Art museums are some of the largest buildings in the world. The world's most pre-eminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.[1]
The following is a list of art museums ranked according to their gallery space where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 8,000 square meters (86,000 sq ft) of gallery space are included.
More information Building, Name ...
Building |
Name |
City |
Country |
Gallery space in m2 (ft2) |
Year established |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg/110px-Louvre_Museum_Wikimedia_Commons.jpg) |
Louvre |
Paris |
France |
72,735 (782,910)[2] |
1792 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Russia-2767B_-_Alexander_Column_%284122823192%29.jpg/110px-Russia-2767B_-_Alexander_Column_%284122823192%29.jpg) |
State Hermitage Museum |
St. Petersburg |
Russia |
66,842 (719,480)[3][note 1] |
1764 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Chinese_National_Museum.jpg/110px-Chinese_National_Museum.jpg) |
National Museum of China |
Beijing |
China |
65,000 (700,000)[4] |
1959 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_%28The_Met%29_-_Central_Park%2C_NYC.jpg/110px-Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_%28The_Met%29_-_Central_Park%2C_NYC.jpg) |
Metropolitan Museum of Art |
New York City |
United States |
58,820 (633,100)[5] |
1870 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/Rome_Vatican_Museums.jpg/110px-Rome_Vatican_Museums.jpg) |
Vatican Museums |
Vatican City (Rome) |
Vatican City |
43,000 (460,000)[5] |
1506 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Tokyo_National_Museum%2C_Honkan_2010.jpg/111px-Tokyo_National_Museum%2C_Honkan_2010.jpg) |
Tokyo National Museum |
Tokyo |
Japan |
38,000
(410,000)[6] |
1872 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/Musee_National_Anthropologie-Entree.jpg/110px-Musee_National_Anthropologie-Entree.jpg) |
National Museum of Anthropology |
Mexico City |
Mexico |
33,000 (360,000)[7] |
1964 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum-1.jpg/110px-Victoria_and_Albert_Museum-1.jpg) |
Victoria and Albert Museum |
London |
United Kingdom |
30,658 (330,000)[8][9] |
1852 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Maria-Theresien-Platz_Kunsthistorisches_Museum_Wien_2010.jpg/110px-Maria-Theresien-Platz_Kunsthistorisches_Museum_Wien_2010.jpg) |
Kunsthistorisches Museum |
Vienna |
Austria |
29,000[10] (312,153) |
1891 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/MFAHCarolineWeissLaw.JPG/110px-MFAHCarolineWeissLaw.JPG) |
Houston Museum of Fine Arts |
Houston |
United States |
28,000 (300,000)[11] |
1900 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/National_Museum_of_Korea.jpg/110px-National_Museum_of_Korea.jpg) |
National Museum of Korea |
Seoul |
South Korea |
27,090 (291,600)[12] |
1909 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Art_Institute_of_Chicago_%2851575570710%29.jpg/110px-Art_Institute_of_Chicago_%2851575570710%29.jpg) |
Art Institute of Chicago |
Chicago |
United States |
26,000 (280,000)[13][note 2] |
1879 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Nanjing_Museum_-_main_building.jpg/110px-Nanjing_Museum_-_main_building.jpg) |
Nanjing Museum |
Nanjing |
China |
26,000[14]
(280,000) |
1933 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG/110px-British_Museum_from_NE_2.JPG) |
British Museum |
London |
United Kingdom |
25,700
(277,000)[15] |
1753 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/National-Gallery-of-Art-West-Building-John-Russell-Pope-National-Mall-Washington-DC-04-2014.jpg/110px-National-Gallery-of-Art-West-Building-John-Russell-Pope-National-Mall-Washington-DC-04-2014.jpg) |
National Gallery of Art |
Washington, D.C. |
United States |
25,200 (271,000)[16] |
1937 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Museo_del_Prado_2016_%2825185969599%29.jpg/110px-Museo_del_Prado_2016_%2825185969599%29.jpg) |
