List of museums

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This is a list of the 600 best-known museums, ranked by reach: how many Wikipedia languages and sister sites have a page about each one.

#	Name	Year
1	Hagia SophiaMosque, museum, and former church in Istanbul, Turkey	532
2	AuschwitzGerman network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II	1940
3	British MuseumNational museum in London, United Kingdom	1753
4	Forbidden CityChinese imperial palace in Beijing	1420
5	Neuschwanstein CastleCastle in Bavaria, Germany, Europe	1869
6	Mausoleum at HalicarnassusOne of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World	351 BC
7	Metropolitan Museum of ArtArt museum in New York City, United States	1870
8	Tower of LondonCastle in central London, United Kingdom	1066
9	Hermitage MuseumMuseum in Saint Petersburg, Russia	1764
10	Topkapı PalacePalace museum in Istanbul, Turkey	1460
11	The Temple InstituteOrganization in Jerusalem	1987
12	HerculaneumRoman town destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
13	Florence Cathedral13th-century cathedral in Florence, Italy	1296
14	Smithsonian InstitutionGroup of museums and research centers administered by the United States government	1846
15	Guggenheim Museum BilbaoMuseum of modern and contemporary art in Bilbao, Spain	1997
16	Museum of Modern ArtArt museum in Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States	1929
17	Centre Georges PompidouNational cultural center of contemporary art in Paris, France	1977
18	Yad VashemIsrael's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust	1953
19	Balmoral CastleEstate house in Royal Deeside, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK	1390
20	Pergamon MuseumMuseum building in Berlin, part of the Museumsinsel, presents the Vorderasiatisches Museum, the Museum für Islamische Kunst and parts of the Antikensammlung	1910
21	Royal ObservatoryObservatory in Greenwich, London, UK	1675
22	Buchenwald concentration campNazi concentration camp in Thuringia (1937–1945)	1937
23	Tretyakov GalleryArt museum in Moscow, Russia	1856
24	Van Gogh MuseumArt museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands	1973
25	Drottningholm PalaceRoyal palace in Ekerö Municipality, Sweden	1699
26	Castel Sant'AngeloCastle and museum in Rome, formerly the imperial mausoleum of the emperor Hadrian and subsequent Roman emperors	139
27	Edinburgh CastleCastle in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK	1200
28	Galata TowerHistorical tower in İstanbul	1349
29	Museum of Philistine CultureMuseum in Israel	1990
30	WartburgCastle in Eisenach, Germany	1067
31	Palace of FontainebleauPalace in Fontainebleau, France
32	Saint Isaac's CathedralRussian Orthodox cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia	1818
33	Hofburg PalacePalace located in Vienna, Austria	1279
34	Kronborg CastleCastle in Helsingør, Denmark	1585
35	Alexander Nevsky CathedralBulgarian Orthodox cathedral in Sofia, Bulgaria	1882
36	Kunsthistorisches MuseumArt museum in Vienna, Austria	1891
37	Nymphenburg PalaceBaroque palace in Munich, Bavaria, southern Germany	1664
38	Boyana ChurchChurch in Sofia, Bulgaria	980
39	Charlottenburg PalaceBaroque palace in Berlin, Germany	1791
40	Brooklyn MuseumArt museum in Brooklyn, New York	1897
41	Palazzo VecchioPalace in Florence, Italy	1299
42	Villa Romana del CasaleBuilding in Piazza Armerina, Italy
43	Basilica of Santa CroceFranciscan church in Florence, Italy	1294
44	Galleria BorgheseArt museum in Rome, Italy	1903
45	Hohenzollern CastleAncestral seat of the imperial House of Hohenzollern in the Swabian Alps of central Baden-Württemberg, Germany
