List of national museums
A national museum is a museum maintained by a state. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, and often is restricted to a few museums, mostly in the capital, while other museums are run by regional or local government, or foundations. In other countries a much larger number of museums are run by the central government, some quite small. Some national museums use the term in their name, but others do not; some museums just adopt the term as a matter of branding.
The following is an incomplete and not very reliable list of national museums:
Argentina
- Argentine National Museum of History
- Historical House of the Independence Museum
- House of Yrurtia Museum
- Mitre Museum
- National Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution
- National Museum of Decorative Arts
- National Museum of Fine Arts
- National Palace of the Arts (ex Palais de Glace)
- Sarmiento Historical Museum
Australia
- Australian National Aviation Museum
- Australian National Maritime Museum
- Australian Tennis Museum, Sydney
- Australian War Memorial
- Museum Victoria
- National Alpine Museum
- National Dinosaur Museum
- National Gallery of Australia
- National Motor Museum, Birdwood
- National Motorcycle Museum of Australia
- National Museum of Australia
- National Museum of Australian Pottery
- National Railway Museum, Port Adelaide
- National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Phillip Island
- Questacon - National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museum of Literature
- Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Brazil
- National Historical Museum of Brazil (Museu Histórico Nacional)
- National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional)
- National Museum of Fine Arts (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes)
- National Museum of the Republic (Museu Nacional da República)
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Cambodia
Canada
- Canada Agriculture Museum
- Canada Aviation Museum
- Canada Science and Technology Museum
- Canadian Children's Museum
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights
- Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
- Canadian Museum of History
- Canadian Museum of Nature
- Canadian Postal Museum
- Canadian War Museum
- National Gallery of Canada
- Portrait Gallery of Canada
- RCMP Heritage Centre
- Virtual Museum of Canada
- Virtual Museum of New France
Chad
- Chad National Museum (Musee National N'Djamena)
Chile
- National Air and Space Museum (Santiago)
- National History Museum (Santiago)
- National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago)
- National Museum of Natural History (Santiago)
China (P.R.C.)
- National Art Museum of China
- National Central Museum of Natural History (now Beijing Museum of Natural History)
- National Museum of China
Colombia
Comoros
Costa Rica
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Eritrea
Estonia
Finland
France
- Centre Georges Pompidou (Musée National d'Art Moderne)
- Musée de l'Armée
- Musée Camille Claudel
- Musée de Cluny - National Museum of the Middle-Ages (Musée National du Moyen-Age)
- Musée du Louvre
- Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations (MuCEM)
- Musée d'Orsay
- Museum of Air and Space (Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace)
- Museum of Natural History (Muséum national d'histoire naturelle)
- Museum of Science and Industry (Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie)
- National Navy Museum (Musée national de la Marine)
- National Railway Museum (Musée Français du Chemin de Fer)
Gambia
Germany
- Bavarian National Museum
- German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin)
- German National Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
- Glyptothek
- Modern Art Museum (Pinakothek der Moderne)
- Museum Wiesbaden
- National Museum of Germany (Deutsches Museum)
- New Pinakothek (Neue Pinakothek)
- Old Pinakothek (Alte Pinakothek)
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Guyana
Hungary
Iceland
Isle of Man
- Manx National Heritage (Manx National Heritage)
India
National-level museums in India come directly under the administrative control of Ministry of Culture, Government of India.[1]
- Allahabad Museum
- Indian Museum
- National Gallery of Modern Art
- National Museum, New Delhi
- Salar Jung Museum
- Victoria Memorial
- 23 science centers under the National Council of Science Museums
- 44 site museums under the Archaeological Survey of India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
- Bargello National Museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello)
- Galleria degli Uffizi
- National Archeological Museum of Naples (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli)
- National Etruscan Museum (Museo Nazionale Etrusco)
- National Gallery of Ancient Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica)
- National Gallery of Modern Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna)
- National Museum of Capodimonte (Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte)
- National Museum of Magna Grecia (Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia)
- National Museum of Oriental Art
- National Museum of Rome
- Pinacoteca di Brera
Japan
Kenya
Korea
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Libya
- National Museum of Libya
Lithuania
Luxembourg
- National Museum of History and Art, in Luxembourg City
- National Museum of Military History, in Diekirch
- National Museum of Natural History, in Luxembourg City
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mexico
- Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology)
- Museo Nacional de Historia (National Museum of History)
Myanmar
Namibia
- National Museum of Namibia
- Alte Feste
- Owela Museum
- Independence Memorial Museum
Nepal
Netherlands
- Dordrechts Museum
- EYE Film Institute Netherlands
- Huis Doorn
- Kröller-Müller Museum
- Loevestein
- Mauritshuis
- Muiderslot
