Collections

Every artwork belongs to a collection.

Museums, galleries, foundations, artist studios and private collections. The artwork stays the same object throughout its lifetime — its collection and location may change.

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Ájtte, Swedish Mountain and Sámi Museum

Sweden

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Ajuntament de Girona

Girona, Spain

City administration of Girona, whose municipal archive holds photographic and documentary collections of the Catalan city.

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AlliiertenMuseum

Germany

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Alte Pinakothek, Munich

Munich, Germany

One of the oldest public picture galleries in Europe, devoted to European Old Master painting from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.

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Amsterdam Museum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The city museum of Amsterdam, telling the history of the city through painting, objects and photography.

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Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin

Germany

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Archiv der Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Germany

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Army Museum

Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish museum of military history, with painting, portraits and photography documenting four centuries of Swedish military life.

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Art Collection of the University Göttingen

Göttingen, Germany

The university art collection of Göttingen, assembled from the eighteenth century onwards for teaching and study.

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Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Founded in 1879, the Art Institute of Chicago is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Its encyclopaedic holdings span five millennia and are especially renowned for French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, American art and modern European painting, with works such as Grant Wood's American Gothic and Georges Seurat's A Sunday on La Grande Jatte.

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Art Museum of Estonia

Estonia

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Art Museums and Composer Homes

Bergen, Norway

Norwegian art museums and composer homes in Bergen, holding painting, decorative art and design alongside the houses of Norwegian composers.

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Artothek Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Germany

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Asia and Pacific Museum

Warsaw, Poland

Polish museum dedicated to the art and material culture of Asia and the Pacific.

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Athens City Museum – Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation

Athens, Greece

Museum of the history of Athens, housed in the former royal residence of the Vouros-Eutaxias family.

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Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe, Germany

Regional museum of Baden, with collections spanning antiquity, medieval art and the applied arts.

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Bavarian State Painting Collections

Germany

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Belvedere

Austria

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Berlin Sports Museum

Germany

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Bibracte EPCC

France

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Blekinge Museum

Karlskrona, Sweden

County museum of Blekinge, documenting the art, crafts and maritime history of southern Sweden.

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Bohuslän Museum

Uddevalla, Sweden

County museum of Bohuslän on the Swedish west coast, with art, photography and cultural history.

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Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht

Netherlands

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Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin

Germany

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Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Lisbon, Portugal

Foundation holding the collection assembled by Calouste Gulbenkian, from Egyptian and Islamic art to European painting and Art Nouveau.

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Castle Huis Bergh

Netherlands

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Chiado Museum - National Museum of Contemporary Art

Lisbon, Portugal

Portuguese national museum of contemporary art, covering art from the mid-nineteenth century onwards.

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Church of S. Roque, Lisbon

Lisbon, Portugal

Jesuit church in Lisbon whose museum holds painting, sacred silver and vestments from the sixteenth century onwards.

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City Museum Berlin

Berlin, Germany

City museum foundation of Berlin, with painting, prints and photography documenting the capital.

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City Museum Zutphen

Netherlands

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

The Cleveland Museum of Art, opened in 1916 in the city's University Circle, holds one of the most comprehensive collections in North America: some 61,000 works covering Asian, Egyptian, medieval European and modern art. Admission has been free since its founding, in keeping with its mission of art "for the benefit of all the people forever".

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Cluj County Centre for the Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture

Romania

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Collectie Herman Maes

Europe

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Constanța Art Museum

Constanța, Romania

Romanian art museum on the Black Sea coast, with modern Romanian painting and sculpture.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

New York, United States

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York is the only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. Housed in the former Andrew Carnegie mansion on Fifth Avenue, it collects drawings, textiles, wallcoverings, product design and graphic design spanning three thousand years.

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Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands Art Collection

Netherlands

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Dalarnas Museum

Falun, Sweden

County museum of Dalarna, holding folk art, textiles and painting from the Swedish region.

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Dance Museum

Sweden

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Das Kleine Museum - Spielzeug aus zwei Jahrhunderten

Germany

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DDR Geschichtsmuseum und Dokumentationszentrum Perleberg

Germany

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Department of Paintings of the Louvre

France

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Detroit Institute of Arts

United States

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Deutsches Fleischermuseum

Germany

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Deutsches Stuhlbaumuseum Rabenau/Sachsen

Germany

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Deutsches Technikmuseum

Germany

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Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen

Germany

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Digital Memory of Catalonia

Spain

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Diözesanmuseum Rottenburg

Germany

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Domkirkeodden

Norway

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Donauschwäbisches Zentralmuseum Ulm

Germany

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Dordrechts Museum, The Netherlands

Dordrecht, Netherlands

One of the oldest municipal museums in the Netherlands, with Dutch painting from the seventeenth century to the present.

