Art museums are some of the largest buildings in the world. The world's most pre-eminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.[1]
The following is a list of art museums ranked according to their gallery space where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 8,000 square meters (86,000 sq ft) of gallery space are included.
Building | Name | City | Country | Gallery space in m2 (sq ft) |
Year established |
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Louvre | Paris | ![]() |
72,735 (782,910)[2] |
1792 |
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State Hermitage Museum | St. Petersburg | ![]() |
66,842 (719,480)[3][note 1] |
1764 |
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National Museum of China | Beijing | ![]() |
65,000 (700,000)[4] |
1959 |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York City | ![]() |
58,820 (633,100)[5] |
1870 |
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Museo del Prado | Madrid | ![]() |
47,700 (513,000)[6] |
1819 |
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Vatican Museums | Vatican City (Rome) | ![]() |
43,000 (460,000)[5] |
1506 |
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Tokyo National Museum | Tokyo | ![]() |
38,000
(410,000)[7] |
1872 |
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National Museum of Anthropology | Mexico City | ![]() |
33,000 (360,000)[8] |
1964 |
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Victoria and Albert Museum | London | ![]() |
30,658 (330,000)[9][10] |
1852 |
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Humboldt Forum | Berlin | ![]() |
29,500
(317,500)[11] |
2020 |
Houston Museum of Fine Arts | Houston | ![]() |
28,000 (300,000)[12] |
1900 | |
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National Museum of Korea | Seoul | ![]() |
27,090 (291,600)[13] |
1909 |
British Museum | London | ![]() |
25,700 (277,000)[5] |
1753 | |
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Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago | ![]() |
26,000 (280,000)[14][note 2] |
1879 |
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Mystetskyi Arsenal | Kyiv | ![]() |
24,000 (260,000)[15] |
2006 |
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National Gallery of Art | Washington, D.C. | ![]() |
25,200 (271,000)[16] |
1937 |
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MASS MoCA | North Adams | ![]() |
23,225 (249,990)[17] |
1999 |
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Art & History Museum | Brussels | ![]() |
22,000
(240,000) |
1835 |
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Museum of Fine Arts | Boston | ![]() |
20,500 (221,000)[18] |
1870 |
Royal Ontario Museum | Ontario | ![]() |
19,900
(214,000)[19] |
1912 | |
Shandong Art Museum | Jinan | ![]() |
19,700 (212,000)[20] |
1977 | |
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Israel Museum | Jerusalem | ![]() |
18,500 (199,000)[21] |
1965 |
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National Gallery Singapore | Singapore | ![]() |
18,000 (190,000)[22] |
2015 |
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Minneapolis Institute of Art | Minneapolis | ![]() |
17,500 (188,000)[23] |
1883 |
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M+ | Kowloon | ![]() |
17,000 (183,000)[24] | 2021 |
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Birmingham Museum of Art | Birmingham | ![]() |
17,000
(180,000)[25] |
1951 |
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Arsenal (Biennale) | Venice | ![]() |
17,000 (180,000)[26] |
1895 |
Musée National d'Art Moderne | Paris | ![]() |
17,000 (180,000)[27] |
1947 | |
Musée d'Orsay | Paris | ![]() |
16,853 (181,400)[28] |
1986 | |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | San Francisco | ![]() |
15,800 (170,000)[29] |
1935 |
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Museum of Modern Art | New York City | ![]() |
15,400 (166,000)[30] |
1929 |
Denver Art Museum | Denver | ![]() |
15,000 (160,000)[31][32] |
1918 | |
Egyptian Museum | Cairo | ![]() |
15,000 (160,000)[33] |
1902 | |
Ciccillo Matarazzo (Bienal) | São Paulo | ![]() |
15,000 (160,000)[34] |
1951 | |
Dia:Beacon | Beacon, New York | ![]() |
14,900 (160,000)[35] |
2003 | |
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Dallas Museum of Art | Dallas | ![]() |
14,800 (159,000)[23] |
1903 |
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Museo Reina Sofía | Madrid | ![]() |
14,756 (158,830)[36][37][note 3] |
1992 |
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MMCA, Gwacheon | Gwacheon | ![]() |
14,144 (152,240)[38] |
1969 |
Detroit Institute of Arts | Detroit | ![]() |
14,000 (150,000)[39] |
1885 | |
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Tokyo National Art Center | Tokyo | ![]() |
14,000 (150,000)[40] |
2007 |
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National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts | Taichung | ![]() |
13,600 (146,000)[41] |
1988 |
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National Gallery in Prague (Veletržní) | Prague | ![]() |
13,500 (145,000)[42] |
1796 |
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Indianapolis Museum of Art | Indianapolis | ![]() |
13,300 (143,000)[43] |
1883 |
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Milwaukee Art Museum | Milwaukee | ![]() |
13,196.4 (142,045)[44] |
1882 |
Bavarian National Museum | Munich | ![]() |
13,000 (140,000)[45] |
1855 | |
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Capital Museum | Beijing | ![]() |
13,000 (140,000)[46][47] |
1981 |
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Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Montreal | ![]() |
13,000 (140,000)[48] |
1860 |
National Gallery | London | ![]() |
