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Museums Over 200 museums are covered by the Joy of Museums. This list will grow over time, based on your feedback. Currently, the museums featured inc...
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Greece
Museums in Athens
Thessaloniki Museums
Delphi Museums and Historical Sites
Delos Museums and Historical Sites
Santorini Museums
Olympia Museums and Historical Sites
Corinth Museums and Historical Site
Epidaurus Museum & Historic Site
Heraklion, Crete Museum & Historic Site
Meteora Historic Site
Milos Museum & Historic Site
Mystras Historic Site
Pella Museum & Historic Site
Germany
Vienna
Ireland
Netherlands
Spain
Belgium
Serbia
Poland
Switzerland
Czech
Norway
Sweden Museums
The United States of America
New York
Boston
Washington, D.C.
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Chicago
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Wilmington
Houston
Honolulu
Columbus
New Haven
Baltimore
Russia
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
Australasia
Australia
Sydney
Melbourne
Canberra
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
Hobart
Darwin
New Zealand:
Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
Asia
Japan
China
Singapore
India
South Korea
Africa
Egypt
South Africa
Ethiopia
Middle East
Turkey
Iran
United Arab Emirates Museums
Egyptian Museums
Americas

Directory of Museums

Over 200 museums are covered by the “Joy of Museums”. This list will grow over time, based on your feedback. Currently, the museums featured include:

United Kingdom

London’s Museums and Heritage Sites

  • The British Museum
  • The National Gallery, London
  • Tate Britain
  • The Wallace Collection
  • The Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace
  • Courtauld Gallery
  • Tate Modern, London
  • Science Museum, London
  • National Portrait Gallery, London
  • Natural History Museum
  • Charles Dickens Museum
  • Hampton Court Palace
  • Sherlock Holmes Museum
  • British Library
  • Imperial War Museum
  • Churchill War Rooms
  • Florence Nightingale Museum
  • Foundling Museum
  • Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy
  • Cutty Sark, Royal Museums Greenwich
  • National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
  • Old Royal Naval College, Greenwich
  • Queen’s House, Greenwich
  • Royal Observatory, Greenwich
  • Guildhall Art Gallery
  • HMS Belfast
  • Jewel Tower
  • Jewish Museum London
  • Bank of England Museum
  • London Transport Museum
  • Museum of London
  • Museum of London Docklands
  • National Army Museum, London
  • Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
  • Royal Air Force Museum London
  • Shakespeare’s Globe
  • Sir John Soane’s Museum
  • St Paul’s Cathedral
  • City of London Police Museum
  • Household Cavalry Museum
  • Museum of Freemasonry
  • Tower Bridge, London
  • Tower of London
  • Wellcome Collection
  • Westminster Abbey

Edinburgh

  • National Museum of Scotland
  • Scottish National Gallery

Glasgow

  • Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

Liverpool

  • Walker Art Gallery

Manchester

  • Manchester Art Gallery

Bath, Somerset

  • Roman Baths (Bath)

France

Paris

  • The Louvre
  • Musée National du Moyen Age – Thermes De Cluny (National Museum of Medieval Art)
  • Musée d’Orsay
  • Musée Rodin
  • Musée Carnavalet
  • National Archaeological Museum, France
  • Les Invalides
  • Musée Marmottan Monet

Italy

Rome Museums and Historical Sites

  • The Vatican Museums
  • Capitoline Museums
  • St. Peter’s Basilica
  • National Roman Museum

Florence Museums

  • Uffizi Gallery
  • Accademy’s Gallery

Milan Museums

  • Santa Maria delle Grazie
  • Sforza Castle Museums

Bologna Museums

    • The Archaeological Civic Museum (MCA) of Bologna
    • Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Vita

Greece

Museums in Athens

  • Acropolis Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum
  • Benaki Museum
  • Goulandris Museum of Cycladic Art
  • Byzantine and Christian Museum
  • Hellenic Motor Museum
  • National Historical Museum, Athens
  • Museum of the Ancient Agora
  • Syntagma Metro Station Archaeological Collection
  • Numismatic Museum of Athens
  • Athens War Museum
  • Jewish Museum of Greece
  • Athens University Museum

Athens Historical Sites

  • Acropolis of Athens
  • Ancient Agora of Athens
  • Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens
  • Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Athens
  • Roman Agora
  • Temple of Poseidon at Sounion
  • Temple of Hephaestus
  • Roman Baths, Athens
  • Aristotle’s Lyceum

Thessaloniki Museums

  • Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
  • Museum for the Macedonian Struggle (Thessaloniki)
  • Atatürk Museum
  • War Museum of Thessaloniki

Thessaloniki Historical Sites

  • Roman
    • Triumphal Arch of Galerius
  • Early Christian and Byzantine Monuments
    • Catacombs of St. John the Baptist
    • Church of Metamorphosis tou Sotiros
    • Church of the Acheiropoietos
  • Ottoman
    • Bey Hamam
    • Bezesteni Market
    • White Tower of Thessaloniki
  • Post-Byzantine
    • Trigonion Tower