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Druskininkų miesto muziejus

Druskininkai, Lithuania

Town museum of the Lithuanian spa town of Druskininkai.

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Dumbarton Oaks

Washington, D.C., United States

Research library and museum with Byzantine and pre-Columbian art, and a historic house and garden.

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Estonian Firefighting Museum

Estonia

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Estonian Health Museum

Estonia

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Estonian History Museum

Estonia

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Estonian National Museum

Estonia

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Estonian Rural Museum Foundation

Estonia

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Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum

Estonia

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Estonian Theater and Music Museum

Estonia

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Europeana 1989

Czech Republic

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Falstadsenteret

Norway

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Farm Museum of Carl Robert Jakobson

Estonia

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Fashion Museum of Antwerp

Belgium

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FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum

Germany

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Finnish Heritage Agency

Finland

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Finnish National Gallery

Helsinki, Finland

Finland's national art museum, comprising Ateneum, Kiasma and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum.

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Forsviks bruk

Sweden

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Forum Marinum Maritime Centre

Turku, Finland

Finnish maritime centre with ship portraits, models and photography of Baltic seafaring.

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Foundation of Haapsalu and Läänemaa Museums

Estonia

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Foundation of Hiiumaa Museum

Estonia

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Franziskanermuseum Villingen-Schwenningen

Germany

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Freies Deutsches Hochstift / Frankfurter Goethe-Museum

Germany

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Freilichtmuseum Roscheider Hof

Germany

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Fritz und Hildegard Ruoff-Stiftung

Germany

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Führermuseum

German Reich

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Gävleborg County Museum

Gävle, Sweden

County museum of Gävleborg, with Swedish painting, crafts and regional history.

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Gemäldegalerie

Germany

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Gemäldegalerie Berlin

Germany

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General Delegation to the digitization of cultural heritage

Brussels, Belgium

Belgian federal programme for the digitisation of cultural heritage, publishing collections of the federal scientific institutions.

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Gerda Schimpf Fotoarchiv

Germany

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Glomdal Museum

Norway

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GoTellGo Cultural Association

Italy

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Grenna Museum

Gränna, Sweden

Swedish local museum, known for its collection on the Andrée polar expedition.

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Harju County Museum

Estonia

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Harvard University Botany Libraries

United States of America

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Heimatmuseum und -Archiv Bad Bodendorf

Germany

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Helsingborg Museum

Helsingborg, Sweden

Municipal museum of Helsingborg, with art, photography and the history of the Öresund city.

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Helsinki City Museum

Helsinki, Finland

City museum of Helsinki, documenting everyday urban life through photography, painting and objects.

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Hermann Krone Collection

Dresden, Germany

Historic photographic collection of the pioneer Hermann Krone, held at the Technical University of Dresden.

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Hermitage Museum

Russia

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Washington, D.C., United States

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is the Smithsonian's museum of modern and contemporary art, its cylindrical Gordon Bunshaft building a landmark on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1974, it collects painting, sculpture, film and installation from the late nineteenth century to the present day.

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Historic Center Leeuwarden

Netherlands

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Historische Kring Midden-Betuwe

Netherlands

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Historisches Museum der Pfalz - Speyer

Germany

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Hohenzollerisches Landesmuseum

Germany

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House of Literature

Europe

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Hungarian University Federation of Cluj-Napoca

Romania

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Images of City of Linköping

Sweden

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INSPAI, Centre de la Imatge de la Diputació de Girona

Spain

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Instituut Collectie Nederland

Netherlands

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International Institute of Social History

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Research institute holding archives, posters and prints on labour movements and social history worldwide.

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J. Paul Getty Museum

Los Angeles, United States

The J. Paul Getty Museum presents European painting, drawing, sculpture, manuscripts, decorative arts and international photography across two Los Angeles sites: the Richard Meier-designed Getty Center in Brentwood and the Getty Villa in Malibu, a recreated Roman country house devoted to Greek, Roman and Etruscan antiquities.

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Jamtli

Östersund, Sweden

County museum of Jämtland, combining an open-air museum with art and photographic collections.

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Järvakandi Glass Museum

Estonia

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Järvamaa Museum

Estonia

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Järvenpää Art Museum

Järvenpää, Finland

Finnish art museum focusing on the artists' community of Lake Tuusula.