- Museum Boerhaave
- Museum Catharijneconvent
- Museum Meermanno
- Museum Mesdag
- Museum Volkenkunde
- National Museum of Ethnology
- Naturalis
- Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum
- Paleis het Loo
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- Rijksmuseum Twenthe
- Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
- Openluchtmuseum
- Van Gogh Museum
- Zuiderzeemuseum
New Zealand
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - commonly known as Te Papa or Our Place in English translation
Niger
- Musée National Boubou Hama, formerly National Museum of Niger
Norway
Pakistan
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
- ASTRA Museum of Traditional Folk Civilization (Muzeul Civilizaţiei Populare Tradiţionale)
- ASTRA Museum of Transylvanian Civilisation (Muzeul Civilizaţiei Transilvane)
- Brukenthal National Museum
- Emil Sigerus Museum of Saxon Ethnography and Folk Art (Muzeul de Etnografie şi Artă Populară Săsească ASTRA)
- Franz Binder Museum of Universal Ethnography (Muzeul de Etnografie Universală ASTRA)
- National History Museum of Romania
- National Military Museum, Romania (Muzeul Militar Naţional)
- National Museum of Art of Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Slovakia
Somalia
South Africa
South Sudan
Spain
- Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
- Museo de América, Madrid
- Museo del Traje, Madrid
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
- Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio, Valladolid
- Museo Nacional de Antropología, Madrid
- Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática, Murcia
- Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Badajoz
- Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
- Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias González Martí, Valencia
- Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas, Madrid
- Museo Nacional de Fotografía, Soria
- Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
- Museo Nacional del Romanticismo, Madrid
- Museo Nacional del Teatro, Ciudad Real
- Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Cantabria
- Museo Naval, Madrid
- Museo Sefardí, Toledo
Catalonia [2]
- National Art Museum of Catalonia
- National Museum of Science and Industry of Catalonia
- Archaeological Museum of Catalonia
Sri Lanka
- National Museum of Colombo
- National Museum Galle
- National Museum Kandy
- National Museum Maritime
- National Museum Ratnapura
Sudan
Suriname
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan (R.O.C.)
- Chunghwa Postal Museum
- National Museum of History
- National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
- National Museum of Marine Science and Technology
- National Museum of Natural Science
- National Museum of Prehistory
- National Museum of Taiwan History
- National Museum of Taiwan Literature
- National Palace Museum
- National Radio Museum
- National Science and Technology Museum
- National Taiwan Museum
- National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
- Republic of China Air Force Museum
- Republic of China Armed Forces Museum
- Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum
Tajikistan
Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago
Turks and Caicos
Ukraine
United Kingdom
England
Sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- British Museum
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Imperial War Museum
- National Museums Liverpool
- Royal Armouries
- Science Museum Group
- The Science Museum in South Kensington, London
- The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester
- The National Railway Museum in York
- The National Railway Museum Shildon in County Durham ("Locomotion")
- The National Science and Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) in Bradford, and
- The Science Museum at Wroughton in Swindon, Wiltshire.
- Sir John Soane's Museum
- Tate
- Wallace Collection
- Natural History Museum
- Geffrye Museum
- National Gallery
- National Portrait Gallery
- Royal Museums Greenwich
Sponsored by Ministry of Defence
Sponsored by the Home Office
Non-government sponsored national museums
Northern Ireland
Scotland
Wales
United States
- Department of Defense:
- Air Force:
- Army:
- Navy:
- National Security Agency:
- Central Intelligence Agency:
- Department of Homeland Security
- United States Coast Guard Museum
- National Gallery of Art
- Smithsonian Institution:
- American Art Museum
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Arts and Industries Building
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
- National Air and Space Museum
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- National Museum of African Art
- National Museum of the American Indian
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of Natural History
- National Portrait Gallery
- National Postal Museum
- National Zoological Park
- Presidential Library System:
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
- Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
- Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
- Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
- Gerald R. Ford Museum
- Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
- George Bush Presidential Library
- Clinton Presidential Center
- George W. Bush Presidential Center
- Other:
- National Veterans Memorial and Museum
- National Museum of Wildlife Art
- National Atomic Testing Museum
- National Civil Rights Museum
- National Constitution Center
- National Museum of Dentistry
- National Civil War Museum
- National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
- National Museum of the Pacific War
- National Railroad Museum
- National World War One Museum
- National World War Two Museum
See also
References
- ↑ ANI (27 December 2015). "Museum Reform: Ministry of Culture starts 14-point agenda" – via Business Standard.
- ↑ "National Museums" (in Catalan). Government of Catalonia. Deparment of Culture.