The Grand Palace was the official residence of the kings of Siam and later Thailand. Its construction began in 1782.
The Grand Palace is divided into several parts:
- Museum of the Emerald Buddha Temple, created in 1982, where you can see: Phra Thaen Manangsila Throne, a small mother-of-pearl sitting platform called Phra Thaen Song Sabai, stone Buddha images, white elephant bones, lapidarium,
- the Outer Court, with many public buildings,
- the Middle Court, including the Phra Maha Monthien Buildings, the Phra Maha Prasat Buildings and the Chakri Maha Prasat Buildings,
- the Inner Court,
- the Siwalai Gardens quarter.
The entire palace complex has a total area of 218,400 square meters.
Other museums in the Grand Palace are:
- Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles,
- Pavilion of Regalia, Royal Decorations and Coins,
- museum displaying old weapons.

In March 2021, the Grand Palais closed its doors to enter a major renovation phase. This will last until the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games for the Nave and surrounding galleries, and until June 2025 for the rest of the building. 121 years after its creation, the Grand Palais is writing a new page in its history.

Entrée principale de la Nef du Grand Palais © Chatillon Architectes pour le GrandPalaisRmn, 2020

The Great Wall of China - a system of fortifications in North-East China (south of the Mongolian steppe), the total length is over 20,000 km.
The fortifications were built from the 7th century BC to the 19th century AD.
The Great Wall of China museums are located in:
- Badaling, Yanqing District (within Beijing municipality), opened in 1994, covers an area of 3,200 square meters,
- Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province, built in 2001, covers an area of 12,312 square meters with an exhibition area of about 1,766 square meters, has more than 6,000 cultural monuments,
- Shanhaiguan, Shanhaiguan District, Prefecture-level city Qinhuangdao, Province Hebei, opened in 1991.

Guangdong Museum was founded in 1959.
Guangdong Museum collects:
1) Chinese art:
- Ceramics: A large collection of pottery from various dynasties, including porcelain from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties,
- Painting and calligraphy: Traditional Chinese paintings and calligraphy, both historical and contemporary,
2) Guangdong culture and history:
- Historical Artifacts: Everyday objects, tools and artifacts that document the history and culture of the Guangdong region,
- Ethnography: Objects related to ethnic minorities living in Guangdong province,
3) Natural history:
- Fossils: Paleontological collections, including plant and animal fossils from various geological periods,
- Zoological and botanical specimens: Collections related to the biodiversity of the region,
4) Arts and crafts and jewelry:
- Artistic crafts: Objects made of wood, jade, metal and other materials, showing traditional craft techniques,
- Jewelry and ornaments: Examples of traditional jewelry and ornaments from various historical periods,
5) Numismatics:
- Coins and banknotes: Collections of coins and banknotes that illustrate China's financial and economic history.
Guangdong Museum has approximately 166,000 exhibits in its collection. Of this number, approximately 13,000 exhibits are regularly exhibited in various museum exhibitions, both permanent and temporary.
Guangdong Museum covers an area of approximately 67,000 square meters. The exhibition area of Guangdong Museum is approximately 21,000 square meters.

The Guangdong Museum of Revolutionary History was founded in 1959.
The museum is located in the building of the former Guangdong Advisory Bureau in the Guangzhou Uprising Martyrs Cemetery of Guangdong Province.
The exhibitions show the struggle of the local people for national independence from the Opium War in 1840 to the national liberation in 1949, including the Civil Revolutionary War (1927-1937, 1946-1949).
The museum covers an area of 2000 square meters. At permanent exhibitions, it presents 13,000 exhibits and 13,000 archival photos.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao opened in 1997 is a museum of modern and contemporary art.
The total area of ​​the museum building is 24,000 square meters. The exhibitions cover about 11,000 square meters.

Panoramic view of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Guinness Storehouse opened to the public on December 2, 2000. The building it is located in dates back to 1904 and was originally used as a fermentation warehouse at the Guinness brewery.
The Guinness Storehouse is an interactive museum dedicated to the history and heritage of the Guinness brand. The museum creates a fascinating story about the over 250-year-old tradition of one of the most recognizable beers in the world. Its collection includes a number of exhibits that show the beer brewing process, the history of the brewery and the brand's influence on culture and advertising. The highlights of the exhibition include:
1. Guinness History: Exhibits illustrating the brewery's origins from its founding by Arthur Guinness in 1759, including the original 9,000-year lease.
2. Beer brewing process: Presentation of the individual stages of Guinness beer production, such as the selection of ingredients (water, barley, hops, yeast), fermentation, maturation and packaging.
3. Advertising and Marketing: A collection of posters, television commercials and other promotional materials that reflect the brand's iconic advertising campaigns over the years.
4. Gravity Bar: Located on the top floor of the building, the bar offers panoramic views of Dublin. This is part of an exhibition that shows how Guinness has become an integral part of the Irish landscape.
5. Interactive exhibitions: Guests can use various interactive stations that allow them to learn more about the beer brewing process and the history of Guinness.
Most of the exhibits you can see are items related to the history of the Guinness Brewery, such as:
- Old barrels, tools and equipment related to beer production.
- Historic Guinness beer bottles and labels.
- Advertising posters and original marketing materials.
- Copies of historical documents, including contracts and records relating to the brewery.
The Guinness Storehouse in Dublin covers an area of approximately 14,000 square meters. The exhibition area is approximately 5,000 square meters.

Gyeongju National Museum founded in 1945.
It is in possession of monuments and artifacts from the time of the Silla kingdom.

Hagia Sophia in the past a Christian temple, then a mosque, from 1935 a museum, from 2020 a mosque.
Built in 537. A leading example of Byzantine architecture. Length 82 meters, width 73 meters, height 55 meters.

Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum opened in 1955.
The museum is dedicated to documenting the atomic bombing of Hiroshima at the end of World War II. In the museum, you can follow the course of the war and learn about the international situation at that time, the consequence of which was the decision to drop the bomb. Museum exhibitions show Hiroshima before and after the bombing, things that belonged to the victims of the bombing. The original exhibits are accompanied by numerous photographs and projection maps. The exhibitions show the effects of the explosion itself and the radiation that followed it, as well as the effects of aftershocks. The exhibition ends with information about the nuclear age and efforts to achieve international peace.

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden opened in 1974 as a museum of contemporary and modern art. Managed by the Smithsonian.
Its collections include works by artists such as: Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Willem de Kooning, Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Fernando Botero.
The collection volume is over 11,500 art pieces.
The exhibition area is over 18,301 square meters.

The Holmenkollen Ski Museum, situated beneath the iconic Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, is the world's oldest museum dedicated to skiing. Established in 1923, it showcases over 4,000 years of skiing history, including ancient skis and polar exploration artifacts.
The museum's exhibits include:
- Ancient Skis: Featuring some of the oldest known skis, including the Drevja ski, which is over 5,000 years old.
- Viking Age Artifacts: Showcasing rock carvings and skis from the Viking period, illustrating early skiing culture in Norway.
- Modern Ski Equipment: Displaying racing and cross-country skis, as well as snowboards, highlighting the evolution of skiing equipment.
- Polar Exploration Gear: Exhibiting equipment used by renowned explorers like Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen, offering insights into historic polar expeditions.
- Olympic Memorabilia: Presenting artifacts and photographs from the Winter Olympics held in Oslo in 1952 and Lillehammer in 1994.
The Holmenkollen Ski Museum in Oslo boasts a collection of approximately 4,000 exhibits. Among these, the museum displays around 2,500 pairs of skis, including those belonging to notable Norwegian skiers and members of the Royal Family.
The museum underwent significant renovations for its centenary in 2023, with architectural firm Snøhetta designing a new extension and outdoor entrance. The newly designed extension encompasses an area of 525 square meters.
Visitors can also enjoy panoramic views of Oslo from the observation deck atop the ski jump tower.