13,000 (140,000)[note 4][49] |
1824 | |
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National Gallery of Victoria | Melbourne | ![]() |
19,600 (211,000)[50] |
1861 |
Palais de Tokyo | Paris | ![]() |
13,000 (140,000)[51] |
2001 | |
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Salar Jung Museum | Hyderabad | ![]() |
13,000 (140,000)[52] |
1855 |
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | Richmond | ![]() |
12,500 (135,000)[53] |
1934 | |
Tate Modern | London | ![]() |
12,427 (133,760)[54] |
2000 | |
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Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland | ![]() |
12,400 (133,000)[23] |
1913 |
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National Gallery of Canada | Ottawa | ![]() |
12,400 (133,000)[55] |
1880 |
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Art Gallery of Ontario | Toronto | ![]() |
12,000 (129,000)[56] |
1900 |
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Hamburger Kunsthalle | Hamburg | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[57] |
1869 |
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | Rotterdam | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[58] |
1849 | |
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National Gallery of Modern Art | New Delhi | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[59] |
1954 |
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Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille | Lille | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[60] |
1809 |
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Pinakothek der Moderne | Munich | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[61] |
2002 |
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Rijksmuseum | Amsterdam | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[62] |
1800 |
Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val) | Moscow | ![]() |
12,000 (130,000)[63] |
1985 | |
![]() | Taipei Fine Arts Museum | Taipei | ![]() | 11,700 (126,000)[64] | 1983 |
![]() | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Sydney | ![]() | 11,000 (120,000)[65] | 1874 |
Capitoline Museums | Rome | ![]() | 11,000 (120,000)[66] | 1471 | |
Fondazione Prada | Milan | ![]() | 11,000 (120,000)[67] | 1993 | |
Guggenheim Museum | Bilbao | ![]() | 11,000 (120,000)[68] | 1997 | |
![]() | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | ![]() | 11,000 (120,000)[69] | 1910 |
Shaanxi History Museum | Xi'an | ![]() | 11,000 (120,000)[70] | 1991 | |
![]() | HangarBicocca | Milan | ![]() | 10,900 (117,000)[71] | 2012 |
![]() | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya | Barcelona | ![]() | 10,500 (113,000)[72] | 1934 |
![]() | Tibet Museum | Lhasa | ![]() | 10,500 (113,000)[73] | 1999 |
Portland Art Museum | Portland, Oregon | ![]() | 10,400 (112,000)[74] | 1892 | |
![]() | Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest | Budapest | ![]() | 10,300 (111,000)[75] | 1906 |
Carnegie Museum of Art | Pittsburgh | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[76] | 1896 | |
![]() | Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[77] | 1996 |
![]() | Kunstmuseum Basel | Basel | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[78] | 1936 |
![]() | MAXXI | Rome | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[79] | 2010 |
![]() | Museo Egizio | Turin | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[80] | 1824 |
![]() | Museum Kunstpalast | Düsseldorf | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[81] | 1913 |
![]() | MMCA, Seoul | Seoul | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[82] | 2013 |
Saint Louis Art Museum | St. Louis | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[23] | 1881 | |
![]() | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Tel Aviv | ![]() | 10,000 (110,000)[note 5][83][84] | 1932 |
![]() | National Palace Museum | Taipei | ![]() | 9,613 (103,470)[85] | 1925 |
![]() | National Archaeological Museum | Madrid | ![]() | 9,300 (100,000)[86] | 1867 |
![]() | Musée Fabre | Montpellier | ![]() | 9,300 (100,000)[87] | 1828 |
Bardo National Museum | Tunis | ![]() | 9,000 (97,000)[88] | 1888 | |
![]() | Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine | Paris | ![]() | 9,000 (97,000)[89] | 1879 |
![]() | National Gallery | Oslo | ![]() | 9,000 (97,000)[90] | 1842 |
![]() | Power Station of Art (Biennale) | Shanghai | ![]() | 9,000 (97,000)[91] | 2012 |
![]() | Smithsonian American Art Museum | Washington, D.C. | ![]() | 8,800 (95,000)[92] | 1829 |
![]() | Musée du quai Branly | Paris | ![]() | 8,750 (94,200)[93] | 2006 |
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High Museum of Art | Atlanta | ![]() |
8,714
(93,800)[94] |
1905 |
![]() | Liaoning Provincial Museum | Shenyang | ![]() | 8,500 (91,000)[95] | 1949 |
Gallerie di Piazza Scala | Milan | ![]() | 8,300 (89,000)[96] | 2011 | |
![]() | National Art Museum of China | Beijing | ![]() | 8,300 (89,000)[97] | 1958 |
![]() | Gemäldegalerie | Berlin | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[98] | 1830 |
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Louvre Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[99] | 2017 |
![]() | Museum Ludwig | Cologne | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[100] | 1976 |
![]() | National Archaeological Museum | Athens | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[101] | 1866 |
![]() | Neues Museum | Berlin | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[citation needed] | 1855 |
![]() | Petit Palais | Paris | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[102] | 1902 |
![]() | Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam | ![]() | 8,000 (86,000)[103] | 1874 |
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