Kahlo Museum (Casa Azul)
Mexico City, Mexico
The cobalt blue house in Coyoacán
⭐ 4.6(31,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#54
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Munch Museum (MUNCH)
Oslo, Norway
13 floors of Edvard Munch on the Oslo waterfront
⭐ 4.5(7,000 reviews)🏆 Time 100 Greatest Places
#55
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Dalí Theatre-Museum
Figueres, Spain
Dalí's surrealist Gesamtkunstwerk
⭐ 4.6(21,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#56
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Picasso Museum Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Picasso's formative years
⭐ 4.5(25,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#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
#58
🦖 Natural History
Smithsonian National Zoo (& Conservation)
Washington, United States
163 acres of conservation in Rock Creek Park
⭐ 4.5(23,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#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
#62
🔬 Science & Industry
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
Paris, France
Europe's largest science centre
⭐ 4.5(11,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#63
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Museum of Islamic Art
Doha, Qatar
I.M. Pei's last great commission
⭐ 4.8(13,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#65
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Tate Britain
London, United Kingdom
500 years of British art on Millbank
⭐ 4.6(14,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#66
🦖 Natural History
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
Daniel Libeskind's crystalline expansion in Toronto
⭐ 4.7(16,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#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
#68
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of Korea
Seoul, South Korea
Korea's national history in Yongsan Park
⭐ 4.7(7,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM Top 10
#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
#71
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
SFMOMA
San Francisco, United States
Snøhetta's expanded modern art landmark
⭐ 4.6(13,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#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
#86
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Musée Magritte
Brussels, Belgium
Surrealism in three floors
⭐ 4.4(9,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#87
🏛️ History & Civilization
Vasa Museum
Stockholm, Sweden
A 17th-century warship preserved 98% intact
⭐ 4.8(50,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor #1 in Sweden
#88
🏛️ History & Civilization
ABBA The Museum
Stockholm, Sweden
Walk in, dance out
⭐ 4.6(13,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#89
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
National Museum of Anthropology – Lisbon (Museu Nacional de Arqueologia)
Lisbon, Portugal
Portugal's national archaeology museum in the Jerónimos Monastery
⭐ 4.5(2,200 reviews)🏆 UNESCO setting
#90
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum
Lisbon, Portugal
One man's perfect collection in a garden
⭐ 4.8(6,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#91
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Hagia Eirene & Istanbul Archaeology Museums
Istanbul, Turkey
Three museums in one beside Topkapı
⭐ 4.6(9,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#92
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of China
Beijing, China
The world's most-visited museum (some years)
⭐ 4.6(5,000 reviews)🏆 AECOM #1 attendance (some years)
#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
#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
#97
🔬 Science & Industry
MUSE – Museo delle Scienze
Trento, Italy
Renzo Piano's alpine science museum
⭐ 4.7(8,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#98
🦖 Natural History
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Leiden, Netherlands
Trix the T. rex and 42 million specimens
⭐ 4.7(8,500 reviews)🏆 European Museum of the Year 2021
#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
#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
#104
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Pinacoteca de São Paulo
São Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo's oldest art museum
⭐ 4.7(11,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#105
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of African American Music
Nashville, United States
Five centuries of Black music
⭐ 4.6(1,800 reviews)🏆 Newer must-see
#106
🏛️ History & Civilization
EMP / MoPOP – Museum of Pop Culture
Seattle, United States
Frank Gehry's pop-culture playground
⭐ 4.5(11,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#107
🪑 Design & Decorative
Petersen Automotive Museum
Los Angeles, United States
Hollywood and Detroit on Wilshire
⭐ 4.7(5,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#108
🏛️ History & Civilization
Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation
Dearborn, United States
America's innovation story
⭐ 4.7(16,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#109
🔬 Science & Industry
Museum of Science and Industry
Chicago, United States
Hands-on science in the last building of the 1893 World's Fair
⭐ 4.7(11,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#110
🔬 Science & Industry
Exploratorium
San Francisco, United States
The original hands-on science museum
⭐ 4.7(9,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#111
🦖 Natural History
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, United States
Aquarium, planetarium, rainforest, museum — under one living roof
⭐ 4.7(17,000 reviews)🏆 LEED Platinum
#112
🏛️ History & Civilization
Te Papa Tongarewa
Wellington, New Zealand
Our place: New Zealand's national museum
⭐ 4.8(17,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#113
🦖 Natural History
Te Papa Wai – Ulster Museum
Belfast, United Kingdom
Northern Ireland's flagship
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#114
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
MoMA PS1
New York, United States
Experimental contemporary art in Long Island City
⭐ 4.3(4,000 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
#117
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