46	Neues MuseumName of one of the museum buildings on the Museum Island in Berlin, Germany	1855
47	Science MuseumScience museum in London, United Kingdom	1909
48	Capitoline MuseumsMunicipal museum of the city of Rome, Italy	1471
49	Catacombs of ParisUnderground ossuary in Paris, France	1787
50	Würzburg ResidenceCultural heritage monument D-6-63-000-454 (0) in Würzburg, Bavaria	1719
51	Yasnaya PolyanaFormer estate and current museum	1921
52	Brest Fortress19th century Belarusian fortress	1836
53	Livadia PalacePalace on the Crimea	1910
54	Maulbronn MonasteryMonastery in Germany	1147
55	Mini IsraelMiniature park in Israel	2002
56	Museum of Fine Arts BostonArt museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States	1870
57	Royal Palace of MadridOfficial residence of the Spanish Royal Family	1735
58	Royal Spanish AcademyOfficial regulator for the Spanish language	1713
59	Abbey and Altenmünster of LorschUNESCO World Heritage Abbey of Lorsch in Germany	764
60	Chora ChurchChurch converted to mosque in Turkey	1001
61	Rock-hewn Churches of IvanovoUNESCO World Heritage Site in Ruse Province, Bulgaria	13
62	Stockholm PalaceOfficial residence of the Swedish monarch	1760
63	Austrian National LibraryLargest library in Austria	1368
64	Baths of CaracallaPublic baths in ancient Rome	216
65	Royal Castle in WarsawCastle residency in Warsaw, Poland	1598
66	Schwerin CastleCastle in Germany
67	Thracian Tomb of KazanlakVaulted-brickwork tomb in Kazanlak, Bulgaria
68	Tuol Sleng torture centerFormer Security Prison 21, or S-21, under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia	1980
69	Beaux-Arts de ParisNational school of fine arts in France	1648
70	Getty CenterCampus of the Getty Museum and other programs of the Getty Trust in Los Angeles	1997
71	Melk AbbeyBenedictine Abbey in Melk, Austria	1089
72	Ara PacisAncient Roman monument in Rome	9 BC
73	Icelandic Phallological MuseumMuseum in Reykjavík, Iceland	1997
74	Linderhof PalacePalace in Bavaria, Germany	1870
75	National Museum in PragueCzech museum institution	1818
76	National Museum of AnthropologyNational museum of Mexico	1964
77	Bargello National MuseumArt museum in Florence, Italy	1865
78	City of Arts and SciencesCultural complex in the city of Valencia, Spain	1998
79	Eltz CastleCastle in Germany
80	Heidelberg CastleCastle in Germany
81	Hohensalzburg FortressFortress in Salzburg, Austria	1077
82	National Museum of History of AzerbaijanMuseum in Baku, Azerbaijan	1920
83	Royal Palace of AranjuezRoyal palace of Spain
84	Shuri CastleRyukyuan gusuku castle	1400
85	Basilica of Santa Maria NovellaChurch in Florence, Italy	1278
86	Eggenberg Castle, GrazBuilding in Graz, Austria	1635
87	Golden GateMuseum in Kyiv, Ukraine	1018
88	Museum Plantin-MoretusMuseum in Antwerp, Belgium	1877
89	Onze-Lieve-VrouwekathedraalRoman-Catholic cathedral in Antwerp, Belgium	1352
90	Rosenborg CastlePalace in Copenhagen	1606
91	Su Nuraxi di BaruminiNuraghe
92	United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumUnited States' official memorial to the Holocaust in Washington, D.C.	1993
93	University of GranadaSpanish university	1531
94	Acropolis MuseumMuseum in Athens, Greece	2009
95	Akershus FortressFormer medieval castle in Oslo, Norway	1290
96	Basilica of San LorenzoChurch in Florence, Italy	1421
97	Thyssen-Bornemisza MuseumArt museum in Madrid, Spain	1992
98	TsitsernakaberdMemorial to victims of the Armenian genocide	1967
99	KunstkameraMuseum in Saint Petersburg, Russia	1714
100	Nobel Prize MuseumMuseum about Alfred Nobel and the Nobel Prize	2001