List of national museums

A national museum can be a museum maintained and funded by a national government.^[1] In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments.^[2] In the United States, most national museums are privately funded and operated, but have been designated by Congress as national institutions that are important to the country. In other countries a much greater number of museums are run by the central government.^[3]

The following is an incomplete list of national museums:

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008)

• National Museum of Afghanistan

The Albanian government operates several national museums, including:

• National History Museum (Albania)
• National Museum of Education (Albania)
• National Museum of Fine Arts (Albania)
• National Museum of Medieval Art (Albania)
• Marubi National Museum of Photography

• National Museum of Fine Arts of Algiers
• National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art

• Museu Nacional de História Natural de Angola
• National Museum of Slavery

The Argentinian Ministry of Culture operates several national museums, including:

• Historical House of the Independence Museum
• Museo Casa de Rogelio Yrurtia
• Museo Mitre
• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)
• National Historical Museum (Argentina)
• National Museum of Decorative Arts
• National Museum of the Cabildo and the May Revolution
• Sarmiento Historical Museum

• History Museum of Armenia
• National Gallery of Armenia

The Australian Government operates several national museums through its various departments, including:

• Australian National Maritime Museum
• Australian War Memorial
• National Gallery of Australia
• National Museum of Australia
• National Portrait Gallery (Australia)
• Questacon

In addition, a number of states in Australia also operate "national museums". These include:

• National Motor Museum, Birdwood, operated by the government of South Australia
• National Gallery of Victoria, operated by the government of Victoria

• Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna
• Natural History Museum, Vienna
• Museum of Military History, Vienna
• Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

• National Art Museum of Azerbaijan
• National Museum of History of Azerbaijan

• National Art Gallery of The Bahamas

• Bahrain National Museum

• Bangladesh National Museum
• National Art Gallery (Bangladesh)
• National Museum of Science and Technology (Bangladesh)
• Bangabandhu Military Museum

• Barbados Museum

• Belarusian National Arts Museum
• Belarusian National History Museum

The Federal Public Service for Science Policy Programming in Belgium operates several museum associations:

• Royal Museums of Art and History
• Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

• Museum of Belize

• National Museum of Bhutan

• National Museum of Archaeology
• National Museum of Art

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

• Botswana National Museum

• National Historical Museum, Brazil (Museu Histórico Nacional)
• National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional)
• National Museum of Fine Arts (Museu Nacional de Belas Artes)
• National Museum of the Republic (Museu Nacional da República)

The government of Brunei operates several museums including:

• Brunei Museum
• Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum
• Malay Technology Museum
• Royal Regalia Museum

• National Archaeological Museum
• National Historical Museum
• National Art Gallery
• National Gallery for Foreign Art
• National Museum of Natural History
• Earth and Man National Museum
• National Museum of Military History
• National Transport Museum

• National Museum of Music

• National Museum of Gitega

• National Museum of Cambodia
• Angkor National Museum

The following are national museums of Canada, established by the federal government of Canada and operated through an autonomous Crown corporation:

• Canada Agriculture and Food Museum
• Canada Aviation and Space Museum
• Canada Science and Technology Museum
• Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• Canadian Museum of History
• Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21
• Canadian Museum of Nature
• Canadian War Museum
• National Gallery of Canada
• Virtual Museum of New France

Former national museums that were later shut down includes:

• Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Canadian Postal Museum

In addition to institutions established or operated by the Government of Canada, several provinces and territories have established their own provincial and territorial museums.

• Boganda National Museum

• Chad National Museum (Musee National N'Djamena)

• National Air and Space Museum (Santiago)
• National History Museum^[4]
• National Museum of Fine Arts (Santiago)
• National Museum of Natural History (Santiago)

• National Museum of China
• Palace Museum
• Military Museum of the Chinese People's Revolution
• National Art Museum of China

• National Museum of Colombia

• National Museum of Comoros

• National Museum of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• National Museum of Lubumbashi

• National Museum of Costa Rica

• Croatian History Museum

• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
• Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Cubana

