List of notable museums and galleries

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This is a list of 50 notable museums and galleries worldwide, organised by country and then by city, as included in the Encyclopædia Britannica Almanac 2005, pp. 857-9.

Museum/gallery	City/region	Country
National Museum of Australia	Canberra	Australia
Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna	Austria
Liechtenstein Museum
Bahrain National Museum	Manama	Bahrain
Museum of Art	São Paulo	Brazil
Museum of Art and History	Shanghai	China
Egyptian Museum	Cairo	Egypt
Château de Versailles	Paris	France
La Cité des Sciences et d'Industrie
Louvre
Musée d'Orsay
Deutsches Historisches Museum	Berlin	Germany
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister	Dresden
Alte Pinakothek	Munich
Acropolis Museum	Athens	Greece
National Archaeological Museum
National Museum	New Delhi	India
National Museum of Ireland	Dublin	Ireland
Galleria degli Uffizi	Florence	Italy
Galleria dell'Accademia
Pinacoteca di Brera	Milan
Gallerie dell'Accademia di Venezia	Venice
Vatican Museums	Rome	Vatican City / Italy
Tokugawa Art Museum	Nagoya	Japan
Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo
Museo Nacional de Antropología	Mexico City	Mexico
Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	Netherlands
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie	Warsaw	Poland
Catherine Palace	St. Petersburg	Russia
State Hermitage Museum
State Russian Museum
South African Museum	Cape Town	South Africa
Museo del Prado	Madrid	Spain
Swedish Museum of Natural History	Stockholm	Sweden
National Palace Museum	Taipei	Taiwan
National Museum	Bangkok	Thailand
British Museum	London	UK
National Gallery
Tate Britain (Tate Gallery)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Boston Museum of Fine Arts	Boston	USA
Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles
Guggenheim Museum	New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
National Gallery of Art	Washington, DC
Smithsonian Institution
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

See also

• city
• global city