Major Museums

Sites that contain a prominent museum, showing exhibits different from the nature of the building itself and ranked among the top museums of the world.

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Major Museums':

  • Agrigento Regional Archaeological Museum
  • Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Hungarian National Gallery, House of Terror
  • Cracow Czartoryski Museum (with a Da Vinci masterpiece), Cloth Hall Gallery (biggest collection of Classical Polish art)
  • Dresden Elbe Valley Green Vault, Albertinum, Zwinger's Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
  • Florence Uffizi, Bargello National Museum, Palatine Gallery and Saint Mark's Museum
  • Genoa Palazzo Rossa, Palazzo Bianco
  • Graz Styrian Provincial Museum "Joanneum" with the Landeszeughaus, Europe's only surviving Renaissance armoury.
  • Istanbul Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum (in Ibrahim Pasha Palace)
  • L'viv National Museum
  • Museumsinsel (Museum Island) Old National Gallery, Pergamon Museum, Bode Museum
  • Old City of Berne Art Museum (Klee collection)
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine Louvre, Musee d'Orsay
  • Prague State Museum, Czech National Gallery, Jewish Museum
  • Rome Capitoline Museums, National Roman Museum, Doria Pamphilj Gallery and National Gallery of Ancient Art
  • Siena National Gallery
  • St. Petersburg Hermitage
  • Strasbourg-Grande îsle Musee d'oeuvre de Notre-Dame
  • Venice and its Lagoon Accademy Gallery
  • Verona Castelvecchio (art gallery)
  • Vienna Twin museums on the Ring - Museum of the History of Art and Museum of Natural History. Ephesos Museum at the Hofburg with antiques from Ephesos, Austrian National Gallery with collections of Klimt, Kokoschka and Schiele at Belvedere.