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The Art Institute of Chicago is an art museum founded in 1879, known for major Impressionist holdings and Grant Wood's 1930 painting American Gothic.

The National Gallery is a London art museum founded in 1824, holding Western European paintings from the 13th to 19th centuries.

The National Gallery of Art is a Washington, D.C. art museum founded in 1937 by Andrew W. Mellon, with major European and American collections.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna is Austria's major fine arts museum, opened in 1891 and built to house the Habsburg imperial collections.

The Mauritshuis is an art museum in The Hague, housed in a 17th-century palace and known for Dutch Golden Age works such as Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring.

The Cleveland Museum of Art is an Ohio art museum founded in 1913, noted for free admission and a broad collection spanning antiquity to modern art.

The Detroit Institute of Arts is a Michigan art museum founded in 1885, notable for Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry murals painted in 1932 and 1933.

The Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow is Russia's national museum of Russian art, founded from Pavel Tretyakov's collection and gifted to the city in 1892.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a Pennsylvania museum chartered in 1876, with major American, European and Asian art collections.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza is a Madrid art museum opened in 1992, built from the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection of European painting.

Frankfurt's Städel Museum, founded in 1815 by banker Johann Friedrich Städel, is noted for European art spanning about 700 years.

Berlin's Gemäldegalerie is a major Old Masters museum at the Kulturforum, noted for European paintings from the 13th to 18th centuries.

The Scottish National Gallery is an Edinburgh art museum opened in 1859, holding Scotland's national collection of European and Scottish painting.

The Pinacoteca di Brera is Milan's major public art gallery, opened in 1809 and noted for Italian Renaissance works by Mantegna, Raphael, and Bellini.

Saint Louis Art Museum is a Missouri museum in Forest Park, housed in a 1904 World's Fair building and known for encyclopedic collections across cultures.

Pinacoteca de São Paulo is a Brazilian art museum founded in 1905, notable as São Paulo's oldest art museum and for its major collection of Brazilian art.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston was founded in 1900 and is one of the largest U.S. art museums, with holdings from antiquity to contemporary Latin American art.

The Museum of Fine Arts Budapest opened in 1906 on Heroes' Square and is noted for European Old Masters, Egyptian antiquities, and classical art.

Berlin's Alte Nationalgalerie opened in 1876 on Museum Island and is noted for 19th-century European art, including works by Caspar David Friedrich.

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is Argentina's national fine arts museum in Buenos Aires, inaugurated in 1896 and known for European and Argentine art.

Ateneum in Helsinki opened in 1888 and is the Finnish National Gallery's historic art museum, noted for major works of Finnish national art.