Delphi Museums and Historical Sites

  • Delphi Archaeological Museum

Delphi Historical Sites

  • Athena Pronaia Sanctuary
  • Archaeological Site of Delphi
  • Temple of Apollo (Delphi)
  • Athenian Treasury
  • Stoa of the Athenians
  • Theater at Delphi
  • Tholos of Delphi
  • Manumission Inscriptions at Delphi
  • Delphic Maxims

Delos Museums and Historical Sites

  • Archaeological Museum of Delos
  • Temple of the Delians
  • House of the Lake
  • Delos – Photo Gallery

Santorini Museums

  • Museum of Prehistoric Thera
  • Archaeological Museum of Thera
  • Maritime Museum, Santorini

Thera Historical Site

  • Akrotiri Archaeological Site

Olympia Museums and Historical Sites

  • Archaeological Museum of Olympia
  • Museum of the History of the Olympic Games of Antiquity
  • Olympia Archaeological Site

Corinth Museums and Historical Site

  • Archaeological Museum of Ancient Corinth

Mycenae Museum and Historical Site

  • Archaeological Museum of Mycenae
  • Ancient Mycenae

Epidaurus Museum & Historic Site

  • Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus

Heraklion, Crete Museum & Historic Site

  • Archaeological Musem of Heraklion

Meteora Historic Site

  • Meteora Monasteries

Milos Museum & Historic Site

  • Milos Historical Sites
  • Milos Museum

Mystras Historic Site

  • Fortified Medieval Mystras

Pella Museum & Historic Site

  • Archaeological Museum of Pella

Germany

Berlin Museums

  • The Pergamon Museum
  • Neues Museum
  • Altes Museum
  • Alte Nationalgalerie – National Gallery (Berlin)
  • Bode Museum
  • Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
  • Spy Museum Berlin
  • Jewish Museum, Berlin
  • Deutsches Historisches Museum – German Historical Museum
  • DDR Museum
  • German Resistance Memorial Center

Munich Museums

  • Art Galleries
    • Alte Pinakothek
    • Neue Pinakothek
    • Pinakothek der Moderne
    • Lenbachhaus
    • Museum Brandhorst
  • Greek and Roman Art
    • Glyptothek
    • Staatliche Antikensammlungen
  • Egyptian Art
    • Staatliche Sammlung für Ägyptische Kunst
  • Kunsthalle Munich
  • Deutsches Museum – German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology

Hamburg Museums

  • Kunsthalle Hamburg
  • Internationales Maritimes Museum Hamburg
  • Miniatur Wunderland

Frankfurt Museums

  • Städel Museum

Dresden Museums

  • Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

Nuremberg Museums

  • Germanisches Nationalmuseum

Cologne Museums

  • Wallraf–Richartz Museum

Karlsruhe Museums

  • Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe

Vienna

  • Kunsthistorisches Museum
  • Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Ireland

  • Dublin
    • National Gallery of Ireland

Netherlands

  • Amsterdam
    • Rijksmuseum
  • The Hague
    • Mauritshuis

Spain

  • Madrid
    • Prado Museum, Museo del Prado
    • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
    • Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Belgium

  • Brussels
    • Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Serbia

  • Belgrade
    • National Museum of Serbia

Poland

  • Warsaw
    • National Museum, Warsaw

Switzerland

  • Zürich
    • Kunsthaus Zürich

Czech

  • Prague
    • National Gallery in Prague
    • National Museum in Prague
    • City of Prague Museum
    • Jewish Museum in Prague
    • Museum of Communism, Czech Republic

Norway

  • Oslo
    • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Sweden Museums

  • Stockholm Museums
    • Nationalmuseum

The United States of America

New York

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art or MET
  • Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
  • Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
  • Neue Galerie New York
  • The Cloisters
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Museum of the City of New York
  • New-York Historical Society
  • Frick Collection
  • Met Breuer
  • Rubin Museum of Art
  • Jewish Museum
  • Whitney Museum of American Art
  • Brooklyn Museum

Boston

  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • Harvard Art Museums

Washington, D.C.

