The Largest Beautiful Art Museums Around the World
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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.