National Museum of Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq
Mesopotamia's homecoming
⭐ 4.7(600 reviews)🏆 Cultural recovery story
#118
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Sumida Hokusai Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Kazuyo Sejima's home for The Great Wave
⭐ 4.4(1,700 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#121
🏛️ History & Civilization
Asian Civilisations Museum
Singapore, Singapore
Pan-Asian heritage on the Singapore River
⭐ 4.6(6,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#122
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
Singapore's oldest museum
⭐ 4.6(8,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#123
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Bardo National Museum
Tunis, Tunisia
The world's largest Roman mosaic collection
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 Roman mosaic collection unique in the world
#124
🦖 Natural History
Iziko South African Museum
Cape Town, South Africa
South Africa's oldest museum
⭐ 4.5(3,500 reviews)🏆 South Africa's oldest museum
#125
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
Apartheid Museum
Johannesburg, South Africa
The story of 20th-century South Africa
⭐ 4.8(12,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#126
🏛️ History & Civilization
Royal Museum for Central Africa
Tervuren, Belgium
Reckoning with Belgium's colonial history
⭐ 4.5(4,500 reviews)🏆 European Museum Reckoning
#127
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich, Germany
Four museums in one Munich landmark
⭐ 4.5(4,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#132
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Musée Marmottan Monet
Paris, France
The world's largest Monet collection
⭐ 4.6(4,500 reviews)🏆 Largest Monet collection
#133
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Petit Palais
Paris, France
Paris's free Beaux-Arts gem
⭐ 4.7(7,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#134
🏛️ History & Civilization
Musée Carnavalet
Paris, France
Paris told through its own history museum
⭐ 4.7(5,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#135
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Palais de Tokyo
Paris, France
Europe's largest contemporary art centre
⭐ 4.2(5,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#136
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Bode Museum
Berlin, Germany
Sculpture and Byzantine art on Museum Island
⭐ 4.6(5,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO Museum Island
#137
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Neues Museum
Berlin, Germany
Home of Nefertiti's bust
⭐ 4.7(16,000 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
#139
🕯️ Memorial & Remembrance
Topography of Terror
Berlin, Germany
On the site of Gestapo headquarters
⭐ 4.7(17,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#140
🏛️ History & Civilization
Jewish Museum Berlin
Berlin, Germany
Daniel Libeskind's zigzag of memory
⭐ 4.6(11,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#141
🏛️ History & Civilization
DDR Museum
Berlin, Germany
Hands-on East German daily life
⭐ 4.5(19,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#142
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Lenbachhaus
Munich, Germany
The world's largest Blue Rider collection
⭐ 4.6(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#143
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Glyptothek
Munich, Germany
Ludwig I's temple to Greek and Roman sculpture
⭐ 4.6(2,500 reviews)🏆 First sculpture-only museum
#144
👑 Palace & Royal
Schloss Charlottenburg
Berlin, Germany
Berlin's largest surviving Hohenzollern palace
⭐ 4.6(14,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#145
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's national museum of fine arts
⭐ 4.7(7,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#146
🏛️ History & Civilization
Skansen
Stockholm, Sweden
The world's first open-air museum
⭐ 4.7(14,000 reviews)🏆 First open-air museum
#147
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Vigeland Park (Vigeland Museum)
Oslo, Norway
212 Vigeland sculptures in Frogner Park
⭐ 4.7(22,000 reviews)🏆 Free park entry
#148
🏛️ History & Civilization
Viking Ship Museum
Oslo, Norway
Three Viking longships preserved
⭐ 4.6(11,000 reviews)🏆 Reopening 2027
#149
🏛️ History & Civilization
Nobel Prize Museum
Stockholm, Sweden
Stories of the Nobel laureates
⭐ 4.4(7,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#150
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Ateneum
Helsinki, Finland
Finland's national art museum
⭐ 4.6(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#151
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of Scotland
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Scotland's encyclopedic museum
⭐ 4.8(32,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#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
#154
🏛️ History & Civilization
Imperial War Museum London
London, United Kingdom
Britain's military history
⭐ 4.7(17,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#155
🏛️ History & Civilization
Churchill War Rooms
London, United Kingdom
Churchill's secret WWII bunker
⭐ 4.8(39,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#156
🏛️ History & Civilization
Tower of London
London, United Kingdom
950 years of royal fortress, prison and treasury
⭐ 4.7(75,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#157
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Wallace Collection
London, United Kingdom
An aristocratic London town house museum
⭐ 4.8(5,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#158
🏛️ History & Civilization
Sir John Soane's Museum
London, United Kingdom
An architect's wonder cabinet on Lincoln's Inn Fields
⭐ 4.8(5,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#159
🔬 Science & Industry
Royal Observatory Greenwich
London, United Kingdom
Stand on the Prime Meridian
⭐ 4.6(8,500 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage (Maritime Greenwich)
#160
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Maritime Museum
London, United Kingdom
Britain's seafaring heritage in Greenwich
⭐ 4.6(11,000 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#161
🏛️ History & Civilization
Museum of London / London Museum
London, United Kingdom
Reopening at Smithfield as the London Museum
⭐ 4.6(6,500 reviews)🏆 Reopening 2026
#162
