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The Best Museums in the World
This list of the most visited museums in the world, comes with pictures, and will give you plenty of ideas for top museums to see on your own travels. For some, "the most popular" means "the best," and these are definitely some of the most famous museums anywhere. The top museums in the world are often major tourist attractions, and can be a museum of natural history, art, science, or be dedicated to any number of other topics. Early museums were collections owned by private individuals.
Whether these collections were open to the public was up to the owner. Today, museums are institutions dedicated to the study and exhibition of art, artifacts, and other objects of importance. One can only imagine the collections necessary to make the museums on this list some of the best museums in the world.
What are the greatest museums in the world? This list contains the top 50 famous museums around the world from many different countries, so there won't be a shortage of famous places on this list.
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- 1
Acropolis Museum
Athens, Greece - 2
National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City
- 3Vienna, Austria
- 4Vatican City
- 5Community of Madrid, Spain
- 6
Pergamonmuseum
- 7Madrid, Spain
- 8Rome, Italy
- 9
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere
Austria - 10Germany
- 11Munich, Germany
- 12Munich, Germany
- 13Florence, Italy
- 14Berlin, Germany
- 15Florence
- 16
Deutsches Historisches Museum
Berlin, Germany - 17
Amsterdam Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 18Munich, Germany
- 19Bilbao, Spain
- 20
Imperial War Museum London
United Kingdom - 21
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- 22Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 24Paris, France
- 25Paris
- 26
- 27Madrid
- 28
Tate Britain
- 29London
- 30
Anne Frank House
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 31Barcelona, Spain
- 32St Petersburg
- 33Paris, France
- 34Paris
- 35Ohio, USA
- 36Amsterdam
- 37Barcelona, Spain
- 38Ontario, Canada
- 39
Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands - 40Turin, Italy
- 41
Royal Academy of Arts
- 42Moscow, Russia
- 43
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag
Netherlands - 44
National Gallery
Athens - 45
State Tretyakov Gallery
- 46Dublin, Republic of Ireland
- 47Florence
- 48Glasgow, Scotland
- 49
Museum Calouste Gulbenkian
- 50
- 52Moscow, Russia
- 53Japan
- 54
Saatchi Gallery
- 55
National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan - 56
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
Bristol, United Kingdom - 57
- 58
Van Gogh Museum
Amsterdam - 59
Pinakothek der Moderne
Munich, Germany - 62Berlin
- 63
Muzeul Satului Bucuresti Romania
- 64
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
Dresden, Germany - 65
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Athens, Greece - 66
Nationalmuseum
Stockholm, Sweden - 68Beijing, China
- 69New York City
- 70Australia
- 71
Albertina
Minas Gerais, Brazil - 72Mole Antonelliana, Italy
- 73Tokyo, Japan
- 74City of Westminster, London, United Kingdom
- 75
Collections of the Palace Museum
Beijing, China - 76
National Air and Space Museum
Washington, D.C. - 78
St Fagans National History Museum
Cardiff, United Kingdom - 79
Netherlands Scheepvaart Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands 
82National Gallery Complex
- 83Australia
- 85
Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam
Netherlands - 86
The Guggenheim
- 87Washington, D.C.
- 88Tokyo, Japan
- 89
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
- 93New York City, New York, USA
- 94
National Museum of Korea
- 96Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- 97Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 98California, USA
- 99
Museu Colecção Berardo
- 100Washington, D.C., USA
- 101Istanbul, Turkey
- 102New York City, New York, USA
- 103Chicago, Illinois, USA
- 104
Norton Simon Museum
California, USA - 105
Newseum
Washington, D.C., USA - 106New York City, New York, USA
- 107Fort Worth, Texas, USA
- 108Detroit, Michigan, USA
- 109
Menil Collection
Texas, USA - 110
Arkas Art Center
İzmir, Turkey - 112
Cappadocia Art & History Museum
Cappadocia, Turkey - 113
Heard Museum
Arizona, USA - 114Chicago
- 115Southwest, Washington, D.C.
- 116
Zeugma Mosaic Museum
Gaziantep, Turkey - 117California, USA
- 118
Anıtkabir Museum
Ankara, Turkey - 119California, USA
- 120New York City, New York, USA