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Jönköping County Museum

Jönköping, Sweden

County museum of Jönköping, with Swedish painting, crafts and cultural history.

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Kalmar County Museum

Kalmar, Sweden

County museum of Kalmar, known for maritime archaeology alongside art and regional history.

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Käthe Kollwitz Museum Berlin

Germany

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Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum

Lithuania

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Kaunas Regional Museum

Lithuania

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Kelmė Regional Museum

Lithuania

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Kretinga Museum

Lithuania

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Kulturhistorisches Museum Magdeburg

Germany

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Kulturstiftung Sachsen-Anhalt - Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle (Saale)

Germany

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Kunsthalle Bielefeld

Germany

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Kunsthalle Bremen

Germany

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Kunsthistorisches Museum

Austria

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Kunstmuseum Karlsruhe

Germany

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Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf, Germany

State art collection of North Rhine-Westphalia, devoted to modern and contemporary art.

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Kupferstichkabinett

Germany

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Landesgeschichtliche Vereinigung für die Mark Brandenburg e.V., Archiv

Germany

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Landesmuseum Württemberg

Germany

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Latvian National Museum of Art

Riga, Latvia

National museum of art of Latvia, with the largest collection of Latvian and Baltic painting.

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Leiden University Libraries

Leiden, Netherlands

University library collections of Leiden, holding drawings, prints, photography and manuscripts.

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Lette Verein Berlin

Berlin, Germany

Berlin training institution whose historic collection documents early photography and applied arts education.

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Lithuanian Sea Museum

Lithuania

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Lusto - The Finnish Forest Museum

Finland

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LWL-Freilichtmuseum Hagen

Germany

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M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art

Kaunas, Lithuania

Lithuanian national art museum built around the work of the painter and composer M. K. Čiurlionis.

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Magnus-Hirschfeld-Gesellschaft

Germany

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Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum

Lithuania

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Maison de Balzac

Paris, France

The Maison de Balzac occupies the modest Passy house where Honoré de Balzac lived from 1840 to 1847 and revised La Comédie humaine. Now a City of Paris museum, it preserves the writer's study, manuscripts, proofs, portraits and personal belongings in a garden setting overlooking the Seine.

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Maison de Victor Hugo

Paris, France

The Maison de Victor Hugo, on the Place des Vosges in Paris, is set in the apartment where the writer lived from 1832 to 1848. A City of Paris museum since 1903, it traces his life through drawings, furniture designed by Hugo himself, portraits and the Chinese salon he created in exile.

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MAKK – Museum für Angewandte Kunst Köln

Germany

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Malmö Museum

Sweden

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Marijampolė Regional Museum

Marijampolė, Lithuania

Regional museum of the Suvalkija area of Lithuania.

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Mauritshuis

The Hague, Netherlands

Royal picture gallery in a seventeenth-century town palace, with Dutch and Flemish Golden Age painting.

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Miliseum

Sweden

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Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

Zagreb, Croatia

Croatian ministry publishing heritage documentation and collections held by state institutions.

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Mitte Museum/Bezirksamt Mitte von Berlin

Germany

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Mobilier National Collections

Paris, France

French state furniture collection and historic tapestry manufactories, holding furniture, textiles and Gobelins tapestries.

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Modemuseum Hasselt

Hasselt, Belgium

Belgian fashion museum with historic dress, accessories and fashion drawings.

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Moravian Gallery in Brno

Brno, Czechia

Second largest art museum in the Czech Republic, with painting, graphic design and applied arts.

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Muhu Museum

Estonia

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Munich Central Collecting Point

allied-occupied Germany

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Münzkabinett

Germany

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Mus%C3%A9e Carnavalet

Paris, France

Museum of the history of Paris, with painting, signs and interiors from the city's past.

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Musée Bourdelle

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Musée Carnavalet

Paris, France

The Musée Carnavalet is the museum of the history of Paris, spread across two Renaissance mansions in the Marais. Its collection of some 600,000 works — paintings, signs, furniture, models and revolutionary relics — narrates the city from prehistory to the present.

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Musée Cernuschi

Paris, France

The Musée Cernuschi, near the Parc Monceau in Paris, is one of Europe's oldest museums of Asian art. Built on the collection of the Italian banker Henri Cernuschi, it is devoted principally to Chinese art: archaic bronzes, funerary ceramics, Buddhist sculpture and modern Chinese painting.

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Musée Cognacq-Jay

Paris, France

The Musée Cognacq-Jay presents the eighteenth-century collection of Ernest Cognacq and Marie-Louise Jaÿ, founders of the Samaritaine department store. Displayed in a Marais mansion, it gathers paintings by Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, Tiepolo and Rembrandt alongside porcelain, furniture and drawings.

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Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris

Paris, France

Modern art museum of the City of Paris, with twentieth-century and contemporary painting.

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Musée de la Vie romantique

Paris, France

The Musée de la Vie romantique occupies the Nouvelle Athènes house of painter Ary Scheffer, where Chopin, George Sand, Delacroix and Liszt once gathered. The City of Paris museum evokes the Romantic era through Sand memorabilia, Scheffer's paintings and a walled rose garden.

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Musée du Général Leclerc et Jean Moulin

Paris, France

Paris museum devoted to the Liberation of Paris and to the Resistance figures Leclerc and Jean Moulin.

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Museo del Prado

Spain

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Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmerdorf

Germany

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Museum Ehingen

Germany

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Museum Enschede

Europe

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Museum for Sepulchral Culture

Kassel, Germany

German museum on the culture of dying, death and remembrance, with painting, prints and funerary art.

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Museum für Sepulkralkultur

Germany

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Museum Guntersblum

Germany

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Museum Heylshof

Germany

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Museum im Kornhaus Bad Waldsee

Germany

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Museum im Schweizer Hof Bretten

Germany

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Museum im Steintor

Germany

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Museum in Falköping

Falköping, Sweden

Swedish local museum with archaeology, art and regional cultural history.

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Museum in Nord-Østerdalen

Norway

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Museum Neuruppin

Germany

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Museum Nuss

Germany

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Museum of A. H. Tammsaare

Estonia

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Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany

Museum of applied art and design, with collections from antiquity to contemporary graphic design.

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Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb

Zagreb, Croatia

Croatian museum of applied art and design, with furniture, textiles, painting and photography.

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Museum of Coastal Folk

Estonia

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Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague

Prague, Czechia

Czech museum of decorative arts, with glass, ceramics, textiles, posters and photography.

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Museum of Estonian Architecture

Estonia

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Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities

Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish museum of Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Indian art and archaeology.

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Museum of Fine Arts Boston

United States

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Museum of Gothenburg

Gothenburg, Sweden

City museum of Gothenburg, documenting the port city through art, objects and photography.

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, United States

The Museum of Modern Art in New York, founded in 1929, shaped the canon of modern art. Its collection of some 200,000 works spans painting, sculpture, photography, architecture and design, film and performance, from Van Gogh's The Starry Night to born-digital media.

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Museum of New Art in Pärnu

Estonia

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Museum of Östergötland

Linköping, Sweden

County museum of Östergötland, with Swedish painting and regional cultural history.

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Museum of Science and Technology Dresden

Dresden, Germany

Dresden collection on the history of science, technology and photography.

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Museum Rotterdam

Rotterdam, Netherlands

City museum of Rotterdam, documenting the port city through painting, objects and photography.

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Museum Schloss Lübben

Germany

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Museum Tweestromenland

Beneden-Leeuwen, Netherlands

Dutch regional museum for the land between the rivers Maas and Waal.

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Museumpark Orientalis

Netherlands

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Museumsfabrik Pritzwalk

Germany

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Narva Museum

Estonia

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National Galleries Scotland

United Kingdom

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National Gallery

United Kingdom

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National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. was created in 1937 as a gift to the nation from Andrew W. Mellon. Free to all, it holds European and American art from the Middle Ages onward, including the only Leonardo da Vinci painting in the Americas, and a sculpture garden beside the National Mall.

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National Maritime Museum

Stockholm, Sweden

Swedish national maritime museum, with ship portraits, models and marine painting.

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National Museum in Warsaw

Warsaw, Poland

Poland's national museum, with Polish and European painting from antiquity to the twentieth century.

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National Museum of African Art

Washington, D.C., United States

The Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. is the largest United States museum dedicated to the arts of Africa. Its holdings range from ancient and classical African sculpture, textiles and ceramics to photography and contemporary work by artists across the continent and its diasporas.

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National Museum of Ancient Art

Lisbon, Portugal

Portugal's national museum of ancient art, with Portuguese and European painting to the nineteenth century.

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National Museum of Archaeology, History and Art

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

National museum of Luxembourg, with archaeology, history and a collection of European painting.

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National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Norway

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National Museum of Asian Art

Washington, D.C., United States

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art unites the Freer Gallery and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. Opened in 1923, it holds Asian art from the Neolithic to today — Chinese jades and bronzes, Japanese screens, Korean ceramics, Islamic manuscripts — alongside Whistler's Peacock Room.

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