Building Name Year established Subject Floor area Exhibition space Collection City Country Louvre 1792 Art , architecture , history 758,000 m2 (8,160,000 sq ft)[2] 72,735 m2 (782,910 sq ft)[3] More than 380,000 (35,000 on display)[4] Paris France State Hermitage Museum 1764 Art 233,345 m2 (2,511,700 sq ft)[5] 66,842 m2 (719,480 sq ft)[5] 3,150,428[5] Saint Petersburg Russia British Museum 1753 Archaeology and art 92,000 m2 (990,000 sq ft)[6] 65,752 m2 (707,750 sq ft)[6] More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world) London United Kingdom National Museum of China 1959 Archaeology and art 191,900 m2 (2,066,000 sq ft)[7] [8] 65,000 m2 (700,000 sq ft)[9] More than 1.4 million[10] Beijing China Grand Egyptian Museum 2021 (projected) Archaeology 81,000 m2 (870,000 sq ft)[11] 38,000 m2 (410,000 sq ft)[11] over 100,000 artifacts Giza Egypt Museum of Science and Industry 1933 Science and technology 37,000 m2 (400,000 sq ft)[12] more than 35,000 Chicago United States Minneapolis Institute of Art 1883 Art 50,600 m2 (545,000 sq ft)[13] 32,000 m2 (340,000 sq ft)[14] More than 100,000[15] Minneapolis United States National Museum of Natural History 1910 Natural history 123,000 m2 (1,320,000 sq ft)[16] 30,200 m2 (325,000 sq ft)[16] (Artifacts not samples) Washington, D.C. United States Victoria and Albert Museum 1852 Art 30,000 m2 (320,000 sq ft)[17] 2,278,183 (60,124 on display)[18] London United Kingdom Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870 Art 190,000 m2 (2,000,000 sq ft)[19] New York City United States Palace Museum 1925 Archaeology and art 150,000 m2 (1,600,000 sq ft)[20] [21] 1,862,690[21] [22] Beijing China National Museum of Korea 1909 Archaeology and art 138,156.26 m2 (1,487,101.6 sq ft)[23] Seoul South Korea National Gallery of Art 1937 Art 120,000 m2 (1,300,000 sq ft)[24] 25,200 m2 (271,000 sq ft)[25] More than 150,000[26] Washington, D.C. United States Art Institute of Chicago 1879 Art 93,000 m2 (1,000,000 sq ft)[27] [28] Almost 300,000[29] Chicago United States Israel Museum 1965 Art 80,000 m2 (860,000 sq ft)[30] 19,000 m2 (200,000 sq ft)[31] Jerusalem Israel National Museum of American History 1964 History 70,000 m2 (750,000 sq ft)[32] More than 1.8 million[32] Washington, D.C. United States Museum of Modern Art 1929 Art 65,800 m2 (708,000 sq ft)[33] 15,400 m2 (166,000 sq ft)[34] Almost 200,000[35] New York City United States National Gallery Singapore 2015 Art 64,000 m2 (690,000 sq ft)[36] More than 9,000[37] Singapore Singapore National Air and Space Museum 1946 Aerospace 63,800 m2 (687,000 sq ft)[38] 14,970.9 m2 (161,145 sq ft)[39] [40] More than 60,000[41] Washington, D.C. United States Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1870 Art 57,315.3 m2 (616,937 sq ft)[42] [43] 20,556.4 m2 (221,267 sq ft)[43] Almost 500,000[44] Boston United States MASS MoCA 1999 Art 56,000 m2 (600,000 sq ft)[45] 23,000 m2 (250,000 sq ft)[46] No permanent collection North Adams United States National Gallery 1824 Archaeology and art 46,396 m2 (499,400 sq ft)[47] London United Kingdom Three Gorges Museum 2005 Archaeology and art 45,098 m2 (485,430 sq ft)[48] 23,225 m2 (249,990 sq ft)[48] Chongqing China Vatican Museums 1506 Art 42,000 m2 (450,000 sq ft)[49] [50] Vatican City Vatican City National Museum of Anthropology 1825 Archaeology 600,000[51] Mexico City Mexico Shandong Art Museum 1977 Art Jinan China Birmingham Museum of Art 1951 Art 17,000 m2 (180,000 sq ft)[52] 27,000[52] Birmingham United States Arsenal (Biennale) 1895 Art Venice Italy Musée National d'Art Moderne 1947 Art Paris France Musée d'Orsay 1986 Art Paris France San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1935 Art San Francisco United States Museo del Prado 1819 Art Madrid Spain Denver Art Museum 1918 Art Denver United States Egyptian Museum 1902 Archaeology Cairo Egypt Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo 1951 Art São Paulo Brazil Dia Beacon 2003 Art Beacon United States Dallas Museum of Art 1903 Art Dallas United States Museo Reina Sofía 1992 Art Madrid Spain National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 1969 Art Gwacheon South Korea Detroit Institute of Arts 1885 Art Detroit United States Tokyo National Art Center 2007 Art Tokyo Japan National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 1988 Art Taichung Taiwan National Gallery Prague (Veletržní)1796 Art Prague Czech Republic Indianapolis Museum of Art 1883 Art Indianapolis United States Bavarian National Museum 1855 Art Munich Germany Capital Museum 1981 Archaeology and art Beijing China Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1860 Art Montreal Canada National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda Road)1861 Art Melbourne Australia Palais de Tokyo 2001 Art Paris France Salar Jung Museum 1855 Art Hyderabad India Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1934 Art Richmond United States Tate Modern 2000 Art London United Kingdom Cleveland Museum of Art 1913 Art Cleveland United States National Gallery of Canada 1880 Art Ottawa Canada Art Gallery of Ontario 1900 Art Toronto Canada Hamburger Kunsthalle 1869 Art Hamburg Germany Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 1849 Art Rotterdam Netherlands Houston Museum of Fine Arts 1900 Art 27,870 m2 (300,000 sq ft)~70,000 Houston United States National Gallery of Modern Art 1954 Art New Delhi India Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille 1809 Art Lille France Pinakothek der Moderne 2002 Art Munich Germany Rijksmuseum 1800 Art Amsterdam Netherlands Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val)1985 Art Moscow Russia MUDAM 2006 Art 10,500 m2 (113,000 sq ft)[53] Luxembourg City Luxembourg