A national museum can be a

museum A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or Preservation (library and archive), preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private colle ...

maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the

central government A central government is the government that is a controlling power over a unitary state. Another distinct but sovereign political entity is a federal government, which may have distinct powers at various levels of government, authorized or deleg ...

, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In the United States, most national museums are privately funded and operated, but have been designated by Congress as national institutions that are important to the country. In other countries a much greater number of museums are run by the central government. The following is an incomplete list of national museums:

Afghanistan

* National Museum of Afghanistan

Albania

The Albanian government operates several national museums, including: *

National History Museum (Albania) The National History Museum () is a historical museum in Tirana, Albania. It was opened on 28 October 1981 and is 27,000 square metres in size, while 18,000 square metres are available for expositions. The museum includes the following pavilions: ...

* National Museum of Education (Albania) *

National Museum of Fine Arts (Albania) The National Museum of Fine Arts () is a national art museum in Tirana, Albania, under the supervision of the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation. It features the work of well-known Albanian artists such as Kolë Idromeno, Kole Idromeno a ...

National Museum of Medieval Art (Albania) The National Museum of Medieval Art () is a national museum dedicated to medieval art and history in Korçë, Albania. The museum is located on Fan Noli Boulevard in the south-east of the city of Korçë. It was established on April 24, 1980, and ...

* Marubi National Museum of Photography

Algeria

* National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers * National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art

Angola

* Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola * National Museum of Slavery

Argentina

The Argentinian Ministry of Culture operates several national museums, including: * Historical House of the Independence Museum * Museo Casa de Rogelio Yrurtia *

Museo Mitre The Mitre Museum () in Buenos Aires, Argentina, is a museum dedicated to Argentine history, as well as to the legacy of former President of Argentina, Bartolomé Mitre. The museum building is a Spanish colonial house built in 1785. It first appe ...

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) The National Museum of Fine Arts () is an Argentina, Argentine art museum in Buenos Aires, located in the Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Recoleta section of the city. The Museum inaugurated a branch in Neuquén in 2004. The museum hosts works by Goya, Re ...

National Historical Museum (Argentina) The National Historical Museum () is a museum located in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and is a museum dedicated to the history of Argentina, exhibiting objects relating to the May Revolution and the Argentine War of Independence. The museum is under ...

* National Museum of Decorative Arts * National Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution *

Sarmiento Historical Museum The Sarmiento History Museum (), located in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Belgrano, is a museum dedicated to Argentine history, and in particular to the Generation of '80 and the life of President Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer and politi ...

Armenia

History Museum of Armenia The History Museum of Armenia () is a museum in Armenia with departments of Archaeology, Numismatics, Ethnography, Modern History and Restoration. It has a national collection of 400,000 objects and was founded in 1920. Of the main collection, 35% ...

National Gallery of Armenia The National Gallery of Armenia (, ) is the largest art museum in Armenia. Located on Yerevan's Republic Square, Yerevan, Republic Square, the museum has one of the most prominent locations in the Armenian capital. The NGA houses significant colle ...

Australia

The Australian Government operates several national museums through its various departments, including: *

Australian National Maritime Museum The Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM) is a Australian government, federally operated maritime museum in Darling Harbour, Sydney. After considering the idea of establishing a maritime museum, the federal government announced that a nation ...

Australian War Memorial The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial, war museum, museum and archive dedicated to all Australians who died as a result of war, including peacekeeping duties. The AWM is located in Campbell, Australian Capital Territory, C ...

National Gallery of Australia The National Gallery of Australia (NGA), formerly the Australian National Gallery, is the national art museum of Australia as well as one of the largest art museums in Australia, holding more than 166,000 works of art. Located in Canberra in th ...

National Museum of Australia The National Museum of Australia (NMA), in the national capital Canberra, preserves and interprets Australia's social history, exploring the key issues, people and events that have shaped the nation. It was formally established by the ''Nation ...

National Portrait Gallery (Australia) The National Portrait Gallery, also known as the National Portrait Gallery of Australia (NGA or NPGA) in Canberra is a public art gallery containing portraits of prominent Australians. It was established in 1998 and moved to its present buildin ...

Questacon Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre is an interactive science communication facility in Canberra, Australia. It is a museum with more than 200 interactive exhibits related to science and technology. The National Science an ...

In addition, a number of states in Australia also operate "national museums". These include: *

National Motor Museum, Birdwood The National Motor Museum, formerly also known as The Old Mill and Birdwood Mill after its initial location, is a social history museum of the History Trust of South Australia focused on Australian motoring history and automobile museum in the ...

, operated by the government of South Australia *

National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria, popularly known as the NGV, is an art museum in Melbourne, Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is Australia's oldest and list of most visited art museums in the world, most visited art mu ...

, operated by the government of Victoria

Austria

* Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna *

Natural History Museum, Vienna The Natural History Museum Vienna () is a large natural history museum located in Vienna, Austria. The NHM Vienna is one of the largest museums and non-university research institutions in Austria and an important center of excellence for all matt ...

* Museum of Military History, Vienna *

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere The Österreichische Galerie Belvedere is a museum housed in the Belvedere (palace), Belvedere palace, in Vienna, Austria. The Belvedere palaces were the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663–1736). The ensemble was built in the ear ...

Azerbaijan

* National Art Museum of Azerbaijan *

National Museum of History of Azerbaijan The National Museum of History of Azerbaijan () is the largest museum in Azerbaijan. It is located in Baku, in the former residential house of Azerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev. The museum was founded in 1920, ...

Bahamas

* National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

Bahrain

Bahrain National Museum The Bahrain National Museum () is the largest and oldest public museum in Bahrain. It is situated in Manama, adjacent to the National Theatre of Bahrain. Opened on 15 December 1988 by the Emir of Bahrain Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, the $30 mil ...

Bangladesh

* Bangladesh National Museum * National Art Gallery (Bangladesh) * National Museum of Science and Technology (Bangladesh) * Bangladesh Military Museum

Barbados

* Barbados Museum

Belarus

* Belarusian National Arts Museum * Belarusian National History Museum

Belgium

The Federal Public Service for Science Policy Programming in Belgium operates several museum associations: *

Royal Museums of Art and History The Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH) (; ) are a group of museums in Brussels, Belgium. They are part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and consist of five museums: the Art & History Museum, the ...

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (, ; , ) are a group of art museums in Brussels, Belgium. They are part of the institutions of the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and consist of six museums: the Oldmasters Museum, the ...

Belize

* Museum of Belize

Bhutan

National Museum of Bhutan National Museum of Bhutan is a cultural museum in the town of Paro in western Bhutan. History Established in 1968, in the renovated ancient Ta Dzong building, above Rinpung Dzong under the command of His Majesty, the King Jigme Dorji Wang ...

Bolivia

* National Museum of Archaeology * National Museum of Art

Bosnia and Herzegovina

* Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museum of Literature * Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina *

National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian: ''Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine'' / Земаљски музеј Босне и Херцеговине) is located in central Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and ...

Botswana

* Botswana National Museum

Brazil

* National Historical Museum, Brazil (''Museu Histórico Nacional'') *

National Museum of Brazil National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ...

(''Museu Nacional'') * National Museum of Fine Arts (''Museu Nacional de Belas Artes'') * National Museum of the Republic (''Museu Nacional da República'')

Brunei

The government of Brunei operates several museums including: *

Brunei Museum Brunei Museum (), the country's largest and most significant national museum, is located in Kota Batu, Bandar Seri Begawan. This national museum houses a collection spanning Islamic art, Southeast Asian history from the 16th century, and exte ...

* Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum * Malay Technology Museum * Royal Regalia Museum

Bulgaria

* National Archaeological Museum * National Historical Museum * National Art Gallery *

National Gallery for Foreign Art The National Gallery for Foreign Art (, ''Natsionalna galeriya za chuzhdestranno izkustvo'') of Bulgaria is a gallery located on St. Alexander Nevsky Square in Sofia. It serves as the country's national institution for non-Bulgarian art. It is sit ...

National Museum of Natural History The National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) is a natural history museum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. It has free admission and is open 364 days a year. With 4.4 ...

Earth and Man National Museum The Earth and Man National Museum (, romanized ''Natsionalen muzey „Zemyata i horata“'') is a mineralogy, mineralogical museum in the centre of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It's one of the biggest Mineralogy, mineralogical museums in the ...

* National Museum of Military History * National Transport Museum

Burkina Faso

* National Museum of Music

Burundi

* National Museum of Gitega

Cambodia

National Museum of Cambodia The National Museum of Cambodia () is Cambodia's largest museum of cultural history and is the country's leading historical and archaeological museum. It is located in Chey Chumneas, Phnom Penh. Overview The museum houses one of the world's l ...

* Angkor National Museum

Canada

The following are

national museums of Canada The national museums of Canada () are the nine museums in Canada designated under the federal ''Museums Act'' and operated by the Government of Canada. The national museums are responsible for "preserving and promoting the heritage of Canada and al ...

, established by the federal government of Canada and operated through an autonomous

Crown corporation Crown corporation () is the term used in Canada for organizations that are structured like private companies, but are directly and wholly owned by the government. Crown corporations have a long-standing presence in the country, and have a sign ...

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Canada Agriculture and Food Museum The Canada Agriculture and Food Museum () is a national agricultural museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Occupying several buildings within the Central Experimental Farm, the museum operates as a "working farm", and provides public programs and exh ...

Canada Aviation and Space Museum The Canada Aviation and Space Museum () (formerly the Canada Aviation Museum (''Musée de l'aviation du Canada'') and National Aeronautical Collection (''Collection aéronautique nationale'')) is Canada's national aviation history museum. The m ...

Canada Science and Technology Museum The Canada Science and Technology Museum (abbreviated as CSTM; ) is a national museum of science and technology in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum has a mandate to preserve and promote the country's scientific and technological heritage. The m ...

Canadian Museum for Human Rights The Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR; ) is a Canadian Crown corporations of Canada, Crown corporation and List of national museums, national museum located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, adjacent to The Forks, Winnipeg, The Forks. The purpose of the ...

Canadian Museum of History The Canadian Museum of History () is a national museum on anthropology, Canadian history, cultural studies, and ethnology in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. The purpose of the museum is to promote the heritage of Canada, as well as support related res ...

* Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 *

Canadian Museum of Nature The Canadian Museum of Nature (; CMN) is a national museums of Canada, national natural history museum based in Canada's National Capital Region (Canada), National Capital Region. The museum's exhibitions and public programs are housed in the Vi ...

Canadian War Museum The Canadian War Museum (CWM) () is a National museums of Canada, national museum on the military history of Canada, country's military history in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The museum serves as both an educational facility on Canadian military hist ...

National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada (), located in the capital city of Ottawa, Ontario, is Canada's National museums of Canada, national art museum. The museum's building takes up , with of space used for exhibiting art. It is one of the List of large ...

* Virtual Museum of New France Former national museums that were later shut down includes: * Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography * Canadian Postal Museum In addition to institutions established or operated by the Government of Canada, several provinces and territories have established their own provincial and territorial museums.

Central African Republic

* Boganda National Museum

Chad

* Chad National Museum (''Musee National N'Djamena'')

Chile

National Air and Space Museum The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to history of aviation, human flight and space exploration. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, ...

(Santiago) * National History Museum * National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago) *

(Santiago)

China

National Museum of China The National Museum of China is an art museum, art and history museum located on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The National Museum of China has a total construction area of about 200,000 square meters, a collection of more than ...

Palace Museum The Palace Museum (), also known as the Beijing Palace Museum, is a large national museum complex housed in the Forbidden City at the core of Beijing, China. With , the museum inherited the imperial royal palaces from the Ming and Qing dynast ...

Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution The Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution is the national military museum of China, located in Haidian, Beijing. The collection mainly focuses on military equipments and cultural relics reflecting the military history of the Peopl ...

National Art Museum of China The National Art Museum of China (NAMOC; ) is the national art museum of China and one of the largest art museums in the nation. Located in Beijing and opened since 1963, it is a level-1 public welfare institution funded by the Ministry of Cultur ...

Colombia

* National Museum of Colombia

Comoros

* National Museum of Comoros

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

* National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo * National Museum of Lubumbashi

Costa Rica

* National Museum of Costa Rica

Croatia

* Croatian History Museum

Cuba

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations. History It was founded o ...

* Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana

Cyprus

* Cyprus Museum

Czech Republic

National Gallery Prague The National Gallery Prague (, NGP), formerly the National Gallery in Prague (), is a state-owned art gallery in Prague, which manages the largest collection of art in the Czech Republic and presents masterpieces of Czech and international fine a ...

National Museum A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In the United States, most nati ...

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Prague Postal Museum The Prague Postal Museum (), Prague, Czech Republic, was established in 1918 by the Czechoslovak Ministry of the Post and Telegraph. The ministry was in charge of the museum until the end of 1992. With the Velvet Revolution, fall of Communism in C ...

Denmark

* * Hirschsprung Collection *

National Gallery of Denmark National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

National Museum of Denmark The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) in Copenhagen is Denmark, Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main building is located a short distance from S ...

Natural History Museum of Denmark The Natural History Museum of Denmark () is a natural history museum located in Copenhagen, Denmark. It is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen The museum became an organizational entity in 2004 with the merger of Copenhagen's Zoological ...

Ordrupgaard Ordrupgaard is a state-owned art museum situated near Jægersborg Dyrehave, north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The museum houses one of Northern Europe's most important collections of Danish art, Danish and French art from the 19th and beginning of th ...

Djibouti

* Djibouti Museum

Dominica

* The Dominica Museum

Dominican Republic

* Museum of the Dominican Man *

Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance The Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance () is a museum dedicated to the preservation of the history regarding the struggles of several generations of People of the Dominican Republic, Dominicans during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, Raf ...

* Museo del Ámbar Dominicano * Trampoline Children's Museum * Amber World Museum *

Alcázar de Colón The Alcázar de Colón (; ) is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. Located in the colonial area of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, it forms part of the Ciudad Colonial, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Predominantly Gothic ...

Fortaleza San Luis Fortaleza San Luis is located near the Yaque del Norte River in southwest Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. The Fort was the location of several battles during the Dominican Restoration War, War of Restoration. Fortaleza San Luis ha ...

* Columbus Lighthouse * Fortaleza San Felipe *

Museo Bellapart The Museo Bellapart is a free private art museum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic specifically in located at the corner of Av. John F. Kennedy founded in 1999 and is situated inside of a car dealership. It was initially founded by Juan Jos� ...

Museo de las Casas Reales The Museo de las Casas Reales (English: ''Museum of the Royal Houses'') is one of the important cultural monuments built during the colonial era in Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Ciudad Colonial (Santo Domingo), Colon ...

Egypt

Egyptian Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, commonly known as the Egyptian Museum (, Egyptian Arabic: ) (also called the Cairo Museum), located in Cairo, Egypt, houses the largest collection of Ancient Egypt, Egyptian antiquities in the world. It hou ...

* National Museum of Egyptian Civilization * Alexandria National Museum *

Egyptian National Military Museum The Egyptian National Military Museum is the official museum of the Egyptian Army. Location The National Military Museum is located at the north western area of the three Haram Palaces, inside the Cairo Citadel that was built by Saladin. It ove ...

Eritrea

* National Museum of Eritrea

Estonia

Art Museum of Estonia The Art Museum of Estonia () was established in 1919. Originally based in Kadriorg Palace, the museum has expanded across several sites and today exhibits both international and local art works. At the end of the 1970s, in the 1980s the first br ...

Estonian National Museum The Estonian National Museum () founded 1909 in Tartu is a museum devoted to folklorist Jakob Hurt's heritage, to Estonian ethnography and folk art. The first items for the museum were originally collected in the latter part of the 19th centur ...

Estonian History Museum Estonian History Museum () is a museum about the history of Estonia in Tallinn. It was initially established by the pharmacist Johann Burchart, who ran the town hall pharmacy known as the Raeapteek. Inaugurated in 1987, it picks up where its cou ...

Ethiopia

* National Museum of Ethiopia

Fiji

* Fiji Museum

Finland

* Ateneum * Finnish Museum of Natural History *

Kiasma Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name ''kiasma'', Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. Kiasma is part of the Finnish National Gallery, an ...

National Museum of Finland The National Museum of Finland (, ) is a museum in Helsinki presenting Finnish history from the Stone Age to the present day, through objects and cultural history. The Finnish National Romantic style building is located at Mannerheimintie 34 in ...

* Sinebrychoff Art Museum

France

Centre Georges Pompidou The Centre Pompidou (), more fully the (), also known as the Pompidou Centre in English and colloquially as Beaubourg, is a building complex in Paris, France. It was designed in the style of high-tech architecture by the architectural team of ...

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Musée National d'Art Moderne The Musée National d'Art Moderne (; "National Museum of Modern Art") is the national museum for modern art of France. It is located in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and is housed in the Centre Pompidou. In 2021 it ranked 10th in the list of ...

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Musée de l'Armée The Musée de l'Armée (; "Army Museum") is a national military museum of France located at Les Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. It is served by Paris Métro stations Invalides (Paris Métro and RER), Invalides, Varenne (Paris Métro ...

Musée Camille Claudel The Musée Camille Claudel is a French national museum which honors and exhibits the art of sculptor Camille Claudel. The museum displays approximately half of Claudel's existing artwork. The Claudel museum was opened in 2017 in her teenage home to ...

* Musée de Cluny - National Museum of the Middle-Ages ('' Musée National du Moyen-Age'') *

Musée du Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is a national art museum in Paris, France, and one of the most famous museums in the world. It is located on the Rive Droite, Right Bank of the Seine in the city's 1st arrondissement of Paris, 1st arron ...

* Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (''MuCEM'') *

Musée d'Orsay The Musée d'Orsay ( , , ) () is a museum in Paris, France, on the Rive Gauche, Left Bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, a Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts railway station built from 1898 to 1900. The museum holds mai ...

* Museum of Air and Space (''

Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace The Musée de l'air et de l'espace (, ) is a French aerospace museum, located at the south-eastern edge of Paris–Le Bourget Airport, north of Paris, and in the Communes of France, commune of Le Bourget. It was inaugurated in 1919 after a propo ...

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Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie The Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie (, "City of Science and Industry", abbreviated la CSI) or simply CSI is a large science museum in Europe. Located in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, France, it is one of the three dozen French Cultural ...

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Musée national de la Marine The Musée national de la Marine (; "National Navy Museum") is a maritime museum located in the Palais de Chaillot, Trocadéro, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. It has annexes at Brest, Port-Louis, Rochefort ( Musée National de la Ma ...

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National Railway Museum The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York, England, forming part of the Science Museum Group. The museum tells the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society. It is the home of the national collection of historical ...

('' Musée Français du Chemin de Fer'')

Gambia

* Gambia National Museum

Georgia

Georgian National Museum The Georgian National Museum ( ka, საქართველოს ეროვნული მუზეუმი, tr) unifies several leading museums in Georgia. The museum was established within the framework of structural, institutional, and ...

. Branches: **

Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia The Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia ( ka, სიმონ ჯანაშიას სახელობის საქართველოს მუზეუმი), formerly known as the State Museum of History of Georgia, is one of the main ...

Tbilisi Tbilisi ( ; ka, თბილისი, ), in some languages still known by its pre-1936 name Tiflis ( ), ( ka, ტფილისი, tr ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Georgia (country), largest city of Georgia ( ...

** Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum,

Akhaltsikhe Akhaltsikhe ( ka, ახალციხე ), formerly known as Lomsia ( ka, ლომსია ), is a small city in Georgia's southwestern region () of Samtskhe–Javakheti. It is the administrative center of the Akhaltsikhe Municipality and ...

** Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi ** Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi ** Museum of the Soviet Occupation, Tbilisi **Dmanisi Museum-Reserve of History and Archaeology,

Dmanisi Dmanisi ( ka, დმანისი, tr, , ) is a town and archaeological site in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia (country), Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation’s capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera. Abandoned i ...

**Vani Museum-Reserve of Archaeology,

Vani Vani ( ka, ვანი ) is a town in Imereti region of a western Georgia (country), Georgia, at the Sulori river (a tributary of the Rioni river), 41 km southwest from the regional capital Kutaisi. The town, with a population of 3,744 as of 201 ...

