List of largest art museums
Largest art museums

List of largest art museums

Section Title: Largest art museums
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Art Museums

Rank	Building	Name	City	Country	Gallery space in m2 (sq ft)	Year established

1	-	Louvre	Paris	France	72,735 (782,910)	1792

2	-	State Hermitage Museum	St. Petersburg	Russia	66,842 (719,480)	1764

3	-	National Museum of China	Beijing	China	65,000 (700,000)	1959

4	-	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	United States	58,820 (633,100)	1870

5	-	Vatican Museums	Vatican City (Rome)	Vatican City	43,000 (460,000)	1506

6	-	Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	Japan	38,000 (410,000)	1872

7	-	National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City	Mexico	33,000 (360,000)	1964

8	-	Victoria and Albert Museum	London	United Kingdom	30,658 (330,000)	1852

9	-	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	South Korea	27,090 (291,600)	1909

10	-	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	United States	26,000 (280,000)	1879

11	-	Nanjing Museum	Nanjing	China	26,000 (280,000)	1933

12	British Museum from NE 2.JPG	British Museum	London	United Kingdom	25,700 (277,000)	1753

13	-	National Gallery of Art	Washington	United States	25,200 (271,000)	1937

14	-	MASS MoCA	North Adams	United States	23,225 (249,990)	1999

15	-	Cinquantenaire Museum	Brussels	Belgium	22,000 (240,000)	1835

16	-	Three Gorges Museum	Chongqing	China	20,858 (224,510)	2005

17	-	Museum of Fine Arts	Boston	United States	20,500 (221,000)	1870

18	Shandong Art Museum	Jinan	China	19,700 (212,000)	1977

19	-	Israel Museum	Jerusalem	Israel	18,500 (199,000)	1965

20	-	National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	Singapore	18,000 (190,000)	2015

21	-	Minneapolis Institute of Art	Minneapolis	United States	17,500 (188,000)	1883

22	-	Arsenal (Biennale)	Venice	Italy	17,000 (180,000)	1895

23	-	Musée National d'Art Moderne	Paris	France	17,000 (180,000)	1947

24	Orsay Museum.JPG	Musée d'Orsay	Paris	France	16,853 (181,400)	1986

25	-	Ōtsuka Museum of Art	Naruto	Japan	16,000 (170,000)	1998

26	-	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	San Francisco	United States	15,800 (170,000)	1935

27	-	Museo del Prado	Madrid	Spain	15,400 (166,000)	1819

28	-	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Philadelphia	United States	15,200 (164,000)	1876

29	Denver Art Gallery 02.JPG	Denver Art Museum	Denver	United States	15,000 (160,000)	1918

30	Egyptian museum cairo.JPG	Egyptian Museum	Cairo	Egypt	15,000 (160,000)	1902

31	ReggiaCapodimonte.JPG	Museo di Capodimonte	Naples	Italy	15,000 (160,000)	1757

32	Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo.JPG	Matarazzo Ciccillo (Bienal)	São Paulo	Brazil	15,000 (160,000)	1951

33	Dia Beacon 19.JPG	Dia:Beacon	Beacon, New York	United States	14,900 (160,000)	2003

34	-	Dallas Museum of Art	Dallas	United States	14,800 (159,000)	1903

35	-	Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid	Spain	14,756 (158,830)	1992

36	-	MMCA, Gwacheon	Gwacheon	South Korea	14,144 (152,240)	1969

37	Detroit Institute of Arts - IMG 8923.JPG	Detroit Institute of Arts	Detroit	United States	14,000 (150,000)	1885

38	-	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna	Austria	14,000 (150,000)	1891

39	-	Tokyo National Art Center	Tokyo	Japan	14,000 (150,000)	2007

40	-	National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts	Taichung	Taiwan	13,600 (146,000)	1988

41	-	National Gallery in Prague (Veletržní)	Prague	Czech Republic	13,500 (145,000)	1796

