List of museums - Definition and Overview

The list of museums is a link page for any museum anywhere.

See also: Museum, Science museum, Art gallery, List of transport museums

Australia

• Powerhouse Museum, a science museum in Sydney
• National Museum of Australia, a national museum located in the nation's capital, Canberra.
• The National Science and Technology Centre (commonly known as Questacon), located in Canberra. This is aimed at children and has a large number of school group visits.
• The Australian Museum is the oldest museum in Australia, previously called The Sydney Museum.
• The Australian War Memorial is a war memorial/museum. One of Canberra's biggest tourist attractions it is widely considered one of the best museums in the world.
• The Melbourne Museum in Melbourne.

Belgium

• Groeningemuseum, Bruges
• Horta Museum, Brussels
• Municipal Contemporary Art Museum, Ghent
• Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
• Royal Museums of Fine Art of Belgium, Brussels

Canada

• Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
• National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
• Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver
• Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Burnaby
• Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau
• Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
• Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta
• Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montreal

Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong

• National Museum of Taiwanese Literature, Tainan
• National Palace Museum, Taipei
• Palace Museum, Beijing
• National Museum, Beijing
• Natural Museum, Beijing
• Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an
• Shanghai Museum, Shanghai
• Stele Forest Museum, Xi'an

See also: Museums in Hong Kong

Denmark

• The National Museum of Denmark

Egypt

• Egyptian Museum
• Museum of Islamic Ceramics

France

• Cité de l'espace, Toulouse
• Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris
• Louvre Museum, Paris
• Musée d'art moderne et contemporain of Strasbourg, Strasbourg
• Musée de Cluny, Paris
• Musée du Montparnasse, Paris
• Musée National d'Art Moderne, in the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Musée d'Orsay, Paris
• Musée Rodin, Paris

Germany

• Deutsches Museum, Munich
• German Museum of Technology (Berlin)
• Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg
• Humboldt Museum, Berlin.
• Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover
• Kestner-Museum, Hanover
• Museum Ludwig, Bonn
• Pergamon Museum, Berlin
• Sprengel Museum, Hanover
• Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne
• Wilhelm-Busch-Museum, Hanover
• Zwinger, Dresden

Greece

• List of museums in Greece

Hungary

• Hungarian National Museum, Budapest

Iceland

• The Reykjavik Art Museum (http://www.listasafnreykjavikur.is/index.en.shtml)

India

• Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad
• Nalanda Archaeological Museum, Nalanda, Bihar
• Gandhi Museum, Delhi
• Shankar's International Dolls Museum, New Delhi
• Nehru Museum & Planetarium, New Delhi
• Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, Himachal Pradesh
• Visvesvaraya Industrial And Technological Museum, Bangalore
• Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai

Iraq

• National Museum of Iraq

Republic of Ireland

• Museums in the Republic of Ireland

Italy

• Florence
  • Accademia
  • Bargello
  • Pitti Palace
  • Galleria degli Uffizi
  • Vinci: Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci
• Genoa
  • Galleria di Palazzo Bianco
  • Galleria di Palazzo Rosso
  • Museo di Palazzo Reale
• Milan
  • Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
  • Galleria d'Arte Moderna
  • Pinacoteca di Brera
  • Museo Poldi-Pezzoli
  • Museo Nazionale della Scienza e della Tecnologia
• Monza
  • Museo Serpero
• Naples
  • Museo Archeologico Nazionale
  • Museo delle Ferrovie
• Rome
  • Museo di arte contemporanea
  • Galleria Borghese
  • Musei Vaticani
• Priverno, near Rome
  • Il giardino di Archimede, Un museo per la matematica
• Venice
  • Peggy Guggenheim Collection
  • Gallerie dell'Accademia

Israel

• Jerusalem
  • Yad Vashem

Japan

• Tokyo
  • Tokyo National Museum
  • National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation
  • National Science Museum
  • Edo-Tokyo Museum
  • Idemitsu Museum of Arts
  • Bridgestone Museum of Art
  • Suntory Museum of Art

• Other Areas
  • Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum, Yokohama
  • National Museum of Japanese History, Sakura, Chiba
  • Toshiba Science Institute, Kawasaki, Kanagawa
  • Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto
  • Nara National Museum, Nara
  • Meiji Mura Open-Air Architectural Museum, Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture
  • National Museum of Ethnology, Suita, Osaka
  • Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume, Fukuoka

Netherlands

• Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo
• Lakenhal, Leiden
• Mauritshuis, The Hague
• Molen de Valk, Leiden
• Museon, The Hague
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• National Museum of Antiquities (Leiden), Leiden
• Naturalis, Leiden
• Nemo, Amsterdam
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal, Leiden
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

New Zealand

• Te Papa, Wellington (http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/)
• Auckland Museum, Auckland (http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/)