** Museum of History of Tbilisi, Tbilisi ** Museum of History and Ethnography of Svaneti,

Mestia Mestia ( ka, მესტია ) is a highland townlet ('' daba'') in northwest Georgia, at an elevation of in the Caucasus Mountains. General information Mestia is located in the region of Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti province (''mkhare''), some ...

** Institute of Palaeobiology, Tbilisi **Sighnaghi Museum, Sighnaghi **

Bolnisi Museum Bolnisi ( ka, ბოლნისი) is a city in the country of Georgia (country), Georgia, located in the Kvemo Kartli region and capital of the Bolnisi district. It currently has an estimated 8,348 (January 1, 2024) inhabitants. History Boln ...

Bolnisi Bolnisi ( ka, ბოლნისი) is a city in the country of Georgia (country), Georgia, located in the Kvemo Kartli region and capital of the Bolnisi district. It currently has an estimated 8,348 (January 1, 2024) inhabitants. History Boln ...

* Art Palace of Georgia - Museum of Cultural History

Germany

Bavarian National Museum The Bavarian National Museum () in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and List of largest art museums, one of the largest art museums in Germany. Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two ...

German Historical Museum The German Historical Museum (), known by the acronym DHM, is a museum in Berlin, Germany devoted to German history. It describes itself as a place of "enlightenment and understanding of the shared history of Germans and Europeans". It is ofte ...

German Museum of Technology (German Museum of Technology) in Berlin, Germany is a museum of science and technology, and exhibits a large collection of historical technical artifacts. The museum's main emphasis originally was on rail transport, but today it also features ...

('' Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin'') * German National Museum (''

Germanisches Nationalmuseum The ''Germanisches Nationalmuseum'' is a museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1852, it houses a large collection of items relating to German culture and art extending from prehistoric times through to the present day. The museum is Germany' ...

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Glyptothek The Glyptothek () is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I of Bavaria, Ludwig I to house his collection of Ancient Greek art, Greek and Roman art, Roman sculptures (hence γλυπτο- ''glypto-'' "sculp ...

* The

Max Planck Institutes The Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (; abbreviated MPG) is a formally independent non-governmental and non-profit association of German research institutes. Founded in 1911 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, it was renamed to the M ...

* Modern Art Museum (''

Pinakothek der Moderne The Pinakothek der Moderne (, '' Pinakothek of the Modern'') is a modern art museum, situated in central Munich's '' Kunstareal''. The building Designed by German architect Stephan Braunfels, the Pinakothek der Moderne was inaugurated in Se ...

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National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current di ...

* National Museum of Germany (''

Deutsches Museum The Deutsches Museum (''German Museum'', officially (English: ''German Museum of Masterpieces of Science and Technology'')) in Munich, Germany, is the world's largest museum of science museum, science and technology museum, technology, with a ...

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Neue Pinakothek The Neue Pinakothek (, ''New Pinacotheca'') is an art museum in Munich, Germany. Its focus is European Art of the 18th and 19th centuries, and it is one of the most important museums of art of the nineteenth century in the world. Together with t ...

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Alte Pinakothek The Alte Pinakothek (, ''Old Pinakothek'') is an art museum located in the Kunstareal area in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest galleries in the world and houses a significant collection of Old Master paintings. The name Alte (Old) Pin ...

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Ghana

* National Museum of Ghana

Greece

Athens War Museum The Athens War Museum () is the military museum of the Greek Armed Forces. It is located at the Athens city center and it is served by the Athens Metro station of Evangelismos. Established in 1975, the museum hosts collections that span the ...

National Archaeological Museum, Athens The National Archaeological Museum () in Athens houses some of the most important artifacts from a variety of archaeological locations around Greece from prehistory to late antiquity. It is considered one of the greatest museums in the world and ...

National Historical Museum, Athens The National Historical Museum (, ''Ethnikó Istorikó Mouseío'') is a historical museum in Athens. Founded in 1882, is the oldest of its kind in Greece. It is located in the Old Parliament House at Stadiou Street in Athens, which housed the He ...

* State Museum of Contemporary Arts

Grenada

* Grenada National Museum

Guatemala

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* Guatemalan National History Museum * Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida"

Guinea

Sandervalia National Museum The Sandervalia National Museum () is the national museum of Guinea, situated in the capital, Conakry. Most of the rooms are empty, but it contains a limited display of traditional objects from different regions of Guinea, as well as objects and s ...

Guinea-Bissau

* National Ethnographic Museum

Guyana

National Museum of Guyana Guyana National Museum is a museum in Georgetown, Guyana, Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana. It was established on 13 February 1868. The idea of starting a museum was conceived by members of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society (RAC ...

Haiti

* National Museum of Haiti

Holy See (Vatican City)

Vatican Museums The Vatican Museums (; ) are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the best-known Roman sculptures and ...

Vatican Library The Vatican Apostolic Library (, ), more commonly known as the Vatican Library or informally as the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City, and is the city-state's national library. It was formally established in 1475, alth ...

Vatican Secret Archives The Vatican Apostolic Archive (; ), formerly known as the Vatican Secret Archive (; ), is the central repository in the Vatican City of all acts promulgated by the Holy See. The Pope, as the sovereign of Vatican City, owns the material held ...

Saint Peter's Basilica The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (), or simply St. Peter's Basilica (; ), is a church of the Italian Renaissance architecture, Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the cit ...

Apostolic Palace The Apostolic Palace is the official residence of the Pope, the head of the Catholic Church, located in Vatican City. It is also known as the Papal Palace, the Palace of the Vatican and the Vatican Palace. The Vatican itself refers to the build ...

Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran The Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (officially the ''Major Papal, Patriarchal and Roman Archbasilica, Metropolitan and Primatial Cathedral of the Most Holy Savior and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of A ...

Sistine Chapel The Sistine Chapel ( ; ; ) is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the ''Cappella Magna'' ('Great Chapel'), it takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and ...

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Museum of Art The Hong Kong Museum of Art (HKMoA) is the first and one of the main art museums of Hong Kong, located in located in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, near the Victoria Harbour waterfront, providing a scenic view of Hong Kong’s skyline. It is a publ ...

Hong Kong Museum of History The Hong Kong Museum of History is a public museum that preserves Hong Kong's historical and cultural heritage. It is located next to the Hong Kong Science Museum, in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The collections of the museum enc ...

Hong Kong Heritage Museum Hong Kong Heritage Museum is a public museum of history, art and culture in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, located beside the Shing Mun River. The museum opened on 16 December 2000. It is managed by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the Ho ...

Hong Kong Science Museum The Hong Kong Science Museum is a public science museum in Tsim Sha Tsui East, Kowloon, Hong Kong, located next to the Hong Kong Museum of History. History The Hong Kong Science Museum was first conceived by the Urban Council in 1976. The co ...

Hungary

Hungarian National Museum The Hungarian National Museum (, ) was founded in 1802 and is the national museum for the history, art, and archaeology of Hungary, including areas not within Hungary's modern borders, such as Transylvania; it is separate to the collection of int ...

Hungarian National Gallery The Hungarian National Gallery (also known as Magyar Nemzeti Galéria, ), was established in 1957 as the national art museum. It is located in Buda Castle in Budapest, Hungary. Its collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the w ...

Hungarian Natural History Museum The Hungarian Natural History Museum () in Budapest, dating back to 1802, houses the largest natural history collections of Hungary and the region. History of the museum Foundation In 1802, Count Ferenc Széchényi offered his library and h ...

* Museum of Ethnography (Budapest) *

Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) The Museum of Fine Arts (, ) is a museum in Heroes' Square (Budapest), Heroes' Square, Budapest, Hungary, facing the Kunsthalle Budapest, Palace of Art. It was built by the plans of Albert Schickedanz and Fülöp Herzog in an Eclecticism in ar ...

Semmelweis Museum of Medical History The Semmelweis Museum, Library and Archive of the History of Medicine () is a museum, library and archive in Budapest, Hungary. It was founded in 1965, and became a department of the Hungarian National Museum in 2017. The museum is located in the ...

Iceland

National Gallery of Iceland The National Gallery of Iceland ( ) is an art museum in Reykjavík which contains a collection of Icelandic art. The gallery features artwork of famous Icelandic artists and artwork that helps explain the traditional Icelandic culture. History ...

National Museum of Iceland The National Museum of Iceland ( Icelandic: ''Þjóðminjasafn Íslands'' ) was established on 24 February 1863, with Jón Árnason the first curator of the Icelandic collection, previously kept in Danish museums. Collections The second curat ...

Isle of Man

Manx National Heritage Manx National Heritage () is the national heritage organisation for the Isle of Man. The organisation manages a significant proportion of the Island’s physical heritage assets including over 3,000 acres of coastline and landscape. It holds pro ...

(''Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin'')

India

National-level museums in India come directly under the administrative control of

Ministry of Culture Ministry of Culture may refer to: * Ministry of Tourism, Cultural Affairs, Youth and Sports (Albania) * Ministry of Culture (Algeria) * Ministry of Culture (Argentina) * Minister for the Arts (Australia) * Ministry of Culture (Azerbaijan)Ministry o ...

Government of India The Government of India (ISO 15919, ISO: Bhārata Sarakāra, legally the Union Government or Union of India or the Central Government) is the national authority of the Republic of India, located in South Asia, consisting of States and union t ...

. *

National Museum, New Delhi The National Museum in New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds a variety of articles ranging from the pre-historic era to modern works of art. It functions un ...

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, (CSMVS) formerly named the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is a museum in Mumbai (Bombay) which documents the history of India from prehistoric to modern times. It was founded during Bri ...

Indian Museum Indian Museum (formerly called Imperial Museum of Calcutta) is a grand museum in Central Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is the ninth oldest museum in the world and the oldest, as well as the largest museum in Asia, by size of collection. It ...

* Government Museum, Mathura *

National Gallery of Modern Art The National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent b ...

* Allahabad Museum *

Government Museum, Chennai The Government Museum, Chennai, or the Madras Museum, is a museum of human history and culture located in the Government Museum Complex in the neighbourhood of Egmore in Chennai, India. Started in 1851, it is the second oldest museum in India a ...