Museo del Prado |
Madrid |
Spain |
25,000 (270,000)[17] |
1819 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Mystetskyi_Arsenal_in_Kyiv.jpg/110px-Mystetskyi_Arsenal_in_Kyiv.jpg) |
Mystetskyi Arsenal |
Kyiv |
Ukraine |
24,000 (260,000)[18] |
2006 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/MASS_MoCA_1.jpg/110px-MASS_MoCA_1.jpg) |
MASS MoCA |
North Adams |
United States |
23,225 (249,990)[19] |
1999 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/National_Gallery_from_SW%2C_Canberra_Australia.jpg/110px-National_Gallery_from_SW%2C_Canberra_Australia.jpg) |
National Gallery of Australia |
Canberra |
Australia |
23,000 (250,000)[20] |
1967 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Park_of_the_Cinquantenaire_-_Royal_Museums_of_Art_and_History%2C_Brussels%2C_2010_%28HDR_2%29.jpg/110px-Park_of_the_Cinquantenaire_-_Royal_Museums_of_Art_and_History%2C_Brussels%2C_2010_%28HDR_2%29.jpg) |
Art & History Museum |
Brussels |
Belgium |
22,000
(240,000) |
1835 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Mfa_boston_af.jpg/110px-Mfa_boston_af.jpg) |
Museum of Fine Arts |
Boston |
United States |
20,500 (221,000)[21] |
1870 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Shandong_art_museum_20190706_%282%29.jpg/110px-Shandong_art_museum_20190706_%282%29.jpg) |
Shandong Art Museum |
Jinan |
China |
19,700 (212,000)[22] |
1977 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/National_Gallery_of_Victoria_Australia_Winter_2019.jpg/110px-National_Gallery_of_Victoria_Australia_Winter_2019.jpg) |
National Gallery of Victoria |
Melbourne |
Australia |
19,600 (211,000)[23] |
1861 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Israel_Museum_Black_and_White_%286898548048%29.jpg/110px-Israel_Museum_Black_and_White_%286898548048%29.jpg) |
Israel Museum |
Jerusalem |
Israel |
18,500 (199,000)[24] |
1965 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/National_Gallery_Singapore_-_Joy_of_Museums_-_External.jpg/110px-National_Gallery_Singapore_-_Joy_of_Museums_-_External.jpg) |
National Gallery Singapore |
Singapore |
Singapore |
18,000 (190,000)[25] |
2015 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg/110px-Minneapolis_Institute_of_Art.jpg) |
Minneapolis Institute of Art |
Minneapolis |
United States |
17,500 (188,000)[26] |
1883 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Museo_regionale_di_messina%2C_00_ingresso.JPG/110px-Museo_regionale_di_messina%2C_00_ingresso.JPG) |
Interdisciplinary Regional Museum of Messina |
Messina |
Italy |
17,000[27] |
1806/1908 |
![Olho Neimayer Curitiba 03 2007](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Olho_Neimayer_Curitiba_03_2007.jpg/110px-Olho_Neimayer_Curitiba_03_2007.jpg) |
Museu Oscar Niemeyer |
Curitiba |
Brazil |
17,000[28] |
2002 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/WKCD_M%2B%2C_2021.11.jpg/109px-WKCD_M%2B%2C_2021.11.jpg) |
M+ |
Kowloon |
Hong Kong |
17,000 (183,000)[29] |
2021 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/BMA-2010-screen.jpg/110px-BMA-2010-screen.jpg) |
Birmingham Museum of Art |
Birmingham, Alabama |
United States |
17,000
(180,000)[30] |
1951 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Venezia-Arsenale.jpg/110px-Venezia-Arsenale.jpg) |
Arsenal (Biennale) |
Venice |
Italy |
17,000 (180,000)[31] |
1895 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Front_Fa%C3%A7ade_of_the_Centre_Pompidou_2.jpg/110px-Front_Fa%C3%A7ade_of_the_Centre_Pompidou_2.jpg) |
Musée National d'Art Moderne |
Paris |
France |
17,000 (180,000)[32] |
1947 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay%2C_North-West_view%2C_Paris_7e_140402.jpg/110px-Mus%C3%A9e_d%27Orsay%2C_North-West_view%2C_Paris_7e_140402.jpg) |
Musée d'Orsay |
Paris |
France |
16,853 (181,400)[33] |