• Cyprus Museum

• National Gallery Prague
• National Museum, Prague
• Prague Postal Museum

• Det Grønne Museum [da]
• Hirschsprung Collection
• National Gallery of Denmark
• National Museum of Denmark
• Natural History Museum of Denmark
• Ordrupgaard

• Djibouti Museum

• The Dominica Museum

• Museum of the Dominican Man
• Memorial Museum of Dominican Resistance
• Museo del Ámbar Dominicano
• Trampoline Children's Museum
• Amber World Museum
• Alcázar de Colón
• Fortaleza San Luis
• Columbus Lighthouse
• Fortaleza San Felipe
• Museo Bellapart
• Museo de las Casas Reales

• Egyptian Museum
• National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
• Alexandria National Museum
• Egyptian National Military Museum

• National Museum of Eritrea

• Art Museum of Estonia
• Estonian National Museum
• Estonian History Museum

• National Museum of Ethiopia

• Fiji Museum

• Ateneum
• Finnish Museum of Natural History
• Kiasma
• National Museum of Finland
• Sinebrychoff Art Museum

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

• Gambia National Museum

• Georgian National Museum. Branches:
  • Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
  • Samtskhe-Javakheti History Museum, Akhaltsikhe
  • Open Air Museum of Ethnography, Tbilisi
  • Art Museum of Georgia, Tbilisi
  • Museum of the Soviet Occupation, Tbilisi
  • Dmanisi Museum-Reserve of History and Archaeology, Dmanisi
  • Vani Museum-Reserve of Archaeology, Vani
  • Museum of History of Tbilisi, Tbilisi
  • Museum of History and Ethnography of Svaneti, Mestia
  • Institute of Palaeobiology, Tbilisi^[5][6]
  • Sighnaghi Museum, Sighnaghi
  • Bolnisi Museum, Bolnisi^[7]
• Art Palace of Georgia - Museum of Cultural History

• Bavarian National Museum
• German Historical Museum
• German Museum of Technology (Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin)
• German National Museum (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
• Glyptothek
• The Max Planck Institutes
• Modern Art Museum (Pinakothek der Moderne)
• National Gallery
• National Museum of Germany (Deutsches Museum)
• New Pinakothek (Neue Pinakothek)
• Old Pinakothek (Alte Pinakothek)

• National Museum of Ghana

• Athens War Museum
• National Archaeological Museum, Athens
• National Gallery
• National Historical Museum, Athens
• State Museum of Contemporary Arts

• Grenada National Museum

• Museo Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología
• Guatemalan National History Museum
• Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno "Carlos Mérida"

• Sandervalia National Museum

• National Ethnographic Museum

• National Museum of Guyana

• National Museum of Haiti

• Vatican Museums
• Vatican Library
• Vatican Secret Archives
• Saint Peter's Basilica
• Apostolic Palace
• Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran
• Sistine Chapel

• Hong Kong Museum of Art
• Hong Kong Museum of History
• Hong Kong Heritage Museum
• Hong Kong Science Museum

• Hungarian National Museum
• Hungarian National Gallery
• Hungarian Natural History Museum
• Museum of Ethnography (Budapest)
• Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest)
• Semmelweis Museum of Medical History

• National Gallery of Iceland
• National Museum of Iceland

• Manx National Heritage (Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin)

National-level museums in India come directly under the administrative control of Ministry of Culture, Government of India.^[8]

• National Museum, New Delhi
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
• Indian Museum
• Government Museum, Mathura
• National Gallery of Modern Art
• Allahabad Museum
• Government Museum, Chennai
• Salar Jung Museum
• Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Museum
• Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh
• City Palace, Jaipur
• City Palace, Udaipur
• National Handicrafts and Handlooms Museum
• Victoria Memorial
• Jaisalmer War Museum
• Hazarduari Palace
• Sabarmati Ashram
• Cavalry Tank Museum, Ahmednagar
• National Rail Museum, New Delhi
• Railway Museum, Mysore
• Albert Hall Museum
• Madame Tussauds Delhi
• 23 science centers under the National Council of Science Museums
• 44 site museums under the Archaeological Survey of India

Museums listed below are operated by Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology and other ministries.