Salar Jung Museum The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at Dar-ul-Shifa, on the southern bank of the Musi River, India, Musi River in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is one of the List of museums in India, notable National Museums of India. ...

* Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum * Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh * City Palace, Jaipur *

City Palace, Udaipur City Palace (Raj Mahal), Udaipur is a palace complex situated in the city of Udaipur in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was built over a period of nearly 400 years, with contributions from several rulers of the Mewar dynasty. Its construction ...

* National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum * Victoria Memorial * Jaisalmer War Museum * Hazarduari Palace *

Sabarmati Ashram Sabarmati Ashram is located in the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, adjoining the Ashram Road, on the banks of the River Sabarmati, from the town hall. This was one of the many residences of Mahatma Gandhi who lived at Sabarmati (Gujar ...

* Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar * National Rail Museum, New Delhi * Railway Museum, Mysore *

Albert Hall Museum The Albert Hall Museum in Jaipur is the oldest museum of the state and functions as the state museum of Rajasthan, India. The building is situated in Ram Niwas Garden, Ram Niwas garden outside the city wall opposite New gate and is a fine examp ...

* Madame Tussauds Delhi * 23 science centers under the

National Council of Science Museums National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is an autonomous scientific organization functioning under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for science communication through its network of science museums or science centres spread acr ...

* 44 site museums under the

Archaeological Survey of India The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is an Indian government agency that is responsible for archaeological research and the conservation and preservation of cultural historical monuments in the country. It was founded in 1861 by Alexander ...

Indonesia

Museums listed below are operated by

Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology The Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (, abbreviated Kemendikbudristek) was a government ministry of the Indonesian government responsible for education, cultural, research, and technology affairs. Its formation resulted ...

and other ministries. *

National Museum of Indonesia The National Museum of Indonesia () is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as the Elephant Museum () ...

* Basoeki Abdullah Museum * Formulation of Proclamation Text Museum * Fort Vredeburg Museum *

Museum of National Awakening Museum of National Awakening () is a history museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum is dedicated for the history of Indonesian National Awakening. History The building The building of the museum was constructed from 1899 to 1901. In March 1902 ...

National Gallery of Indonesia The National Gallery of Indonesia is an art gallery and Art museum, museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The National Gallery of Indonesia has existed as a cultural institution in the field of visual arts since 8 May 1999. The institution plays an impor ...

National Press Monument The National Press Monument (Indonesian: Monumen Pers Nasional) is a monument and museum to the national Indonesian press. Formally established in 1978, more than 20 years after it was first proposed, the monument is located in Surakarta, Central ...

* Some government-operated museums in

Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Taman Mini Indonesia Indah (; formerly Taman Mini "Indonesia Indah" with apostrophes—abbreviated as TMII) is a culture-based recreational area located in East Jakarta, Indonesia. Since July 2021, it is operated by InJourney Destination Managem ...

* Youth Pledge Museum

Iran

Abgineh Museum of Tehran The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran (, ''Muze-ye Abgineh va Sofalineh-ye Irān'') or simply Abgineh Museum (, ''Muze-ye Abgineh'') is located at 30 Tir Street (formerly known as Ghavam Al Saltaneh Street), in Tehran, Iran. It was the private ...

(Glassware and Ceramics Museum of Iran) * Arg-é Bam * Carpet Museum of Iran *

Golestan Palace The Golestan Palace (, ''Kākh-e Golestān''), also transliterated as the Gulistan Palace and sometimes translated as the Rose Garden Palace from Persian language, was built in the 16th century, renovated in the 18th century and finally rebuilt ...

* Iranian National Museum of Medical Sciences History *

Malik National Museum of Iran Malek National Museum and Library () is a museum and national library in Tehran, Iran. Malek National Library and Museum Institution (MNLMI) is the first private museum of Iran, and one of the six large libraries holding the exquisite manuscript ...

* Naghsh-i Jahan Square * National Car Museum of Iran *

National Museum of Iran The National Museum of Iran ( ) in Tehran hosts some of the world's most important monuments dating back through preserved ancient and medieval Iranian antiquities. It is an institution formed of two museums; the Museum of Ancient Iran and the ...

* Niavaran Palace Complex * Pars Museum of Shiraz *

Pearl Palace Pearl Palace (; Romanized: ''kakh-e Morvarid / Kāx-e Morvārid''), also known as Shams Palace (; Romanized: ''kakh-e Shams / Kāx-e Šams'') is an estate in Iran, designed by Taliesin Associated Architects (Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation) on instr ...

(Morvarid Palace) * Reza Abbasi Museum * Sadabad Palace

Iraq

National Museum of Iraq The Iraq Museum () is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad. It is sometimes informally called the National Museum of Iraq. The Iraq Museum contains precious relics from the Mesopotamian, Abbasid, and Persian civilizations. It was loo ...

Ireland

Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art (), also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Kilmainham, Dublin. History Irish art collector Gordon Lam ...

National Gallery of Ireland The National Gallery of Ireland () houses the national collection of Irish and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street, Dublin, Clare Street. It ...

National Museum of Ireland The National Museum of Ireland () is Ireland's leading museum institution, with a strong emphasis on national and some international archaeology, Irish history, Irish art, culture, and natural history. It has three branches in Dublin, the arch ...

. Branches: **

National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology The National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology (, often known as the "NMI") is a branch of the National Museum of Ireland located on Kildare Street in Dublin, Ireland, that specialises in Irish and other antiquities dating from the Stone Age to t ...

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ...

, Dublin ** National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Dublin **

National Museum of Ireland – Country Life The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life is located in Turlough, County Mayo, Turlough village, northeast of Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland. Established in 2001, the museum is part of the National Museum of Ireland and is the only nati ...

Turlough, County Mayo Turlough, (: in particular, a seasonal lake) is a village in County Mayo, Ireland, 6 km northeast of Castlebar. It is known for the presence of the Museum of Country Life (part of the National Museum of Ireland), and for its well-preser ...

Israel

Israel Museum The Israel Museum (, ''Muze'on Yisrael'', ) is an Art museum, art and archaeology museum in Jerusalem. It was established in 1965 as Israel's largest and foremost cultural institution, and one of the world's leading Encyclopedic museum, encyclopa ...

Italy

* Bargello National Museum (''Museo Nazionale del Bargello'') *

Galleria degli Uffizi The Uffizi Gallery ( ; , ) is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of th ...

* National Archeological Museum of Naples (''Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli'') *

National Archaeological Museum of Nuoro The Giorgio Asproni National Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the historic centre of Nuoro, in Sardinia, near the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows. Established in 2002, it is located in a nineteenth-century building that bel ...

National Etruscan Museum The National Etruscan Museum () is a museum dedicated to the Etruscan civilization, Etruscan and Falisci, Faliscan civilizations, housed in the Villa Giulia in Rome, Italy. It is the most important Etruscan museum in the world. History The villa ...

(''Museo Nazionale Etrusco'') * National Gallery of Ancient Art (''Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica'') *

(''Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna'') * National Museum of Capodimonte (''Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte'') * National Museum of Magna Grecia (''Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia'') *

National Museum of Oriental Art Rome's National Museum of Oriental Art "Giuseppe Tucci" (Italian: Museo Nazionale d'Arte Orientale 'Giuseppe Tucci' ) was a museum in Rome, Italy, that was dedicated to the arts of the Orient, from the Middle East to Japan. The museum was located i ...

National Museum of Rome The National Roman Museum (Italian: ''Museo Nazionale Romano'') is a museum, with several branches in separate buildings throughout the city of Rome, Italy. It shows exhibits from the pre- and early history of Rome, with a focus on archaeological ...

Pinacoteca di Brera The Pinacoteca di Brera ("Brera Art Gallery") is the main public gallery for paintings in Milan, Italy. It contains one of the foremost collections of Italian paintings from the 13th to the 20th century, an outgrowth of the cultural program of ...

Japan

* National Institutes for Cultural Heritage **

Tokyo National Museum The or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō wards of Tokyo, ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the four museums operated by the , is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan. The museum collects, prese ...

Kyoto National Museum The is one of the major art museums in Japan. Located in Kyoto's Higashiyama ward, the museum focuses on pre-modern Japanese and Asian art. History The Kyoto National Museum, then the Imperial Museum of Kyoto, was proposed, along with the Imp ...

Nara National Museum The is one of the pre-eminent national art museums in Japan. Introduction The Nara National Museum is located in Nara, which was the capital of Japan from 710 to 784. Katayama Tōkuma (1854–1917) designed the original building, which is a rep ...

Kyushu National Museum The opened on October 16, 2005, in Dazaifu near Fukuoka—the first new national museum in Japan in over 100 years, and the first to elevate the focus on history over art.Japan National Tourist Organization Museum "focuses on history."/ref> The ...

* Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art **

National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo The , also known as MOMAT, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art. The museum, in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, is known for its collection of 20th-century art and includes Western-style and ''Nihonga'' artists. It has a bra ...

National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto The is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan. This Kyoto museum is also known by the English acronym MoMAK (Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto). History The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (MoMAK) was initially created as the Annex Museum of the Nationa ...

National Museum of Western Art The is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016. History The NMWA was established on June 10, 1959 ...

National Museum of Art, Osaka is a subterranean Japanese art museum located on the island of Nakanoshima, located between the Dōjima River and the Tosabori River, about 10 minutes west of Higobashi Station in central Osaka. The official Japanese title of the museum trans ...

** National Art Center, Tokyo **

National Film Archive of Japan The is an independent administrative institution and one of Japan's seven national museums of art which specializes in preserving and exhibiting the film heritage of Japan. In its previous incarnation, it was the National Film Center, which was pa ...

National Museum of Nature and Science The is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre-Meiji period, Meiji science in Japan. It is the venue of the taxidermied bodies of the legendary dogs Hachikō and Taro and Jiro. A life-size blue whale mod ...

* National Museum of Ethnology (Japan) *

National Museum of Japanese History The , commonly known in Japanese as Rekihaku, is a history museum in Sakura, Chiba, Japan. The museum was founded in 1981 as an inter-university research consortium, and opened in 1983. The collections of the museum focus on the history, archaeolo ...

