The world's greatest museums — from ancient Egyptian artifacts to impressionist masterpieces to space exploration — ranked by collection depth and visitor experience.
Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, Monet's Water Lilies, van Gogh's Starry Night, and Warhol's Campbell's Soup Cans — MoMA holds the world's defining collection of 20th-century modern art.
Botticelli's Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Leonardo's Annunciation, and Caravaggio's Medusa — the Uffizi is the definitive collection of Italian Renaissance painting.
Tutankhamun's golden death mask and 120,000 artifacts from 5,000 years of Egyptian civilization fill the original Tahrir Square museum — newly complemented by the Grand Egyptian Museum at Giza.
The world's most visited museum houses 380,000 objects across 72,735 square metres — the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, Winged Victory of Samothrace, and Egyptian antiquities spanning six millennia of civilization.
The Met's encyclopedic collection of 1.5 million objects spans 5,000 years of art from every culture and corner of the world — temple of Dendur, the armor galleries, and the Impressionist wing are all unmissable.
The Hermitage's 3 million objects across 5 historic buildings make it the world's largest art museum by gallery space — Da Vinci, Rembrandt, Impressionists, and Scythian gold all within one extraordinary complex.
The blue whale skeleton, dinosaur gallery, gemstone vault, and Darwin Centre's preserved specimens make the Natural History Museum the world's finest introduction to Earth's evolutionary story.
The world's most visited museum — the Wright Brothers' Flyer, Apollo 11 command module, Neil Armstrong's spacesuit, and hundreds of historic aircraft make this the cathedral of human flight.
The Netherlands' national museum holds Rembrandt's Night Watch, Vermeer's The Milkmaid, and a comprehensive survey of Dutch Golden Age painting — all in a spectacular 19th-century Gothic building.
Home to the Sistine Chapel ceiling by Michelangelo, Raphael's School of Athens, and 70,000 works across the Gallery of Maps, Pinacoteca, and 54 galleries of papal art collection spanning 500 years.
Eight million objects from every civilization in human history — the Rosetta Stone, Elgin Marbles, Sutton Hoo helmet, and the Lewis Chessmen — make the British Museum the most comprehensive collection on Earth.
One of the greatest museums on Earth — the Aztec Sun Stone, Maya jade masks, and artifacts from every pre-Columbian civilization across 23 exhibition halls in Chapultepec Park are unrivaled in pre-Columbian coverage.
“Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York”
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