List of contemporary art museums

Contemporary art museums around the world specialize in collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The following is an alphabetical listing of major contemporary art museums, divided by country. A number of such museums are called the Museum of Contemporary Art. For smaller galleries, such as private and artist-run galleries, see International Contemporary Art Scenes.

Australia

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Brazil

• Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo
• Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

Canada

• Art Gallery of Ontario
• Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
• Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art
• Vancouver Art Gallery
• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal

Croatia

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

France

• Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Ascq
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz

Germany

• NBK Berlin
• Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Greece

• State Museum of Contemporary Arts
• Deste foundation
• ART-ATHINA

Italy

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome
• MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome

Japan

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Liechtenstein

• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

The Middle East

• Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Poland

• Museum of Art, Łódź, Łódź, Poland
• Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
• MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Krakow, Poland

Portugal

• Serralves Foundation
• Museu Berardo
• Museu do Chiado
• Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas

Romania

• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Serbia

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

Singapore

• 8Q SAM

Spain

• Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
• CAAC, Seville
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
• MUSAC, León
• Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares
• Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Sweden

• Moderna Museet

Switzerland

• Kunstmuseum Basel

Turkey

• Proje 4L Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art
• iS.CaM. Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum
• SALT SALT (institution)

United Kingdom

• Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Saatchi Gallery
• Tate (formerly known as the Tate Gallery)
• The Baltic (also known as the Baltic Flour Mill)

United States

• Tamarind Art Gallery
• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
• Artspace
• Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
• Contemporary Art Center of Virginia
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
• Contemporary Museum Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland
• The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
• Chinati Foundation, Marfa
• Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Boston, Massachusetts
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri
• Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
• Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
• Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
• New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City
• P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center
• Rochester Art Center
• The Renaissance Society, Chicago
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• Site Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City

Further reading

• Jesus Pedro Lorente, Cathedrals of urban modernity: the first museums of contemporary art, 1800-1930, Ashgate (1998)
• Jesus Pedro Lorente, The Museums of Contemporary Art: Notion and Development, Ashgate (2011)
• Bruce Altshuler, Collecting the new: museums and contemporary art, Princeton University Press (2007)

See also

• Museum of Contemporary Art (disambiguation)