Photo: Andreas Bache-Wiig/Skimuseet

Hong Kong Heritage Museum opened in 2000.
It is dedicated to history, art and culture. It has 5 permanent exhibitions and 6 thematic temporary exhibitions.
Exhibition area of 7,500 square meters.

Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) was founded in 1962.
The entire HKMoA collection is divided into:
- Chinese Antiquities, among others, Neolithic to 20th century ceramics, bronzes, jade carvings, lacquerware, enamelware, bamboo carvings
- Modern and Hong Kong Art, covers over 100 years of painting, calligraphy, traditional ink painting
- China Trade Art (18th, 19th century)
- Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, consisting of paintings from Guangdong (among others Zhang Mu, Su Renshan), calligraphy from Guangdong (among others Chen Xianzhang, He Shaoji), Lingnan school of painting (among others Gao Jianfu, Chen Shuren), contemporary Chinese painting (among others Huang Binhong, Wu Guanzhong).
The HKMoA collection includes over 17,000 items.

The House of Terror Museum was opened in 2002.
The House of Terror Museum is a memorial to the victims of the fascist and communist regimes in 20th-century Hungary.
In the museum, you can see, among other things, the cells in which ÁVH (Államvédelmi Hatóság - communist secret police 1945–1956) held prisoners and the T-54 tank.

Haus der Geschichte, Bonn (House of the History of the Federal Republic of Germany) together with the Zeitgeschichtliches Forum, Leipzig and Tränenpalast, Berlin and the Museum in der Kulturbrauerei, Berlin are part of the Haus der Geschichte Foundation, Bonn.
House of the History, Bonn opened to the public in 1994.
It presents the history of Germany in international terms from 1945 to the present.
The exhibition area of 4,000 square meters houses over 7,000 exhibits.
The House of the History and the German Historical Museum, in collaboration with the German Federal Archives, run the LeMO (Lebendiges Museum Online) Living Museum Online - an online portal on German history that covers the period from the 19th century to the present day. LeMO available online since 1999.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science was founded in 1909.
The museum complex consists of the main facility and the Burke Baker Planetarium, Cockrell Butterfly Center and Wortham Giant Screen Theater.
In the museum you can see dinosaurs and other exhibits from various fields of knowledge, e.g. geology, biology, geography.

Hubei Provincial Museum was founded in 1953.
The most valuable museum exhibits include artifacts from the tombs of the Marquis Yi of the Zeng state (including the Goujian sword and bronze bell set), Chu, Han, Liangzhuangwang and Yingjingwang, as well as fossils of human skulls from Yunxian Prefecture.
The collection consists of over 230,000 objects.
The total area of the museum is 50,000 square meters.

The Humboldt Forum, open to the public in 2021, is located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island.
The Humboldt Forum houses the non-European collections of Berlin's state museums. The Humboldt Forum consists of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz with the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, the Stadtmuseum Berlin together with Kulturprojekte Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss.

Photo © SHF/Alexander Schippel

Hunan Museum opened to the public in 1956.
The museum covers an area of ​​about 50,000 square meters.
The collection includes 180,000 objects, including the inscriptions from the tomb of Marquis Dai in Mawangdui from the Han dynasty and the bronze drum of the Fighting States.

Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum (Hungarian National Museum) founded in 1802.
In the museum you can see the coronation mantle ordered by King Stephen I and his queen consort Gisela in 1031, Scythian gold products, Seuso Treasure - silver vessels from the late Roman Empire (4th - 5th centuries), crown of Constantine IX Monomachos (Byzantium , 1042–1050), Mozart's traveling clavicord, a grand piano belonging first to Ludwig van Beethoven and later to Ferenc Liszt.
The museum covers an area of 8,000 square meters.

The Imperial Museum (Museu Imperial) is located in the Imperial Palace, the former summer residence of Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. The palace was built between 1845 and 1862 in the neoclassical style with elements of Renaissance architecture. After the overthrow of the monarchy in 1889, the palace became state property. In 1940, the palace was transformed into a museum. The official opening of the Imperial Museum took place in 1943.
The palace measures approximately 60 meters by 40 meters. The palace and its surrounding extensive gardens designed in a style inspired by European palatial residences cover an area of approximately 18.4 hectares.
The main rooms of the palace are:
- State rooms, such as the imperial salon and dining room,
- The imperial office where Dom Pedro II worked,
- Private rooms, including the bedrooms of the imperial family,
- Library and archives where historical documents are kept,
- The Coronation Hall, where the imperial insignia are displayed.
The Imperial Museum's most important collections include:
1. Imperial Insignia and Regalia
- One of the most famous and valuable exhibits is the imperial crown of Dom Pedro II, decorated with precious stones and made of the highest quality gold.
- The museum also has other insignia of power, such as the imperial scepter and coronation robes, which symbolize imperial power in Brazil.
2. Collection of Imperial Furniture and Interiors
- The museum contains original period furniture and furnishings, including elegant sofas, chairs, tables, beds and chests of drawers that were used by the imperial family.
3. Paintings and Portraits of the Imperial Family
- The collection of paintings includes numerous portraits of Dom Pedro II, his wife, Empress Teresa Christina, and their children, including Princess Isabella.
- There are also paintings by Brazilian painters depicting court life and landscapes from the era.
4. Outfits and Jewelry
- The museum houses numerous costumes belonging to members of the imperial family, including ceremonial and everyday clothing, which reflect the fashion of the Brazilian aristocracy of the 19th century.
- The collection also includes jewelry items such as brooches, necklaces and rings decorated with precious stones.
5. Historical Documents and Letters
- One of the most important sections of the museum is the archive, which preserves manuscripts, letters, government documents and other writings related to Dom Pedro II, including his diaries and correspondence.
6. Book and Scientific Collections of Dom Pedro II
- Dom Pedro II was passionate about science, and his book collection includes works from various fields such as astronomy, geology and literature.
- There are also scientific instruments that the emperor used for scientific research and observations.
7. Souvenirs and Everyday Use Items
- The museum's collection includes personal memorabilia of the imperial family, such as toiletries, watches, tableware, and everyday items that allow you to better understand their lifestyle.
8. Exhibits related to the Abolition of Slavery
- The museum also contains items related to the Golden Law Decree of 1888, which was signed by Princess Isabella and ended slavery in Brazil. It is a key moment in the country's history and an important aspect of the museum's heritage.
The Imperial Museum has approximately 300,000 exhibits.

Imperial War Museum (IWM) opened to the public in 1920.
Museums included in the IWM:
- IWM London,
- Churchill War Rooms London,
- HMS Belfast (London),
- IWM Duxford,
- IWM North.
The IWM collections mainly include:
- military vehicles (e.g. one of the first "Devil" a Mark V tanks that were used at the end of World War I),
- airplanes (e.g. the Supermarine Spitfire that flew in the Battle of Britain and the Heinkel He 162 jet fighter),
- missiles (e.g. a V-1 flying bomb, a V-2 rocket and Polaris missiles),
- documents, photos, films, videos, oral history recordings,
- a large collection of works of art.
IWM has gathered 10,700,000 individual exhibits or entire collections of exhibits from the times of the World War I until today.

