List of national museums

A national museum is a museum that is kept by a nation.

The following is a list of national museums:

Argentina

Australia

Azerbaijan

Bangladesh

Belgium
  • Royal Museums of Art and History

Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Bosnian and Herzegovinian Museum of Literature
  • Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil
  • National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional)
  • National Museum of the Republic (Museu Nacional da República)
  • National Historical Museum of Brazil (Museu Histórico Nacional)

Bulgaria
  • Earth and Man National Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum (Bulgaria)
  • National Historical Museum (Bulgaria)
  • National Museum of Military History
  • National Museum of Natural History (Bulgaria)
  • National Transport Museum, Bulgaria

Burkina Faso
  • National Museum of Music

Cambodia
  • National Museum of Cambodia

Canada
  • Canada Agriculture Museum
  • Canada Aviation Museum
  • Canada Science and Technology Museum
  • Canadian Museum for Human Rights - under development and first national museum outside of the Canadian Capital
  • Canadian Museum of Nature
  • Canadian Children's Museum
  • Canadian Museum of Civilization
  • Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
  • Canadian Postal Museum
  • Canadian War Museum
  • National Gallery of Canada
  • Portrait Gallery of Canada
  • Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec)
  • RCMP Heritage Centre
  • Virtual Museum of Canada
  • Virtual Museum of New France

Catalonia
  • National Art Museum of Catalonia (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)

Chad
  • Chad National Museum (Musee National N'Djamena)

Chile
  • National Museum of Natural History (Santiago)
  • National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago)
  • National History Museum (Santiago)
  • National Air and Space Museum (Santiago)

China
  • National Museum of China
  • National Art Museum of China
  • National Central Museum of Natural History (now Beijing Museum of Natural History)

Colombia
  • Colombian National Museum

Costa Rica
  • National Museum of Costa Rica

Czech Republic
  • Czech National Museum

Denmark
  • National Museum of Denmark

Egypt

Eritrea
  • National Museum of Eritrea

Estonia
  • Estonian National Museum
  • Art Museum of Estonia

Finland
  • National Museum of Finland

France

Germany
  • Bavarian National Museum
  • German Museum of Technology (Berlin) (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)

Gambia
  • National Museum (Gambia)

Gibraltar
  • Gibraltar Museum

Ghana
  • National Museum of Ghana

Greece
  • National Archaeological Museum of Athens
  • National Gallery (Athens)
  • State Museum of Contemporary Arts

Guatemala
  • Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida"

Guyana
  • National Museum of Guyana

Hungary
  • Hungarian National Museum

Iceland
  • National Gallery of Iceland
  • National Museum of Iceland

India

Indonesia
  • National Museum of Indonesia (Museum Nasional or Museum Gajah)

Iran
  • National Museum of Iran

Iraq

Ireland
  • National Museum of Ireland

Israel

Italy
  • Bargello National Museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello)
  • Galleria degli Uffizi
  • National Gallery of Ancient Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica)
  • National Museum of Magna Grecia (Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia)
  • National Gallery of Modern Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna)
  • National Etruscan Museum (Museo Nazionale Etrusco)
  • National Museum of Oriental Art
  • National Museum of Rome
  • Pinacoteca di Brera

Japan

Kenya
  • National Museums of Kenya

Korea
  • National Museum of Korea
  • Gyeongju National Museum
  • Gwangju National Museum
  • Jeonju National Museum
  • Buyeo National Museum
  • Daegu National Museum
  • Cheongju National Museum
  • Gimhae National Museum
  • Gyeongju National Museum
  • Jeju National Museum
  • Chuncheon National Museum
  • Jinju National Museum
  • Gongju National Museum
  • National Museum of Contemporary Art (South Korea)
  • National Folk Museum of Korea
  • National Palace Museum of Korea
  • National Science Museum, South Korea
  • Lighthouse Museum, South Korea
  • National Maritime Museum, South Korea
  • Korea National Arboretum, South Korea


Kuwait
  • Kuwait National Museum
  • Kuwait Science and Natural History Museum
  • Al-Hashemi-II Marine Museum in Kuwait City

Latvia
  • Latvian National Museum of Art

Lebanon
  • National Museum of Beirut

Libya
  • National Museum of Libya

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
  • Muzium Negara

Maldives
  • National museum (Maldives)

Mali
  • National Museum of Mali

Mexico
  • Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology)
  • Museo Nacional de Historia (National Museum of History)

Myanmar
  • National Museum of Myanmar

Namibia
  • National Museum of Namibia

Nepal
  • National Museum of Nepal

Netherlands
  • Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  • Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
  • National Museum of Ethnology
  • Rijksmuseum Twenthe
  • Van Gogh Museum
  • Nederlands Scheepvaartmuseum
  • Paleis het Loo
  • Mauritshuis
  • Dordrechts Museum
  • Zuiderzeemuseum
  • Museum Boerhaave
  • Naturalis
  • Muiderslot
  • Kröller-Müller Museum
  • Loevestein
  • Museum Catharijneconvent
  • EYE Film Institute Netherlands
  • Museum Meermanno
  • Openluchtmuseum
  • Museum Mesdag
  • Huis Doorn

