List of largest art museums in the world
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Note: The following list is only an estimation of ranking as reliable figures are not available for all museums worldwide. Many size figures are noted as based on satellite images of museum buildings and detailed floor plans when no official numbers are available. |
This list of largest art museums in the world ranks art museums and other museums that contain mostly pieces of art by the best available estimates of total exhibition space.
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Methodology[edit]
Only gallery space is to be considered, not be confused with the total space inside the building (which is generally three times larger).
The museum should be mainly composed of human made artifacts with an important aesthetical dimension (i.e. natural history, social history, science and technology museums are to be excluded, as well as palaces whose purpose is primarily historical and architectural and secondarily as an art collection).
Museums contained inside a bigger institution cannot be considered as one entity if they are not at the same location.
For purposes of this list, large museums are those with more than 8,000 m2 (86,000 sq ft) of gallery space.
Largest art museums in the world[edit]
Large museums with unknown or unreliable figures[edit]
- China Art Museum in Shanghai, China [113]
- Giardini (Biennale) in Venice, Italy [114]
- National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark
- National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest, Romania [115][116][117]
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Floor plan on museum website used to identify which spaces in the museum building are gallery spaces. Dimensions of building in feet established from satellite view of museum building from Google Maps. Total square footage of gallery spaces then calculated based on dimensions of gallery spaces in floor plan.
- ^ References for historical building + extension
- ^ Main buildings : Law and Beck
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