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The Best Art Museums

best art museums

The best art museums in the world document a culture’s and an artist’s experience within a chronology and a social environment, which helps visitors comprehend an artwork and how it represents the settings in which it was made.  A museum is a facility that preserves things of aesthetic, historical, cultural, or scientific significance.

#1

The Uffizi Gallery Florence, Italy

#2

Mauritshuis The Hague, Netherlands

#3

The British Museum London, United Kingdom

#4

Winter Palace Saint Petersburg, Russia

#5

The Louvre Museum Paris, France

#6

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Holland

#7

Museo del Prado Madrid, Spain

#8

National Gallery London, United Kingdom

#9

Victoria and Albert Museum  London, United Kingdom

#10

Metropolitan Museum of Art  New York, United States

#11

The Art Institute of Chicago  Chicago, United States

#12

Pergamon Museum Berlin, Germany

#13

The Museum of Modern Art  New York, United States

#14

National Gallery of Art  Washington DC, United States

#15

Gold Museum Bogota, Colombia

#16

National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City, Mexico

#17

The Van Gogh Museum  Amsterdam, Netherlands

#18

The Musée d’Orsay Paris, France

#19

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Wellington, New Zealand

#20

Tate Modern London, United Kingdom

#21

Acropolis Museum Athens, Greece