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This article is about list of largest museums by floor space. For list of museums by number of visitors, see
List of most visited museums
.

Museums hold large collections of items relating to their subject, building some of the largest complexes in the world in order to store and exhibit the collection in a controlled environment. The world's most preeminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.[1]

List

The following is a list of museums ranked according to their floor area where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 20,000 square meters (220,000 sq ft) of floor space are included. Entries are not ranked as large museums that do not have reliably-sourced statistics may be omitted; this is not necessarily a complete list.

Building Name Year
established 		Subject Floor area Exhibition space Collection City Country
Louvre 1792 Art, architecture, history 758,000 m2
(8,160,000 sq ft)[2] 		72,735 m2
(782,910 sq ft)[3] 		More than 380,000 (35,000 on display)[4] Paris  France
State Hermitage Museum
 1764 Art 233,345 m2
(2,511,700 sq ft)[5] 		66,842 m2
(719,480 sq ft)[5] 		3,150,428[5] Saint Petersburg  Russia
British Museum 1753 Archaeology and art 92,000 m2
(990,000 sq ft)[6] 		65,752 m2
(707,750 sq ft)[6] 		More than 8,000,000 (largest in the world) London  United Kingdom
National Museum of China 1959 Archaeology and art 191,900 m2
(2,066,000 sq ft)[7][8] 		65,000 m2
(700,000 sq ft)[9] 		More than 1.4 million[10] Beijing  China
Grand Egyptian Museum 2021 (projected) Archaeology 81,000 m2
(870,000 sq ft)[11] 		38,000 m2
(410,000 sq ft)[11] 		over 100,000 artifacts Giza  Egypt
Museum of Science and Industry 1933
Science and technology
 37,000 m2
(400,000 sq ft)[12] 		more than 35,000 Chicago  United States
Minneapolis Institute of Art 1883 Art 50,600 m2
(545,000 sq ft)[13] 		32,000 m2
(340,000 sq ft)[14] 		More than 100,000[15] Minneapolis  United States
National Museum of Natural History 1910 Natural history 123,000 m2
(1,320,000 sq ft)[16] 		30,200 m2
(325,000 sq ft)[16] 		(Artifacts not samples) Washington, D.C.  United States
Victoria and Albert Museum 1852 Art 30,000 m2
(320,000 sq ft)[17] 		2,278,183 (60,124 on display)[18] London  United Kingdom
Metropolitan Museum of Art 1870 Art 190,000 m2
(2,000,000 sq ft)[19] 		New York City  United States
Palace Museum 1925 Archaeology and art 150,000 m2
(1,600,000 sq ft)[20][21] 		1,862,690[21][22] Beijing  China
National Museum of Korea 1909 Archaeology and art 138,156.26 m2
(1,487,101.6 sq ft)[23] 		Seoul  South Korea
National Gallery of Art 1937 Art 120,000 m2
(1,300,000 sq ft)[24] 		25,200 m2
(271,000 sq ft)[25] 		More than 150,000[26] Washington, D.C.  United States
Art Institute of Chicago 1879 Art 93,000 m2
(1,000,000 sq ft)[27][28] 		Almost 300,000[29] Chicago  United States
Israel Museum 1965 Art 80,000 m2
(860,000 sq ft)[30] 		19,000 m2
(200,000 sq ft)[31] 		Jerusalem  Israel
National Museum of American History 1964 History 70,000 m2
(750,000 sq ft)[32] 		More than 1.8 million[32] Washington, D.C.  United States
Museum of Modern Art 1929 Art 65,800 m2
(708,000 sq ft)[33] 		15,400 m2
(166,000 sq ft)[34] 		Almost 200,000[35] New York City  United States
National Gallery Singapore 2015 Art 64,000 m2
(690,000 sq ft)[36] 		More than 9,000[37] Singapore  Singapore
National Air and Space Museum 1946 Aerospace 63,800 m2
(687,000 sq ft)[38] 		14,970.9 m2
(161,145 sq ft)[39][40] 		More than 60,000[41] Washington, D.C.  United States
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1870 Art 57,315.3 m2
(616,937 sq ft)[42][43] 		20,556.4 m2
(221,267 sq ft)[43] 		Almost 500,000[44] Boston  United States
MASS MoCA 1999 Art 56,000 m2
(600,000 sq ft)[45] 		23,000 m2
(250,000 sq ft)[46] 		No permanent collection North Adams  United States
National Gallery 1824 Archaeology and art 46,396 m2
(499,400 sq ft)[47] 		London  United Kingdom
Three Gorges Museum 2005 Archaeology and art 45,098 m2
(485,430 sq ft)[48] 		23,225 m2
(249,990 sq ft)[48] 		Chongqing  China
Vatican Museums 1506 Art 42,000 m2
(450,000 sq ft)[49][50] 		Vatican City  Vatican City
National Museum of Anthropology 1825
Archaeology
 600,000[51] Mexico City  Mexico
Shandong Art Museum 1977 Art Jinan  China
Birmingham Museum of Art 1951 Art 17,000 m2
(180,000 sq ft)[52] 		27,000[52] Birmingham  United States
Arsenal (Biennale) 1895 Art Venice  Italy
Musée National d'Art Moderne 1947 Art Paris  France
Musée d'Orsay 1986 Art Paris  France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1935 Art San Francisco  United States
Museo del Prado 1819 Art Madrid  Spain
Denver Art Museum 1918 Art Denver  United States
Egyptian Museum 1902 Archaeology Cairo  Egypt
Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo 1951 Art São Paulo  Brazil
Dia Beacon 2003 Art Beacon  United States
Dallas Museum of Art 1903 Art Dallas  United States
Museo Reina Sofía
 1992 Art Madrid  Spain
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art 1969 Art Gwacheon  South Korea
Detroit Institute of Arts 1885 Art Detroit  United States
Tokyo National Art Center 2007 Art Tokyo  Japan
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts 1988 Art Taichung  Taiwan
National Gallery Prague (Veletržní) 1796 Art Prague  Czech Republic
Indianapolis Museum of Art 1883 Art Indianapolis  United States
Bavarian National Museum 1855 Art Munich  Germany
Capital Museum 1981 Archaeology and art Beijing  China
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1860 Art Montreal  Canada
National Gallery of Victoria (St Kilda Road) 1861 Art Melbourne  Australia
Palais de Tokyo 2001 Art Paris  France
Salar Jung Museum 1855 Art Hyderabad  India
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1934 Art Richmond  United States
Tate Modern 2000 Art London  United Kingdom
Cleveland Museum of Art 1913 Art Cleveland  United States
National Gallery of Canada 1880 Art Ottawa  Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario 1900 Art Toronto  Canada
Hamburger Kunsthalle 1869 Art Hamburg  Germany
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 1849 Art Rotterdam  Netherlands
Houston Museum of Fine Arts 1900 Art 27,870 m2
(300,000 sq ft) 		~70,000 Houston  United States
National Gallery of Modern Art 1954 Art New Delhi  India
Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille 1809 Art Lille  France
Pinakothek der Moderne 2002 Art Munich  Germany
Rijksmuseum 1800 Art Amsterdam  Netherlands
Tretyakov Gallery (Krymsky Val) 1985 Art Moscow  Russia
MUDAM 2006 Art 10,500 m2
(113,000 sq ft)[53] 		Luxembourg City  Luxembourg

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Notes

References

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