42	-	Indianapolis Museum of Art	Indianapolis	United States	13,300 (143,000)	1883

43	Bayerisches Nationalmuseum.JPG	Bavarian National Museum	Munich	Germany	13,000 (140,000)	1855

44	Brooklyn Museum June 2008 sunset jeh.JPG	Brooklyn Museum	New York City	United States	13,000 (140,000)	1895

45	-	Capital Museum	Beijing	China	13,000 (140,000)	1981

46	-	Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	Montreal	Canada	13,000 (140,000)	1860

47	Galería Nacional, Londres, Inglaterra, 2014-08-07, DD 035.JPG	National Gallery	London	United Kingdom	13,000 (140,000)	1824

48	National Gallery of Victoria ext 01.JPG	National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda Road)	Melbourne	Australia	13,000 (140,000)	1861

49	Palais-de-Tokyo-lumière8.JPG	Palais de Tokyo	Paris	France	13,000 (140,000)	2001

50	Salarjung Musium.JPG	Salar Jung Museum	Hyderabad	India	13,000 (140,000)	1855

51	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - entrance Fall2010.JPG	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	Richmond	United States	12,500 (135,000)	1934

52	Tate Modern - exteriér I. (3. 10. 2004).JPG	Tate Modern	London	United Kingdom	12,427 (133,760)	2000

53	-	Cleveland Museum of Art	Cleveland	United States	12,400 (133,000)	1913

54	-	National Gallery of Canada	Ottawa	Canada	12,400 (133,000)	1880

55	-	Hamburger Kunsthalle	Hamburg	Germany	12,000 (130,000)	1869

56	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam) 2.JPG	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen	Rotterdam	Netherlands	12,000 (130,000)	1849

57	MFAHCarolineWeissLaw.JPG	Houston Museum of Fine Arts	Houston	United States	12,000 (130,000)	1900

58	-	National Gallery of Modern Art	New Delhi	India	12,000 (130,000)	1954

59	-	Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille	Lille	France	12,000 (130,000)	1809

60	-	Pinakothek der Moderne	Munich	Germany	12,000 (130,000)	2002

61	-	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	Netherlands	12,000 (130,000)	1800

62	Moscow, Krymsky Val Street 10-14 2014 02.JPG	Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val)	Moscow	Russia	12,000 (130,000)	1985

63	-	Milwaukee Art Museum	Milwaukee	United States	11,900 (128,000)	1882

64	-	Taipei Fine Arts Museum	Taipei	Taiwan	11,700 (126,000)	1983

65	-	Museum of Modern Art	New York City	United States	11,600 (125,000)	1929

66	-	Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto	Canada	11,500 (124,000)	1900

67	-	Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	Australia	11,000 (120,000)	1874

68	Muzeum Kapitolinskie.JPG	Capitoline Museums	Rome	Italy	11,000 (120,000)	1734

69	Fondazione prada, milano, cortile 02.JPG	Fondazione Prada	Milan	Italy	11,000 (120,000)	1993

70	Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao.JPG	Guggenheim Museum	Bilbao	Spain	11,000 (120,000)	1997

71	-	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles	United States	11,000 (120,000)	1910

71	MAC-USP, fachada 5.JPG	MAC-University of São Paulo	São Paulo	Brazil	11,000 (120,000)	1963

72	-	Pergamon Museum	Berlin	Germany	11,000 (120,000)	1910

73	Shaanxi History Museum 2.JPG	Shaanxi History Museum	Xi'an	China	11,000 (120,000)	1991

74	-	HangarBicocca	Milan	Italy	10,900 (117,000)	2012

75	-	Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya	Barcelona	Spain	10,500 (113,000)	1934

76	-	Tibet Museum	Lhasa	China	10,500 (113,000)	1999

77	Portland Art Museum Mark Building - Oregon.JPG	Portland Art Museum	Portland, Oregon	United States	10,400 (112,000)	1892