Portugal

• Casa de Serralves-Museu de Arte Contemporânea (http://www.serralves.pt/)
• Casa Museu Abel Salazar (http://www.geira.pt/CMAbelSalazar/)
• Casa Museu de Camilo (http://www.geira.pt/CMCamilo/)
• Cinemateca Portuguesa - Museu do Cinema (http://www.cinemateca.pt/entrada.asp)
• Museu Botânico (http://www.esab.ipbeja.pt/museu/)
• Museu Calouste Gulbenkian (http://www.ipq.pt/museu/), Lisboa
• Museu da Água (http://museudaagua.epal.pt/)
• Museu da Marinha (http://www.museumarinha.pt)
• Museu da Música (http://www.museudamusica-ipmuseus.pt/)
• Museu da Ribeira Grande (http://www.bib-pub-ribeira-grande.rcts.pt/), Açores
• Museu de Angra do Heroísmo (http://www.museuangraheroismo.org/), Angra do Heroísmo
• Museu de Cera de Fátima (http://www.mucefa.pt/), Fátima
• Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém (http://www.cm-loures.pt/aa_PatrimonioRedeMuseusSacavemA.asp), Sacavém
• Museu de Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa (http://www.museu-de-ciencia.ul.pt/)
• Museu de Conimbriga (http://www.conimbriga.pt/portugues/museu.html)
• Museu de Jazigos Naturais Portugueses (http://www.igm.ineti.pt/document/centros/museu_jazigos.htm), São Mamede de Infesta
• Museu de Lamego (http://www.rpmuseus-pt.org/Pt/cont/fichas/museu_46.html), Lamego
• Museu de Metrologia (http://www.ipq.pt/museu/)
• Museu do Ar (http://www.emfa.pt/museu/pag1a.asp), Alverca do Ribatejo
• Museu do Automóvel Antigo (http://www.cm-oeiras.pt/Museus/Automovel/Automovel.htm), Oeiras
• Museu do Azulejo (http://www.mnazulejo-ipmuseus.pt/), Lisboa
• Museu do Brinquedo (http://www.museu-do-brinquedo.pt/1000/default.asp), Sintra
• Museu do Carro Eléctrico (http://museu-carro-electrico.stcp.pt/), Porto
• Museu do Chiado (http://www.museudochiado-ipmuseus.pt/), Lisboa
• Museu do Desporto (http://www.sedesporto.pt/museu.htm)
• Museu do Douro (http://www.museudodouro.pt/)
• Museu do Mar (http://www.mun-sesimbra.pt/Turismo/mmar.htm), Sesimbra
• Museu do Relógio (http://www.museudorelogio.pa-net.pt/)
• Museu do Teatro Romano (http://www.museu-teatroromano.net/), Lisboa
• Museu do Traje e da Moda (http://www.museudotraje-ipmuseus.pt/cgi-bin/sthm_2.asp?LINGUA=1), Lisboa
• Museu do Trajo do Algarve  (http://www.museu-trajo-algarve.web.pt/), São Brás de Alportel
• Museu dos Cristos (http://www.cm-sousel.pt/tur.htm#top), Sousel
• Museu dos Transportes e Comunicações (http://www.amtc.pt/museu/)
• Museu Geológico de Lisboa (http://www.igm.ineti.pt/document/centros/museu_geologico.htm)
• Museu Militar do Porto (http://ave.dee.isep.ipp.pt/~jml/mmp/), Porto
• Museu Municipal de Baião (http://www.geira.pt/museus/atrio/index.asp?id=6), Baião
• Museu Municipal de Esposende (http://www.geira.pt/museus/atrio/index.asp?id=2), Esposende
• Museu Municipal de Loures (http://www.museu-loures.com/index.html), Loures
• Museu Municipal de Viana do Castelo (http://www.cm-viana-castelo.pt/mmunicipal/mmunicipal.htm), Viana do Castelo
• Museu Nacional de Arqueologia (http://www.mnarqueologia-ipmuseus.pt/?a=0&x=3), Lisboa
• Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (http://www.mnarteantiga-ipmuseus.pt/), Lisboa
• Museu Nacional de Etnologia (http://www.mnetnologia-ipmuseus.pt/), Lisboa
• Museu Nacional de História Natural (http://www.ul.pt/mnhn.html)
• Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro (http://www.rpmuseus-pt.org/Pt/cont/fichas/museu_75.html), Coimbra
• Museu Nacional do Teatro (http://www.museudoteatro-ipmuseus.pt/home.asp)
• Museu Nacional dos Coches (http://www.museudoscoches-ipmuseus.pt/)
• Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis (http://www.mnsr-ipmuseus.pt/museu/apresentacao/index.html), Porto
• Museu Virtual da Imprensa (http://www.imultimedia.pt/museuvirtpress)
• Museu Virtual da Informática (http://piano.dsi.uminho.pt/museuv/)

Russia

• Pushkin Museum
• The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Spain

Catalunya - Catalonia

• Museo Picasso, Barcelona
• Mirò, Barcelona
• Music, Barcelona
• Teatro Museo Gala Salvador Dalí, Figueres

Madrid

• • Museo del Prado
  • Caserón del Buen Retiro
  • Thyssen Bornemisza Museum
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia

Others

• Archaeological Museum of Asturias
• Diocesan Museum, Oviedo
• Fine Arts Museum of Asturias
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
• Holy Chamber, Oviedo
• Tabularium Artis Asturiensis, Oviedo

Sweden

• Swedish Museum of Architecture
• Millesgården
• Swedish Dance Museum
• Drottningholm Theatre Museum
• Kiruna Centre for Conservation of Cultural Property
• Royal Swedish Armoury
• Skokloster Castle
• Hallwyl Museum
• Swedish Modern Museum
• Swedish National Museum of Fine Arts
• Prince Eugen's Waldemarsudde
• Swedish Museum of Natural History
• Swedish National Museum of Cultural History
• Swedish Travelling Exhibitions
• Rooseum
• Röhss Museum
• Skansen
• Swedish Army Museum
• Swedish Museum of National Antiquities
• Swedish National Museums of World Culture
• Swedish National Collections of Music
• Swedish National Maritime Museums
• Strindberg Museum
• Swedish National Museum of Science and Technology
• Thiel Gallery
• Zorn Collections
• Museum of Work
• The Vasa Museum

Turkey

• Topkapi Museum

United Kingdom

• Museums in England
• Museums in Northern Ireland
• Museums in Scotland
• Museums in Wales
• List of British railway museums

United States

See: List of museums in the United States

External links

• Virtual Library museums pages (http://vlmp.museophile.com) (VLmp)
• Great Museums in the World (http://www.insecula.com/) (Louvre, Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, Picasso, ...)