The Indian Museum founded in 1814.
Its collections include geology, botany, zoology, anthropology, archeology (including ancient Egypt) and Indian art (such as Mughal paintings).
There are over 1,000,000 exhibits in total.

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) or National Museum of Mankind, an autonomous organisation of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, began functioning in March 1977 to present the living vulture of the diverse culture of communities across India. It has a regional Centre in Southern India at Mysore that started functioning in October 2001 from a heritage building 'Wellington House' allotted by the Government of Karnataka.
The mandate of the Museum includes the presentation of an integrated story of the bio-cultural evolution of humankind through outdoor and indoor exhibitions by highlighting the richness and diversity of cultural patterns of India and its underlying unity; to act as a Centre of research and training in museology and generate a new museum movement in India and to present and preserve a variety of cultural life.
IGRMS is also working for national integration, and promoting research & training and inter-organizational networking for salvage and revitalisation of vanishing, but valuable cultural traditions. The innovative aspects of the organization are its open-air and indoor exhibitions, built with the active involvement of traditional artisans and experts drawn from different community groups, and the education, outreach & salvage activities in different parts of the country.
Through its exhibitions, education programmes and salvage activities, IGRMS demonstrates the aesthetic qualities of India's traditional lifestyles, and the continued relevance of local traditional knowledge and mores of people to the modern society and cautions the people against unprecedented destruction of ecology and environment, local values and customs.
The programmes and activities of the organisation are carried out under three sub-schemes namely:
1. Infrastructure Development : (Development of Museum Complex),
2. Education and Outreach Programme,
3. Operation Salvage.

The Inner Mongolia Museum opened in 1957.
The museum has an extensive collection of fossils, dinosaur remains, feathered dinosaurs and a complete woolly rhinoceros skeleton. One of the exhibitions dedicated to the history and traditions of the nomadic Mongols is devoted to the life of Genghis Khan, who in the 13th century united different Mongol tribes and founded one of the largest land empires. In the museum, you can also see the golden crown in the form of an eagle from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
The collection includes over 150,000 exhibits.
The museum covers an area of more than 50,000 square meters.

Institut Valenciá D'Art Modern (IVAM; Valencian Institute of Modern Art) opened in 1989.
The IVAM collection includes over 11,300 works (5,000 of which are photographs) by modern and contemporary artists, mainly from Valencia, Spain, Europe, Latin America and North America.
The collections are divided thematically:
- Ignacio Pinazo (1849-1916) and Julio González (1876-1942) - the beginnings of modernity,
- analytical abstraction,
- phenomenal and dada poetics,
- gestures informalism,
- reality and its chronicles,
- city cartography,
- individual mythologies and the present 1980-2010.

Instituto Tomie Ohtake was opened in 2001.
Instituto Tomie Ohtake organizes national and international exhibitions of fine arts, architecture and design. His interests include the art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
It does not have its own collection.
Its area is 7,500 square meters, most of this area is occupied by 7 exhibition rooms.


Credits by Ricardo Miyada

The Israel Museum founded in 1965.
It collects encyclopedic collections from prehistory to contemporary art.
Its collections include: Dead Sea Scrolls, works by Rembrandt, Peter Paul Rubens, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Rodin, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore.
The entire collection has over 500,000 items.
The Israel Museum occupies an 8-hectare campus and the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum and the Ticho House.


Photo © Israel Museum, Jerusalem by Elie Posner

Opened in 2004, Istanbul Modern is managed by a private venture under the patronage of a non-profit foundation called İstanbul Modern Sanat Vakfı İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi İktisadi İşletmesi. In 2023, Istanbul Modern moved into the new building (https://www.museumworldranking.net/news/istanbul-modern-hosts-renzo-piano-the-architect-of-its-new-museum-building,168).
Istanbul Modern focuses on Turkish art from 1945 to the present day. Turkish artists whose works can be seen in the museum include: Fahrelnissa Zeid, Bedri Rami Eyüböglu, Semiha Berksoy, Adnan Çoker, Bedri Baykam, Selma Gurbüz, Yıldız Moran. Istanbul Modern also has in its collection works by international artists (some with Turkish roots) such as: Fahrelnissa Zeid, Yüksel Arslan, Tony Cragg, Nil Yalter, Anselm Kiefer, Olafur Eliasson, Gülsün Karamustafa, Sarkis, Laure Prouvost, and Refik Anadol.
Istanbul Modern has an area of 10,500 square meters.

Istanbul Modern, Photo by Enrico Cano, 2023

Iziko Museums of South Africa established in 1825.
Iziko Museums of South Africa is a combination of the following museums:
- Bertram House,
- Bo-Kaap museum,
- Groot Constantia,
- Koopmans-de Wet House,
- Maritime Centre,
- Old Town House,
- Planetarium,
- Rust en Vreugd,
- Slave Lodge,
- South African Museum (has over one and a half million specimens in its collection),
- South African National Gallery,
- South African National Gallery Annexe,
- Social History Centre,
- The Castle of Good Hope.

The Jakarta History Museum (Museum Sejarah Jakarta or Museum Fatahillah or Batavia Museum) was inaugurated in 1974.
The museum presents the history of the development of the city of Jakarta from prehistory to the present day. Its collections include, for example, objects related to the history of the Dutch East-India Company (VOC), Japanese ceramics from the 17th century, Batavia furniture, 17th-19th century, which is a combination of European, Chinese, Indian and Indonesian styles.
The collection includes nearly 25,000 artifacts.

The Jewish Museum Berlin was opened in 2001.
It is the largest Jewish museum in Europe.
The museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day from a Jewish point of view.
The permanent exhibition "Jewish life in Germany: the past and the present", opened in 2020, covering an area of over 3,500 square meters, has more than 1,000 objects, of which over 70% comes from the museum's own collection.
The museum's collection is divided into four areas: ceremonial and applied arts, fine arts, photography and everyday culture.


© Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Foto: Jens Ziehe

The Jewish Museum of the City of Vienna is a place of encounter, interaction and understanding, which seeks to raise awareness of Jewish history, religion, and culture.

The first Jewish museum in the world was founded in Vienna in 1895, sponsored by a group of Viennese Jewish citizens. The collection focused on the culture and history of the Jews in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, particularly Vienna and Galicia.

In the interwar years Zionist objects were added, reflecting the new political discussion at that time.

The museum was closed by the Nazis in 1938 directly after the Anschluss. In the last year of its existence the inventory listed 6,474 objects. In 1939 the museum collection was transferred to the Museum of Ethnology and other institutions in Vienna. The Anthropology Department of the Natural History Museum in Vienna used some of the items for its anti-Semitic propaganda exhibition “The physical and psychological appearance of the Jews".

Most of the objects were returned to the IKG Vienna in the early 1950s, although some were not restituted until the 1990s. Over half of the objects have disappeared; it is practically impossible to discover whether they were stolen or deliberately destroyed. Objects once listed in the Jewish Museum collection turn up occasionally on the art and antiques market. The surviving objects – on permanent loan from the IKG to the present-day Jewish Museum Vienna – form a unique component of the current collection.

Jondishapuor Museum of Trade History was established in 2018 in Shiraz, Iran with the permission of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and Handicrafts. The most important of establishing the museum was Owner extreme passion to Iran and preservation of ancient history of this great country through presenting museum items. Since one of the most important tasks of museum in general is to display and preserve work of collections and offering related specialized trainings, the owner and founder of Jondishapour Museum decided to employ experts in the field of exhibition as well as restoration of historical monuments so that he could provide a secure reservoir with high-tech equipment and establish the first private restoration workshop with modern materials and equipment in Shiraz This Museum was honored as the best museum in Iran under the category of conservation & preservation indexes by the ICOM- Iran. Jondishapour Museum of the Trade History houses a treasure trove of valuable historical artifacts, inchuding metals. Potteries, ghassware, manuscripts, stamps, coins, antiques, ets.

Kazan Kremlin erected by the Tsar of Russia Ivan Grozny in the 16th century on the ruins of the former castle of the Kazan khans built from the 10th century.
Main objects:
- Annunciation Cathedral,
- Söyembikä Tower,
- Spasskaya Tower.
The museum in its present shape as the Museum-reserve "Kazan Kremlin" was established in 1994. The entire museum complex includes:
- Museum of the History of Statehood of Tatarstan,
- Center "Hermitage-Kazan",
- Museum of Islamic Culture,
- Museum of Natural History of Tatarstan,
- Museum of the Cannon Yard,
- Exhibition Hall "Manege",
- Museum of the History of the Annunciation Cathedral,
- Museum of the Great Patriotic War,
- Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan - Art Gallery.

Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum established in 1901.
Has a collection of military items and natural history. The painting collection includes paintings by Rembrandt, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, and Dalí.

The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) opened to the public in 2018.
Ithra is Saudi Aramco's flagship corporate social responsibility initiative and the largest cultural contribution in Saudi Arabia. Ithra includes a library, knowledge tower, idea lab, cinema, theater, Great Hall, energy exhibit, museum and children's museum.
The museum part includes four galleries:
- modern art
- art and history of Saudi Arabia
- Islamic art
- natural history and ecology
Ithra's collections include, among others, a folio from the Blue Quran and fragments from the Holy Quran from around 750 AD.
Ithra covers an area of over 80,000 square meters.

Kinkaku-ji (Gold Pavilion) is part of the Zen Buddhist complex of temples founded at least in the 14th century.
There is a Jotenkaku Museum in the Shokoku-ji main temple area of the complex. The Jotenkaku Museum houses, among others, 5 National Treasures of Japan. The museum exhibits works by painters such as Tensho Shubun, Sesshu Toyo, Josetsu and Ito Jakuchu.
The temple complex also includes the Ginkaku-ji (Silver Pavilion).

Kiran Nadar Museum of Art (KNMA) a private museum sponsored by the Shiv Nadar Foundation opened in 2010.
KNMA presents works from India, the subcontinent and South Asia from the late 19th to the 21st century.
The collection includes over 8,000 works.
The New Delhi location occupies more than 1,670 square meters and the Noida location more than 1,200 square meters of exhibition space.

The Kunsthaus Zürich traces its origins back to 1787, opened in 1910.
The Kunsthaus Zürich collection includes works of art from the 13th century to the present day. The collection includes works by, among others, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso and the Swiss Ferdinand Hodler, Alberto Giacometti and the Dada movement.
Kunsthaus Zürich has 11,500 square meters of exhibition space.

Photo credit: © Franca Candrian, Kunsthaus Zürich

Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) opened in 1891.
Most of the collections are the collections of the imperial Habsburg family. The collections are divided into a gallery of paintings, art of ancient Egypt, Antikensammlung, Kunstkammer, Münzkabinett, and a library. KHM presents paintings for example: Raphael, Dürer, Titian, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Velázquez.

©KHM-Museumsverband

Now operating under the name of Kunstmuseum Basel, it opened its collections for the first time in 1671.
The museum there is in 3 locations: Hauptbau (1936), Neubau (2016), Gegenwart (1980).
The Kunstmuseum Basel has, among others, the largest collection of paintings by the Holbein family in the world, works by Martin Schongauer, Matthias Grünewald, Arnold Böcklin, Ferdinand Hodler, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Fernand Léger, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Gabriel Orozco. The entire collection covers the last 700 years of art history.
The collection includes approximately 4,000 paintings, sculptures, installations and videos, as well as 300,000 drawings and graphics.

Kunstmuseum Basel, Hauptbau
Herbst 2014
Julian Salinas

The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in Eastern Europe.
The first monastery was built in a natural cave near the Dnieper River in 1051. The first above-ground church, the Church of the Dormition, was constructed in the mid-11th century. Byzantine architects supervised its design, blending local Slavic styles with Byzantine influences.
In the 17th century, the monastery underwent significant transformation during the reign of the Cossack Hetmanate. Lavish Baroque architecture replaced many medieval structures.
The complex has over 100 architectural structures, including Orthodox churches, chapels, bell towers and caves. The main ones include:
- Dormition Cathedral
- Great Bell Tower (height 96.5 meters)
- Gate Church of the Trinity
- Far Caves ("Dalshe Pechery")
- Near Caves ("Blizhnye Pechery")
- Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine
- Museum of Books and Printing
- Fortress Walls and Towers
The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra occupies a vast area of approximately 28 hectares.

Kyoto National Museum (KNM) opened in 1897. It has been using its current name since 1952. KNM focuses on pre-modern Japanese and Asian arts and crafts. Kyoto was the cultural and political center of Japan from the beginning of the Heian period in 794 to the end of the Edo period in 1868. KNM primarily collects cultural properties related to this "capital of a thousand years", Kyoto.
Collections that can be divided into several main categories:
- traditional Japanese paintings, including hanging scrolls, screens, paintings on paper and silk from various historical periods,
- Japanese calligraphy, including Buddhist texts, poetry and historical documents,
- Buddhist sculpture, which is one of the key elements of Japanese art, there are both small and monumental sculptures made of wood, bronze and other materials,
- decorative arts include ceramics, lacquerware, metalwork, textiles, and bamboo products, examples include everyday objects as well as ceremonial artifacts,
- applied art includes objects such as swords, armor, theatrical masks, tea ceremony vessels, and various artifacts related to everyday life in Japan,
- archaeological relics,
- photographic archive containing over 200,000 photographic negatives and color slides.
The museum contains over 12,000 works, half of which are displayed in exhibitions.
KNM, including the gardens, covers an area of approximately 50,000 square meters. The exhibition area is approximately 7,000 square meters.

Photo: exterior of the Kyoto National Museum, Heisei Chishinkan Wing

La Plata Museum (Museo de La Plata) opened to the public in 1888.
The museum is divided into five sections: anthropological, botanical, geological, palaeontological and zoological, which at permanent exhibitions form a single whole depicting the evolution of nature, from the creation of the universe and our planet to the origin of man and its culture.
La Plata Museum has, among other things, a collection of large mammal fossils from the third and fourth period of the Cenozoic era, pre-Columbian ceramics, objects from the excavations in the Aksha complex (Egypt, near the 1st cataract, 13th century BC).
All collections amount to nearly 4 million objects.

La Venaria Reale (950,000 square meters of property) includes Reggia di Venaria Reale (Palace, 80,000 square meters), Gardens, Castello de La Mandria (Castle) and the Park of La Mandria.
The main stage of the construction of the baroque palace lasted from 1658 to 1675 during the reign of Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy.
Particular attention should be paid to: Galleria Grande, chapel, Juvarra stables, Reggia di Diana.

