Europe's Top 250 Best Major Important Art Museums
Denmark
 - ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN DENMARK - Wikipedia.
- ART MUSEUMS IN DENMARK
- The Director's Guide: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark - The Telegraph.
- ARKEN | MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - Ishøj, Copenhagen. The museum features modern works by Danish, Scandinavian and international painters. The museum also has amassed a collection of around 400 post-war contemporary art pieces.
- ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum - established in 1859 and is the oldest public art museum in Denmark outside Copenhagen. On 8 April 2004, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum opened with exhibitions in a brand new modern building, 10 storeys tall with a total floor area of 20,700 sq. Today ARoS is one of the largest art museums in Northern Europe with a total of 980,909 visitors in 2017.
- Hirschsprung Collection - since 1902. Copenhagen. Houses a large collection of Danish art from the 19th and early 20th century. The emphasis is on the Danish Golden Age, from 1800 to 1850, but also the Skagen Painters and other representatives of the Modern Breakthrough are well represented.
- LOUISIANA | MUSEUM OF MODERN ART - Humlebæk, North Zealand. Owner of the world's second largest collection of Alberto Giacometti sculptures, among others an original: L'Homme Qui Marche - until May 4, 2010 world's most expensive piece of art (L'Homme Qui Marche 1 sold for £65,001,250 / US$104,327,006 at Sotheby's London to Lily Safra on February 03, 2010).
- MUSEUM JORN - Silkeborg, Jutland. The museum is not only home to the most comprehensive collection of Jorn’s own works but also holds thousands of paintings, sculptures and works on paper by other artists – members of Cobra and older international artists who inspired Jorn or were kindred artistic spirits including, among others, Max Ernst, Francis Picabia, Fernand Léger and Man Ray.
- ORDRUPGAARD - Ordrup, Copenhagen. Houses one of Northern Europe’s most considerable collections of Danish and French art from the 19th and beginning of the 20th century.
- NATIONAL GALLERY OF DENMARK - Copenhagen. The museum collects, registers, maintains, researches in and handles Danish and foreign art dating from the 14th century till the present day, mostly with their origins in western culture circles.
- NY CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK - founded 1882. The personal collection of Carl Jacobsen (1842–1914), the son of the founder of the Carlsberg Breweries. The focal point of the museum is antique sculpture from the ancient cultures around the Mediterranean including Egypt, Rome and Greece, as well as more modern sculptures such as a collection of Rodin works which is considered the most important outside France. However, the museum is equally noted for its collection of painting that includes an extensive collection of French impressionists and Post-impressionists as well as Danish Golden Age paintings.
- Skovgaard Museum - since 1937. Domkirkestræde 2-4, Viborg. The only art museum in Denmark, which is dedicated to the artistic heritage of one family - the Skovgaard family. It is housed in a landmark heritage building, in the old 18th century town hall, right in the very heart of Viborg.
- THE DAVID COLLECTION - Copenhagen. Particularly noted for its collection of Islamic art from the 8th to the 19th century, which is one of the largest in Northern Europe.
- THE MUSEUM OF NATIONAL HISTORY - Frederiksborg Castle, Hillerød north of Copenhagen. Houses an important collection of portraits and historical paintings.
- THORVALDSENS MUSEUM - Copenhagen. Single-artist museum dedicated to the art of Danish neoclassicistic sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844).
England, U.K.
 - 25 unmissable paintings in London - The Telegraph.
- ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM - Wikipedia.
- ART MUSEUMS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM
- Artists Gilbert & George open their own gallery, saying museums 'are too full up' - "Famed artist duo Gilbert & George, who describe themselves as two men who are together one artist, have unveiled a new gallery in London dedicated to their work."
- National Gallery & Courtauld ‘knew art restorer had links to Nazis’ - "Museums lobbied for German to stay in Britain in 1947 despite information on his work with SS."
- VR at Tate Modern's Modigliani exhibition is no gimmick - engadget.
- Ashmolean Museum - Oxford. The world's first university museum.
- Christ Church Picture Gallery - Oxford.
- Fitzwilliam Museum - Cambridge.
- GETTY IMAGES GALLERY - "London's largest independent photographic gallery with unique access to one of the greatest photographic collections in the world."
- HAYWARD GALLERY - London.
- KENWOOD HOUSE - Hampstead, London.
