Top US & World Art Museums:
Art Museums in New York City:
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) -- This is the largest museum in the Western hemisphere with over 2 million pieces from all over the world.
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) -- The most influential modern art museum in the world offers works from Dalí, Gauguin, Cézanne, Matisse, and many more.
- The Guggenheim (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) -- One of the most renowned collections of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art.
Art Museums in DC, LA, & Chicago:
- National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.) -- Free to visitors, this museum traces the history of Western Art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only da Vinci painting from the Americas.
- J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, CA) -- Housed on two campuses and one of the most visited museums in the US, it's home to works from the West as well as ancient Rome, Greece, and Etruria.
- Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL) -- At 1 million square feet, it's vast holdings include Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, American, European, and Asian art.
International Art Museums:
- State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg, Russia) -- One of the largest and oldest museums in the world (founded in 1764), it's home to over 3 million items and the largest collection of paintings in the world.
- National Palace Museum (Taipei, Taiwan) -- It houses almost 700,000 ancient Chinese artifacts and works of art dating back 10,000 years.
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