  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Museum of American History
  • National Air and Space Museum
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • The Phillips Collection
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • International Spy Museum

Los Angeles

  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
  • Getty Museum

San Francisco

  • De Young Museum
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Legion of Honor Museum

Chicago

  • Art Institute of Chicago

Cleveland

  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • USS COD
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
  • Great Lakes Science Center

    • Philadelphia

    • The Philadelphia Museum of Art
    • Penn Museum
    • The Barnes Foundation
    • Museum of the American Revolution
    • Rodin Museum

    Wilmington

    • Delaware Art Museum

    Houston

    • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    Honolulu

    • Honolulu Museum of Art

    Columbus

    • Columbus Museum of Art

    • New Haven

    • Yale University Art Gallery

    Baltimore

    • Walters Art Museum

    • Massachusetts Museums

      • Clark Art Institute

    • Buffalo, New York Museums

      • Albright–Knox Art Gallery

    • Fort Worth, Texas Museums

      • Kimbell Art Museum

    • Detroit Museums

      • Detroit Institute of Arts

    • St. Louis Museums

      • Saint Louis Art Museum

    • Indianapolis Museums

      • Indianapolis Museum of Art

    • Denver Museums

      • Denver Art Museum

    • Dallas Museums

      • Dallas Museum of Art

    • Cincinnati Museums

      • Cincinnati Art Museum

    • Phoenix, Arizona Museums

      • Phoenix Art Museum

    Russia

    Moscow

    • Pushkin Museum
    • Tretyakov Gallery

    Saint Petersburg

    • Hermitage Museum
    • State Russian Museum

    Australasia

    Australia

    Sydney

    • Art Gallery of New South Wales
    • Australian Museum
    • Australian National Maritime Museum
    • Museum of Sydney
    • Powerhouse Museum
    • Hyde Park Barracks, Sydney
    • Nicholson Museum
    • Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum
    • Museum of Fire

    Melbourne

    • National Gallery of Victoria
    • Melbourne Museum
    • Shrine of Remembrance
    • Hellenic Museum, Melbourne
    • State Library of Victoria
    • National Sports Museum
    • Old Treasury Building, Melbourne
    • Old Melbourne Gaol
    • Chinese Museum, Melbourne
    • Jewish Museum of Australia

    Canberra

    • National Museum of Australia
    • National Gallery of Australia
    • Australian War Memorial
    • National Portrait Gallery

    Brisbane

    • Queensland Art Gallery
    • Queensland Museum & Science Centre
    • MacArthur Museum Brisbane
    • RD Milns Antiquities Museum
    • Queensland Maritime Museum
    • Commissariat Store, Brisbane
    • Queensland Police Museum

    Perth

    • Art Gallery of Western Australia
    • WA Shipwrecks Museum
    • Perth Mint
    • WA Maritime Museum
    • Fremantle Prison

    Adelaide

    • Art Gallery of South Australia
    • South Australian Museum
    • Migration Museum, Adelaide

    Hobart

    • Museum of Old and New Art (MONA)
    • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery

    Darwin

    • Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
    • Darwin Military Museum
    • Australian Aviation Heritage Centre

    New Zealand:

    Auckland

    • New Zealand Maritime Museum
    • Auckland War Memorial Museum

    Wellington

    • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

    Christchurch

    • Canterbury Museum, Christchurch

    Asia

    Japan

    • Tokyo
      • Tokyo National Museum
      • National Museum of Western Art
      • National Museum of Nature and Science
    • Nagoya
      • Yamazaki Mazak Museum of Art
      • Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology

    China

    • Beijing Museums
      • The National Museum of China
    • Shanghai Museums
      • Shanghai Museum
      • Shanghai Science and Technology Museum
    • Nanjing Museums
      • Nanjing Museum

    Singapore

    • Asian Civilisations Museum
    • National Museum of Singapore
    • National Gallery Singapore
    • Changi Museum
    • Old Ford Motor Factory
    • Peranakan Museum
    • ArtScience Museum
    • Buddha Tooth Relic Temple and Museum
    • Singapore Philatelic Museum
    • Chinatown Heritage Centre
    • The Battle Box

    India

    • New Delhi
      • National Museum, New Delhi

     

    South Korea

    • Seoul
      • National Museum of Korea

     

    Africa

    Egypt

    • Egyptian Museum

    South Africa

    • Cape Town
      • Iziko South African National Gallery

    Ethiopia

    • Addis Ababa
      • National Museum of Ethiopia

    Middle East

    Turkey

    • Istanbul Museums
      • İstanbul Archaeology Museums
      • Topkapı Palace

    Iran

    • Tehran Museums
      • Reza Abbasi Museum

    United Arab Emirates Museums

    • Dubai Museums
      • Dubai Museum
      • Saeed Al Maktoum House
    • Sharjah Museums
      • Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilization

    Egyptian Museums

      • Cairo Museums
        • Egyptian Museum

    Americas

    Canadian Museums

    Ottawa

    • National Gallery of Canada

    Toronto

    • Art Gallery of Ontario
    • Royal Ontario Museum

    Montreal

    • Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

    Vancouver

    • Vancouver Art Gallery

    Mexico

    • Mexico City
      • Museo Soumaya

    Colombia

    • Bogotá
      • Botero Museum

    Brazil

    • Rio de Janeiro
      • Museu Nacional de Belas Artes
    • São Paulo
      • São Paulo Museum of Art

    Chile

    • Santiago

    Argentina

    • Buenos Aires

    ~~~

    “Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it.”
    – Hans Haacke

    ~~~

    Photo Credit:By Nfutvol (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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