1986 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Berliner_Schlo%C3%9F_%282020%29.jpeg/111px-Berliner_Schlo%C3%9F_%282020%29.jpeg) |
Humboldt Forum |
Berlin |
Germany |
16,000
(172,223)[34] |
2020 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/2017_SFMOMA_from_Yerba_Buena_Gardens.jpg/110px-2017_SFMOMA_from_Yerba_Buena_Gardens.jpg) |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
San Francisco |
United States |
15,800 (170,000)[35] |
1935 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8b/MoMa_NY_USA_1.jpg/110px-MoMa_NY_USA_1.jpg) |
Museum of Modern Art |
New York City |
United States |
15,400 (166,000)[36] |
1929 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Real_Bosco_di_Capodimonte._%289923%29.jpg/110px-Real_Bosco_di_Capodimonte._%289923%29.jpg) |
Museo di Capodimonte |
Naples |
Italy |
15,000[37] |
1757 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Denver_Art_Museum.jpg/110px-Denver_Art_Museum.jpg) |
Denver Art Museum |
Denver |
United States |
15,000 (160,000)[38][39] |
1918 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/The_Egyptian_Museum.jpg/110px-The_Egyptian_Museum.jpg) |
Egyptian Museum |
Cairo |
Egypt |
15,000 (160,000)[40] |
1902 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Beacon_dia_entrance.JPG/110px-Beacon_dia_entrance.JPG) |
Dia:Beacon |
Beacon, New York |
United States |
14,900 (160,000)[41] |
2003 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt2017.jpg/110px-PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt2017.jpg) |
Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Philadelphia |
United States |
14,865 (160,010)[42] |
1876 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/DMA_west.jpg/110px-DMA_west.jpg) |
Dallas Museum of Art |
Dallas |
United States |
14,800 (159,000)[26] |
1903 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Edificio_Sabatini._Museo_Nacional_Centro_de_Arte_Reina_Sof%C3%ADa.jpg/110px-Edificio_Sabatini._Museo_Nacional_Centro_de_Arte_Reina_Sof%C3%ADa.jpg) |
Museo Reina Sofía |
Madrid |
Spain |
14,756 (158,830)[43][44][note 3] |
1992 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/MMCA-Gwacheon.jpg/110px-MMCA-Gwacheon.jpg) |
MMCA, Gwacheon |
Gwacheon |
South Korea |
14,144 (152,240)[45] |
1969 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Detroit_Institute_of_Arts_January_2015_01.jpg/110px-Detroit_Institute_of_Arts_January_2015_01.jpg) |
Detroit Institute of Arts |
Detroit |
United States |
14,000 (150,000)[46] |
1885 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Sofia_-_National_Museum_of_History.jpg/110px-Sofia_-_National_Museum_of_History.jpg) |
National Historical Museum |
Sofia |
Bulgaria |
14,000 (150,000)[47] |
1973 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/National_Art_Center_Tokyo_2008.jpg/110px-National_Art_Center_Tokyo_2008.jpg) |
Tokyo National Art Center |
Tokyo |
Japan |
14,000 (150,000)[48] |
2007 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/NTMOFA6.jpg/110px-NTMOFA6.jpg) |
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts |
Taichung |
Taiwan |
13,600 (146,000)[49] |
1988 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Praha_Veletr%C5%BEn%C3%AD_pal%C3%A1c_jih.jpg/110px-Praha_Veletr%C5%BEn%C3%AD_pal%C3%A1c_jih.jpg) |
National Gallery in Prague (Veletržní) |
Prague |
Czech Republic |
13,500 (145,000)[50] |
1796 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Indy-Art-Museum-Szmurlo.jpg/110px-Indy-Art-Museum-Szmurlo.jpg) |
Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Indianapolis |
United States |
13,300 (143,000)[51] |
1883 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Millwaukee_Museum_from_south-west.jpg/110px-Millwaukee_Museum_from_south-west.jpg) |
Milwaukee Art Museum |
Milwaukee |
United States |
13,196.4 (142,045)[52] |