78	-	Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest	Budapest, Hungary	Hungary	10,300 (111,000)	1906

79	Carnegie Museum of Art.JPG	Carnegie Museum of Art	Pittsburgh	United States	10,000 (110,000)	1896

80	-	Hamburger Bahnhof	Berlin	Germany	10,000 (110,000)	1996

81	-	Kunstmuseum Basel	Basel	Switzerland	10,000 (110,000)	1936

82	-	MAXXI	Rome	Italy	10,000 (110,000)	2010

83	-	Museo Egizio	Turin	Italy	10,000 (110,000)	1824

84	-	Museum Kunstpalast	Düsseldorf	Germany	10,000 (110,000)	1913

85	-	MMCA, Seoul	Seoul	South Korea	10,000 (110,000)	2013

86	-	National Museum, Poznań	Poznań	Poland	10,000 (110,000)	1857

87	-	Russian Museum	Saint-Petersburg	Russia	10,000 (110,000)	1895

88	Stlouisartmuseum.JPG	Saint Louis Art Museum	St. Louis	United States	10,000 (110,000)	1881

89	-	Museums of Sforza Castle	Milan	Italy	10,000 (110,000)	1896

90	-	Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Tel Aviv	Israel	10,000 (110,000)	1932

91	-	National Palace Museum	Taipei	Taiwan	9,613 (103,470)	1925

92	-	National Archaeological Museum	Madrid	Spain	9,300 (100,000)	1867

93	-	Musée Fabre	Montpellier	France	9,300 (100,000)	1828

94	Bardo Museum east-1.JPG	Bardo National Museum	Tunis	Tunisia	9,000 (97,000)	1888

95	-	Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine	Paris	France	9,000 (97,000)	1879

96	-	National Museum, New Delhi	New Delhi	India	9,000 (97,000)	1809

97	-	National Gallery	Oslo	Norway	9,000 (97,000)	1842

98	-	Power Station of Art (Biennale)	Shanghai	China	9,000 (97,000)	2012

99	-	Smithsonian American Art Museum	Washington, D.C.	United States	8,800 (95,000)	1829

99	-	Musée du quai Branly	Paris	France	8,750 (94,200)	2006

100	-	Liaoning Provincial Museum	Shenyang	China	8,500 (91,000)	1949

101	Milano Banca Commerciale.JPG	Gallerie di Piazza Scala	Milan	Italy	8,300 (89,000)	2011

102	-	National Art Museum of China	Beijing	China	8,300 (89,000)	1958

103	-	Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	Italy	8,000 (86,000)	1581

104	-	Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna	Rome	Italy	8,000 (86,000)	1883

105	-	Gemäldegalerie	Berlin	Germany	8,000 (86,000)	1830

106	Louvre Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	UAE	8,000 (86,000)	2017

107	-	Museum Ludwig	Cologne	Germany	8,000 (86,000)	1976

108	-	National Archaeological Museum	Athens	Greece	8,000 (86,000)	1866

109	-	Neues Museum	Berlin	Germany	8,000 (86,000)	1855

110	-	Petit Palais	Paris	France	8,000 (86,000)	1902

111	-	Pushkin Museum	Moscow	Russia	8,000 (86,000)	1898

112	-	Stedelijk Museum	Amsterdam	Netherlands	8,000 (86,000)	1874

113	-	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	Madrid	Spain	8,000 (86,000)	1992

114	-	Toledo Museum of Art	Toledo, Ohio	United States	8,000 (86,000)	1901

115	-	Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow	Russia	8,000 (86,000)	1856

116	-	de Young	San Francisco	United States	7,900 (85,000)	1895

117	-	Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Kansas City	United States	7,900 (85,000)	1933

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The Bavarian National Museum in Munich is one of the largest art museums in Germany.

final_sentence: The Bavarian National Museum in Munich is one of the largest art museums in Germany.