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Collections of modern and contemporary art.
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Public museums
Public museum collections of modern and contemporary art.
Museum | Opened | Location | Scope of collection | Core collections (scope, date acquired) |
Online catalogue (sortable by) | M | About |
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Van Abbemuseum | 1936 | NL, Eindhoven | 2,700 works; Lissitzky, Picasso, Kokoschka, Chagall, Beuys, McCarthy, Daniëls, Körmeling | Henri van Abbe (1936-40) | work, artist | M | |
Art Institute Chicago [Dept of Modern and Contemporary Art] | 1879 | US, Chicago | 1,500 works | artist, object type (1500 records) | M | [1] | |
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen | 1849 | NL, Rotterdam | J.P. van der Schilden (1925), D.G. van Beuningen (1958), Han Nefkens (2000s) | artist, work | M | [2] | |
Berlinische Galerie (BG) | 1975 | DE, Berlin | DE; 1870-present; Dada Berlin, Neue Sachlichkeit, EE avant-garde | artist, work, year, category, department, fond, object group | M | ||
Castello di Rivoli | 1984 | IT, Torino | Arte Povera, Transavanguardia, Minimal, Body and Land Art, Video; mid-1960s-present | artist, work, year, medium | [3] | ||
Cleveland Museum of Art | 1916 | US, Cleveland | artist, object type, department, location | M | [4] | ||
Dia Art Foundation | 2003 | US, New York, etc | 1960s-70s | Philippa de Menil, Heiner Friedrich, Helen Winkler | artists | [5] | |
Deichtorhallen | 1989 | DE, Hamburg | 1900-present | F.C. Gundlach (photography, 2003-23), Harald Falckenberg (2,000 works from 1980s-2000s, 2011) | - | [6] [7] | |
Museum Folkwang | 1922 | DE, Essen | Karl Ernst Osthaus (1922) | work, work, department, object type, year, provenance, acquisition | [8] | ||
Groninger Museum | 1894 | NL, Groningen | De Ploeg (1920s-30s), Neo-expressionism (1980s), Italian postmodern design (1980s) | artist, work, subject, material, technique, year | [9] | ||
Guggenheim Museum | 1937 | US, New York; IT, Venice; ES, Bilbao | 7,000 works (1890s-present) | Solomon Guggenheim (600 works, 1937-49), Karl Nierendorf (1948), Hilla Rebay (1967), Peggy Guggenheim (1976), Justin K. Thannhauser (1976-91), Giuseppe Panza di Biumo (1990-92), Bohen Foundation (275 works by 45 artists, 2001) | artist, decade, medium, movement, collection (1,700 works) | M | [10] [11] [12] |
Hamburger Bahnhof | 1996 | DE, Berlin | 1960s-present | Erich Marx (1960s-80s, 1996), Egidio Marzona (600+ works by c150 artists from 1960s-70s, 2002), Friedrich Christian Flick (1500+ works by c150 artists from 1960s-present, 2004) | - | [13] [14] | |
Hamburger Kunsthalle [Gallery of Contemporary Art] | 1997 | DE, Hamburg | 1960-present | Scharpff (US, DE), Sohst (conceptual art), Lafrenz (minimalism), Böckmann, Jung | - | [15] | |
Hirshhorn Museum | 1974 | US, Wahington DC | 12,000 works; painting, sculpture; 1890s-present | Joseph H. Hirshhorn (6,000 works, 1974; more in 1981) | artist, work | [16] | |
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art | 1994 | US, Kansas City | 700 works; 1910s-present | Bebe and Crosby Kemper | artist, work, medium | ||
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art | 1998 | FI, Helsinki | 8,000 works; 1960-present | Pentti Kouri, Maj-Lis Pitkänen (works by Kalervo Palsa), Porkkana | artist, year, work (8,600 entries) | [17] | |
Kröller-Müller Museum | 1938 | NL, Otterlo | paintings (esp. Van Gogh), sculpture garden | Helene Kröller-Müller (1935) | work, object type, genre, period (77 objects) | ||