1882 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Bayerisches_Nationalmuseum_-_Muenchen_-_2013.jpg/110px-Bayerisches_Nationalmuseum_-_Muenchen_-_2013.jpg) |
Bavarian National Museum |
Munich |
Germany |
13,000 (140,000)[53] |
1855 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Capital_Museum_in_Beijing.jpg/110px-Capital_Museum_in_Beijing.jpg) |
Capital Museum |
Beijing |
China |
13,000 (140,000)[54][55] |
1981 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_main_entrance%2C_Montreal.jpg/110px-Museum_of_Fine_Arts%2C_main_entrance%2C_Montreal.jpg) |
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts |
Montreal |
Canada |
13,000 (140,000)[56] |
1860 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/de/Galer%C3%ADa_Nacional%2C_Londres%2C_Inglaterra%2C_2014-08-07%2C_DD_035.JPG/110px-Galer%C3%ADa_Nacional%2C_Londres%2C_Inglaterra%2C_2014-08-07%2C_DD_035.JPG) |
National Gallery |
London |
United Kingdom |
13,000 (140,000)[note 4][57] |
1824 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Palais-de-Tokyo-lumi%C3%A8re8.JPG/110px-Palais-de-Tokyo-lumi%C3%A8re8.JPG) |
Palais de Tokyo |
Paris |
France |
13,000 (140,000)[58] |
2001 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Salar_jung_museum_hyderabad.jpg/110px-Salar_jung_museum_hyderabad.jpg) |
Salar Jung Museum |
Hyderabad |
India |
13,000 (140,000)[59] |
1855 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Natmuseumnaples.jpg/110px-Natmuseumnaples.jpg) | National Archaeological Museum, Naples | Naples | Italy | 12,650 (136,200)[60] |
1777 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/E201605_TF_0030.jpg/110px-E201605_TF_0030.jpg) |
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts |
Richmond |
United States |
12,500 (135,000)[61] |
1934 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Tate_Modern_-_exteri%C3%A9r_I._%283._10._2004%29.JPG/110px-Tate_Modern_-_exteri%C3%A9r_I._%283._10._2004%29.JPG) |
Tate Modern |
London |
United Kingdom |
12,427 (133,760)[62] |
2000 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg/110px-Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg) |
Cleveland Museum of Art |
Cleveland |
United States |
12,400 (133,000)[26] |
1913 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/10/Ottawa_-_ON_-_National_Gallery_of_Canada.jpg/110px-Ottawa_-_ON_-_National_Gallery_of_Canada.jpg) |
National Gallery of Canada |
Ottawa |
Canada |
12,400 (133,000)[63] |
1880 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/AGO_at_dusk.jpg/110px-AGO_at_dusk.jpg) |
Art Gallery of Ontario |
Toronto |
Canada |
12,000 (129,000)[64] |
1900 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/Hamburger_Kunsthalle.jpg/110px-Hamburger_Kunsthalle.jpg) |
Hamburger Kunsthalle |
Hamburg |
Germany |
12,000 (130,000)[65] |
1869 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Museum_Boijmans_Van_Beuningen_%28Rotterdam%29_2.JPG/110px-Museum_Boijmans_Van_Beuningen_%28Rotterdam%29_2.JPG) |
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen |
Rotterdam |
Netherlands |
12,000 (130,000)[66] |
1849 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Jaipur_House_Delhi.jpg/110px-Jaipur_House_Delhi.jpg) |
National Gallery of Modern Art |
New Delhi |
India |
12,000 (130,000)[67] |
1954 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Lille_palais_des_beaux_arts.jpg/110px-Lille_palais_des_beaux_arts.jpg) |
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille |
Lille |
France |
12,000 (130,000)[68] |
1809 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Pinakothek_der_Moderne_Nord.jpg/110px-Pinakothek_der_Moderne_Nord.jpg) |
Pinakothek der Moderne |
Munich |
Germany |
12,000 (130,000)[69] |
2002 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/South_facade_of_the_Rijksmuseum_Amsterdam_%28DSCF0528%29.jpg/110px-South_facade_of_the_Rijksmuseum_Amsterdam_%28DSCF0528%29.jpg) |
Rijksmuseum |
Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
12,000 (130,000)[70] |
1800 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Moscow%2C_Krymsky_Val_Street_10-14_2014_02.JPG/110px-Moscow%2C_Krymsky_Val_Street_10-14_2014_02.JPG) |
Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val) |
Moscow |
Russia |
12,000 (130,000)[71] |
1985 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Taipei_Fine_Arts_Museum_20150919.jpg/110px-Taipei_Fine_Arts_Museum_20150919.jpg) | Taipei Fine Arts Museum | Taipei | Taiwan | 11,700 (126,000)[72] | 1983 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Kunsthaus_Z%C3%BCrich_-_2014-09-24_-_Bild_2.JPG/110px-Kunsthaus_Z%C3%BCrich_-_2014-09-24_-_Bild_2.JPG) | Kunsthaus | Zürich | Switzerland |
11,500 (124,000) |
1910 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/NSWAG.jpg/110px-NSWAG.jpg) | Art Gallery of New South Wales | Sydney | Australia | 11,000 (120,000)[73] | 1874 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Muzeum_Kapitolinskie.JPG/110px-Muzeum_Kapitolinskie.JPG) | Capitoline Museums | Rome | Italy | 11,000 (120,000)[74] | 1471 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Fondazione_prada%2C_milano%2C_cortile_02.JPG/110px-Fondazione_prada%2C_milano%2C_cortile_02.JPG) | Fondazione Prada | Milan | Italy | 11,000 (120,000)[75] | 1993 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Museo_Guggenheim%2C_Bilbao_%2831273245344%29.jpg/110px-Museo_Guggenheim%2C_Bilbao_%2831273245344%29.jpg) | Guggenheim Museum | Bilbao | Spain | 11,000 (120,000)[76] | 1997 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Highsmithlacmaoblique.jpg/110px-Highsmithlacmaoblique.jpg) | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Los Angeles | United States | 11,000 (120,000)[77] | 1910 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Shaanxi_History_Museum_2.JPG/110px-Shaanxi_History_Museum_2.JPG) | Shaanxi History Museum | Xi'an | China | 11,000 (120,000)[78] | 1991 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/08/HangarBicocca%2C_vue_du_haut_du_Hangar.jpg/110px-HangarBicocca%2C_vue_du_haut_du_Hangar.jpg) | HangarBicocca | Milan | Italy | 10,900 (117,000)[79] | 2012 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/%28Barcelona%29_Palau_Nacional_-_National_Museum_of_Art_of_Catalunya.jpg/110px-%28Barcelona%29_Palau_Nacional_-_National_Museum_of_Art_of_Catalunya.jpg) | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya | Barcelona | Spain | 10,500 (113,000)[80] | 1934 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Tibet_Museum1.jpg/110px-Tibet_Museum1.jpg) | Tibet Museum | Lhasa | China | 10,500 (113,000)[81] | 1999 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Portland_Art_Museum_Mark_Building_-_Oregon.JPG/110px-Portland_Art_Museum_Mark_Building_-_Oregon.JPG) | Portland Art Museum | Portland, Oregon | United States | 10,400 (112,000)[82] | 1892 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Budapest_Fine_Arts_Museum_R01.jpg/110px-Budapest_Fine_Arts_Museum_R01.jpg) | Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest | Budapest | Hungary | 10,300 (111,000)[83] | 1906 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/NYC_-_9-11_Memorial_Museum_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg/110px-NYC_-_9-11_Memorial_Museum_-_panoramio_%281%29.jpg) | National September 11 Memorial & Museum | New York City | United States | 10,000 (110,000)[84] |
2014 |
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Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum |
Palermo |
Italy |
10,000[85] |