- Leeds Art Gallery - Leeds, West Yorkshire. Since 1888. Its collection of 20th-century British Art is recognised by the British government as a collection "of national importance". Its collection also includes 19th-century and earlier art works.
- Modern Art Oxford - Oxford.
- NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY - St. Martin's Place, London WC2. Housing a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. It was the first portrait gallery in the world when it opened in 1856.
- Newport Street Gallery - Newport Street, Vauxhall, London, SE11 6AJ, England, U.K. Owned by Damien Hirst.
- ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS - based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London.
- SAATCHI GALLERY - Duke of York's Headquarters, King's Road, London SW3. Gallery for contemporary art, opened by Charles Saatchi in 1985 in order to exhibit his collection to the public.
- SERPENTINE GALLERY - London.
- TATE BRITAIN - situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.
- TATE LIVERPOOL
- TATE MODERN - Bankside, London SE1. Founded in 2000, it is the United Kingdom's national gallery of international modern and contemporary art.
- TATE ST IVES
- THE COURTAULD INSTITUTE OF ART - London.
- THE NATIONAL GALLERY - Trafalgar Square, London WC2. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900.
- THE QUEEN'S GALLERY - Buckingham Palace, London.
- THE ROYAL COLLECTION - "The Royal Collection is one of the world’s largest and most important art collections. It is one of the last remaining great European royal collections. With over a million objects, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, jewellery and books, it is a unique record of the personal tastes of British kings and queens over the past 500 years. The Collection was largely formed after the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1660. Following the execution of Charles I in 1649, most of the King’s possessions was sold by order of Oliver Cromwell. The most important additions to the Royal Collection were made by Frederick, Prince of Wales; George III; George IV; Queen Victoria and Prince Albert; and Queen Mary, consort of King George V. You can see the Royal Collection during a visit to the official royal residences of the King. These are Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace and the Palace of Holyroodhouse. You can also visit our exhibitions at The King's Gallery, London and The King's Gallery, Edinburgh."
- Wallace Collection - London. Founded in 1897 and houses a world-famous range of fine and decorative arts from the 15th to the 19th centuries with large holdings of French 18th-century paintings, furniture, arms & armour, porcelain and Old Master paintings arranged into 25 galleries.
- WHITECHAPEL GALLERY - London.
France
 - ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN FRANCE - Wikipedia.
- ART MUSEUMS IN FRANCE
- French museum discovers half of its collection are fakes - The Telegraph.
- Mona Lisa is moving - what does it take to keep her safe? - "She's one of the world's most recognisable faces, with a smile that's been printed on mugs, bags and T-shirts across the globe. But she's only left her country a handful of times, and has stayed in the same room for 14 years."
- ALBERT KAHN MUSEUM & GARDENS - Boulogne-Billancourt. Historic photographs and film.
- CAPC | musÉe d'art contemporain de Bordeaux - since 1973. As a supervised museum since 1984, then given the Musée de France label in 2003, the CAPC musée d’art contemporain has put together a collection of 1,299 works by 189 artists.
- Centre Georges Pompidou - Paris. Since 1977. Complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles. The largest museum for modern art in Europe.
- CHÂTEAU DE CHANTILLY - the historic château is located in the town of Chantilly. The château houses the Musée Condé It is one of the finest art galleries in France and is open to the public.
- Chauvet Cave - in the Ardèche department of southern France is a cave that contains the earliest known and best preserved figurative cave paintings in the world.
- CLAUDE MONET'S HOUSE & GARDENS - Giverny.
- FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN - Paris.
 - Fondation Louis Vuitton Modern Art Museum - since 2014. 8 Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi, 75116 Paris.
- FONDATION MAEGHT - 623 Chemin des Gardettes, 06570 Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Founded by Marguerite and Aimé Maeght in 1964 and houses paintings, sculptures, collages, ceramics and all forms of modern art.
- GRAND PALAIS - Avenue Winston-Churchill, Paris. Large historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
- Gustave Moreau Museum - Paris.
 - Lascaux Caves - a complex of caves in southwestern France famous for its Paleolithic cave paintings. These paintings are estimated to be 17,300 years old. They primarily consist of images of large animals, most of which are known from fossil evidence to have lived in the area at the time.
- LOUVRE - Paris. The largest art museum in the world.
- MUSÉE CONDÉ - Château de Chantilly. The collection of old master paintings is among the most important in France. It consists predominantly of Italian and French works and includes three paintings by Fra Angelico, three by Rafael, five by Nicolas Poussin, four by Antoine Watteau and five signed by Ingres.
- MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE DE LA VILLE DE PARIS - Palais de Tokyo, 11 avenue du Président Wilson, 75016 Paris. Major municipal museum dedicated to Modern and Contemporary art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
- MUSÉE D'ORSAY - Rue de Lille 75343 Paris. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, by painters including Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
- MUSÉE DE L'ORANGERIE - Paris.
- MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY - Paris. Features indigenous art, cultures and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas.
- MUSÉE Fesch - (officially, Palais Fesch-musée des beaux-arts) is the central museum of fine arts in Ajaccio on Corsica. It was established by Napoleon I's uncle, cardinal Joseph Fesch (a Prince of France from 1807), in Fesch's birthplace.
- MUSÉE INGRES - Montauban.
- MusÉe Jacquemart-AndrÉ - private museum located at 158 Boulevard Haussmann in the 8th arrondissement of Paris.
- MUSÉE Marmottan Monet - 2 rue Louis Boilly, 75016 Paris. Features a collection of over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works by Claude Monet (with the largest collection of his works in the world), Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Alfred Sisley, Camille Pissarro, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
- MUSÉE MATISSE DE NICE - 164, avenue des Arènes de Cimiez, 06000 Nice.
- MUSÉE PICASSO - Antibes.
 - MUSÉE PICASSO PARIS - Hôtel Salé, 5 rue de Thorigny, 75003 Paris. Reopened officially on October 25, 2014 following a €52 million five-year renovation.
- Petit Palais - art museum in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It was built for the 1900 Exposition Universelle, it now houses the City of Paris Museum of Fine Arts.
Germany
 - ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN GERMANY - Wikipedia.
- ART MUSEUMS IN GERMANY
- The Kunstmeile Hamburg - the five renowned art institutions in the center of Hamburg: The Bucerius Kunst Forum, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg with its exhibition halls for contemporary art and photography, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Kunstverein Hamburg and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe are all within walking distance of each other along the art mile.
- ALTE PINAKOTHEK - situated in the Kunstareal in Munich. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses one of the most famous collections of old master paintings.
- BODE MUSEUM - Berlin. Displaying the Sculpture Collection, the Numismatic Colletion and works from the Gemäldegalerie - Old Master Paintings.
- DEUTSCHE GUGGENHEIM - Berlin.
- Dresden State Art Collections - Royal Palace, Dresden.
- Gallery of Beauties - (Schönheitengalerie). Collection of 36 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and middle classes of Munich, Germany, painted between 1827 and 1850 (mostly by Joseph Karl Stieler, appointed court painter in 1820) and gathered by Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace in Munich.
- GemÄldegalerie - Berlin. Offers a comprehensive overview of European Old Master paintings from the 13th to the 18th century. Its collection includes masterpieces from such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Hans Holbein, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer.
- HAMBURGER KUNSTHALLE - since 1869. One of the largest museums in Germany.
- HAUS DER KUNST - (House of Art). Munich.
- HELMUT NEWTON FOUNDATION - Berlin.
- Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum - Braunschweig, Lower Saxony. Founded in 1754, the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum is one of the oldest museums in Europe. It houses an important collection of Western old master paintings, and is especially strong in Northern European art since the Renaissance, including works by Cranach (a very strong collection), Holbein, Van Dyck, Rubens, and Rembrandt.
- mies van der rohe haus - Berlin.
- Museum Berggruen - Berlin.
- Museum Folkwang - Essen. Major collection of 19th- and 20th-century art.
- Museum for Art and Industry - Hamburg.
- MUSEUM LUDWIG - Cologne.
- NEUE PINAKOTHEK - Munich.
- Old Masters Picture Gallery - Dresden. Displays around 750 paintings from the 15th to the 18th centuries. It includes major Italian Renaissance works as well as Dutch and Flemish paintings. Outstanding works by German, French and Spanish painters of the period are also among the gallery's attractions.
- Sanssouci Picture Gallery - in the park of Sanssouci palace in Potsdam was built in 1755–64 during the reign of Frederick II. The Picture Gallery is situated east of the palace and is the oldest extant museum built for a ruler in Germany.
- Schaezlerpalais - Maximilianstraße 46, 86150 Augsburg.