National Showa Memorial Museum The is a national museum in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan, managed by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The museum is commonly referred to as the "Showakan" and primarily displays items illustrating the lifestyles of the Japanese people duri ...

Jordan

* The Jordan Museum * Jordan Archaeological Museum * Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

Kazakhstan

National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan The National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan (, ''Qazaqstan Respýblıkasynyń Ulltyq mýzeıi''), is located in Astana Astana is the capital city of Kazakhstan. With a population of 1,423,726 within the city limits, it is the second-lar ...

* Central State Museum of Kazakhstan * Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments *

A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts The A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts is the largest art museum in Kazakhstan, located in Almaty. The museum opened on 16 September 1976, based on the collections of the Shevchenko Kazakh State Gallery (established in 1935) and the Republic Museu ...

* Nature Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Kenya

National Museums of Kenya The National Museums of Kenya (NMK; ) is a state corporation that manages museums, sites and monuments in Kenya. It carries out heritage research, and has expertise in subjects ranging from palaeontology, archeology, ethnography and biodivers ...

Kiribati

* Te Umanibong

North Korea

Korean Central History Museum The Korean Central History Museum () is a museum located in Pyongyang, North Korea.) The museum is located at the north end of Kim Il-sung Square. It contains displays on Korean history from primitive society to the modern age. History The museu ...

* Korean Art Gallery

South Korea

National Museum of Korea The National Museum of Korea () is the flagship museum of Korean history and Korean art, art in South Korea. Since its establishment in 1945, the museum has been committed to various studies and research activities in the fields of archaeology ...

Buyeo National Museum Buyeo National Museum () is a national museum located in Buyeo County, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea. Since Buyeo was once the capital of the Baekje kingdom during the Sabi period (538-660), the Museum is fully devoted to the Baekje cu ...

** Cheongju National Museum ** Chuncheon National Museum ** Daegu National Museum ** Gimhae National Museum ** Gongju National Museum ** Gwangju National Museum ** Gyeongju National Museum ** Jeju National Museum ** Jeonju National Museum **

Jinju National Museum Jinju National Museum () is a national museum located in Jinju Fortress, Jinju, South Korea. It opened in February 1984 with the purpose of specializing in the Japanese invasions of Korea (1592–1598), or Imjinwaeran. See also * List of muse ...

National Folk Museum of Korea National Folk Museum of Korea () is a national museum located on the grounds of Gyeongbokgung in Jongno District, Seoul, South Korea. It uses replicas of historical objects to illustrate the history of traditional life of the Korean people. Histo ...

National Palace Museum of Korea National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

* National Museum of Korean Contemporary History *

War Memorial of Korea The War Memorial of Korea () is a museum located in Yongsan-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea. It opened in 1994 on the former site of the army headquarters to exhibit and memorialize the military history of Korea. It was built for the purp ...

Kosovo

* Kosovo Museum

Kuwait

* Al-Hashemi-II Marine Museum * Kuwait National Museum * Kuwait Science and Natural History Museum

Kyrgyzstan

* Kyrgyz State Historical Museum

Laos

Lao National Museum The Lao National Museum is a building located in Vientiane Vientiane (, ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Laos. Situated on the banks of the Mekong, Mekong River at the Thailand, Thai border, it comprises the five urban d ...

Latvia

Latvian National Museum of Art The Latvian National Museum of Art () is an art museum in Riga, Latvia. It contains the largest collection of national art in Latvia. The museum houses more than 65,000 works of art reflecting the development of professional art in the Baltic a ...

* Latvian National Museum of History

Lebanon

National Museum of Beirut The National Museum of Beirut (, ''Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī'') is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon. The collection begun after World War I, and the museum was officially opened in 1942. The museum has collections totaling about ...

Liberia

Liberian National Museum The National Museum of Liberia is a national museum in Monrovia, Liberia. Initially housed in the First Executive Mansion on Ashmun Street of the city which is now used as a library, it was established by an Act of the Legislature of Liberia, Natio ...

Libya

* Red Castle Museum * Museum of Libya

Liechtenstein

* Liechtenstein National Museum

Lithuania

* National Museum of Lithuania * Lithuanian National Museum of Art *

Vytautas the Great War Museum The Vytautas the Great War Museum () is a museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was built in Art Deco and early functionalism style. Originally it was established in 1921 by Vladas Nagevičius but later it was decided to move to a larger location. A ...

Luxembourg

National Museum of History and Art The National Museum of History and Art (, , ), abbreviated to MNHA, is a museum located in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. It is dedicated to displaying artworks and artefacts from all epochs of Luxembourg history. The museum is situa ...

Luxembourg City Luxembourg (; ; ), also known as Luxembourg City ( or ; ; or ), is the capital city of Luxembourg and the Communes of Luxembourg, country's most populous commune. Standing at the confluence of the Alzette and Pétrusse rivers in southern Luxe ...

* National Museum of Military History,

Diekirch Diekirch (; ; or (locally) ; from ''Diet-Kirch'', i.e. "people's church") is a Communes of Luxembourg, commune with List of towns in Luxembourg, town status in north-eastern Luxembourg, in the Diekirch (canton), canton of Diekirch and, until its ...

, Luxembourg City

Macau

* Museum of Macau

Malawi

* Chichiri Museum

Malaysia

Muzium Negara The National Museum () is a public museum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia dedicated to Malaysian art, Culture of Malaysia, culture, and History of Malaysia, history. Located on Jalan Damansara close to Perdana Botanical Gardens, Perdana Lake Gar ...

National Art Gallery (Malaysia) The National Art Gallery of Malaysia (; Jawi: ) is a public art gallery in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The gallery is situated along Jalan Tun Razak, on the northern edge of central Kuala Lumpur. It is located next to the Istana Budaya, which ...

Maldives

Mali

National Museum of Mali The National Museum of Malí () is an archaeological and anthropological museum located in Bamako, the capital of Mali. It presents permanent and temporary exhibits on the history of Mali, as well as the musical instruments, dress, and ritual obj ...

Malta

* National Museum of Archaeology * National Museum of Ethnography * National Museum of Fine Arts *

* National War Museum

Marshall Islands

* Alele Museum & Public Library

Mauritania

* National Museum of Mauritania

Mexico

* Museo Nacional de Antropología (''National Museum of Anthropology'') *

Museo Nacional de Historia The National Museum of History ( Spanish: ), also known as MNH, is a national museum of Mexico, located inside Chapultepec Castle in Mexico City. The Castle itself is found within the first section of the well known Chapultepec Park. The museum ...

(''National Museum of History'') *

Museo Nacional de Arte The Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) () is the Mexico, Mexican national art museum, located in the Centro (Mexico City), historical center of Mexico City. The museum is housed in a neoclassical building at No. 8 Tacuba, Col. Centro, Mexico City. It ...

(''National Museum of Art'') *

Museo Nacional de las Culturas The Museo Nacional de las Culturas (MNC; ''National Museum of Cultures'') is a national museum in Mexico City dedicated to education about the world's cultures, both past and present. It is housed in a colonial-era building that used to be the m ...

(''National Museum of Cultures'') *

Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones Museo may refer to: * ''Museum'' (2018 film), Mexican drama heist film * Museo station, station on line 1 of the Naples Metro {{disambiguation ...

(''National Museum of the Interventions'') * Museo Nacional del Virreinato (''National Museum of the Viceroyalty'')

Moldova

* National Museum of History of Moldova *

National Museum of Fine Arts, Chișinău The National Museum of Fine Arts of Moldova () is a museum in Chișinău, Moldova, founded in November 1939 by Alexandru Plămădeală and Auguste Baillayre. Overview In 1939, the sculptor Alexandru Plămădeală selected some 160 works by Bass ...

Monaco

* New National Museum of Monaco

Mongolia

* National Museum of Mongolia * Mongolian Natural History Museum *

Chinggis Khaan National Museum The Chinggis Khaan National Museum () is a museum about Genghis Khan in Chingeltei, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. History The groundbreaking of the museum was held in 2020 at the site where the old building of the Mongolian Natural History Museum used ...

Montenegro

National Museum of Montenegro The National Museum of Montenegro () is the largest museum in Montenegro. The museum was established in 1896 and is located in Cetinje, Montenegro. Departments The museum is divided into five departments: *Historical Museum of Montenegro *Ethnog ...

Morocco

* Rabat Archaeological Museum

Myanmar

* National Museum Nay Pyi Taw *

National Museum of Myanmar The National Museum of Myanmar (Yangon), (), located in Dagon Township, Dagon, Yangon, is the major one of the two national museums for Burma, Burmese art, history and culture in Myanmar. Founded in 1952, the five-storey museum has an extensive co ...

Namibia

* National Museum of Namibia ** Alte Feste ** Owela Museum * Independence Memorial Museum

Nauru

* Nauru Museum

Nepal

* National Museum of Nepal

Netherlands

* Dordrechts Museum *

EYE Film Institute Netherlands Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in ...

Huis Doorn Huis Doorn (; ) is a manor house and national museum in the town of Doorn in the Netherlands. The residence has early 20th-century interiors from the time when former German Emperor Wilhelm II resided there (1920–1941). Huis Doorn was first b ...

Kröller-Müller Museum The Kröller-Müller Museum () is a national art museum and sculpture garden, located in the Hoge Veluwe National Park in Otterlo in the Netherlands. The museum, founded by art collector Helene Kröller-Müller within the extensive grounds of ...

* Loevestein *

Mauritshuis The Mauritshuis (, ; ) is an art museum in The Hague, Netherlands. The museum houses the Royal Cabinet of Paintings which consists of 854 objects, mostly Dutch Golden Age paintings. The collection contains works by Johannes Vermeer, Rembrandt van ...

Muiderslot Muiden Castle (Dutch: ''Muiderslot'', ) is a castle in the Netherlands, located at the mouth of the Vecht (Utrecht), Vecht river, some 15 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, in Muiden, where it flows into what used to be the Zuiderzee. It is one o ...

Museum Boerhaave Rijksmuseum Boerhaave is a museum of the history of science and medicine, based in Leiden, Netherlands. The museum hosts a collection of historical scientific instruments from all disciplines, but mainly from medicine, physics, and astronomy. Th ...

