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Art Museums, Art Collections

A museum (Art Gallery) is a permanent institution in the service of society and open to the public.
The Museums Association definition is:
“ Museums enable people to explore collections for inspiration, learning and enjoyment. They are institutions that collect, safeguard and make accessible artefacts and specimens, which they hold in trust for society. ”

A previous Museums Association definition was:
"A museum is an institution which collects, documents, preserves, exhibits and interprets material evidence and associated information for the public benefit."

Art Museums Europe

Austria
► Kunsthistorisches Museum
► Museum der Moderne
► Samlung ESSL

Belgium
► The Koninklijk Museum
► The Royal Museums of Fine Art

Czech rep.
► National Gallery Prague

Estonia
► Estonian National Museum

Germany
► Hamburger Kunsthalle
► Alte, Neue och Moderne Pinakotheck
► Neue Gesellschaft für bildende
► The Neue Nationalgalerie
► Hamburger Bahnhof
► The DaimlerChrysler Art Collection
► Georg Kolbe Museum
► Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
► Kunstmuseum Bonn
► Käthe Kollwitz Museum
► Köln Museer
► Museum fur moderne kunst
► Sprengel Museum
► Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

France
► Louvre
► Musée d'Orsay
► Centre Pompidou
► Musée Delacroix
► Musée Gustave Moreau
► Musée de l'Orangerie
► Musée National Picasso
► Musée Rodin
► Musée National Fernand Léger
► Jeu De Paume
► Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
► Palais De Tokyo
► Petit Palais
► Musees De Strasbourg
► Musée de Beaux Arts Lyon
► Musée Art Contemporain Lyon

Ireland
► National Gallery of Ireland
► Irish Museum of Modern Art
► Dublin City Gallery

Italy
► The State Museums of Florence
► Palazzo Grassi Venedig
► Brera Pinacoteca
► Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna

Netherlands
► Van Abbe Museum
► Groninger Museum
► Centraal Museum
► Cobra Museum
► Stedelijk Museum
► Rijksmuseum
► Van Gogh Museum
► Rembrandthuis
► Frans Hals Museum
► Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
► Mauritshuis

Spain
► Museo Nacional Del Prado
► Museu Picasso
► Fundacion Pablo Picasso
► Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
► Contemporary Art and Culture Centre
CaixaForum
► The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
► Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
► Fundacio Gala-Salvador Dali
► Museo D'Art Girona
► Museo D'Art Contemporani
► Museo De Belas Artes
► Fundacio Joan Miro
► Fundacio Antoni Tapies
► Guggenheim Bilbao

Switzerland
► Kunstmuseum Basel
► Kunsthaus Zurich
► Zentrum Paul Klee

Poland
► The National Museum in Gdańsk, Polen

Portugal
► Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
► National Museum of Contemporary Art

Euromuse.net is a portal giving information on major exhibitions in European museums. It provides all vital information in one place. All museum's information is presented in the national language and in English.
► euromuse.net

London
► British Museum
► Tate Museum
► National Portrait Gallery
► National Gallery
► Sir John Soane's Museum
► V&A, Victoria & Albert Museum
► The Wallace Collection
► Royal Academy
► Estorick Collection
► Hayward Museum Southbank Centre
► Barbican Centre
► The Royal Collection
► The Dulwich Picture Gallery
► Courtauld Institute of Art

UK
► The National Museums Liverpool
► Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
► Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
► Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum
► Walker Art Gallery Liverpool
► National Museums Liverpool
► Manchester Museum
► Tate St Ives
► National Galleries of Scotland
► Glasgow Museums
► National Museums Wales
► The Museum of Modern Art Wales
► York Art Gallery
► Wolverhampton Art Museums
► The Ashmolean Museum Oxford

Art Museums
An Art museum or an art gallery is a space for the exhibition of visual art, usually paintings, plastic arts, illustrations and sculpture. Collections of drawings and old master prints are often kept in a print room. There are often collections of applied art, including ceramics, metalwork, furniture, book art and other types of object.

The first publicly owned museum in Europe was The Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Initially conceived as a palace for the Florentian magistrates, it later advance to a display for many of the paintings and sculptures collected by the Medici family. After the house of Medici the art treasures remained in Florence and formed the first public modern museum.

The first museum to open to the public was The British Museum in London 1759. It was a universal museum with varied collections covering archaeology, art, applied art, anthropology, history and science.
The Louvre in Paris, France, was established in 1793, after the French Revolution when the royal treasures were declared for the people. In Poland, The Czartoryski Museum in Kraków was established in 1796 by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. This is the beginnings of removing art collections from the private sphere of aristocracy into the public domain, where they were seen as places for educating the masses in taste and cultural refinement.
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