List of largest art museums

The following is a list of art museums ranked according to their gallery space where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 8,000 square meters (86,000 sq ft) of gallery space are included.

Building	Name	City	Country	Gallery space in m2 (ft2)	Year established
	Louvre	Paris	France	72,735 (782,910)[2]	1792
	State Hermitage Museum	St. Petersburg	Russia	66,842 (719,480)[3][note 1]	1764
	National Museum of China	Beijing	China	65,000 (700,000)[4]	1959
	Metropolitan Museum of Art	New York City	United States	58,820 (633,100)[5]	1870
	Vatican Museums	Vatican City (Rome)	Vatican City	43,000 (460,000)[5]	1506
	Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo	Japan	38,000 (410,000)[6]	1872
	National Museum of Anthropology	Mexico City	Mexico	33,000 (360,000)[7]	1964
	Victoria and Albert Museum	London	United Kingdom	30,658 (330,000)[8][9]	1852
	Kunsthistorisches Museum	Vienna	Austria	29,000[10] (312,153)	1891
	Houston Museum of Fine Arts	Houston	United States	28,000 (300,000)[11]	1900
	National Museum of Korea	Seoul	South Korea	27,090 (291,600)[12]	1909
	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago	United States	26,000 (280,000)[13][note 2]	1879
	Nanjing Museum	Nanjing	China	26,000[14] (280,000)	1933
	British Museum	London	United Kingdom	25,700 (277,000)[15]	1753
	National Gallery of Art	Washington, D.C.	United States	25,200 (271,000)[16]	1937
	Mystetskyi Arsenal	Kyiv	Ukraine	24,000 (260,000)[17]	2006
	MASS MoCA	North Adams	United States	23,225 (249,990)[18]	1999
	Art & History Museum	Brussels	Belgium	22,000 (240,000)	1835
	Museum of Fine Arts	Boston	United States	20,500 (221,000)[19]	1870
	Shandong Art Museum	Jinan	China	19,700 (212,000)[20]	1977
	National Gallery of Victoria	Melbourne	Australia	19,600 (211,000)[21]	1861
	Israel Museum	Jerusalem	Israel	18,500 (199,000)[22]	1965
	National Gallery Singapore	Singapore	Singapore	18,000 (190,000)[23]	2015
	Minneapolis Institute of Art	Minneapolis	United States	17,500 (188,000)[24]	1883
	Interdisciplinary Regional Museum of Messina	Messina	Italy	17,000[25]	1806/1908
	Museu Oscar Niemeyer	Curitiba	Brazil	17,000[26]	2002
	M+	Kowloon	Hong Kong	17,000 (183,000)[27]	2021
	Birmingham Museum of Art	Birmingham, Alabama	United States	17,000 (180,000)[28]	1951
	Arsenal (Biennale)	Venice	Italy	17,000 (180,000)[29]	1895
	Musée National d'Art Moderne	Paris	France	17,000 (180,000)[30]	1947
	Musée d'Orsay	Paris	France	16,853 (181,400)[31]	1986
	San Francisco Museum of Modern Art	San Francisco	United States	15,800 (170,000)[32]	1935
	Museum of Modern Art	New York City	United States	15,400 (166,000)[33]	1929
	Museo del Prado	Madrid	Spain	15,400 (166,000)[34]	1819
	Museo di Capodimonte	Naples	Italy	15,000[35]	1757
	Denver Art Museum	Denver	United States	15,000 (160,000)[36][37]	1918
	Egyptian Museum	Cairo	Egypt	15,000 (160,000)[38]	1902
	Dia:Beacon	Beacon, New York	United States	14,900 (160,000)[39]	2003
	Dallas Museum of Art	Dallas	United States	14,800 (159,000)[24]	1903
	Museo Reina Sofía	Madrid	Spain	14,756 (158,830)[40][41][note 3]	1992
	MMCA, Gwacheon	Gwacheon	South Korea	14,144 (152,240)[42]	1969
	Detroit Institute of Arts	Detroit	United States	14,000 (150,000)[43]	1885
	Tokyo National Art Center	Tokyo	Japan	14,000 (150,000)[44]	2007
	National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts	Taichung	Taiwan	13,600 (146,000)[45]	1988
	National Gallery in Prague (Veletržní)	Prague	Czech Republic	13,500 (145,000)[46]	1796
	Indianapolis Museum of Art	Indianapolis	United States	13,300 (143,000)[47]	1883
	Milwaukee Art Museum	Milwaukee	United States	13,196.4 (142,045)[48]	1882
	Bavarian National Museum	Munich	Germany	13,000 (140,000)[49]	1855
	Capital Museum	Beijing	China	13,000 (140,000)[50][51]	1981
	Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	Montreal	Canada	13,000 (140,000)[52]	1860
	National Gallery	London	United Kingdom	13,000 (140,000)[note 4][53]	1824
	Palais de Tokyo	Paris	France	13,000 (140,000)[54]	2001
	Salar Jung Museum	Hyderabad	India	13,000 (140,000)[55]	1855
	National Archaeological Museum, Naples	Naples	Italy	12,650 (136,200)[56]	1777
