List of national museums

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The following is a list of national museums:

Australia

• Australian National Aviation Museum
• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Australian Tennis Museum, Sydney
• Australian War Memorial
• Museum Victoria
• National Alpine Museum
• National Dinosaur Museum, Nicholls
• National Gallery of Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria
• National Motor Museum Australia
• National Motorcycle Museum of Australia
• National Museum of Australia
• National Museum of Australian Pottery
• National Railway Museum
• National Vietnam Veterans Museum, Phillip Island
• Questacon - National Science and Technology Centre, Canberra

Argentina

• Argentine National Museum of History

Bangladesh

• Bangladesh National Museum

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

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)

Hong Kong

• List of museums in Hong Kong

Colombia

• Colombian National Museum

Costa Rica

• National Museum of Costa Rica

Czech Republic

• Czech National Museum

Denmark

• National Museum of Denmark

Eritrea

• National Museum of Eritrea

Estonia

• Estonian National Museum
• Art Museum of Estonia

Finland

• National Museum of Finland

France

• Musée du Louvre
• Musée d'Orsay
• Centre Georges Pompidou (Musée National d'Art Moderne)
• Musée de Cluny - National Museum of the Middle-Ages (Musée National du Moyen-Age)
• 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)
• Musée de l'Armée
• National Navy Museum (Musée national de la Marine)
• National Railway Museum (Musée Français du Chemin de Fer)

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

• National Museum, New Delhi

Indonesia

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

Iran

• National Museum of Iran

Iraq

• National Museum of Iraq

Ireland

• National Museum of Ireland

Israel

• Israel Museum

Italy

• Bargello National Museum (Museo Nazionale del Bargello)
• Galleria degli Uffizi
• National Gallery of Ancient Art (Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica)
• 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

• Kyoto National Museum
• Kyushu National Museum
• Nara National Museum
• National Museum of Art, Osaka
• National Museum of Ethnology, Japan
• The National Museum of Western Art (Kokuritsu Seiyō Bijutsukan)
• Standing Buddha (Tokyo National Museum)
• Tokyo National Museum

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
• 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

Latvia

• Latvian National Museum of Art

Lebanon

• National Museum of Beirut

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)
• National Museum of 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

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

• National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi

Peru

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

Philippines

• National Museum of the Philippines
• (national museum of the filipino people)
• (national museum of anthropology)
• (manila metropolitan museum)
• (ayala museum)
• (yuchengco museum)
• (casa manila museum)
• (san agustin church and convent museum)
• (museo de intramuros)
• (central bank of the philippines money museum)
• (manila planetarium)
• (GSIS arts museum)
• ( cultural center of the philippines museum)
• (the mind museum)
• (imelda marcos shoe museum)
• (the malacanang palace museum)
• (philippines comic art museum)
• (de la salle university museum)
• (lopez memorial museum)
• (children's museum)
• (army and navy club museum)
• (gote de leche heritage museum)
• (rizal ahrine museum)
• (fuerza real de santiago museum)
• (museum of natural history)
• (philippine science and heritage center)
• (the filipino-chinese heriatge museum)
• (casa mision museum)

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)

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 National History Museum of Romania

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

South Korea

• Gyeongju National Museum

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 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

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

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
    • Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
  • 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:
    • National Museum of the United States Air Force
    • Museum of Aviation
    • Strategic Air and Space Museum
    • Air Force Armament Museum
  • Army:
    • National Museum of the United States Army
    • National Museum of Health and Medicine
  • Navy:
    • National Museum of the United States Navy
    • National Museum of Naval Aviation
    • U.S. Navy Submarine Force Library and Museum
    • National Museum of the Marine Corps
  • National Security Agency:
    • National Cryptologic Museum
• Central Intelligence Agency:
  • CIA Museum
• Department of Homeland Security
  • United States Coast Guard Museum
• Other:
  • National Civil Rights Museum
  • National Civil War Museum
  • National Museum of the Pacific War
  • National World War One Museum
  • National World War Two Museum

See also

• National archive
• National Gallery (disambiguation)
• National library