• National Museum of Indonesia
• Basoeki Abdullah Museum
• Formulation of Proclamation Text Museum
• Fort Vredeburg Museum
• Museum of National Awakening
• National Gallery of Indonesia
• National Press Monument
• Some government-operated museums in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah
• Youth Pledge Museum

• Abgineh Museum of Tehran (Glassware and Ceramics Museum of Iran)
• Arg-é Bam
• Carpet Museum of Iran
• Golestan Palace
• Iranian National Museum of Medical Sciences History
• Malik National Museum of Iran
• Naghsh-i Jahan Square
• National Car Museum of Iran
• National Museum of Iran
• Niavaran Palace Complex
• Pars Museum of Shiraz
• Pearl Palace (Morvarid Palace)^[9]
• Reza Abbasi Museum
• Sadabad Palace

• National Museum of Iraq

• Irish Museum of Modern Art
• National Gallery of Ireland
• National Museum of Ireland. Branches:
  • National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, Dublin
  • National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History, Dublin
  • National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Dublin
  • National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough, County Mayo

• Israel Museum

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

• National Institutes for Cultural Heritage
  • Tokyo National Museum
  • Kyoto National Museum
  • Nara National Museum
  • Kyushu National Museum
• Independent Administrative Institution National Museum of Art
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
  • National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
  • National Museum of Western Art
  • National Museum of Art, Osaka
  • National Art Center, Tokyo
  • National Film Archive of Japan
• National Museum of Nature and Science
• National Museum of Ethnology (Japan)
• National Museum of Japanese History
• National Showa Memorial Museum

• The Jordan Museum
• Jordan Archaeological Museum
• Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

• National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan
• Central State Museum of Kazakhstan
• Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments
• A. Kasteyev State Museum of Arts
• Nature Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan

• National Museums of Kenya

• Te Umanibong

• Korean Central History Museum
• Korean Art Gallery

• National Museum of Korea
  • Buyeo National Museum
  • Cheongju National Museum
  • Chuncheon National Museum
  • Daegu National Museum
  • Gimhae National Museum
  • Gongju National Museum
  • Gwangju National Museum
  • Gyeongju National Museum
  • Jeju National Museum
  • Jeonju National Museum
  • Jinju National Museum
• National Folk Museum of Korea
• National Palace Museum of Korea
• National Museum of Korean Contemporary History
• War Memorial of Korea

• Kosovo Museum

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

• Kyrgyz State Historical Museum

• Lao National Museum

• Latvian National Museum of Art
• Latvian National Museum of History

• National Museum of Beirut

• Liberian National Museum

• Red Castle Museum
• Museum of Libya

• Liechtenstein National Museum

• National Museum of Lithuania
• Lithuanian National Museum of Art
• Vytautas the Great War Museum

• National Museum of History and Art, Luxembourg City
• National Museum of Military History, Diekirch
• National Museum of Natural History, Luxembourg City

• Museum of Macau

• Chichiri Museum

• Muzium Negara
• National Art Gallery (Malaysia)

• National Museum

• National Museum of Mali

• National Museum of Archaeology
• National Museum of Ethnography
• National Museum of Fine Arts
• National Museum of Natural History
• National War Museum

• Alele Museum & Public Library

• National Museum of Mauritania

• Museo Nacional de Antropología (National Museum of Anthropology)
• Museo Nacional de Historia (National Museum of History)
• Museo Nacional de Arte (National Museum of Art)
• Museo Nacional de las Culturas (National Museum of Cultures)
• Museo Nacional de las Intervenciones (National Museum of the Interventions)
• Museo Nacional del Virreinato (National Museum of the Viceroyalty)

• National Museum of History of Moldova
• National Museum of Fine Arts, Chișinău

• New National Museum of Monaco

• National Museum of Mongolia
• Mongolian Natural History Museum
• Chinggis Khaan National Museum

• National Museum of Montenegro

• Rabat Archaeological Museum

• National Museum Nay Pyi Taw
• National Museum of Myanmar

• National Museum of Namibia
  • Alte Feste
  • Owela Museum
• Independence Memorial Museum