1866 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Carnegie_Museum_of_Art.JPG/110px-Carnegie_Museum_of_Art.JPG) | Carnegie Museum of Art | Pittsburgh | United States | 10,000 (110,000)[86] | 1896 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Hamburger_Bahnhof%2C_Berlin%2C_Eingangsbereich-49290.jpg/110px-Hamburger_Bahnhof%2C_Berlin%2C_Eingangsbereich-49290.jpg) | Hamburger Bahnhof | Berlin | Germany | 10,000 (110,000)[87] | 1996 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Basler_Kunstmuseum.jpg/110px-Basler_Kunstmuseum.jpg) | Kunstmuseum Basel | Basel | Switzerland | 10,000 (110,000)[88] | 1936 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/9b/MAXXI_%2827483747665%29.jpg/110px-MAXXI_%2827483747665%29.jpg) | MAXXI | Rome | Italy | 10,000 (110,000)[89] | 2010 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Museo_Egizio_e_Galleria_sabauda%2C_Torino.jpg/110px-Museo_Egizio_e_Galleria_sabauda%2C_Torino.jpg) | Museo Egizio | Turin | Italy | 10,000 (110,000)[90] | 1824 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Museum_kunst_palast_East_facade.jpg/110px-Museum_kunst_palast_East_facade.jpg) | Museum Kunstpalast | Düsseldorf | Germany | 10,000 (110,000)[91] | 1913 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2b/MMCA-Gwacheon.jpg/110px-MMCA-Gwacheon.jpg) | MMCA, Seoul | Seoul | South Korea | 10,000 (110,000)[92] | 2013 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Stlouisartmuseum.JPG/110px-Stlouisartmuseum.JPG) | Saint Louis Art Museum | St. Louis | United States | 10,000 (110,000)[26] | 1881 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/PikiWiki_Israel_15282_Tel_Aviv_Museum_of_Art.jpg/110px-PikiWiki_Israel_15282_Tel_Aviv_Museum_of_Art.jpg) | Tel Aviv Museum of Art | Tel Aviv | Israel | 10,000 (110,000)[note 5][93][94] | 1932 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Taipei_Taiwan_National-Palace-Museum-02.jpg/110px-Taipei_Taiwan_National-Palace-Museum-02.jpg) | National Palace Museum | Taipei | Taiwan | 9,613 (103,470)[95] | 1925 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional_de_Espa%C3%B1a_01.jpg/110px-Museo_Arqueol%C3%B3gico_Nacional_de_Espa%C3%B1a_01.jpg) | National Archaeological Museum | Madrid | Spain | 9,300 (100,000)[96] | 1867 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Mus%C3%A9e_Fabre_-_panoramio.jpg/110px-Mus%C3%A9e_Fabre_-_panoramio.jpg) | Musée Fabre | Montpellier | France | 9,300 (100,000)[97] | 1828 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/Pinacoteca_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_Brazil.jpg/110px-Pinacoteca_de_S%C3%A3o_Paulo%2C_Brazil.jpg) | Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo | São Paulo | Brasil | 9,112 (98,080)[98] | 1905 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Tunis%2C_Museum_Bardo.jpg/110px-Tunis%2C_Museum_Bardo.jpg) | Bardo National Museum | Tunis | Tunisia | 9,000 (97,000)[99] | 1888 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Cit%C3%A9_de_l%27architecture_001.jpg/110px-Cit%C3%A9_de_l%27architecture_001.jpg) | Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine | Paris | France | 9,000 (97,000)[100] | 1879 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/%22Streifzug%22_durch_die_Stadt_Oslo._01.jpg/110px-%22Streifzug%22_durch_die_Stadt_Oslo._01.jpg) | National Gallery | Oslo | Norway | 9,000 (97,000)[101] | 1842 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Shanghai_-_Power_Station_of_Art_%2812250570163%29.jpg/110px-Shanghai_-_Power_Station_of_Art_%2812250570163%29.jpg) | Power Station of Art (Biennale) | Shanghai | China | 9,000 (97,000)[102] | 2012 |
![M. H. de Young Memorial Museum](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/M._H._de_Young_Memorial_Museum.jpg/110px-M._H._de_Young_Memorial_Museum.jpg) |
De Young Museum |
San Francisco |
United States |
8,919 (96,000)[103] | 1895 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Old_Patent_Office%2C_Washington%2C_D.C._2011.jpg/110px-Old_Patent_Office%2C_Washington%2C_D.C._2011.jpg) | Smithsonian American Art Museum | Washington, D.C. | United States | 8,800 (95,000)[104] | 1829 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Musee_du_quai_Branly_exterieur.jpg/110px-Musee_du_quai_Branly_exterieur.jpg) | Musée du quai Branly | Paris | France | 8,750 (94,200)[105] | 2006 |
