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List of largest art museums

List of largest art museums

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Art museums are some of the largest buildings in the world. The world's most pre-eminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.[1]

This article is about list of largest art museums by space. For list of largest art museums by number of visitors, see List of most visited art museums.

List

The following is a list of art museums ranked according to their gallery space where published by reliable sources. Only museums with more than 8,000 square meters (86,000 sq ft) of gallery space are included.

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    The 100,000 square meters mentioned on the official website are the total exhibition area of the institution, which includes sites outside of St. Petersburg. The figure given here is the one that previously appeared on the official website, corresponding only to the site of Saint-Petersburg. Mention of this number appears on some websites, or in the book "Tourism in Russia: A Management Handbook" (p.158).
  2. [N 2]
    65,000 sqft expansion adds 30% of gallery space
  3. [N 3]
    References for historical building + extension
  4. [N 4]
    The Sainsbury Wing has 450,000 square feet of exhibition space (Victoria Newhouse, Towards a New Museum, 1998, Monacelli Press, p.182) and accounts for roughly a third of the museum
  5. [N 5]
    5,000 sqm original exhibition space, doubled by extension

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