The origins of the Lahore Museum date back to 1855.
The Lahore Museum has in its collections:
- a collection of Gandhara sculptures (e.g. Posting Buddha)
- archaeological monuments from the Bronze Age (Indus Valley Civilization)
- a collection of Hellenistic and Mughal coins (38,000)
- miniature paintings
- manuscripts
- seals of the Indus
- stone inscriptions
- Mughal and Sikh carved woodwork
- a collection of paintings from the British period (1857 - 1947)
The museum also features artifacts from Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, Central Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, among others.
In its collections, the Lahore Museum has about 60,000 artifacts, of which 14,000 are presented in exhibitions.
The main building has an area of 24,000 square meters.

Galleria degli Uffizi was opened to the public in 1765.
Le Gallerie degli Uffizi consists of: Gli Uffizi, Corridoio Vasariano, Palazzo Pitti, Giardino di Boboli.
The gallery is divided into rooms with works of art representing, in chronological order, various schools and styles.
The pride of the gallery are paintings by Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael, and Titian.

Leeum Samsung Museum of Art opened in 2004.
Leeum is divided into:
- Museum 1 - traditional Korean art - ceramics, including porcelain and stoneware, landscapes and folk paintings, manuscripts, swords, jewelry. Museum 1 covers an area of 2,300 square meters and a total area of 9,800 square meters.
- Museum 2 - contemporary Korean and international art - works e.g. Salvador Dalí, Joseph Beuys, Jesús Rafael Soto, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Isamu Noguchi, Yves Klein, Jeans Arp, Bae Young-whan, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frank Gehry, Koo Bon-woong. Museum 2 covers an area of 1,800 square meters and a total area of 5,200 square meters.
- Child Education & Culture Center covers an area of 4,000 square meters and a total area of 13,300 square meters.
- Sculpture Garden – e.g. Maman by Louise Bourgeois.

Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) was established in 1949 as the Northeast Museum.
The museum presents, among others:
- jade from the Ming and Qing dynasties
- porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties
- ancient Chinese steles
- ancient Chinese bronze mirrors
- Chinese currencies
- Chinese Buddhist statues
- Liao dynasty pottery
- seals of Chinese dynasties
- the history of Liaoning from approximately 280,000 years ago to 1840
- Manchu folklore

The Library of Congress was founded in 1800 and opened to the public that same year.
The collection includes:
1. Books and Magazines: The library holds over 38 million books and other printed materials, including magazines, newspapers, and pamphlets.
2. Manuscripts: The Library of Congress Manuscript Collection contains approximately 70 million manuscripts, including letters, diaries, notes, and other historical documents.
3. Photographs and Graphics: The collection includes approximately 14 million photographs, graphics, drawings and illustrations.
4. Maps and Atlases: The library has over 5.5 million maps, atlases and other cartographic materials.
5. Music and Sound Recordings: Its collection includes over 8 million musical materials, including sheet music, sound recordings, and musical manuscripts.
6. Films and Videos: The library holds approximately 3.6 million film and video materials, including films, television programs and videos.
7. Multimedia Materials: The collection includes a variety of multimedia materials, such as CDs, DVDs, and other digital media.
8. Government Documents: The library also maintains a large number of United States government documents, including legislation, reports, and other official publications.
9. Materials in Foreign Languages: The collection contains materials in over 470 languages, reflecting the global reach of the library's collections.
10. Microforms: The collection includes millions of microfilms and microfiches that contain a variety of documents, including newspapers, manuscripts, and other archival materials.
The entire collection includes over 175 million items.
As part of permanent and temporary exhibitions, you can see unique manuscripts, rare books, maps, historical documents, photographs and multimedia items.
The total usable area of all buildings is approximately 195,000 square meters.

The Library of Congress campus from the U.S. Capitol Dome, February 15, 2019. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.

Lincoln Memorial opened in 1922. Commemorates the 16th President of the United States Abraham Lincoln.
Area 539.6 square meters. Managed by the National Park Service.

The Lippisches Landesmuseum, located in the heart of Detmold, houses extensive collections in the fields of art, culture, and natural history. The selection of exhibits ranges from Stone Age artifacts to historical toys, furniture, clothing, and valuable oil paintings. The exhibition "Mythos" showcases the most comprehensive collection nationwide on the history of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest between the Germanic tribes and the Romans. Numerous objects and modern media illustrate how this historical event became a myth of German history.
The "Cultures of the World" collection holds a very special treasure: a 6,500-year-old child mummy from Peru. It is considered the oldest mummy that can be viewed in Europe, older than Ötzi and nearly twice as old as the mummy of the pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Local forests and exotic animal worlds from savannas, rainforests, and polar regions can all be experienced in one place. The animals are realistically displayed in their habitats, and interactive modules and stations make exploring this section a must for families with children.
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) founded in 1961.
It has over 150,000 artifacts from around the world from ancient times to the present day.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opened in 1958.
Louisiana has been collecting international art from 1945 to the present. It is mainly painting and sculpture (sculpture garden), but also design and photography. Its collections include works by artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Asger Jorn, Alexander Calder, Yayoi Kusama, Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Cindy Sherman.
The collection includes over 4,000 works.

The museum is located in the former royal palace. The Louvre Museum was officially opened in 1793.
About 38,000 works of art were exhibited on the exhibition area of ​​over 60,000 square meters. The Louvre's full resources are 350,000 exhibits.
The exhibits collected at the Louvre Museum were assigned to eight collections:
The art of ancient Egypt - e.g. "The Great Sphinx",
The art of ancient Greece and Rome - e.g. "Venus of Milo", "Nike of Samothrace",
Art of the Ancient Near East - e.g. Hammurabi Codex document, figure of the goddess Nephthys,
Islamic art - e.g. Vase Barberini, Josse's Shroud,
Sculpture - e.g. Antonio Canova's Cupid and Pyche, Michelangelo's Dying Captive,
Painting - works of the best French, Flemish, Dutch or German painters, above all Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa",
Art Craft - e.g. Harbaville Triptych, Polyptych with Mary and Baby Jesus,
Drawing and Graphics - e.g. Eugène Delacroix drawings and watercolors.

Louvre Abu Dhabi, opened in 2017, presents art from prehistory to the present day in chronological order, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, René Magritte and others.
The museum covers an area of approximately 24,000 square meters.


© Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi Photo by Hufton+Crow

Louvre-Lens opened in 2012.
It is a satellite of Louvre, it has no collections of its own. It presents objects from the Louvre collection on loan in the medium to long term. The objects on loan represent all the Louvre collections and are renewed regularly. Louvre-Lens organizes temporary exhibitions of national or international importance.
Louvre-Lens has three exhibition spaces: Grande Galerie, Glass Pavilion and the Temporary Exhibition Gallery.
The museum covers 28,000 square meters.

M+ opened in 2021 (https://www.museumworldranking.net/news/m-celebrates-its-opening-ahead-of-its-public-launch,114). M+ is part of the West Kowloon Cultural District.
M+ showcases a pre-eminent collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture within an Asian context, encompassing the disciplines of visual art, design and architecture, and moving image from Hong Kong, Greater China, Asia, and beyond. The collection spans from 1895 to current.
The M+ Collection and M+ Sigg Collection include 8,219 works as of September 2022.
The 65,000-square-metre museum building comprises 17,000 square metres of exhibition space across thirty-three galleries.

M+, Hong Kong
Photo: Iwan Baan
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Machu Picchu - the best preserved city of the Incas.
Built from around 1450, abandoned in 1572, which was associated with the appearance of the conquistadors.
The most important monuments:
- Intihuatana stone,
- Temple of the Sun or Torreon,
- Room of the Three Windows,
- a special cave Inti Mach'ay.
Artifacts from Machu Picchu are on display at the Museo Machu Picchu, La Casa Concha.