• Nauru Museum

• National Museum of Nepal

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

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

• Musée National Boubou Hama, formerly National Museum of Niger

• Nigerian National Museum
• Benin City National Museum
• Ife National Museum
• Esiẹ Museum

• Museum of the Republic of North Macedonia
• National Gallery
• Museum of the Macedonian Struggle (Skopje)
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Skopje)

• National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design

• National Museum

• National Museum of Pakistan, Karachi
• Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad
• National Art Gallery, Islamabad
• Lok Virsa Museum, Islamabad

• Belau National Museum

• Museum of History of Panama

• Papua New Guinea National Museum and Art Gallery

• Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Asunción

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

The National Museum of the Philippines (NMP), a government organization, operates several national museums, including:

The National Museum Complex in Manila which consists of the central museums of the NMP namely the:

• National Museum of Anthropology
• National Museum of Fine Arts
• National Museum of Natural History

The NMP also operates the following satellite museums:

• National Museum Dumaguete
• National Museum Western Visayas
• National Museum Cordillera
• National Museum Ilocos
• National Museum Cagayan Valley
• National Museum Bicol
• National Museum Eastern-Northern Mindanao
• National Museum Western-Southern Mindanao
• National Museum Batanes
• National Museum Marinduque-Romblon
• National Museum Bohol
• National Museum Sulu
• National Museum Kabayan
• National Museum Tabon Caves Site Museum
• National Museum Angono-Binangonan

• National Museum, Kraków
• National Museum, Gdańsk
• National Maritime Museum, Gdańsk
• National Museum, Lublin
• National Museum, Poznań
• National Museum, Szczecin
• National Museum, Warsaw
• National Museum, Wrocław

• Air Museum, part of the Portuguese Air Force
• Grão Vasco National Museum
• Porto Military Museum, part of the Portuguese Army
• National Archaeology Museum
• National Azulejo Museum
• National Coach Museum
• National Museum of Ancient Art
• National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado
• National Museum of Costume and Fashion
• National Museum of Ethnology, it includes the Popular Art Museum
• National Museum of Natural History and Science, part of the University of Lisbon
• National Museum Machado de Castro
• National Museum Soares dos Reis
• National Music Museum
• National Railway Museum
• National Theatre and Dance Museum
• Navy Museum, part of the Portuguese Navy

• Qatar National Museum

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

• Hermitage Museum
• State Historical Museum
• Russian Museum
• Tretyakov Gallery
• Pushkin Museum
• Moscow Kremlin Museums
• State Museum of Oriental Art
• Central Armed Forces Museum
• Museum of Political History of Russia
• Shchusev Museum of Architecture
• Vernadsky State Geological Museum

• Ethnographic Museum

• National Museum of Saint Kitts

• Falemata'aga - Museum of Samoa

• National Museum of Saudi Arabia

• Museum of Black Civilisations
• Historical Museum of Senegal in Gorée

• National Museum of Serbia
• Historical Museum of Serbia

• Sierra Leone National Museum

• National Museum of Singapore
• National Gallery Singapore

• Slovak National Museum
• Slovak National History Museum
• Slovak National Gallery

• National Museum of Slovenia
• National Gallery of Slovenia

• Solomon Islands National Museum

• National Museum of Somalia

• South African National Museum of Military History
• Iziko South African Museum
• Ditsong Museums of South Africa
  • includes Ditsong National Museum of Natural History and Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History
• National Museum, Bloemfontein
• National Afrikaans Literary Museum and Research Centre

