List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings

This is a list of museums or print rooms with major collections of European old master prints and drawings. This list is incomplete, and should not be regarded as a correct ranking of the major collections.

# British Museum, London, England
#: 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints
# The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, US
#: 15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints

# Albertina, Vienna, Austria
#: 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings
# Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
#: 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints
# Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
#: Over 20,000 drawings and 700,000 prints
# State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
#: 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints
# Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
#: 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawing

(V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004)
# Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
#: Over 500,000 prints and drawings
# National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Prague, Czech Republic
#: 60,000 drawings, 400,000 prints
# Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg, France
#: Over 200,000 prints and drawings
# Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
#: 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints
# Royal Collection, London, England
#: 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
# Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
#: 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
# Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
#: 150,000 drawings and prints
#Uffizi, Florence, Italy
#: 120,000 drawings and prints
#National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
#: 105,000 drawings and prints
# Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
#: 100,000 prints
# Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
#: 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints
# Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
#: 10,500 drawings, 60,0000 prints
# Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France
#: 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints
# Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
#: 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints
# Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
#: 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints
#Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
#: 9,000 drawings, 6,000 prints. The main drawing and print collection is at the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
# Zelandia Illustrata, Amsterdam, Netherlands
#:18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards
#Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración, Madrid, Spain
#: 200,000 drawings and illustrations by 1,500 artists from 1891 up to the present
#Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
#: 17,000 drawings, 60,000 to 70,000 prints
# Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
#: 130,000 prints and drawings
# Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands
# Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
#: 100,000 prints and drawings
# Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
#: 100,000 prints, 10,000 drawings
#National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
#: 50,000 drawings, 70,000 prints
#Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
#: 15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints
#Hispanic Society of America, New York, US
#: 6,000 drawings, 15,000 prints
#Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
#: 75,000 drawings and prints

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