Gegenwart | 1980 | CH, Basel | Emanuel Hoffmann (1980) | artist, work, object type | M | [18] | |
Leopold Museum | 2001 | AT, Vienna | 5,000 works (Schiele, Klimt, Wiener Werkstätte, Art Nouveau, et al) | Elisabeth and Rudolf Leopold (1994) | selected works | [19] | |
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) | 1965 | US, Los Angeles | artist, work, object type (modern art), (contemporary art) (2,000 records) | M | |||
Ludwig Museum | 1989 | HU, Budapest | post-1960s Western, Hungarian and CEE art, esp. film, video, computer art, photography | Irene and Peter Ludwig (1989ff) | artist, work, technique, decade, thematic keyword, geography | [20] | |
Museum Ludwig | 1986 | DE, Cologne | DE expressionism, new objectivity, US pop art, RU avant-garde painting | Josef Haubrich (DE expressionist painting, 1946), Peter and Irene Ludwig (350 works; US pop art, Picasso, 1976) | - | [21] | |
M+ | 2019 (scheduled) | CN, Hong Kong | 2,800 works; HK, CN, Asia, world; late 70s-present | selection | [22] | ||
MACBA | 1995 | ES, Barcelona | 5,000 works; 1950s-present; ES, South America, CEE | artist, work, year, decade, work type | M | [23] | |
MAK [Gegenwartskunst] | 1864 | AT, Vienna | artist, work, object type, place (1400 records) | [24] | |||
MAXXI: Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo | 2010 | IT, Rome | artist, work, date, type | [25] | |||
MCA Chicago | 1974 | US, Chicago | 2,500 works; 1920s-present | artist, work, decade, medium | [26] | ||
Metropolitan Museum of Art [Dept of Modern and Contemporary Art] | 1987 | US, New York | 12,000 works; 1900-present; worldwide | artist, object type, geography (13,000 records) | M | [27] | |
Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) | 1973 (photo & new media), 2008 (contemporary art) | US, Minneapolis | department, full text | M | |||
Moderna galerija+Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova (MG+MSUM) | 1948 | SL, Ljubljana | 19,000+ works; 1900s-present; SL, EE, West | ArtEast 2000+ (EE art since 1960s, 2000ff) | medium | [28] | |
Moderna Museet | 1958 | SW, Stockholm & Malmö | Rolf de Maré (cubism; 1950, 1966), Helmer Bäckström (photography, 1965), Gerard Bonnier (early modernism, 1989), Pontus Hultén (2005) | artist, medium, country, work, year, category | [29] | ||
mumok | 1962 | AT, Vienna | 10,000 works by c1,600 artists | Wolfgang Hahn, Peter and Irene Ludwig | artist | M | [30] |
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM) | 1948 | BR, São Paulo | 5,000+ works; BR | artist, work, year | |||
Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC USP) | 1963 | BR, São Paulo | 10,000 works; BR, Latin America, West | Yolanda Penteado and Ciccillo Matarazzo (1963) | [31] | ||
Museum der Moderne Salzburg | 1983 | AT, Salzburg | Friedrich Welz, MAP (400 works), Generali (2,100 works by 200 artists; 1960s-present; 2014) | Generali: artist | [32] | ||
Museum of Art in Łódź | 1931 | PL, Łódź | 9,000 works; avant-garde (PL, West, CZ) | a.r. (1931-38) | artist, decade | [33] [34] | |
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) | 1991 | AU, Sydney | 4,000 works (AU) | artist, work | [35] | ||
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA) | 1979 | US, Los Angeles | 1940-present | selected works | [36] | ||
Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (MSU) | 1954 | CR, Zagreb | 12,000 works; CR, world; 1950-present | V & NK Richter (1980), Silvana Seissel (1993), Benko Horvat | department | [37] | |
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) | 1929 | US, New York | 200,000 works by 10,000+ artists | artist, medium, year (63,000 works), data | M | [38] | |
Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw | 2005 | PL, Warsaw | 250+ works | artist, decade | [39] | ||
Muzeul de arta contemporana al Romaniei (MNAC) | 2004 | RO, Bucharest | artist, genre | ||||
Nasjonalmuseet | 2003 | NO, Oslo | artist, work, year, subject | M | |||
National Gallery in Prague [Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries] | 1918 | CZ, Prague | 2,300 works, CZ, 1900-present | - | [40] | ||
National Gallery of Art [1900-present] | 1937 | US, Washington DC | Kathan Brown (1540 works), Dorothy and Herbert Vogel (880 works), Richard S. Zeisler and Ailsa Mellon Bruce (270 works), .. | artist, work, medium, nationality, style (67,000 records) | M | ||
National Gallery of Australia | 1967 | AU, Canberra | artist, work, keyword | M | |||
Philadelphia Museum of Art | 1876 | US, Philadelphia | artist, classification, country, curatorial dept, keyword | M | |||
MNAM-Centre Pompidou | 1947 / 1977 | FR, Paris | 100,000 works, 1905-present | artist, work, work type, movement, material, year | M | [41] | |
Power Station of Art (PSA) | 2012 | CN, Shanghai | CN; 1980s-present | ||||
Museo Reina Sofía | 1990 | ES, Madrid | 21,000 works | artist, work, keyword, category (8,300 works) | M | [42] | |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) | 1935 | US, San Francisco | Albert M. Bender (100s of works, 1935), Elise S. Haas (1990), Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson (1992), Prentice and Paul Sack (1998, 2005), Doris and Donald Fisher (1,100 works) | artist, department, image | M | [43], API | |
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) | 1975 | US, Seattle | artist, work, year, medium, style, classification, country, .. | [44] | |||
Slovak National Gallery [Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art] | 1948 | SK, Bratislava, etc | artist, work, medium, tag, genre, technique (48,000 works) | M | [45] | ||
S.M.A.K. | 1975 | BE, Ghent | 3,000 works, WW2-present | artist, work, category, year (320 items) | [46] | ||
Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) | 1951 | US, Washington DC | artist, work, keyword | M | [47] | ||
Stedelijk | 1874 | NL, Amsterdam | C.P. van Eeghen (1874) | artist, work, category | M | [48] | |
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart | 1843 | DE, Stuttgart | artist, material, location | M | [49] | ||
Tate Modern [1900-present] | 2000 | UK, London | artist, style, subject (24,000 works), data | M | [50] | ||
State Tretyakov Gallery | 1893 | RU, Moscow | George Costakis (1977) | medium, half-century, artist | M | ||
Walker Art Center | 1940 | US, Minneapolis | Ruben/Bentson (1,000+ moving image works from 1894-present, 1973ff), Rosemary Furtak (artists' books) | decade, object type | M | [51] | |
Whitney Museum of American Art | 1931 | US, New York | 21,000 works by 3,000+ artists (1900-present, US) | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (600 works, 1931) | artist (21,000 works) | M | [52] |
ZKM | 1989 | DE, Karlsruhe | 4,000 works; 1900-present | artist, work, year, category | M |
National databases
Online databases aggregating holdings of public museums of art.
- Central European Art Database (CEAD): Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia.
- Images d'Art: France
- museum-digital: Germany, museums-platform-nrw: North Rhine-Westphalia
- Múzeum Digitár: Hungary
- SCALA: Italy
- Collectie Nederland: Musea, Monumenten en Archeologie (DiMCoN): Netherlands
- Digitalt Museum: Norway
- Web umenia: Slovakia
- Red Digital de Colecciones de Museos de España: Spain
- Digitalt Museum: Sweden
- Art UK: United Kingdom