• South Sudan National Museum

• National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
• Cervantes' House Museum, Valladolid
• Museum of the Royal Mint, Madrid
• Museum Cerralbo, Madrid
• Aeronautical and Astronautical Museum, Madrid
• Museum of the Americas, Madrid
• Museum of the Army, Toledo
• Catalonia Railway Museum, Vilanova i la Geltrú (Barcelona)
• Railway Museum, Madrid
• El Greco Museum, Toledo
• National Museum of Romanticism, Madrid
• Museum of Garment - Ethnologic Heritage Research Center, Madrid
• Geomineral Museum, Madrid
• Lázaro Galdiano Museum, Madrid
• Queen Sofía Art Center National Museum, Madrid
• National Museum of Anthropology, Madrid
• National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology, Cartagena (Murcia)
• National Museum of Roman Art, Mérida (Badajoz)
• National Museum of Decorative Arts, Madrid
• González Martí National Museum of Ceramics and Decorative Arts, Valencia
• National Museum of Science and Technology, La Coruña and Alcobendas (Madrid)
• National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid
• National Museum of Sculpture, Valladolid
• Prado National Museum, Madrid
• National Museum of Theatre, Almagro (Ciudad Real)
• Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid
• National Museum and Research Center of Altamira, Santillana del Mar (Cantabria)
• Naval Museum, Madrid
• Sephardic Museum, Toledo
• Sorolla Museum, Madrid
• Royal Botanical Garden, Madrid

• National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), Barcelona
• National Museum of Science and Industry of Catalonia (mNACTEC), Terrassa
• Archaeological Museum of Catalonia (MAC), Barcelona, Empúries, Girona, Olèrdola and Ullastret

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

• National Museum of Sudan

• Surinaams Museum

• Nationalmuseum

• Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum)

• National Museum of Damascus
• National Museum of Aleppo

• Chunghwa Postal Museum
• National Museum of History
• National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
• National Museum of Marine Science and Technology
• National Museum of Natural Science
• National Museum of Prehistory
• National Museum of Taiwan History
• National Museum of Taiwan Literature
• National Palace Museum
• National Radio Museum
• National Science and Technology Museum
• National Taiwan Museum
• National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts
• Republic of China Air Force Museum
• Republic of China Armed Forces Museum
• Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum

• National Museum of Antiquities of Tajikistan
• Tajikistan National Museum

• National Museum of Tanzania

• Togo National Museum

• Tonga National Museum

• National Museum and Art Gallery

• Bardo National Museum
• Carthage National Museum

• Museum of Anatolian Civilizations
• Republic Museum
• State Art and Sculpture Museum
• Ethnography Museum of Ankara
• War of Independence Museum
• Istanbul Archaeology Museums
• Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum
• Istanbul Aviation Museum
• Istanbul Naval Museum
• Istanbul Military Museum

• Ashgabat National Museum of History
• The State Museum of the State Cultural Center of Turkmenistan
• Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts

• Turks and Caicos National Museum

• Uganda Museum

• Aivazovsky National Art Gallery
• Lviv National Art Gallery
• Lviv National Museum
• Museum of The History of Ukraine in World War II
• National Art Museum of Ukraine
• National Museum of the History of Ukraine
• National Museum-Preserve "Battle for Kyiv 1943"
• Ukrainian National Chornobyl Museum

• Al Ain National Museum
• National Museum of Ras Al Khaimah
• Dubai Museum
• Etihad Museum
• Emirates National Auto Museum

Sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport

• British Museum
• Victoria & Albert Museum
  • Victoria and Albert Museum in London
  • V&A Museum of Childhood in London
  • Also see 'Scotland' below
• Horniman Museum and Gardens
• Imperial War Museum
  • Imperial War Museum London
  • Imperial War Museum Duxford
  • HMS Belfast (C35)
  • Churchill War Rooms
  • Imperial War Museum North
• National Museums Liverpool
  • World Museum
  • Walker Art Gallery
  • Merseyside Maritime Museum
  • The Piermaster's House
  • International Slavery Museum
  • Lady Lever Art Gallery
  • Sudley House
  • Museum of Liverpool
  • National Conservation Centre
• Royal Armouries
  • Royal Armouries Museum in Leeds
  • Tower of London in London
  • Fort Nelson in Portsmouth
• Science Museum Group
  • The Science Museum in South Kensington, London
  • The Science and Industry Museum in Manchester
  • The National Railway Museum in York
  • The National Railway Museum Shildon in County Durham ("Locomotion")
  • The National Science and Media Museum (formerly the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) in Bradford, and
  • The Science Museum at Wroughton in Swindon, Wiltshire.
• Sir John Soane's Museum
• Tate
• The Box, Plymouth in Plymouth, Devon
• Wallace Collection
• Natural History Museum, London
  • Natural History Museum at Tring, Tring
• Geffrye Museum
• National Coal Mining Museum for England, Wakefield
• National Gallery
• National Portrait Gallery
• Royal Museums Greenwich

