Institutions With Notable Period Collections
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This resource is intended travelers to help find repositories of interest to them. Please try and maintain consistency of terms so the sorting will make sense!
Most museums have some of everything, of course; the Collection columns are meant to represent what the institutions's specialties are (e.g., the Walters in Baltimore has excellent Asian, Islamic, and Renaissance objects, but it is renowned for its medieval collection.) In other cases, the museum's collection may not be large in quantity, but is significant in some other way (e.g., the Domberg {Cathedral Museum} of Bamberg is not large, but has some very important pieces such as the Star Mantle of Henry II).
Museum/Library Name | City | State | Country | Collection Era(s) | Collection Region(s) | Collection Online? |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art | New York | New York | United States | All | All | Yes |
Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland | Ohio | United States | Medieval | Europe | Yes |
Musée national du Moyen Âge (The Cluny) | Paris | Île-de-France | France | Roman, Medieval | Europe | Some |
Musée national de la Renaissance | Écouen | Île-de-France | France | Renaissance | Europe | Not really |
Musée du Louvre | Paris | Île-de-France | France | All | All | Yes |
Museum of London | London | Middlesex | United Kingdom | All | England | Some |
Galleria degli Uffizi | Florence | Tuscany | Italy | Renaissance | Europe | ? |
British Museum | London | Middlesex | United Kingdom | All | All | Yes |
Victoria & Albert Museum | London | Middlesex | United Kingdom | All | All | Yes |
Pitti Palace | Florence | Tuscany | Italy | Classical, Renaissance | Europe | ? |
Bargello | Florence | Tuscany | Italy | Renaissance sculpture | Europe | Some |
Museo dell'Opera del Duomo | Florence | Tuscany | Italy | Medieval, Renaissance | Europe | No |
Germanisches Nationalmuseum | Nuremberg | Franconia | Germany | All | Europe | Yes |
Kaiserburg Museum | Nuremberg | Franconia | Germany | Medieval, Renaissance | Europe | No |
Domberg Bamberg | Bamberg | Franconia | Germany | Medieval, Renaissance | Europe | No |
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum | Munich | Bavaria | Germany | All | Europe | Yes |
Brooklyn Museum | Brooklyn | New York | United States | All | Near East, Asia | Yes |
Walters Art Museum | Baltimore | Maryland | United States | Medieval | Europe | Yes |
J. Paul Getty Museum | Los Angeles | California | United States | Medieval, Renaissance | Europe | ? |
Musée du Pays Châtillonnais | Châtillon-sur-Seine | Burgundy | France | Celtic, Roman | Europe | No |
MuséoParc Alésia | Alise-Sainte-Reine | Burgundy | France | Celtic, Roman | Europe | No |
Bibracte | Saint-Léger-sous-Beuvray | Burgundy | France | Celtic, Roman | Europe | No |
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon | Dijon | Burgundy | France | Medieval, Renaissance | Europe | Some |
Swiss National Museum | Zürich | Zürich | Switzerland | All | Europe | Yes |
Tokyo National Museum | Taitō | Tokyo | Japan | All | Asia | Some |
Princeton University Art Museum | Princeton | New Jersey | United States | All | All | Some |
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wein | Vienna | Vienna | Austria | All | All | Yes |
Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | United States | Ancient, Medieval | Near East, Silk Road, Africa | Some |
Rubin Museum | New York | New York | United States | All | Asia | Some |