	Virginia Museum of Fine Arts	Richmond	United States	12,500 (135,000)[57]	1934
	Tate Modern	London	United Kingdom	12,427 (133,760)[58]	2000
	Cleveland Museum of Art	Cleveland	United States	12,400 (133,000)[24]	1913
	National Gallery of Canada	Ottawa	Canada	12,400 (133,000)[59]	1880
	Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto	Canada	12,000 (129,000)[60]	1900
	Hamburger Kunsthalle	Hamburg	Germany	12,000 (130,000)[61]	1869
	Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen	Rotterdam	Netherlands	12,000 (130,000)[62]	1849
	National Gallery of Modern Art	New Delhi	India	12,000 (130,000)[63]	1954
	Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille	Lille	France	12,000 (130,000)[64]	1809
	Pinakothek der Moderne	Munich	Germany	12,000 (130,000)[65]	2002
	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam	Netherlands	12,000 (130,000)[66]	1800
	Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val)	Moscow	Russia	12,000 (130,000)[67]	1985
	Taipei Fine Arts Museum	Taipei	Taiwan	11,700 (126,000)[68]	1983
	Kunsthaus	Zürich	Switzerland	11,500 (124,000)	1910
	Art Gallery of New South Wales	Sydney	Australia	11,000 (120,000)[69]	1874
	Capitoline Museums	Rome	Italy	11,000 (120,000)[70]	1471
	Fondazione Prada	Milan	Italy	11,000 (120,000)[71]	1993
	Guggenheim Museum	Bilbao	Spain	11,000 (120,000)[72]	1997
	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles	United States	11,000 (120,000)[73]	1910
	Shaanxi History Museum	Xi'an	China	11,000 (120,000)[74]	1991
	HangarBicocca	Milan	Italy	10,900 (117,000)[75]	2012
	Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya	Barcelona	Spain	10,500 (113,000)[76]	1934
	Tibet Museum	Lhasa	China	10,500 (113,000)[77]	1999
	Portland Art Museum	Portland, Oregon	United States	10,400 (112,000)[78]	1892
	Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest	Budapest	Hungary	10,300 (111,000)[79]	1906
	National September 11 Memorial & Museum	New York City	United States	10,000 (110,000)[80]	2014
	Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum	Palermo	Italy	10,000[81]	1866
	Carnegie Museum of Art	Pittsburgh	United States	10,000 (110,000)[82]	1896
	Hamburger Bahnhof	Berlin	Germany	10,000 (110,000)[83]	1996
	Kunstmuseum Basel	Basel	Switzerland	10,000 (110,000)[84]	1936
	MAXXI	Rome	Italy	10,000 (110,000)[85]	2010
	Museo Egizio	Turin	Italy	10,000 (110,000)[86]	1824
	Museum Kunstpalast	Düsseldorf	Germany	10,000 (110,000)[87]	1913
	MMCA, Seoul	Seoul	South Korea	10,000 (110,000)[88]	2013
	Saint Louis Art Museum	St. Louis	United States	10,000 (110,000)[24]	1881
	Tel Aviv Museum of Art	Tel Aviv	Israel	10,000 (110,000)[note 5][89][90]	1932
	National Palace Museum	Taipei	Taiwan	9,613 (103,470)[91]	1925
	National Archaeological Museum	Madrid	Spain	9,300 (100,000)[92]	1867
	Musée Fabre	Montpellier	France	9,300 (100,000)[93]	1828
	Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo	São Paulo	Brasil	9,112 (98,080)[94]	1905
	Bardo National Museum	Tunis	Tunisia	9,000 (97,000)[95]	1888
	Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine	Paris	France	9,000 (97,000)[96]	1879
	National Gallery	Oslo	Norway	9,000 (97,000)[97]	1842
	Power Station of Art (Biennale)	Shanghai	China	9,000 (97,000)[98]	2012
	De Young Museum	San Francisco	United States	8,919 (96,000)[99]	1895
	Smithsonian American Art Museum	Washington, D.C.	United States	8,800 (95,000)[100]	1829
	Musée du quai Branly	Paris	France	8,750 (94,200)[101]	2006
	High Museum of Art	Atlanta	United States	8,714 (93,800)[102]	1905
	Liaoning Provincial Museum	Shenyang	China	8,500 (91,000)[103]	1949
	Gallerie di Piazza Scala	Milan	Italy	8,300 (89,000)[104]	2011
	National Art Museum of China	Beijing	China	8,300 (89,000)[105]	1958
	Gemäldegalerie	Berlin	Germany	8,000 (86,000)[106]	1830
	Louvre Abu Dhabi	Abu Dhabi	UAE	8,000 (86,000)[107]	2017
	Museum Ludwig	Cologne	Germany	8,000 (86,000)[108]	1976
	National Archaeological Museum	Athens	Greece	8,000 (86,000)[109]	1866
	Neues Museum	Berlin	Germany	8,000 (86,000)[citation needed]	1855
	Petit Palais	Paris	France	8,000 (86,000)[110]	1902
	Stedelijk Museum	Amsterdam	Netherlands	8,000 (86,000)[111]	1874

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