New Zealand
  • Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa - commonly known as Te Papa or Our Place in English Translation

Norway
  • National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

Pakistan

Peru
  • National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru
  • Museum of the Nation

Philippines
  • National Museum of the Philippines
  • Museum of the Filipino People

Poland
  • Gdańsk National Museum
  • Kraków National Museum
  • Poznań National Museum
  • Szczecin National Museum
  • Warsaw National Museum
  • Wrocław National Museum
  • National Museum of Poland

Portugal
  • National Museum Machado de Castro (Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro)
  • National Museum Soares dos Reis (Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis)
  • National Azulejo Museum

Qatar
  • Qatar National Museum

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 Museum of Art of Romania
  • National History Museum of Romania
  • National Military Museum, Romania (Muzeul Militar Naţional)

Russia
  • State Historical Museum
  • Russian Museum

Saudi Arabia
  • National Museum of Saudi Arabia

Serbia
  • National Museum of Serbia

Singapore
  • National Museum of Singapore

Slovakia
  • Slovak National Museum

South Africa
  • South African National Museum of Military History

Spain
  • Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional del Teatro, Ciudad Real
  • Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Cantabria
  • Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio, Valladolid
  • Museo Nacional de Arte Romano, Badajoz
  • Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática, Murcia
  • Museo Naval, Madrid
  • Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
  • Museo de América, Madrid
  • Museo del Traje, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional de Antropología, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional de Reproducciones Artísticas, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias González Martí, Valencia
  • Museo Nacional del Romanticismo, Madrid
  • Museo Nacional de Fotografía, Soria
  • Museo Sefardí, Toledo

Sri Lanka
  • National Museum of Colombo
  • National Museum Kandy
  • National Museum Maritime
  • National Museum Galle
  • National Museum Ratnapura

Sweden
  • Nationalmuseum

Switzerland
  • Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum)

Syria
  • National Museum of Damascus

Taiwan
  • National Museum of Prehistory (Taiwan)
  • National Museum of Taiwan Literature
  • National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
  • National Museum of Natural Science
  • National Palace Museum

Tajikistan
  • Tajikistan National Museum

Thailand
  • National Museum (Thailand)

Trinidad and Tobago
  • National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad

United Kingdom
  • British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
  • British Museum
  • Design Museum (sponsored)
  • HM Customs & Excise National Museum
  • Horniman Museum and Gardens (sponsored)
  • Imperial War Museum
  • National Army Museum
  • National Football Museum (sponsored)
  • National Gallery
  • National Horseracing Museum
  • National Maritime Museum
  • National Media Museum
  • National Motor Museum
  • National Museum of Science and Industry
  • National Museums Liverpool
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Railway Museum
  • National Space Centre
  • National Tramway Museum
  • National Waterways Museum
  • Natural History Museum
  • People's History Museum (sponsored)
  • Royal Armouries
  • Science Museum (London)
  • Shildon Locomotion Museum
  • Sir John Soane's Museum
  • Tate
  • Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Wallace Collection

England
  • Geffrye Museum (sponsored)
  • Museum of London
  • Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester (sponsored)
  • National Coal Mining Museum for England (sponsored)
  • National Museums Liverpool
  • Tyne and Wear Museums (sponsored)

Scotland
  • Museum of Scotland
  • National Museum of Costume
  • National Museum of Flight
  • National Museum of Rural Life
  • National War Museum of Scotland
  • Royal Museum

Wales
  • Big Pit National Coal Museum
  • National Museum Cardiff
  • National Museum Wales
  • National Slate Museum
  • National Waterfront Museum
  • National Woollen Museum
  • National Roman Legionary Museum
  • St Fagans National History Museum

Northern Ireland
  • Armagh County Museum
  • Ulster-American Folk Park
  • Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
  • Ulster Museum
  • W5

United States
  • National Gallery of Art
  • Smithsonian Institution:
    • American Art Museum
    • Anacostia Community Museum
    • Arts and Industries Building
    • Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
    • Freer Gallery of Art
    • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
    • National Museum of African American History and Culture
    • National Museum of African Art
    • National Air and Space Museum
    • National Museum of American History
    • National Museum of History and Technology
    • National Museum of Natural History
    • National Museum of the American Indian
    • National Portrait Gallery
    • National Postal Museum
    • National Zoological Park
    • Cold War Museum (planned)
  • Department of Defense:
    • Air Force:
    • Army:
      • National Museum of the United States Army
      • National Museum of Health and Medicine
    • Navy:
    • National Security Agency:
      • National Cryptologic Museum
  • Central Intelligence Agency:
    • CIA Museum
  • Department of Homeland Security
    • United States Coast Guard Museum
  • Other:
    • National Atomic Testing Museum
    • National Civil Rights Museum
    • National Civil War Museum
    • National Electronics Museum
    • National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
    • National Museum of the Pacific War
    • National World War One Museum
    • National World War Two Museum
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