List Of Largest Museums

The world's most preeminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.

The following is a list of museums ranked according to their floor area where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 20,000 square meters (220,000 sq ft) of floor space are included. Entries are not ranked as large museums that do not have reliably-sourced statistics may be omitted; this is not necessarily a complete list.

Building	Name	Year established	Subject	Floor area	Exhibition space	Collection	City	Country
	Louvre	1792	Art, architecture, history	758,000 m2 (8,160,000 sq ft)	72,735 m2 (782,910 sq ft)	More than 380,000 (35,000 on display)	Paris	France
	State Hermitage Museum	1764	Art	233,345 m2 (2,511,700 sq ft)	66,842 m2 (719,480 sq ft)	3,150,428	Saint Petersburg	Russia
	British Museum	1753	Archaeology and art	92,000 m2 (990,000 sq ft)	65,752 m2 (707,750 sq ft)	More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world)	London	United Kingdom
	National Museum of China	1959	Archaeology and art	191,900 m2 (2,066,000 sq ft)	65,000 m2 (700,000 sq ft)	More than 1.4 million	Beijing	China
	Grand Egyptian Museum	2021 (projected)	Archaeology	81,000 m2 (870,000 sq ft)	38,000 m2 (410,000 sq ft)	over 100,000 artifacts	Giza	Egypt
	Museum of Science and Industry	1933	Science and technology		37,000 m2 (400,000 sq ft)	more than 35,000	Chicago	United States
	Minneapolis Institute of Art	1883	Art	50,600 m2 (545,000 sq ft)	32,000 m2 (340,000 sq ft)	More than 100,000	Minneapolis	United States
	National Museum of Natural History	1910	Natural history	123,000 m2 (1,320,000 sq ft)	30,200 m2 (325,000 sq ft)	(Artifacts not samples)	Washington, D.C.	United States
	Victoria and Albert Museum	1852	Art		30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft)	2,278,183 (60,124 on display)	London	United Kingdom
	Metropolitan Museum of Art	1870	Art	190,000 m2 (2,000,000 sq ft)			New York City	United States
	Palace Museum	1925	Archaeology and art	150,000 m2 (1,600,000 sq ft)		1,862,690	Beijing	China
	National Museum of Korea	1909	Archaeology and art	138,156.26 m2 (1,487,101.6 sq ft)			Seoul	South Korea
	National Gallery of Art	1937	Art	120,000 m2 (1,300,000 sq ft)	25,200 m2 (271,000 sq ft)	More than 150,000	Washington, D.C.	United States
	Art Institute of Chicago	1879	Art	93,000 m2 (1,000,000 sq ft)		Almost 300,000	Chicago	United States
	Israel Museum	1965	Art	80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft)	19,000 m2 (200,000 sq ft)		Jerusalem	Israel
	National Museum of American History	1964	History	70,000 m2 (750,000 sq ft)		More than 1.8 million	Washington, D.C.	United States
	Museum of Modern Art	1929	Art	65,800 m2 (708,000 sq ft)	15,400 m2 (166,000 sq ft)	Almost 200,000	New York City	United States
	National Gallery Singapore	2015	Art	64,000 m2 (690,000 sq ft)		More than 9,000	Singapore	Singapore
	National Air and Space Museum	1946	Aerospace	63,800 m2 (687,000 sq ft)	14,970.9 m2 (161,145 sq ft)	More than 60,000	Washington, D.C.	United States
	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston	1870	Art	57,315.3 m2 (616,937 sq ft)	20,556.4 m2 (221,267 sq ft)	Almost 500,000	Boston	United States
	MASS MoCA	1999	Art	56,000 m2 (600,000 sq ft)	23,000 m2 (250,000 sq ft)	No permanent collection	North Adams	United States
	National Gallery	1824	Archaeology and art	46,396 m2 (499,400 sq ft)			London	United Kingdom
	Three Gorges Museum	2005	Archaeology and art	45,098 m2 (485,430 sq ft)	23,225 m2 (249,990 sq ft)		Chongqing	China
	Vatican Museums	1506	Art	42,000 m2 (450,000 sq ft)			Vatican City	Vatican City
	National Museum of Anthropology	1825	Archaeology			600,000	Mexico City	Mexico
	Shandong Art Museum	1977	Art				Jinan	China
	Birmingham Museum of Art	1951	Art	17,000 m2 (180,000 sq ft)		27,000	Birmingham	United States
	Arsenal (Biennale)	1895	Art				Venice	Italy
	Musée National d'Art Moderne	1947	Art				Paris	France
	Musée d'Orsay	1986	Art				Paris	France
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	1935	Art				San Francisco	United States
	Museo del Prado	1819	Art				Madrid	Spain
	Denver Art Museum	1918	Art				Denver	United States
	Egyptian Museum	1902	Archaeology				Cairo	Egypt
	Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo	1951	Art				São Paulo	Brazil
	Dia Beacon	2003	Art				Beacon	United States
	Dallas Museum of Art	1903	Art				Dallas	United States
	Museo Reina Sofía	1992	Art				Madrid	Spain
	National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art	1969	Art				Gwacheon	South Korea
	Detroit Institute of Arts	1885	Art				Detroit	United States
	Tokyo National Art Center	2007	Art				Tokyo	Japan
	National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts	1988	Art				Taichung	Taiwan
	National Gallery Prague (Veletržní)	1796	Art				Prague	Czech Republic
	Indianapolis Museum of Art	1883	Art				Indianapolis	United States
	Bavarian National Museum	1855	Art				Munich	Germany
	Capital Museum	1981	Archaeology and art				Beijing	China
	Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	1860	Art				Montreal	Canada
	National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda Road)	1861	Art				Melbourne	Australia
	Palais de Tokyo	2001	Art				Paris	France
	Salar Jung Museum	1855	Art				Hyderabad	India
	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	1934	Art				Richmond	United States
	Tate Modern	2000	Art				London	United Kingdom
	Cleveland Museum of Art	1913	Art				Cleveland	United States
	National Gallery of Canada	1880	Art				Ottawa	Canada
	Art Gallery of Ontario	1900	Art				Toronto	Canada
	Hamburger Kunsthalle	1869	Art				Hamburg	Germany
	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen	1849	Art				Rotterdam	Netherlands
	Houston Museum of Fine Arts	1900	Art		27,870 m2 (300,000 sq ft)	~70,000	Houston	United States
	National Gallery of Modern Art	1954	Art				New Delhi	India
	Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille	1809	Art				Lille	France
	Pinakothek der Moderne	2002	Art				Munich	Germany
	Rijksmuseum	1800	Art				Amsterdam	Netherlands
	Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val)	1985	Art				Moscow	Russia
	MUDAM	2006	Art	10,500 m2 (113,000 sq ft)			Luxembourg City	Luxembourg

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