List of national museums

A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items.

• Argentine National Museum of History

• Bangladesh National Museum

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

• National Museum of Brazil (Museu Nacional)
• National Historical Museum of Brazil (Museu Histórico Nacional)

• 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

• National Museum of Music

• National Museum, Phnom Penh

• Canada Agriculture Museum
• Canada Aviation Museum
• Canada Science and Technology Museum
• Canadian Museum for Human Rights
• 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 National Museum (Musee National N'Djamena)

• Archaeological Museum of La Serena

• Museum of the Chinese Revolution
• National Museum of China
• National Museum of Chinese History

• Colombian National Museum

• National Museum of Costa Rica

• Czech National Museum

• National Museum of Denmark

• British Empire and Commonwealth Museum
• HM Customs & Excise National Museum
• Merseyside Maritime Museum
• National Army Museum
• National Horseracing Museum
• National Media Museum
• National Motor Museum
• National Museum of Science and Industry
• National Museums Liverpool
• National Railway Museum
• National Space Centre
• National Tramway Museum
• National Waterways Museum
• Science Museum (London)
• Shildon Locomotion Museum

• National Museum of Eritrea

• Estonian National Museum
• Art Museum of Estonia

• National Museum of Finland

• Centre Georges Pompidou
• 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)

• 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)

• National Museum (Gambia)

• National Museum of Ghana

• National Archaeological Museum of Athens

• National Museum of Guyana

• Hungarian National Museum

• National Gallery of Iceland
• National Museum of Iceland

• National Museum, New Delhi

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

• National Museum of Iran

• National Museum of Iraq

• National Museum of Ireland

• 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 Oriental Art
• National Museum of Rome

• 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

• National Museums of Kenya

• National Museum of Korea

• Latvian National Museum of Art

• National Museum of Beirut

• Muzium Negara

• National museum (Maldives)
• National Museum of Maldives

• National Museum of Mali

• National Museum of Anthropology and History (Museo Nacional de Antropología)

• National Museum of Namibia

• National Museum of Nepal

• National Museum of Pakistan

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

• National Museum of the Philippines

• Gdańsk National Museum
• Kraków National Museum
• Poznań National Museum
• Warsaw National Museum
• Wrocław National Museum
• National Museum of Poland

• National Museum Machado de Castro (Museu Nacional de Machado de Castro)
• National Museum Soares dos Reis (Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis)

• 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 Museum of Art of Romania

• Museum of Flight (Scotland)
• Museum of Scotland
• Museum of Scottish Rural Life, Kittochside
• National Museums of Scotland
• National War Museum of Scotland
• Royal Museum
• Shambellie House Museum of Costume

• National Museum of Serbia

• National Museum of Singapore

• National museum of Slovakia

• South African National Museum of Military History

• Gyeongju National Museum

• National Museum of Fine Arts

• Swiss National Museum (Landesmuseum)

• National Museum of Prehistory (Taiwan)
• National Museum of Taiwan Literature
• National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium
• National Museum of History
• National Museum of Natural Science
• National Palace Museum

• Tajikistan National Museum

• National Museum (Thailand)

• National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad

• American Art Museum
• Anacostia Museum
• National Gallery of Art
• 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 Health and Medicine
• National Museum of History and Technology
• National Museum of Natural History
• National Museum of Naval Aviation
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Museum of the Marine Corps
• National Museum of the United States Air Force
• National Portrait Gallery
• National Postal Museum
• Strategic Air and Space Museum
• U.S. Navy Submarine Force Museum and Library

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

• National archive
• National gallery
• National library