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Walker Art Gallery
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The 'National Gallery of the North'
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#163
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Tate Liverpool
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Tate's flagship outside London
⭐ 4.5(5,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#164
🏛️ History & Civilization
Beatles Story
Liverpool, United Kingdom
The world's largest permanent Beatles exhibition
⭐ 4.5(18,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#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
#166
🪑 Design & Decorative
Glasgow School of Art / Mackintosh
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece, being rebuilt
⭐ 4.6(3,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#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
#174
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, United States
The largest Warhol museum in the world
⭐ 4.7(4,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#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
#177
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Walker Art Center
Minneapolis, United States
Contemporary art with a free sculpture garden
⭐ 4.6(5,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#178
🪑 Design & Decorative
Glass Museum / Museum of Glass
Tacoma, United States
Watch hot glass being blown
⭐ 4.6(3,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#179
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Chihuly Garden and Glass
Seattle, United States
Dale Chihuly's hot-house glass garden
⭐ 4.8(22,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#180
🏛️ History & Civilization
Museum of Anthropology UBC
Vancouver, Canada
First Nations art in Arthur Erickson's modernist temple
⭐ 4.8(4,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#185
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Frans Hals Museum
Haarlem, Netherlands
The world's finest Frans Hals collection
⭐ 4.6(3,500 reviews)🏆 Largest Frans Hals collection
#186
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Rijksmuseum Schiphol Airport branch
Schiphol, Netherlands
Dutch Golden Age between flights
⭐ 4.5(1,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#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
#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
#190
🏛️ History & Civilization
Sagrada Família Museum
Barcelona, Spain
Inside Gaudí's masterpiece
⭐ 4.8(192,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#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
#192
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Joan Miró Foundation
Barcelona, Spain
Joan Miró's foundation in Josep Lluís Sert's modernist building
⭐ 4.6(9,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#193
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Pompeii Archaeological Park (and Museum)
Pompeii, Italy
A Roman city frozen in volcanic ash
⭐ 4.7(84,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO World Heritage
#194
🏺 Archaeology & Antiquity
Capitoline Museums
Rome, Italy
The world's oldest public museum
⭐ 4.7(16,000 reviews)🏆 Oldest public museum
#195
🖼️ Art & Encyclopedic
Villa Borghese (Galleria Borghese)
Rome, Italy
Bernini sculptures in Cardinal Scipione's villa
⭐ 4.8(16,000 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#196
👑 Palace & Royal
Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale)
Venice, Italy
Seat of the Venetian Republic
⭐ 4.7(60,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO Venice
#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
#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
#201
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Queensland Art Gallery & GOMA
Brisbane, Australia
Two galleries on Brisbane's South Bank
⭐ 4.7(6,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#202
🔬 Science & Industry
Powerhouse Museum / Powerhouse Ultimo
Sydney, Australia
Sydney's applied arts and science museum
⭐ 4.4(6,500 reviews)🏆 Australia's largest science museum
#203
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA)
Sydney, Australia
Contemporary art on Circular Quay
⭐ 4.5(6,500 reviews)🏆 Free entry
#204
🏛️ History & Civilization
Tai Kwun – Centre for Heritage and Arts
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Hong Kong's heritage prison turned art centre
⭐ 4.6(11,000 reviews)🏆 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Award
#205
🏛️ History & Civilization
Hong Kong Heritage Museum
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bruce Lee, Cantonese Opera and Hong Kong stories
⭐ 4.5(1,700 reviews)🏆 Free admission to most galleries
#206
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of History
Taipei, Taiwan
Chinese cultural treasures in Taipei
⭐ 4.4(1,100 reviews)🏆 Recently renovated
#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
#209
🏛️ History & Civilization
Edo-Tokyo Museum / Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo's history from Edo to today
⭐ 4.6(9,000 reviews)🏆 Reopening 2026
#210
🎭 Artist & Single-Subject
Ghibli Museum
Mitaka, Japan
Step inside a Hayao Miyazaki film
⭐ 4.7(7,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#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
#213
🎨 Modern & Contemporary
Singapore ArtScience Museum
Singapore, Singapore
Moshe Safdie's lotus on Marina Bay
⭐ 4.5(25,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#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
#216
🏛️ History & Civilization
National Museum of Qatar
Doha, Qatar
Jean Nouvel's desert rose
⭐ 4.7(6,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#217
🏛️ History & Civilization
Etihad Museum
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
How the UAE was founded
⭐ 4.7(6,500 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#218
🔬 Science & Industry
Museum of the Future
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Inside the calligraphy-clad torus
⭐ 4.6(14,000 reviews)🏆 Architectural icon
#219
🪑 Design & Decorative
Yves Saint Laurent Museum
Marrakech, Morocco
Beside the Jardin Majorelle
⭐ 4.7(9,500 reviews)🏆 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice
#220
🪑 Design & Decorative
Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung
Berlin, Germany
Walter Gropius's last design
⭐ 4.4(2,200 reviews)🏆 Reopening soon