Museum Catharijneconvent The Museum Catharijneconvent (St. Catherine's Convent Museum) is a museum of religious art in Utrecht, Netherlands. It is located in the former St. Catharine convent, having been sited there since 1979. Its collections include many artifacts fro ...

* Museum Meermanno * Museum Mesdag * National Museum of Ethnology *

Naturalis Naturalis Biodiversity Center () is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021. Although its current name and organization are relatively ...

Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum The Maritime Museum (, ) is a maritime museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The museum had 419,060 visitors in 2012. It ranked as 11th most visited museum in the Netherlands in 2013. The museum had 300,000 visitors in 2015. In 2017 the mus ...

* Paleis het Loo *

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museumplein, Museum Square in the stadsdeel, borough of Amsterdam-Zuid, Amsterdam South, ...

Rijksmuseum Twenthe The Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Enschede, the Netherlands, was founded in 1927 by textile industry Baron Jan Bernard Van Heek. He donated his own private collection and the museum building to the government, thus making it a national museum. The muse ...

Rijksmuseum van Oudheden The (English language, English: National Museum of Antiquities) is the national archaeology, archaeological museum of the Netherlands, located in Leiden. It grew out of the collection of Leiden University and still closely co-operates with ...

* Openluchtmuseum *

Van Gogh Museum The Van Gogh Museum () is a Dutch art museum dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries in the Museum Square in Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened o ...

Zuiderzeemuseum The Zuiderzee Museum, located on Wierdijk in the historic center of Enkhuizen, is a Dutch museum devoted to preserving the cultural heritage and maritime history from the old Zuiderzee region. With the closing of the Afsluitdijk (Barrier Dam) on M ...

New Zealand

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is New Zealand's national museum and is located in Wellington. Usually known as Te Papa ( Māori for ' the treasure box'), it opened in 1998 after the merging of the National Museum of New Zealand ...

- commonly known as ''Te Papa'' or ''Our Place'' in English translation

Niger

Musée National Boubou Hama Musée National Boubou Hama is the national museum of Niger, located in Niamey. It was founded in 1959 as Musée National du Niger. Its first conservator, Pablo Toucet, designed the concept of the museum, according to which it was part of the Cul ...

, formerly National Museum of Niger

Nigeria

* Nigerian National Museum * Benin City National Museum * Ife National Museum * Esiẹ Museum

North Macedonia

* Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia *

* Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Skopje) * Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje)

Norway

National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design The National Museum (, officially the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design) is a museum in Oslo, Norway which holds the Norwegian state's public collection of art, architecture, and design objects. The collection totals over 400,000 w ...

Oman

Pakistan

National Museum of Pakistan The National Museum of Pakistan () is a public museum located in Karachi, Pakistan. History The National Museum of Pakistan was established in Frere Hall in 1951, replacing the defunct Victoria Museum. Frere Hall itself was built in 1865 as a ...

Karachi Karachi is the capital city of the Administrative units of Pakistan, province of Sindh, Pakistan. It is the List of cities in Pakistan by population, largest city in Pakistan and 12th List of largest cities, largest in the world, with a popul ...

* Pakistan Museum of Natural History,

Islamabad Islamabad (; , ; ) is the capital city of Pakistan. It is the country's tenth-most populous city with a population of over 1.1 million and is federally administered by the Pakistani government as part of the Islamabad Capital Territory. Bu ...

* National Art Gallery, Islamabad *

Lok Virsa Museum Heritage Museum (), also known as Lok Virsa Museum, is a museum administered and managed by Lok Virsa - National Institute of Folk & Traditional Heritage. It is a museum of history and culture in Islamabad, Pakistan, located on the Shakarparia ...

, Islamabad

Palau

* Belau National Museum

Panama

* Museum of History of Panama

Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery The Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery (NMAG) is a museum and art gallery in Waigani, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. It is the List of national museums, national museum of Papua New Guinea. History In 1889 the Territory of Papua, ...

Paraguay

* Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Asunción

Peru

* National Museum of Peru * Museum of the Nation *

National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru The National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru (, MNAAHP) is the largest and oldest museum in Peru, housed at the Palacio de la Magdalena, located in the of Pueblo Libre, a district of Lima, Peru. The museum houses more th ...

* Lima Art Museum

Philippines

The

National Museum of the Philippines The National Museum of the Philippines () is an umbrella government organization that oversees a number of national museums in the Philippines, including Ethnography, ethnographic, Anthropology, anthropological, Archaeology, archaeological, an ...

(NMP), a government organization, operates several national museums, including: The National Museum Complex in Manila which consists of the central museums of the NMP namely the: * National Museum of Anthropology * National Museum of Fine Arts *

The NMP also operates the following satellite museums: * National Museum Dumaguete *

National Museum Western Visayas The National Museum (NM) Western Visayas Regional Museum, simply known as the National Museum Western Visayas, is a museum in Iloilo City, Philippines. The museum is housed in the old Iloilo Provincial Jail building, also known as Iloilo Rehabil ...

*National Museum Cordillera *National Museum Ilocos *National Museum Cagayan Valley *National Museum Bicol *National Museum Eastern-Northern Mindanao *National Museum Western-Southern Mindanao *National Museum Batanes *National Museum Marinduque-Romblon *National Museum Bohol *National Museum Sulu * National Museum Kabayan * National Museum Tabon Caves Site Museum * National Museum Angono-Binangonan

Poland

National Museum, Kraków National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, c ...

* National Museum, Gdańsk *

National Maritime Museum, Gdańsk The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk () is a maritime museum in Gdańsk, Poland, established on 1 January 1962. It is dedicated to gathering, researching and preserving artifacts and documents concerning ship transport, international trade, fis ...

National Museum, Lublin The National Museum in Lublin () is one of the oldest and largest museums in Eastern Poland, located in Lublin. It was created in 1914, and received its own building in 1923. History The history of the Lublin Museum dates back to the beginning ...

* National Museum, Poznań *

National Museum, Szczecin The National Museum in Szczecin () is a national museum in Szczecin, Poland, established on 1 August 1945. The museum features ancient and modern art, archaeological, historical, numismatic, nautical and ethnographic collections and is divided int ...

National Museum, Warsaw The National Museum in Warsaw (, MNW) is a national museum in Warsaw, one of the largest museums in Poland and the largest in the capital. It comprises a rich collection of ancient art (Art of ancient Egypt, Egyptian, Art in ancient Greece, Greek, ...

National Museum, Wrocław National may refer to: Common uses * Nation or country ** Nationality – a ''national'' is a person who is subject to a nation, regardless of whether the person has full rights as a citizen Places in the United States * National, Maryland, ce ...

Portugal

* Air Museum, part of the

Portuguese Air Force The Portuguese Air Force () is the air force, aerial warfare force of Portugal. Locally it is referred to by the acronym FAP but internationally is often referred to by the acronym PRTAF. It is the youngest of the three branches of the Portuguese ...

Grão Vasco National Museum The Grão Vasco Museum (''Museu de Grão Vasco'') is an art museum located in the city of Viseu, in Portugal. The museum is named after one of the most important Portuguese painters of the Renaissance, Vasco Fernandes (also known as the Grão Va ...

* Porto Military Museum, part of the

Portuguese Army The Portuguese Army () is the land component of the Portuguese Armed Forces, Armed Forces of Portugal and is also its largest branch. It is charged with the defence of Portugal, in co-operation with other branches of the Armed Forces. With its ...

* National Archaeology Museum * National Azulejo Museum *

National Coach Museum The National Coach Museum () is located in Lisbon, Portugal. First established in 1905 as the Royal Coaches Museum (), the museum houses historic horse-drawn coaches and carriages that belonged to the royal houses of Portugal from the 16th t ...

National Museum of Ancient Art The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (; MNAA), also known in English as the National Museum of Ancient Art, is a Portugal, Portuguese national art museum located in Lisbon. With over 40,000 items spanning a vast collection of painting, sculpture, gol ...

* National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado * National Museum of Costume and Fashion * National Museum of Ethnology, it includes the Popular Art Museum * National Museum of Natural History and Science, part of the

University of Lisbon The University of Lisbon (ULisboa; ) is a public university, public research university in Lisbon, and Portugal's largest university. It was founded in 1911, but the university's present structure dates to the 2013 merger of the former Universit ...

* National Museum Machado de Castro * National Museum Soares dos Reis *

National Music Museum The National Music Museum: America's Shrine to Music & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments (NMM) is a musical instrument museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, United States. It was founded in 1973 on the campus of the Univers ...

* National Theatre and Dance Museum * Navy Museum, part of the

Portuguese Navy The Portuguese Navy (), also known as the Portuguese War Navy (''Marinha de Guerra Portuguesa'') or as the Portuguese Armada (''Armada Portuguesa''), is the navy of the Portuguese Armed Forces. Chartered in 1317 by King Dinis of Portugal, it is ...

Qatar

* Qatar National Museum

Romania

* ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization ('' Muzeul Civilizaţiei Populare Tradiţionale'') * ASTRA Museum of Transylvanian Civilisation ('' Muzeul Civilizaţiei Transilvane'') * Brukenthal National Museum * Emil Sigerus Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art ('' Muzeul de Etnografie şi Artă Populară Săsească ASTRA'') * Franz Binder Museum of Universal Ethnography ('' Muzeul de Etnografie Universală ASTRA'') * National History Museum of Romania * National Military Museum, Romania (''Muzeul Militar Naţional'') *

National Museum of Art of Romania The National Museum of Art of Romania () is located in the Royal Palace in Revolution Square, central Bucharest. It features collections of medieval and modern Romanian art, as well as the international collection assembled by the Romanian r ...

Russia

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...

State Historical Museum The State Historical Museum () of Russia is a museum of History of Russia, Russian history located between Red Square and Manezhnaya Square, Moscow, Manege Square in Moscow. The museum's exhibitions range from relics of prehistoric tribes that li ...

Russian Museum The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in ...

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel ...

Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (, abbreviated as , ''GMII'') is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It is located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatos ...

Moscow Kremlin Museums Moscow Kremlin Museums (, ) is a major state-run museum in Moscow Kremlin. Its roots lie in the Kremlin Armoury museum founded in 1806, the current form of the museum started in 1991. The Head of the museum (since 2001) is Yelena Gagarina, d ...