![150xframeless](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/High_Museum_of_Art_-_Atlanta%2C_GA_-_Flickr_-_hyku_%2811%29.jpg/110px-High_Museum_of_Art_-_Atlanta%2C_GA_-_Flickr_-_hyku_%2811%29.jpg) |
High Museum of Art |
Atlanta |
United States |
8,714
(93,800)[106] |
1905 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/%E8%BE%BD%E5%AE%81%E7%9C%81%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A6%86%E6%96%B0%E9%A6%86.jpg/110px-%E8%BE%BD%E5%AE%81%E7%9C%81%E5%8D%9A%E7%89%A9%E9%A6%86%E6%96%B0%E9%A6%86.jpg) | Liaoning Provincial Museum | Shenyang | China | 8,500 (91,000)[107] | 1949 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/04/Milano_Banca_Commerciale.JPG/110px-Milano_Banca_Commerciale.JPG) | Gallerie di Piazza Scala | Milan | Italy | 8,300 (89,000)[108] | 2011 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/National_Art_Museum_of_China_%26_Wusi_Street.jpg/110px-National_Art_Museum_of_China_%26_Wusi_Street.jpg) | National Art Museum of China | Beijing | China | 8,300 (89,000)[109] | 1958 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Le_parvis_d%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_Gem%C3%A4ldegalerie_%28Berlin%29_%2811476462646%29.jpg/110px-Le_parvis_d%27entr%C3%A9e_de_la_Gem%C3%A4ldegalerie_%28Berlin%29_%2811476462646%29.jpg) | Gemäldegalerie | Berlin | Germany | 8,000 (86,000)[110] | 1830 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/LouvreAD_exterior.jpg/110px-LouvreAD_exterior.jpg) | Louvre Abu Dhabi | Abu Dhabi | UAE | 8,000 (86,000)[111] | 2017 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/Cologne_Germany_Roofs-of-Museum-Ludwig-01.jpg/110px-Cologne_Germany_Roofs-of-Museum-Ludwig-01.jpg) | Museum Ludwig | Cologne | Germany | 8,000 (86,000)[112] | 1976 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Arch%C3%A4ologisches_Nationalmuseum_Athen.jpg/110px-Arch%C3%A4ologisches_Nationalmuseum_Athen.jpg) | National Archaeological Museum | Athens | Greece | 8,000 (86,000)[113] | 1866 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Berlin_Neues_Museum_001.JPG/110px-Berlin_Neues_Museum_001.JPG) | Neues Museum | Berlin | Germany | 8,000 (86,000)[citation needed] | 1855 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Paris_-_Petit_Palais.jpg/110px-Paris_-_Petit_Palais.jpg) | Petit Palais | Paris | France | 8,000 (86,000)[114] | 1902 |
![](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/De_nieuwe_vleugel_van_het_Stedelijk_Museum_Amsterdam.jpg/110px-De_nieuwe_vleugel_van_het_Stedelijk_Museum_Amsterdam.jpg) | Stedelijk Museum | Amsterdam | Netherlands | 8,000 (86,000)[115] | 1874 |
![Entry of Sprengel Museum, Hannover](//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Sprengel-Museum-Hannover-2015-09_01.jpg/110px-Sprengel-Museum-Hannover-2015-09_01.jpg) |
Sprengel Museum |
Hannover |
Germany |
8,000
(86,000)[116] |
1979 |
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The 100,000 square meters mentioned on the official website are the total exhibition area of the institution, which includes sites outside of St. Petersburg. The figure given here is the one that previously appeared on the official website, corresponding only to the site of Saint-Petersburg. Mention of this number appears on some websites, or in the book "Tourism in Russia: A Management Handbook" (p.158).
65,000 sqft expansion adds 30% of gallery space
References for historical building + extension
The Sainsbury Wing has 450,000 square feet of exhibition space (Victoria Newhouse, Towards a New Museum, 1998, Monacelli Press, p.182) and accounts for roughly a third of the museum 5,000 sqm original exhibition space, doubled by extension