World's Greatest Museums · Trailwind

Treasure houses of art and history, city by cityWorld's Greatest Museums is a hand-picked Trailwind collection of 34 places: Treasure houses of art and history, city by city. Every entry has its own guide with the best time to go, what's nearby and how to build a trip around it.Ranking source: The Art Newspaper / TEA-AECOM / ALVA (2024). Ordered by published annual attendance (2024, Louvre 2025). Museums with no published figure are listed last..

Louvre, Paris

National Museum of China, Beijing

Vatican Museums, Rome

British Museum, London

Natural History Museum, London

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

American Museum of Natural History, New York

Tate Modern, London

National Gallery of Art, United States

Musée d'Orsay, Paris

National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Victoria and Albert Museum, United Kingdom

Prado Museum, Madrid

Centre Pompidou, France

National Gallery, London

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.

National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C.

Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Museum of Modern Art, United States

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Tokyo National Museum, Japan

National Palace Museum, Taipei

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria

Acropolis Museum, Athens

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Getty Center, Los Angeles

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, United States

Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, United States

The Frick Collection, United States

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Trailwind finds the moment a trip is unusually possible: the right season, a cheap fare, your open dates, and rare skies. Browse by calendar:

Cosmic calendar — meteor showers, eclipses and aurora, and the best time to see each

Nature's calendar — wildlife migrations, blooms and seasonal wonders, and when to go

World culture calendar — festivals, celebrations and rituals, and when they happen (Holi, Diwali, Day of the Dead and more)

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