The Museo del Prado in Madrid comes first among the great art museums of the world, ahead of the Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg), the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), the Galleria degli Uffizi (Florence) and the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam). Each museum below opens on the highlights of its collection.
Each museum is placed by its standing, the fame of the works it holds, the part of its collection we document and how often its page is read. Visitor numbers play no part.
100 museums in 23 countries, with United States of America first (18). 95,384 works of their collections are documented here.
The highlights and artists of the leading museums
- The highlights of the Museo del Prado · The artists of the Museo del Prado
- The highlights of the Hermitage Museum · The artists of the Hermitage Museum
- The highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art · The artists of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The highlights of the Galleria degli Uffizi · The artists of the Galleria degli Uffizi
- The highlights of the Rijksmuseum · The artists of the Rijksmuseum
- The highlights of the Kunsthistorisches Museum · The artists of the Kunsthistorisches Museum
- The highlights of the National Gallery · The artists of the National Gallery
- The highlights of the Musée d'Orsay · The artists of the Musée d'Orsay
- The highlights of the Louvre · The artists of the Louvre
- The highlights of the Philadelphia Museum of Art · The artists of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
