List of largest art museums
List of largest art museums List [ edit ] The following is a list of art museums ranked according to their gallery space where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 12,000 square meters (130,000 sq ft) of gallery space are included. Large museums that do not have reliably-sourced statistics are omitted; this is not a complete list. Rank Building Name City Country Gallery space in m 2 (sq ft) Year established 1 Louvre Paris France 72,735 (782,910) [2] 1792 2 State Hermitage Museum St. Petersburg Russia 66,842 (719,480) [3] 1764 3 National Museum of China Beijing China 65,000 (700,000) [4] 1959 4 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York City United States 58,820 (633,100) [5] 1870 5 Vatican Museums Vatican City (Rome) Vatican City 43,000 (460,000) [5] 1506 6 National Museum of Anthropology Mexico City Mexico 33,000 (360,000) [6] 1964 7 Victoria and Albert Museum London United Kingdom 30,658 (330,000) [7] [8] 1852 8 Houston Museum of Fine Arts Houston U