Global Museum Trek: Surprising Statistics and Desired Destinations | November 14 2024, 15:56

I decided to see which of the world’s largest museums I have visited and which ones still await me. I was quite surprised to find the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum in third place for visitors, after the Louvre and the Russian Museum, and ahead of New York’s Metropolitan, the National Gallery in Washington, the Hermitage, the Vatican, and the Tretyakov Gallery. I have never been to this Multimedia Art Museum, although I lived in Moscow for 17 years. Is it really that cool? Has been or is?

I also realized that we need to go to Madrid and Tokyo, with 4 museums in each, all pretty decent. In terms of the number of important and large museums, Paris (10) and London (8) of course lead, with Moscow in third place.

[X] Louvre (Paris)

[X] Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)

[!] Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow)

[X] Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

[X] National Gallery of Art (Washington)

[X] State Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg)

[!] Queen Sofia Arts Center (Madrid)

[X] Vatican Museums (Vatican (Rome))

[X] State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)

[X] National Museum of Modern Art (Paris)

[X] British Museum (London)

[!] National Museum of Korea (Seoul)

[!] Prado Museum (Madrid)

[X] Royal Castle (Warsaw)

[X] Museum of Modern Art New York (New York)

[X] Tate Modern (London)

[!] Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo)

[X] Musée d’Orsay (Paris)

[X] Somerset House (London)

[X] Uffizi Gallery (Florence)

[!] National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul)

[!] National Art Center (Tokyo)

[!] Shanghai Museum (Shanghai)

[X] Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

[!] Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Wellington)

[!] Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Marseille)

[!] National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)

[X] Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow)

[!] National Gallery of Singapore (Singapore)

[X] National Gallery London (London)

[!] Fondation Louis Vuitton (Paris)

[X] National Museum in Krakow (Krakow)

[!] Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid)

[!] National Gallery of Scotland (Edinburgh)

[!] Gyeongju National Museum (Gyeongju)

[X] Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

[!] Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles)

[!] Hong Kong Museum of Art (Hong Kong)

[!] Musée du quai Branly (Paris)

[!] National Museum Tokyo (Tokyo)

[!] West Bund Museum of Fine Arts (Shanghai)

[!] UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing)

[X] Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna)

[X] Moscow Kremlin (Moscow)

[!] Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park (Grand Rapids)

[!] Acropolis Museum (Athens)

[X] Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (Bilbao)

[X] Tate Britain (London)

[!] Petit Palais (Paris)

[!] Humboldt Forum (Berlin)

[!] Paris Bourse de Commerce (Paris)

[!] Getty Center (Los Angeles)

[!] Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane)

[X] Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston)

[!] Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)

[!] Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv)

[X] Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Boston)

[!] Royal Academy of Arts (London)

[!] National Gallery of Australia (Canberra)

[!] Pudong Art Museum (Shanghai)

[X] Academy Gallery (Florence)

[!] Art Gallery of South Australia (Adelaide)

[!] Milan Triennale (Milan)

[!] Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville)

[!] Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia)

[!] Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney)

[!] Fabergé Museum (Saint Petersburg)

[!] National Palace Museum (Taipei)

[!] Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)

[!] Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland)

[X] Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow)

[!] ARoS (Aarhus)

[!] Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City)

[!] Egyptian Museum of Turin (Turin)

[X] de Young Museum (San Francisco)

[!] National Museum of African American History and Culture (Washington)

[!] Museum of Decorative Arts (Paris)

[!] CaixaForum Barcelona (Barcelona)

[!] Kunsthaus Zurich (Zurich)

[!] Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris)

[!] M+ (Hong Kong)

[X] Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam)

[!] Albertina Gallery (Vienna)

[!] Yorkshire Sculpture Park (City of Wakefield)

[!] Tomie Ohtake Institute (São Paulo)

[!] Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)

[!] Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)

[!] World Museum (Liverpool)

[X] Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington)

[X] National Portrait Gallery (Washington)

[!] MMCA National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul)

[!] Belvedere Museum (Vienna)

[!] Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)

[!] Saint Louis Art Museum (Saint Louis)

[!] Imperial War Museum (London)

[!] Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo)

[!] Tokyo Palace (Paris)

[!] Fondation Beyeler Museum (Riehen)

[!] National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Tokyo)

[!] CaixaForum Madrid (Madrid)