Madame Tussauds was founded by Marie Tussaud, a French artist specializing in wax sculpture. The official opening of the museum's first permanent exhibition took place in London in 1835.
Madame Tussauds has many branches around the world. Current locations:
America: Hollywood, Las Vegas, Nashville, New York, Orlando
Europe: Amsterdam, Berlin, Blackpool, Budapest, Istanbul, London, Prague, Vienna
Asia: Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, Wuhan
Middle East: Dubai
Australia: Sydney
Madame Tussauds is known for its collections of wax figures that depict famous people from various walks of life. The collection includes:
1. Movie and music stars: Figures of famous actors, musicians and singers. There are figures of stars such as Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley.
2. Historical and political figures: Figures depicting famous historical figures such as Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as contemporary politicians such as Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron,
3. Athletes: Famous personalities from the world of sports, such as Usain Bolt, Cristiano Ronaldo, or Muhammad Ali.
4. Pop culture and fiction characters: Characters from movies, comics and literature, such as Spider-Man, James Bond and heroes from Marvel and Star Wars films.
5. Scientists and inventors: Figures depicting famous scientists and inventors such as Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla and Isaac Newton.
6. Members of the Royal Family: Figures representing the British royal family, including King Charles III, Prince William, Duchess Kate and others.
Madame Tussauds' collections are regularly updated to reflect current events and changing trends in popular culture. The museum also has interactive exhibitions that allow visitors to get to know and interact with the figures better.
It is estimated that there are several thousand wax figures in the global Madame Tussauds network. As for the number of exhibits on display, each museum usually has from several dozen to several hundred wax figures on display at any given time. For example, the main location in London usually has around 250-300 figures on display.
Madame Tussauds' main location in London covers approximately 5,500 square meters. The exhibition area in London is approximately 2,000-3,000 square meters.

The Mercedes-Benz Museum was opened in 2006.
The museum presents 130 years of history of the Mercedes-Benz brand and associated brands.
On an area of 16,500 square meters, more than 160 vehicles and nearly 1,400 other exhibits are on display.

The oldest and largest American museum. Founded in 1870.
The collections are divided into thematic sections covering the history of world art: painting, applied art, military, musical instruments, photography.
The collection of paintings includes works of the world's greatest artists. The collection's decoration is the canvas of Dutch master Rembrandt. Italian paintings are represented by paintings e.g. Botticelli and Rafael.
The museum has an excellent collection of 19th-century French painting e.g. Manet, Monet, Renoir, van Gogh, Cézanne.

Mevlana Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna; original lodge of Mevlevi whirling dervishes. The museum was opened in 1927.

The Middelheim Museum (Middelheimmuseum) was opened in 1951 as the open-air sculpture museum. Then, for the needs of the museum, buildings were built successively: the Braem Pavilion, depot in Middelheim-Hoog, and the Het Huis pavilion (The house). The Middelheim museum has a branch called Art in the City active in all districts of Antwerp.
The collection consists of about 400 works of art. including works by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Constantin Meunier, Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, Aristide Maillol, Arturo Martini, Hans Arp, Ossip Zadkine, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Alexander Calder.
The Middelheim Museum covers an area of 27 hectares.

The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution (Chinese Military Museum) opened to the public in 1960.
The museum collects, among other things, equipment from the Chinese space program, such as satellites and a two-seater orbital capsule, jet fighters, rockets, rocket launchers, cruise missiles, artillery, fleets, tanks, armored personnel carriers, anti-aircraft weapons, small arms, ammunition, military uniforms, flags , medals, badges, seals, coins, documents.
Among the collected objects you can see: Qin Terracotta Warriors, cars of Zhu De and Mao Zedong, Chinese first atomic bomb, A Dongfeng 2 (CSS-1) medium-range balltistic missile.
The collected collections span 5,000 years of Chinese history.
The museum has over 180,000 exhibits.
The museum building covers an area of 153,000 square meters, of which approximately 60,000 square meters are exhibition space.

Miniatur Wunderland the world's largest model railway was founded in 2000.
Miniatur Wunderland depicts a variety of scenes and landscapes from around the world, including cities, ports and airports.
Rented space 10,000 square meters.
Layout size 1.610 square meters.
1.166 trains.
Track Length 16,491 meters.
10,330 cars.
52 planes.
4,669 buildings.
289,410 figures.

Photo: Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) was founded in 1883.
More than 90,000 works of art represent 20,000 years of world history.
Mia's collection includes art from the Americas, Asia (ceramics, bronzes, jade), Africa and Oceania. Painting (paintings by e.g. El Greco, Rembrandt, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin), sculpture, graphics, drawing, decorative art, contemporary art, photography and new media.
About 5 percent of the total collection is on permanent exhibitions.
Mia is the owner of Purcell-Cutts House.

The Mishkan Museum of Art Ein Harod was founded in 1937.
The museum has collections of Jewish art, Israeli art and Judaica.
Jewish art includes painting, sculpture, graphics and photography created in the second half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. These are works by, among others, Jozef Israëls, Leopold Horowitz, Mauricio Gottlieb, Shmuel Hirschenberg, Isidor Kaufmann, Max Liebermann, Yitzhak Levitan, Moïse Kisling.
The museum collection also includes works by contemporary Israeli artists who have been working since the beginning of the 20th century.
The Judaica collection includes religious utensils from the 18th century to the present day, from Jewish communities around the world.
The museum has collected over 16,000 works.

Mont Saint-Michel rocky tidal island with church-abbey and "Merveille" (a monastery built between 1211-1228 in the Gothic style). The origins of the monastery date back to the 8th century. The entire medieval building is surrounded by fortifications from the 13th and 15th centuries.
Mont Saint-Michel area 97 ha, highest point above sea level 92 meters.
Mont Saint-Michel has been a monument since 1874. There are three museums in it.

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) founded in 1860.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has five pavilions that showcase archeology and ancient art, the international art collection, Quebec and Canadian art, modern and contemporary art, decorative arts and design. The international art collection includes works by, among others, Rembrandt, Dürer, El Greco, Goya, Delacroix, Cézanne, Matisse, Miró, Monet, Picasso, Renoir, Rodin, Dalí, Moore. The collection also includes: Coptic fabrics, English porcelain, Japanese incense boxes and stained glass.
The entire collection includes over 43,000 exhibits.
The total area is 53,095 square meters, of which the exhibition area is 13,000 square meters.

Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion, exterior view. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo MMFA, Michel Dubreuil

Mori Art Museum founded in 2003.
MAM does not have a permanent exhibition. Organizes temporary exhibitions of contemporary artists, mainly Asian.

Center Atrium
Photo courtesy: Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

The origins of the Moscow Kremlin Museums go back to the Kremlin Armory Museum founded in 1806.
The Moscow Kremlin Museums include, among others:
- Kremlin armory,
- Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God,
- Cathedral of the Archangel,
- Cathedral of the Annunciation.

The Mucem, Museum of the Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean was opened in 2013.
The total area is 45,000 square meters, of which the exhibition area is 4,900 square meters.
The museum has collected over a million objects and documents in its collections.
The Mucem presents exhibitions in the field of anthropology, archeology, history and art.

The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM) began in 1996 as the Moscow House of Photography.
MAMM is a state institution that specializes in contemporary art (graphics, drawings and posters) and new media, including photography, video art, and other multimedia forms. Its collection includes works by artists such as Alexander Rodchenko. The total number of exhibits is approximately 90,000.
MAMM covers an area of approximately 9,000 square meters, of which approximately 3,000 square meters are devoted to exhibitions.

