World Art Museums and Galleries

Australia:

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

Canada:

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario.

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec.

Finland:

Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki. Fine art.

France:

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. (English) National Museum of Modern Art.

Musée du Louvre, Paris. (English, Japanese) The most famous art museum in the world with the most famous painting in the world. See also Louvre.edu, virtual visit, and here.

Musée d'Orsay, Paris.

Germany:

Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn.

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg.

Hong Kong:

Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Iceland:

National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik. (English)

Ireland:

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

Israel:

Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Italy:

Uffizi Gallery, Florence. (English.) Includes QuickTimeVR Virtual Reality of some of the galleries and an index of artists with some images such as Botticelli's The Birth of Venus. See also Virtual Uffizi (unofficial guide).

Japan:

National Museum of Art, Osaka. (English)

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. (English)

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. (English)

National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo.

Korea:

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. (English)

Netherlands:

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. (English)

Russia:

Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. (English)

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

South Africa:

South African National Gallery, Cape Town.

Spain:

Museo del Prado, Madrid. (English)

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. See building history.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona. (English)

UK:

The National Gallery, London.

Tate Gallery, London / Liverpool / St. Ives.

National Portrait Gallery, London.

Royal Academy of Arts, London.

Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London.

National Galleries of Scotland.

USA:

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. One of the largest art museums in the world. See the collections and museum shop.

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Tour the collection.

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City. See current exhibitions and the permanent collection.

1998 Best of the Web competition winners.

J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas.

Denver Art Museum, Colorado.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, California.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California.

The Art Institute of Chicago Museum, Illinois.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Seattle Art Museum, Washington.

Bellevue Art Museum, Washington.

The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

Vatican Museum