List of largest art museums in the world
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.
Methodology
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
Large museums with unknown or unreliable figures
- China Art Museum in Shanghai, China [115]
- Giardini (Biennale) in Venice, Italy [116]
- National Gallery of Denmark in Copenhagen, Denmark
- National Museum of Art of Romania in Bucharest, Romania [117][118][119]
- National Museum of Iran in Tehran, Iran [note 4]
- Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Israel[note 5][120]
See also
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 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
- ↑ 20,000 square meters for building space
- ↑ 33,500 square meters for building space
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