Munchmuseet (MUNCH) opened in 1963.
MUNCH is devoted to the life and work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944).
MUNCH has nearly 1,200 paintings in its collection, which is more than half of the artist's entire painting output. MUNCH is in possession of the entire graphic heritage, in the number of 18,322 graphics with 842 different motifs. The Collection is completed by 7,050 drawings and sketches and 14 sculptures. It is one of the world's largest single artist collections. In addition, the collection includes original Munch photographs, printing plates and lithographic stones, handwritten texts and letters, as well as personal items.
In total, the collection includes over 42,000 museum objects.

A benchmark institution for modern and contemporary art

This is one of Europe’s greatest art museums. Located on Chaillot Hill in a building whose architecture is emblematic of the Art Deco period, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is ideally suited to close-up study of the works on display. Its exhibitions and collections, which contain over 15,000 works in all, cover a period stretching from 1900 to the present day. The Musée d’Art Moderne was designed for the Paris International Exhibition in 1937 and is housed in the Tokyo Palace’s east wing.
Officially inaugurated in July 1961, the origins of its collection date back to the early years of the 20th century, the result of a long series of initiatives taken by the City of Paris and such acts of generosity as Doctor Girardin’s bequest in 1953, which was the real deciding factor behind the decision to open the Museum, and the historic donations by Mathilde Amos in 1955 and Germaine Henry–Robert Thomas in 1976.
Since the end of the Second World War, the Museum has acted as a trendsetter on behalf of a great many movements and artists: its programming is distinguished by its dynamism, originality and scientific rigour. Curiosity and the eye’s mobility ensure that the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris remains an institution sensitive to the evolution of society, its concerns and its crises.


Major artists in the history of art

The MAM’s collections contain a total of 15,256 works by 2,322 artists and present the main artistic trends from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, illustrated by major artists in the history of art, including Picasso, Dufy, Modigliani, Derain, Picabia, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Suzanne Valadon, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Philippe Parreno, Peter Doig, Elaine Sturtevant, Nina Childress, Danh Vo, Sheila Hicks and Judit Reigl. The Museum also possesses a number of rare and truly remarkable in situ works, including the first two versions of Matisse’s La Danse (The Dance), created in 1932 and 1931-1933, and Raoul Dufy’s La Fée électricité (The Electricity Fairy), a monumental work covering 600 square metres!
Marked by major monographic exhibitions devoted to such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Sonia Delaunay, Andy Warhol, Bernard Buffet, Sarah Moon, Victor Brauner and Hans Hartung, the Museum’s programming is guided by the need to create a balance between exhibitions sure to be a success with the public, historical retrospectives focusing on internationally acclaimed artists, and exhibitions devoted to artists and artistic trends still little known in France.
The institution also provides unexpected reinterpretations of art history, taking an innovative and very well documented approach, with such exhibitions as “Deadline” (2009), “L’Art en guerre” (Art at War – 2012), and “outsiders” projects highlighting such figures as Robert Crumb, Carol Rama, Henry Darger and Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the aesthetic ties and bonds of friendship between three artists in “Derain, Balthus and Giacometti” (2018), and the married couple Anni and Josef Albers. By taking an unconventional but critical look at contemporary visual creation in the 20th and 21st centuries, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris has confirmed its role as a “trailblazer”.


Key figures

13,500 m2 of museum surface area
600 m2 Raoul Dufy’s La Fée électricité (The Electricity Fairy), one of the largest paintings in the world
600,000 visitors on average every year
+ 400 works exhibited free of charge
+ 15,000 works in the collections


© : Louise Allavoine

Musée d'Orsay opened to the public in 1986. In 2010, the Musée de l'Orangerie joined the Musée d'Orsay.
The collection mainly contains French art from 1848–1918: painting, sculpture, photography and furniture. Among the collections of paintings, the most popular are the works of impressionists and post-impressionists, e.g .:
- Paul Cézanne - Card Players (1893–1896), Apples and Oranges (1895–1900);
- Edgar Degas - Absinthe (1875–76), Blue Dancers (1890);
- Paul Gauguin - Self Portrait with Yellow Christ (1889–1890), Tahitian Women on the Beach (1891);
- Édouard Manet - Olimpia (1863), Breakfast on the grass (1863);
- Claude Monet - Saint-Lazare Train Station (1877), cycle Cathedral of Rouen (1892–93), Water Lilies (1916–19);
- Auguste Renoir - Ball at Moulin de la Galette (1876);
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Toilet (1896);
- Vincent van Gogh - Portrait of Dr. Gachet (1890).

Musée de l'Orangerie opened in 1927. In 2010, it joined the Musée d'Orsay.
Musée de l'Orangerie exhibits Claude Monet's Water Lilies cycle consisting of 8 panels, each 2 meters high and 91 meters long, arranged in 2 oval galleries. In the Musée de l'Orangerie you can also see paintings by other Impressionists and Post-impressionists, such as Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Area of 6,300 square meters.

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) dates back to 1882.
It also includes the Musée Nissim de Camondo and the Ecole Camondo.
The collection includes original interior architecture, furniture, tapestries, wallpapers, ceramics and glass, as well as toys from the Middle Ages to the present day. It contains numerous works in the Art Nouveau and Art Déco styles. The collection is supplemented by rare examples of fashion, design and objects from the Middle East.
MAD owns over one million artifacts.

© MAD Paris - Photo Luc Boegly

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac founded in 2006.
The museum collects ethnographic objects, art, photographs, documents, musical instruments, textiles from Asia, Africa, the Americas and Oceania.
The entire collection includes over 1360,000 exhibits, of which 3,500 are exhibited.
The exhibitions cover 40,600 square meters.

The Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) opened to the public in 1734. The Musei Capitolini are among the oldest museums in the world. The history of the museums dates back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV gave the people of Rome a collection of ancient bronzes and located them on the Capitoline Hill. Since then, the collection has been enriched with many ancient statues, works of medieval and Renaissance art, jewelry and coins.
The Musei Capitolini are located in Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Palazzo Nuovo, Palazzo Caffarelli, Galleria di congiunzione, Centrale Montemartini.
Some of the biggest attractions are the sculptures:
- Capitoline Wolf (5th century BC)
- Cupid and Psyche (3rd century BC)
- Dying Gaul (1st-2nd century AD)
- Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (c. 175 AD)
- Bernini's Medusa (c. 1638-1648)
The Musei Capitolini has 12,977 square meters of exhibition space.

The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN, National Archeological Museum of Naples) opened in 1816.
Main collections:
- Farnese collection, e.g. marbles the Farnese Hercules, the Farnese Bull, jewel collection,
- Ancient Roman artifacts from nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum, e.g. mosaics and the Secret Room,
- collection from the time of ancient Egypt.
The exhibition area is 12,650 square meters.

Museo de Arqueologia de Alta Montana (MAAM) opened in 2004.
MAAM presents an archaeological find discovered on the peaks of the Llullaillaco volcano (6,700 meters above sea level) that dates back over 500 years ago. These are the 3 bodies of the Inca children, the heroes of the Capocha ceremony during which they were sacrificed to act as intermediaries between the people and the gods.
The museum area is 1,507 square meters.

The Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa, opened under its current name in 2004, is owned by the Fundación "la Caixa".
The main permanent exhibitions are "Sala Universo" with "Lab Math", "El Muro Geológico" with "Restos y Rastros", "Bosque Inundado", "Base Antártica". The museum also has a digital planetarium.
The exhibition and educational area covers more than 30,000 square meters.

