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
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Brussels Belgium
Museum of Modern Art São Paulo Brazil
Museum of Art and History Shanghai China
Egyptian Museum Cairo Egypt
Château de Versailles Paris France
Cité des Sciences et de l'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
Museo Reina Sofia
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
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
Houston Museum of Natural Science Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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

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