State Museum of Oriental Art The State Museum of Oriental Art () is one of the biggest cultural institutions in the world for preservation, research, and display of Oriental art. The museum was founded in 1918 as a part of soviet programme to support unique cultures of USSR ...

* Central Armed Forces Museum * Museum of Political History of Russia * Shchusev Museum of Architecture * Vernadsky State Geological Museum

Rwanda

Ethnographic Museum Ethnographic museums, also known as ethnological museums, conserve, display and contextualize items relevant to the field of ethnography, the systematic study of people and cultures. Such museums include: List by country or region Albania * Ethnog ...

Saint Kitts and Nevis

* National Museum of Saint Kitts

Samoa

Falemata'aga - Museum of Samoa Falemata'aga is the national museum of Samoa. It is housed in a former school which was built by the German colonial administration. Background The museum is located in Apia and is housed in the oldest building on the island, which is a forme ...

Saudi Arabia

National Museum of Saudi Arabia The National Museum of Saudi Arabia () is a national museum located in the Al Murabba, al-Murabba neighborhood of Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Established in 1999,Museum of Black Civilisations * Historical Museum of Senegal in Gorée

Serbia

National Museum of Serbia The National Museum of Serbia () is the largest and oldest museum in Belgrade, Serbia. It is located in the central zone of Belgrade on a square plot between the Republic Square (Belgrade), Republic Square, formerly Theatre Square, and three stree ...

* Historical Museum of Serbia

Sierra Leone

* Sierra Leone National Museum

Singapore

National Museum of Singapore The National Museum of Singapore is a public museum dedicated to Singaporean art, culture and history. Located within the country's Civic District at the Downtown Core area, it is the oldest museum in the country, with its history dating back to ...

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Slovakia

* Slovak National Museum * Slovak National History Museum *

Slovak National Gallery The Slovak National Gallery (, abbreviated SNG) is a network of galleries in Slovakia. It has its headquarters in Bratislava. The gallery was established by law on 29 July 1949. In Bratislava, it has its displays situated in Esterházy Palace (' ...

Slovenia

* National Museum of Slovenia * National Gallery of Slovenia

Solomon Islands

* Solomon Islands National Museum

Somalia

* National Museum of Somalia

South Africa

South African National Museum of Military History The South African National Museum of Military History in Johannesburg was officially opened by Prime Minister Jan Smuts on 29 August 1947 to preserve the history of South Africa's involvement in the Second World War. In 1975, the museum was rena ...

Iziko South African Museum The Iziko South African Museum, formerly the South African Museum (Afrikaans: Suid-Afrikaanse Museum), is a South African national museum located in Cape Town. The museum was founded in 1825, the first in the country. It has been on its present ...

Ditsong Museums of South Africa Ditsong Museums is an amalgamation of eight museums in the Pretoria and Johannesburg environs in the Gauteng Province. The museums "have diverse collections covering the fields of fauna and flora, palaeontology Paleontology, also spelled as ...

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Ditsong National Museum of Natural History The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly the Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, South Africa. It is located on Paul Kruger Street, between Visagie and Minnaar Streets, opposite the Pretoria City H ...

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Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History The Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History is a museum that showcases the various stages and forms of culture in South Africa. It is part of the Ditsong Museums of South Africa. The museum is located in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. ...

* National Museum, Bloemfontein * National Afrikaans Literary Museum and Research Centre

South Sudan

* South Sudan National Museum

Spain

* National Archaeological Museum, Madrid * Cervantes' House Museum, Valladolid * Museum of the Royal Mint, Madrid * Museum Cerralbo, Madrid * Aeronautical and Astronautical Museum, Madrid * Museum of the Americas, Madrid * Museum of the Army, Toledo * Catalonia Railway Museum, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona) *

Railway Museum A railway museum is a museum that explores the history of all aspects of rail related transportation, including: locomotives (steam, diesel, and electric), railway cars, trams, and railway signalling equipment. They may also operate historic ...

, Madrid * El Greco Museum, Toledo * National Museum of Romanticism, Madrid * Museum of Garment - Ethnologic Heritage Research Center, Madrid * Geomineral Museum, Madrid *

Lázaro Galdiano Museum The Lázaro Galdiano Museum () is an art museum in Madrid, Spain. It houses the art collection of José Lázaro Galdiano. The museum was inaugurated on 27 January 1951. History The palatial building was constructed in 1903 as the residence of ...

, Madrid * Queen Sofía Art Center National Museum, Madrid * National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid * National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology, Cartagena (Murcia) * National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida (Badajoz) * National Museum of Decorative Arts, Madrid * González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts, Valencia * National Museum of Science and Technology, La Coruña and Alcobendas (Madrid) * National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid * National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid * Prado National Museum, Madrid * National Museum of Theatre, Almagro (Ciudad Real) * Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid * National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, Santillana del Mar (Cantabria) * Naval Museum, Madrid * Sephardic Museum, Toledo * Sorolla Museum, Madrid * Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid

Catalonia

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National Art Museum of Catalonia The (; ), abbreviated as MNAC (), is a museum of Catalan visual art located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Situated on Montjuïc hill at the end of Avinguda de la Reina Maria Cristina, near Pl Espanya, the museum is especially notable for it ...

(MNAC), Barcelona * National Museum of Science and Industry of Catalonia (mNACTEC), Terrassa * Archaeological Museum of Catalonia (MAC), Barcelona, Empúries, Girona, Olèrdola and Ullastret

Sri Lanka

National Museum of Colombo The Colombo National Museum, also known as the Sri Lanka National Museum, is a museum in Colombo and the largest in Sri Lanka. Founded in 1877 and maintained by the Department of National Museums, it holds collections of significant importance ...

* National Museum Galle *

National Museum Kandy The National Museum of Kandy in Kandy, Sri Lanka is located next to the Temple of the Tooth in part of the former Royal Palace of Kandy. The primary exhibits are housed in the ''Palle Vahala'' building, which was the former home of the King's ...

* National Museum Maritime * National Museum Ratnapura

Sudan

* National Museum of Sudan

Suriname

Surinaams Museum The Surinaams Museum is a museum located at Abraham Crijnssenweg 1 in Fort Zeelandia, Paramaribo, Suriname. Description The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where British and Dutch colonists first arrived in Suriname ...

Sweden

Nationalmuseum Nationalmuseum is the List of national galleries, national gallery of fine arts of Sweden, located on the peninsula Blasieholmen in central Stockholm. The museum's operations stretch far beyond the borders of Blasieholmen, including the Natio ...

Switzerland

Swiss National Museum The Swiss National Museum () is a museum in Zurich, Switzerland's largest city, adjacent to Central Station and the '' Platzspitz'' park. It is part of the ''Musée Suisse Group'', which is itself affiliated with the Federal Office of Culture ...

('' Landesmuseum'')

Syria

National Museum of Damascus The National Museum of Damascus () is a museum in the heart of Damascus, Syria. As the country's national museum as well as its largest, this museum covers the entire range of History of Syria, Syrian history over a span of over 11 millennia. It ...

National Museum of Aleppo The National Museum of Aleppo () is the largest museum in the city of Aleppo, Syria, and was founded in 1931. It is located in the heart of the northern city on Baron Street, adjacent to the famous Baron Hotel and near the Bab al-Faraj (Aleppo), ...

Taiwan

* Chunghwa Postal Museum * National Museum of History *

National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium The National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium (NMMBA; zh, t=國立海洋生物博物館, poj=Kok-li̍p Hái-iûⁿ Seng-bu̍t Phok-bu̍t-koán, p=Guólì Hǎiyáng Shēngwù Bówùguǎn) is the most notable museum and research institution f ...

* National Museum of Marine Science and Technology *

National Museum of Natural Science The National Museum of Natural Science () is a national museum in North District, Taichung, Taiwan. Overview The museum covers and is a six-venue complex housing: the Space Theater, Science Center, Life Science Hall, Human Cultures Hall, Gl ...

* National Museum of Prehistory *

National Museum of Taiwan History The National Museum of Taiwan History (NMTH; ) is a museum in Annan District, Tainan, Taiwan, covering the history of the island nation of Taiwan and its associated islands. History The museum was originally planned to be opened in 2008, but i ...

* National Museum of Taiwan Literature *

National Palace Museum The National Palace Museum, also known as Taipei Palace Museum, is a national museum headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in Beijing in 1925, the museum was re-established in Shilin District, Shilin, Taipei, in 1965, later expanded with a S ...

* National Radio Museum *

National Science and Technology Museum The National Science and Technology Museum (NSTM; ) is a museum of applied science and technology in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The museum was established in November 1997. Architecture The museum covers an area of 19 hectares ...

National Taiwan Museum The National Taiwan Museum (NTM; ), established in 1908, is the oldest museum in Taiwan. It was founded by the colonial government during Taiwan's period of Japanese rule. The museum is located in Zhongzheng District, Taipei. History Establis ...

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts The National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA; ) is a museum in West District, Taichung, West District, Taichung, Taiwan. NTMoFA was established in 1988 and is the first and the only national-grade fine arts museum in Taiwan. The major collec ...

Republic of China Air Force Museum A republic, based on the Latin phrase ''res publica'' ('public affair' or 'people's affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public (people), typically through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy. Although a ...

Republic of China Armed Forces Museum The Republic of China Armed Forces Museum (AFM; ) was a museum located on Guiyang Street in the Zhongzheng District of Taipei, Taiwan. It opened on 31 October 1961, under the administration of the Republic of China Ministry of National Defense D ...

* Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

Tajikistan

* National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan * Tajikistan National Museum

Tanzania

* National Museum of Tanzania

Thailand

Togo

* Togo National Museum

Tonga

* Tonga National Museum

Trinidad and Tobago

* National Museum and Art Gallery

Tunisia

* Bardo National Museum *

Carthage National Museum Carthage National Museum () is a national museum in Byrsa, Tunisia. Along with the Bardo National Museum, it is one of the two main local archaeological museums in the region. The edifice sits atop Byrsa Hill, in the heart of the city of Carthag ...