Sponsored by Ministry of Defence

• National Army Museum
• National Museum of the Royal Navy
• Royal Air Force Museum

Sponsored by the Home Office

• Border Force National Museum

• Armagh County Museum
• Ulster-American Folk Park
• Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
• Ulster Museum

• National Museums Scotland
• National Museum of Costume
• National Museum of Flight
• National Museum of Rural Life
• National War Museum of Scotland
• Museum of Scotland
• Royal Museum
• V&A Dundee

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

• Atomic/Nuclear
  • American Museum of Science and Energy
  • National Atomic Testing Museum
  • National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
• Department of Defense:
  • Air Force:
    • Air Force Armament Museum
    • Air Mobility Command Museum
    • National Museum of the United States Air Force
    • Museum of Aviation
    • Strategic Air and Space Museum
  • Army:
    • National Museum of Health and Medicine
    • National Museum of the United States Army
    • Rock Island Arsenal Museum
    • West Point Museum
  • Navy:
    • National Museum of the Marine Corps
    • National Museum of the United States Navy
    • National Naval Aviation Museum
    • National Museum of the American Sailor
    • National Navy UDT-SEAL Museum
    • Naval War College Museum
    • Submarine Force Library and Museum
  • National Security Agency:
    • National Cryptologic Museum
  • National Museum of Intelligence and Special Operations
• Central Intelligence Agency:
  • CIA Museum
• Department of Homeland Security
  • United States Coast Guard Museum
• National Gallery of Art
• Smithsonian Institution:
  • American Art Museum
  • Anacostia Community Museum
  • Arts and Industries Building
  • Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
  • Freer Gallery of Art
  • Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
  • National Air and Space Museum
    • Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • National Museum of African Art
  • National Museum of the American Indian
  • National Museum of American History^[11]
  • National Museum of Natural History
  • National Portrait Gallery
  • National Postal Museum
  • National Zoological Park
• Presidential library system
  • Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
  • Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
  • John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum
  • Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
  • Gerald R. Ford Museum
  • Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
  • Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
  • George H. W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum
  • Clinton Presidential Center
  • George W. Bush Presidential Center
• Transportation
  • Mariners' Museum and Park - National Maritime Museum
  • National Railroad Museum
  • South Street Seaport Museum - National Maritime Museum
• War Museums/Memorials
  • National Veterans Memorial and Museum
  • National Civil War Museum
  • National Museum of American Jewish Military History
  • National Museum of the Pacific War
  • National Museum of World War II Aviation
  • National World War I Museum
  • National World War II Museum
• Other
  • National Airmail Museum
  • National American Museum of Visionary Art
  • National Aquarium
  • National Building Museum
  • National Children’s Museum
  • National Civil Rights Museum
  • National Constitution Center
  • National Law Enforcement Museum
  • National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum
  • National Museum of Dentistry
  • National Museum of Wildlife Art
  • National Nordic Museum
  • National Quilt Museum

• National Museum of Visual Arts (Uruguay)
• National Museum of Natural History, Uruguay

• State Museum of History of Uzbekistan
• Art Gallery of Uzbekistan
• Museum of Arts of Uzbekistan
• State Museum of Nature of Uzbekistan
• State Museum of History of Culture of Uzbekistan
• Nukus Museum of Art

• National Museum of Vanuatu

• National Art Gallery (Caracas)

• Vietnam National Museum of History
• Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts
• Vietnam Military History Museum
• Ho Chi Minh City Museum of History

• National Museum of Yemen

• Lusaka National Museum

• National Gallery of Zimbabwe
• Natural History Museum of Zimbabwe
• Zimbabwe Museum of Human Sciences

• List of museums
• List of national archives
• List of national libraries
• List of national galleries

• Silverman, Raymond; Abungu, George; Probst, Peter (2021). National museums in Africa. Identity, history and politics. Milton: Routledge. p. 284. ISBN 978-1-000-42864-3. OCLC 1259323561.