Netherlands
 - A Dutch Museum Celebrates & Reflects - "As it turns 200, the Mauritshuis, home of Girl With a Pearl Earring, is welcoming discussion about its building’s ties to the history of slavery."
- ART MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN THE NETHERLANDS - Wikipedia.
- ART MUSEUMS IN THE NETHERLANDS
- Dutch gallery removes racist artwork titles - The Telegraph.
- Largest ever collection of Vermeer paintings unveiled in blockbuster show - "For the next four months, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum is playing host to the biggest Vermeer exhibition of this, or any other, lifetime." 10 February - 4 June 2023.
- Museum rivalry ‘could make Dutch Vermeer show last of its kind’ - "Rijksmuseum aims to bring together all the works by Girl with a Pearl Earring painter that are fit to travel."
- Rembrandt: Rijksmuseum begins live Night Watch restoration - "An Amsterdam museum has begun the biggest ever restoration of Rembrandt's famous painting The Night Watch and is inviting people to watch live."
- You can now view every exquisite detail of this Rembrandt masterpiece virtually - "With many galleries closed to the public as the world grapples with the coronavirus crisis, a museum in the Netherlands has found a way to bring a masterpiece straight into people's homes."
- Cobra Museum - Amstelveen.
- Escher Museum - The Hague.
- Frans Hals Museum - Haarlem.
- Gemeentemuseum Den Haag - The Hague. Renowned for its large Mondrian collection, the largest in the world.
- KrÖller-MÜller Museum - Otterlo. Founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller & opened in 1938. It has the second-largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh, after the Van Gogh Museum.
- Mauritshuis - since 1822. The Hague. Houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 841 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collections contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Steen, Paulus Potter, Frans Hals, Hans Holbein the Younger, and others. In the Mauritshuis, you’ll discover iconic masterpieces, such as the Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer and the Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp by Rembrandt, which attract hundreds of thousands of visitors from all over the world to our museum every year.
- Panorama Mesdag - The Hague. "Step into Holland's largest painting..."
- REMBRANDT HOUSE - Amsterdam.
- RIJKSMUSEUM - since 1798. Tthe national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. Museumstraat 1, Amsterdam.
- Six Collection - Amsterdam.
- Stedelijk - Museumplein, Amsterdam. Museum for modern art, contemporary art, and design.
- Teyler's Museum - Haarlem. The oldest museum in the Netherlands, open to the public since 1784.
- The Mondriaan House - Amersfoort.
- VAN GOGH MUSEUM - Museumplein, Amsterdam.
Spain
 - ART MUSEUMS & GALLERIES IN SPAIN - Wikipedia.
- ART MUSEUMS IN SPAIN
- Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum celebrates its 25th anniversary - "As he gazes at the eccentric, titanium-plated angles of Bilbao's Guggenheim Museum, Francisco Mulero, a tourist from Spain's Canary Islands, explains why he admires the building."
- Guggenheim effect: how the museum helped transform Bilbao - "The Basque city locals remember as grimy and industrial has changed a lot since the Frank Gehry-designed building sprang up 25 years ago."
- Madrid’s new museum is a modern mecca for old-world art lovers - "Five centuries of royal collections will go on display in the Spanish capital next month in a long-awaited £146m project."
- CENTRO CULTURAL ANDRATX | CCA - Andratz, Majorca.
- EL PRADO MUSEUM - Madrid.
- FundaciÓn Picasso - Málaga, Andalusia.
- Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation Museums - Costa Brava.
- GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO - museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. The museum was inaugurated on 18 October 1997 by King Juan Carlos I of Spain, with an exhibition of 250 contemporary works of art. Abando, Bilbao, Basque Country.
- Museo de MÁlaga - Málaga, Andalusia.
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÍa | The Sofia - Madrid. Spain's national museum of 20th century art.
- Museo Picasso MÁlaga
- The Mies van der Rohe Pavilion - Barcelona.
- Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum - since 1992. Named after its founder, Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza), or simply the Thyssen, is an art museum in Madrid, Spain, located near the Prado Museum on one of the city's main boulevards. It is known as part of the "Golden Triangle of Art", which also includes the Prado and the Reina Sofía national galleries. With over 1,600 paintings, it was once the second largest private collection in the world after the British Royal Collection. A competition was held to house the core of the collection in 1987–88 after Baron Thyssen, having unsuccessfully sought permission to enlarge his museum in Lugano (Villa Favorita), searched for a better-suited location elsewhere in Europe.
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