Turkey

Museum of Anatolian Civilizations The Museum of Anatolian Civilizations () is located on the south side of Ankara Castle in the Atpazarı area in Ankara, Turkey. It consists of the old Ottoman Mahmut Paşa bazaar storage building, and the Kurşunlu Han. Because of Atatürk's ...

Republic Museum Republic Museum (also known as "Second parliament Building of Turkey", ) is a museum in Ankara, Turkey, which was the Turkish Parliament building from 1924 to 1960. Geography The museum is in the Ulus neighborhood of Ankara, on Cumhuriyet Boulev ...

State Art and Sculpture Museum The State Art and Sculpture Museum () is a museum dedicated to fine arts and sculpture in Ankara, Turkey. The museum was openend in 1930 upon the direction of Turkish president Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first President of Turkey. I ...

* Ethnography Museum of Ankara * War of Independence Museum *

Istanbul Archaeology Museums The Istanbul Archaeology Museums () are a group of three archaeological museums located in the Eminönü quarter of Istanbul, Turkey, near Gülhane Park and Topkapı Palace. These museums house over one million objects from nearly all periods an ...

Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum The Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum () is a museum in Sultanahmet Square in Fatih district of Istanbul, Turkey which first opened in 1914 and in 1983 moved into the palace of Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha, the second grand vizier of Suleiman the Magni ...

* Istanbul Aviation Museum *

Istanbul Naval Museum The Istanbul Naval Museum (Turkish language, Turkish: ''İstanbul Deniz Müzesi'') is a national naval museum, located in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was established in 1897 by the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Minister of the Navy ...

Istanbul Military Museum Istanbul Military Museum () is dedicated to one thousand years of Military of Turkey, Turkish military history. It is one of the leading museums of its kind in the world. The museum is open to the public everyday except on Mondays. History ...

Turkmenistan

* Ashgabat National Museum of History * The State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan * Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts

Turks and Caicos

* Turks and Caicos National Museum

Uganda

* Uganda Museum

Ukraine

* Aivazovsky National Art Gallery * Lviv National Art Gallery * Lviv National Museum *

Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II The National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War () is a memorial complex commemorating the German-Soviet War located in the southern outskirts of the Pechersk district of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, on the picturesque h ...

National Art Museum of Ukraine The National Art Museum of Ukraine ( ) is a museum dedicated to Ukrainian art in Kyiv, Ukraine. History The National Art Museum of Ukraine, which was the first museum in Kyiv to be freely open to the public, was founded at the end of the 19th c ...

* National Museum of the History of Ukraine * National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943" * Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum

United Arab Emirates

* Al Ain National Museum * National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah *

Dubai Museum Dubai Museum () is the main museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is located in the Al Fahidi Fort (), built in 1787 and is the oldest existing building in Dubai. The museum was opened by the Ruler of Dubai in 1971, with the aim of presenti ...

* Etihad Museum *

Emirates National Auto Museum The Emirates National Auto Museum is a national automobile museum in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The museum is located in Al Dhafra, Abu Dhabi, Al Dhafra about south of the city of Abu Dhabi. The museum has a collection of ar ...

United Kingdom

England

Northern Ireland

* Armagh County Museum * Ulster-American Folk Park *

Ulster Folk and Transport Museum Both the Ulster Folk Museum and Ulster Transport Museum are situated in Cultra, Northern Ireland, about east of the city of Belfast. Now operating as two separate museums, the Folk Museum endeavours to illustrate the way of life and traditions ...

Ulster Museum The Ulster Museum, located in the Botanic Gardens in Belfast, has around 8,000 square metres (90,000 sq. ft.) of public display space, featuring material from the collections of fine art and applied art, archaeology, ethnography, treasures ...

Scotland

National Museums Scotland National Museums Scotland (NMS; ) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government. It runs the national museums of Scotland. NMS is one of the country's National Collections, and holds internationally important collec ...

* National Museum of Costume * National Museum of Flight * National Museum of Rural Life *

National War Museum of Scotland The National War Museum is a museum dedicated to warfare, which is located inside Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland. Opened in 1933 in a converted 18th-century ordnance storehouse, the museum is run by the National Museums Scotland and c ...

Museum of Scotland A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...

Royal Museum The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a museum of Scottish history and culture. It was formed in 2006 with the merger of the new Museum of Scotland, with collections relating to Scottish antiquities, culture and history, ...

V&A Dundee V&A Dundee is a design museum in Dundee, Scotland, which opened on 15 September 2018. The V&A Dundee is the first design museum in Scotland and the first Victoria and Albert museum outside London. The V&A Dundee is also the first building in the ...

Wales

Big Pit National Coal Museum Big Pit National Coal Museum () is an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. A working coal mine from 1880 to 1980, it was opened to the public in 1983 as a charitable trust called the Big Pit (Blaenavon) Trust. By 1 February 2 ...

National Museum Cardiff National Museum Cardiff (), formerly known as the National Museum of Wales, is a museum and art gallery in Cardiff, Wales. The museum is part of the wider network of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. Entry is kept free by a grant from the Wel ...

* National Museum Wales * National Roman Legionary Museum * National Slate Museum *

National Waterfront Museum The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS () is a museum in Swansea, Wales, forming part of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage. Construction and development Bui ...

* National Woollen Museum *

St Fagans National History Museum St Fagans National Museum of History ( ; ), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village where it is located, is an open-air museum in St Fagans, Cardiff, Wales, chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture, and architecture of the Wels ...

United States

* Atomic/Nuclear ** American Museum of Science and Energy ** National Atomic Testing Museum ** National Museum of Nuclear Science & History * Department of Defense: ** Air Force: ***

Air Force Armament Museum The Air Force Armament Museum is a military aviation museum adjacent to Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Florida, dedicated to the display of Air Force armament. It is supported by the private, non-profit Air Force Armament Museum Foundation ...

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Air Mobility Command Museum The Air Mobility Command Museum is a military aviation museum located at Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware dedicated to the history of the Air Transport Command, Military Air Transport Service, Military Airlift Command and Air Mobility Com ...

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National Museum of the United States Air Force The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, northeast of Dayton, Ohio. The NMUSAF is ...

*** Museum of Aviation *** Strategic Air and Space Museum ** Army: ***

National Museum of Health and Medicine The National Museum of Health and Medicine (NMHM) is a museum in Silver Spring, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. The museum was founded by U.S. Army Surgeon General William A. Hammond as the Army Medical Museum (AMM) in 1862; it became the NMH ...

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National Museum of the United States Army The National Museum of the United States Army is the official museum for the history of the United States Army . It opened on November 11, 2020. Its stated objectives are to honor America's soldiers, preserve Army history, and educate the public ...

*** Rock Island Arsenal Museum *** West Point Museum ** Navy: ***

National Museum of the Marine Corps The National Museum of the Marine Corps is the historical museum of the United States Marine Corps. Located in Triangle, Virginia near Marine Corps Base Quantico, the museum opened on November 10, 2006, and is now one of the top tourist attracti ...

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National Museum of the United States Navy The National Museum of the United States Navy, or U.S. Navy Museum for short, is the flagship museum of the United States Navy and is located in the former Breech Mechanism Shop of the old Naval Gun Factory on the grounds of the Washington Navy ...

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National Naval Aviation Museum The National Naval Aviation Museum, formerly known as the National Museum of Naval Aviation and the Naval Aviation Museum, is a military and aerospace museum located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. Founded in 1962 and moved to its cur ...

*** National Museum of the American Sailor *** National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum *** Naval War College Museum ***

Submarine Force Library and Museum The United States Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum is located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut. It is the only submarine museum managed exclusively by the Naval History & Heritage Command division of the Navy, and this makes it a ...

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National Cryptologic Museum The National Cryptologic Museum (NCM) is an American museum of cryptologic history that is affiliated with the National Security Agency (NSA). The first public museum in the U.S. Intelligence Community, NCM is located in the former Colony Sev ...

** National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations * Central Intelligence Agency: ** CIA Museum * Department of Homeland Security ** United States Coast Guard Museum *

National Gallery of Art The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW. Open to the public and free of charge, the museum was privately established in ...

* Smithsonian Institution: **Smithsonian American Art Museum, American Art Museum ** Anacostia Community Museum ** Arts and Industries Building ** Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum ** Freer Gallery of Art ** Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden ** National Air and Space Museum *** Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center ** National Museum of African American History and Culture ** National Museum of African Art ** National Museum of the American Indian ** National Museum of American History ** National Museum of Natural History ** National Portrait Gallery (United States), National Portrait Gallery ** National Postal Museum ** National Zoological Park (United States), National Zoological Park * Presidential library system ** Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum ** Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum ** Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum ** Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home ** John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum ** Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum ** Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ** Gerald R. Ford Museum ** Jimmy Carter Library and Museum ** Ronald Reagan Presidential Library ** George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum ** Clinton Presidential Center ** George W. Bush Presidential Center * Transportation ** Mariners' Museum and Park - National Maritime Museum ** National Railroad Museum ** South Street Seaport Museum - National Maritime Museum * War Museums/Memorials **National Veterans Memorial and Museum ** National Civil War Museum ** National Museum of American Jewish Military History ** National Museum of the Pacific War ** National Museum of World War II Aviation ** Liberty Memorial#The National World War One Museum, National World War I Museum ** The National WWII Museum, National World War II Museum * Other ** National Airmail Museum ** American Visionary Art Museum, National American Museum of Visionary Art ** National Aquarium (Baltimore), National Aquarium ** National Building Museum ** National Children’s Museum ** National Civil Rights Museum ** National Constitution Center ** National Law Enforcement Museum ** National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum ** National Museum of Dentistry ** National Museum of Industrial History ** National Museum of Wildlife Art ** National Nordic Museum ** National Quilt Museum

Uruguay

* National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay) * National Museum of Natural History, Uruguay

Uzbekistan

* State Museum of History of Uzbekistan * Art Gallery of Uzbekistan * Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan * State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan * State Museum of History of Culture of Uzbekistan * Nukus Museum of Art

Vanuatu

* National Museum of Vanuatu

Venezuela

* National Art Gallery (Caracas)

Vietnam

* Vietnam National Museum of History * Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts * Vietnam Military History Museum * Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History

Yemen

* National Museum of Yemen

Zambia

* Lusaka National Museum

Zimbabwe

* National Gallery of Zimbabwe * Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe * Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences