World Heritage Museums & Galleries

The largest art museum in the Americas, housing over 5,000 years of global culture and world-renowned European painting galleries along Fifth Avenue.

The historic palace of French royalty and the most visited museum in the world, holding the greatest collection of classical Renaissance and Romantic painting.

The national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch history and the golden zenith of 17th-century Northern European painting.

Spain's premier national art museum, revered worldwide for the most comprehensive collections of Diego Velázquez, Francisco Goya, and Hieronymus Bosch.

The cradle of the Italian Renaissance. Originally built by the Medici dynasty, holding the crowning achievements of Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael.

One of the world's grandest and most legendary cultural palaces, founded in 1764 by Empress Catherine the Great. Spanning the monumental Winter Palace, it preserves an incomparable imperial assembly of European Old Masters.

The premier national treasury of Russian fine art in the world, founded in 1856 by Moscow industrialist and patron of arts Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov.

The world's largest and most comprehensive museum dedicated entirely to Russian art, housed in the magnificent Neoclassical Mikhailovsky Palace designed by Carlo Rossi.

One of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States, situated in Chicago's Grant Park and renowned for one of the finest encyclopedic collections in the Americas.

Internationally celebrated for its substantial holdings of Asian and medieval art, Old Masters painting, and pioneering direct TIFF open-access downloads.

The national art museum of the United States, established on the National Mall with landmark Old Master collections gifted by Andrew W. Mellon and Samuel H. Kress.

Sitting at the heart of Trafalgar Square, The National Gallery houses one of the greatest collections of Western European painting from 1250 to 1900.

Dedicated to human history, art, and culture. Holds an extraordinary collection of prints and drawings from Dürer, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Rembrandt.

The world's leading museum of art, design, and performance, housing the magnificent Raphael Cartoons and supreme British watercolor and Old Master archives.

The world's largest museum, education, and research complex. Holds unparalleled American romantic, classicist, and portrait archives under CC0 Open Access.

The national library of France and the repository of all that is published in France. Gallica offers digitized prints, illuminated manuscripts, and rare engravings.

Often identified as the largest and most influential museum of modern art in the world, holding foundational modern and avant-garde masterworks.

The historic timber-framed residence and artist studio where German High Renaissance master Albrecht Dürer lived and created his greatest masterpieces from 1509 to 1528. It is the only surviving 15th-century artist's house in Northern Europe, featuring his original workshop, printing press, and graphic collections.

One of the premier and most encyclopedic art museums in the United States, celebrated for its Beaux-Arts architecture, Italian Renaissance and Baroque treasures, and Diego Rivera's monumental Detroit Industry Murals.

Housed in the magnificent Beaux-Arts Gare d'Orsay railway station on the left bank of the Seine, Musée d'Orsay holds the world's foremost collection of 19th-century French masterworks, Academic Salon painting, and early modern pioneers.