Best Museums (100)

Beijing's Forbidden City, the world's largest ancient palace complex museum

Papal collection, home of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

St. Petersburg's Winter Palace, holding over 3 million objects

Madrid's temple of Spanish painting, treasure trove of Velázquez and Goya

Florence's Renaissance art shrine, home of Botticelli's Birth of Venus

Beside the Giza Pyramids, the world's largest single-civilization museum

Cairo, home of Tutankhamun's golden mask

New York's modern art mecca, home to Van Gogh's Starry Night

Washington, home to da Vinci and Impressionist masterpieces

Washington, treasure house of the Hope Diamond and dinosaur fossils

Washington, home to the Wright Flyer and real lunar modules

Converted Paris train station, the supreme home of Impressionism

Paris modern art landmark where the building itself is an exhibit

Paris, garden featuring the original Thinker

The world's largest collection of Picasso's works

Paris, panoramic halls of Monet's Water Lilies

Converted London power station, the world's most popular contemporary art gallery

London, home to 500 years of British art

London's Trafalgar Square, home to Van Gogh's Sunflowers

London's temple of design and decorative arts

London, a haven of dinosaur and blue whale skeletons

London's boutique museum of aristocratic private collections

Amsterdam, home to Rembrandt's Night Watch

Amsterdam, holding the world's largest Van Gogh collection

The Hague, home of Girl with a Pearl Earring

Amsterdam, the secret annex where the WWII diarist hid

Brussels, home to Rubens and Magritte

Berlin's Museum Island, with the reconstructed ancient Babylonian city gate

Berlin, home to the bust of Queen Nefertiti

Berlin, home to 19th-century European painting

Berlin, home to sculpture and Byzantine art

Berlin, covering 2,000 years of German history

Home of Raphael's Sistine Madonna

Dresden, Europe's largest treasure chamber

Munich, home to masterpieces by Dürer and Rubens

Stuttgart, a century of automotive history

Munich, an experience of automotive design and technology

Vienna, Habsburg imperial art collection

Vienna, prints and works by Monet and Picasso

Vienna, home of Klimt's The Kiss

Switzerland's largest art museum, Munch and Giacometti

One of the world's oldest public art collections

Basel, modern art museum designed by Renzo Piano

Frank Gehry-designed architectural marvel, model of urban renewal

Figueres, surrealist master's dreamlike theater

Barcelona, Miró's abstract art

Athens, new home of the Parthenon sculptures

Athens, culmination of ancient Greek civilization

Archaeological collection from the Ottoman era

Istanbul, Ottoman sultans' palace museum

Jerusalem, home of the Dead Sea Scrolls

Jerusalem, world Holocaust memorial center

Brazil's most important art museum, floating building

Mexico City, treasure trove of Maya and Aztec civilizations

Mexico City's Blue House, legendary painter's former home

Fort Worth, Louis Kahn's hall of light

Los Angeles hilltop art complex, free private collection

Los Angeles' largest art museum, Urban Light lampposts

American Gothic and Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

Chicago, T. rex SUE fossil

One of America's largest Asian art collections

Rocky Steps and Duchamp's The Large Glass

New York, pioneer of American contemporary art

New York, Wright-designed spiral white landmark

Washington, 300 years of American art

Washington, collection of US presidential portraits

One of America's most comprehensive art museums, free admission

Rivera's Detroit Industry murals

Largest art museum in the American Southwest

Pittsburgh, Carnegie's industrial-era legacy

Minneapolis, contemporary art and sculpture garden

Pacific Northwest art landmark

Largest modern art museum on the US West Coast

San Francisco's Golden Gate Park art museum

Ottawa, glass facade architectural landmark

Toronto, encyclopedia of natural history and civilization

Canada's oldest art museum

Beijing, east of Tiananmen Square, housing 1.4 million pieces

Premier collection of ancient Chinese bronzes, calligraphy, and painting

Xi'an, treasure house of Zhou, Qin, Han, and Tang civilizations

Guanghan, Sichuan, mysterious bronze masks from ancient Shu civilization

Xi'an Terracotta Warriors, the Eighth Wonder of the World

Taipei, 700,000 masterpieces among Chinese cultural relics

Japan's largest museum, Ueno Park

Tokyo, Le Corbusier-designed museum housing Rodin and Monet collections

Tokyo's Roppongi, contemporary art gallery high above the city

Collection of traditional Japanese art and National Treasures

Designed by I. M. Pei, a hidden paradise nestled in the mountains

Seoul, home to a comprehensive collection of Korean cultural heritage

Seoul, where traditional and modern art are juxtaposed

New Delhi, Indus Valley civilization and Buddhist art

Wavy glass art museum designed by Kisho Kurokawa

Kawasaki, original Doraemon artwork and the creative process

Tokyo, the animated world of Hayao Miyazaki

Tokyo, a phenomenal immersive digital art experience

Southeast Asia's largest modern art museum

Melbourne, Australia's largest art gallery