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VIVA – Museums are one of the most visited tourist destinations by people. The extraordinary presence of history, art, and stories captivates visitors.
Around the world, museums come in various forms, collections, styles, and areas. This beautiful building is home to the most valuable works of art.
Here are the largest art museums in the world that people need to know.
1. Louvre Museum
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The Louvre Museum is the largest because it has an area of 72,735 square meters. This museum is one of the most famous tourist attractions in Paris.
The Louvre presents approximately 38,000 works of art from prehistory to the 21st century. This place is famous for being the home of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, one of the most valuable paintings in the museum today.
2. State Hermitage Museum
The State Hermitage Museum is the most popular visitor attraction in St. Petersburg and the second largest art museum in the world.
Housed in five interconnected buildings covering 719,480 square feet, the museum has more than 3 million items in its collection dating from the Stone Age to the present day.
The Winter Palace (1754–62) houses the heart of the Hermitage collection including the Hermitage's masterpieces of Western European Art from the Middle Ages. The Hermitage also has a large collection of Asian art.
3. National Museum of China
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The third largest museum in the world and the tallest palace of history and art in China, the National Museum of China (NMC) is located along Beijing's famous Tiananmen Square.
The site covers an area of 700,000 square feet that houses more than 1.4 million collectible items that include ancient and modern artifacts, rare and antique books, and works of art.
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art on New York City's Fifth Avenue is the largest art museum in the US and the fourth largest museum in the world, occupying an area of 633,100 square feet.
The Met's art collection includes more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of art from around the world. The main pieces housed in this museum are classic antiquities along with works of art from ancient Egypt.
5. Vatican Museum
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The Vatican Museum is the 5th largest museum in the world with 460,000 square feet of gallery space. Founded in 1506, it is the most famous museum in Italy.
The museum has a total of 54 galleries, including the famous Sistine Chapel built in the 15th century and the place where the Cardinals elected a new pope. The ceiling featuring scenes from the Bible is the most spectacular part of the room and was created by Michelangelo in 1508.
6. Tokyo National Museum
The Tokyo National Museum has 38,000 m2 of gallery space and about 120,000 objects in its collection. It houses the largest collection of Japanese art in the world.
Located in Ueno Park, exploring the Tokyo National Museum is exploring Japan.
7. National Museum of Anthropology
The National Museum of Anthropology is the largest in Mexico with 33,000 square meters of gallery space. The museum was built as a tribute to Mexico's pre-Columbian culture and houses more than 600,000 collections.
The world's largest collection of ancient Mexican art and also has ethnographic exhibits about today's indigenous Mexican groups.
8. Victoria and Albert Museum
"The V&A building occupies 12 acres of land in South Kensington and has a circumference of more than a third of a mile,”.
It has a gallery area of ??330,000 square feet with a permanent collection of more than 2.3 million objects spanning over 5,000 years of human creativity. The most popular collections include Asian and Islamic art.
9. National Museum of Korea
Located in Yongsan, in the heart of Seoul, the six-story building of the National Museum of Korea ranks as one of the largest museums in the world.
It has a gallery area of 27,090 m2 which houses more than 200,000 collections featuring the best collections of Korean history and culture from medieval times to the present.
10. Art Institute of Chicago
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Founded in 1879, it is one of the oldest museums in the US. It covers 280,000 square feet and houses a permanent collection of nearly 300,000 works of art spanning centuries and around the world, from Chinese bronzes to contemporary designs and from textiles to installation art.