El Museo de la Ciencia y el Juego, MCJ, creado en 1984, ha venido realizando programas, proyectos y actividades en el campo de la popularización y divulgación de la ciencia y la tecnología, no solo en Colombia sino en la región, siendo pionero en su campo: fue el primer museo interactivo de ciencia en Colombia, el segundo en Suramérica y el tercero en Latinoamérica. Gracias al éxito de sus propuestas ha servido de base o ejemplo a otras iniciativas. En 1997 se hizo merecedor al Primer Premio Latinoamericano de Popularización de la Ciencia y la Tecnología otorgado por la UNESCO y la Red de popularización de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en América Latina y el Caribe, Red-POP por su programa Red de pequeños museos interactivos.
Lo que ha hecho el MCJ es tejer redes a lo largo de su existencia. Es miembro fundador de la Red Pop, de la que ejerció la Secretaría Ejecutiva en el bienio 2000 – 2001 y posteriormente la coordinación del Nodo Andes de la Red-POP. También fue gestor de Liliput, red de pequeños museos del Área Andina, de la cual ejerce actualmente la dirección ejecutiva y de la Escuela Latinoamericana de Museología de las Ciencias. El Museo realiza alrededor de 13 programas que constituyen la urdimbre y la trama de las redes que ha venido tejiendo a lo largo de más de 25 años de actividades.

Museo Egizio opened in 1824.
The Museo Egizio collects exhibits related to ancient Egypt. It has over 30,000 exhibits in its collection. In the museum, you can see monumental sculpture, including the statues of Ramses II and Seti II and the entire Temple of Ellesyia. A special place in the museum's collection is the collection of papyri containing a topographic map considered to be the oldest map in the world.

Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) was founded in 1982 and is a branch of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA).
The MUNAL collection presenting the history of Mexican art from the mid-16th century to the mid-20th century. The collection includes works by José María Velasco, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.
The permanent collection includes over 3,000 works and covers an exhibition area of 3,500 square meters.

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes was inaugurated in 1896.
The MNBA collection includes pre-Columbian, colonial, Argentinean and international art, from the 3rd century BC to the present day.
The MNBA's collections include works by, among others: El Greco, Francisco de Goya, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Marc Chagall, Vassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Henry Moore.
Argentine art is represented, for example, by: Antonio Berni, Marta Minujín and León Ferrari, and Latin American art, for example, by: Joaquín Torres García, Diego Rivera and Jesús Rafael Soto.
The total number of exhibits in the collection is over 12,000.
The exhibition area covers 4,610 square meters.

Museo Nacional del Prado was founded in 1819.
The collection includes works from the royal collection, collected from the 16th to the 20th century.
- Spanish painting - from Romanesque art to the 20th century, you can find works of artists such as: El Greco, Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, Pablo Picasso, the works of Velazquez (almost 50 works) and Goya (over 140 paintings) are most widely represented,
- Italian painting - from the 15th to the 18th century, the best collection of paintings from the Venetian school, including works of Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto,
- Flemish painting - from the 15th to the 17th century, presentation of the works of Rogier van der Weyden, Bosch,
- French painting - from the 16th to the early 19th century, e.g. paintings by Poussin and Lorrain,
- Greek sculpture - two original sculptures from the archaic period (including kuros from the 6th century BC), Roman copies of the works of Greek masters from the classical period (a miniature copy of Athena Partenos by Fidias, a copy of Athena Myron from the group Athena and Marsia,
- a collection of drawings from the 15th to the 19th century, the Spanish school looks best here (including Goya), but you can also find drawings by Michelangelo,
- graphics - a rich collection consists of Franco Goya's cycles.

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza opened in 1992.
The collection includes 800 years of Western art; about 1,600 paintings by, among others, Van Eyck, Dürer, Caravaggio, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, Goya, Delacroix, Van Gogh, Pissarro, Munch, Chagall, Pollock, Rothko, Bacon.

The Castel Sant'Angelo Museum opened in 1906.
The building of the current museum was built in 139 as the mausoleum of Emperor Hadrian. In the Middle Ages rebuilt into a fortress. In 1367, the keys to the fortress were handed over to the then Pope Urban V. Further popes carried out further reconstruction using the monument as a shelter in times of danger, archives, court and prison.
Museo Nazionale di Castel Sant'Angelo can be divided into 3 parts: mausoleum, fortified castle, papal apartments.

Museo Soumaya founded in 2011.
It has 66,000 works of art in its collection; including sculptures from all periods of pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, paintings by Mexican artists such as Diego Rivera or Rufino Tamayo, a collection of coins from pre-Hispanic and colonial times. Museo Soumaya has a collection of works by European sculptors and painters, including: Auguste Rodin, Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró.
The museum is located in 3 places: Plaza Carso (16,000 square meters), Plaza Loreto, Casa Guillermo Tovar de Teresa.

The Miramare Castle and park were commissioned by Archduke Maximilian of Hapsburg who decided—around 1855—to build a residence worthy of his name and rank outside of Trieste, looking out to the sea and surrounded by a wide garden.
The Park of Miramare, with a surface of 22 hectares, is the result of Maximilian’s long and demanding project on the rocky promontory of Grignano, which originally resembled a Karst area almost devoid of vegetation.
The museum opened to the public in 1929.

The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (University Museum of Contemporary Art) abbreviated MUAC at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) abbreviated UNAM was opened in 2008.
The MUAC houses the largest public collection of contemporary art in Mexico. It includes works by visual artists, sound art, audiovisual, kinetic and performative activities created mainly in Mexico after 1952 - the year UNAM was inaugurated.

Templo Mayor - the most important religious building of the Aztecs. Its construction began after 1325. The expansion continued in six stages until it was destroyed by the Spaniards in 1521.
Templo Mayor was located in the center of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, which is now Mexico City. Templo Mayor was the main building of the Sacred Precinct, which included 78 more smaller buildings.
Templo Mayor was shaped like a stepped pyramid with two temples at the top. The architectural style of Templo Mayor belongs to the late post-classical Mesoamerican period. Approximate dimensions of Templo Mayor, base 100 by 80 meters, height 60 meters.
The Museum of the Templo Mayor was opened in 1987.
The Museo y Zona Arqueológica del Templo Mayor covers an area of over 3,000 ha.

Photo: Secretaría de Cultura Ciudad de México, Attribution 2.0 Generic

Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe opened in 2000 and is part of the City of Arts and Sciences.
The museum is dedicated to science, new technologies and the natural environment, and it houses exhibitions on the heritage of science, climate change, the human body and biometric data. The motto of the museum is: "It is forbidden: not to touch, feel or think".
It covers an area of over 42,000 square meters, of which 26,000 square meters are dedicated to exhibitions.

Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (MNAC) opened in 1934, officially inaugurated in 2004.
The MNAC has the world's most important collection of Romanesque wall paintings. Its collections also cover subsequent periods: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque up to contemporary art. In the museum you can see paintings by such masters as: Titian, Rubens, El Greco, Velázquez, Goya. The art of Catalonia at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century is represented by the works of, for example, Ramon Casas. The entire collection is completed by: Cabinet of Drawings and Prints, Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia.
There are nearly 300,000 works of art in total.

Museu Nacional da Imprensa, Jornais e Artes Gráficas (MNI, National Museum of the Press, Newspapers and Graphic Arts) founded in 1997.
MNI presents the historical processes of typesetting, printing and binding. The MNI has the International Cartoons Gallery.