Art Museum Ranking | the Best 30 in the world

#1 : Chichu Art Museum (Naoshima Island, Japan)
“Island of Art” floating in the Seto Inland Sea. Step into the building and get intoxicated with the amazing space appears in front.

#2 : Chinati Foundation (Marfa, Texas, USA)
Marfa, Texas, USA. In a symbol of the town of art, walking the installations lined up in vast space, overwhelmed by a museum never experienced before.

#3 : Benesse House (Naoshima Island, Japan) 
”Island of Art” floating in the Seto Inland Sea. Enjoy the unrealistic feeling at the annexed hotel and the night museum. 

#4 : Guggenheim Bilbao Museum (Bilbao, Spain)
Museum in Basque country, dedicated to activate the town. The heterogeneity of the building and the space inside are full of extraordinary. 

#5 : Enoura Observatory (Odawara, Japan)
Probably a museum, but not like museum in the suburbs of Odawara city in Japan. Experience a new form of contemporary art. 

#6 : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebaek, Denmark)
A suburb of Copenhagen, Denmark. Museum like an ordinary house in a quiet residential area. After marvel at the radical works, the seascape appears in front.

#7 : Kolumba Museum(Koln, Germany)
Cologne, Germany. The space with white ceiling, white walls, and a white floor, admire the exquisite balance of antique art and modern paintings.

#8 : Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum (Niteroi, Brazil)
Brazil, Niterói. When seeing a special building that seems to have been designed by an UFO enthusiast, I raise a surprise voice.

#9 : Humburger Bahnhof Museum (Berlin, Germany)
Surprising at the special structure of the old station building in Berlin. Intoxicated by the excellent space with Japanese conceptual artworks.

#10 : Punta della Dogana (Venice, Italy)
Venice, Italy. Tadao Ando renovated the building that was once used as a customs office in a modern style. Admiring the harmony between the brick walls and the contemporary artworks. 

#11 : Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Fort Worth, TX, USA)
Fort Worth, Texas, USA.  Impressed with musuem building consisting of the familiar bare concrete structure by Tadao Ando and the high quality of the artworks.

#12 : Towada Art Center(Towada city, Aomori, Japan)
Towada City, Aomori Prefecture. Experience the contemporary art by overturning the stereotypical concept of museum architecture.

#13 : The Museum of Modern Art / MOMA (New York City, USA)
New York City, USA. At the world’s previledge of modern art museums, encountered artworks generating heat for the first time. 

#14 : Joan Milo Museum (Barcelona, Spain)
Barcelona, ​​Spain. Unusual in this city full of tourists, in a place with relatively few people, putting in a luxurious space where only Milo’s artworks are exhibited.

#15 : Contemporary Art of Ibiza (Ibiza, Spain)
Ibiza, Spain. Finding the Museum in the land of “Club Heaven”. Full of aesthetic sense, and it makes me wonder if I am in a private residence.

#16 : The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA(Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Los Angeles, USA. Experiencing the interest, esoteric and fun of contemporary art in the California atmosphere. 

#17 : National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo(Tokyo, Japan)
Tokyo. Experiencing Japanese modern and contemporary art in a spacious and quiet space. 

#18 : 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Ishikawa, Japan)
Kanazawa. Inside the museum, which was the first to adopt the concept of a box-shaped museum, found artwork by James Turrell and looked up at the blue sky.

#19 : Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Roppongi, Tokyo. Tour the contemporary artworks on the top floor of skyscraper and be dazzled by the Tokyo scenery stretches out behind the artworks.

#20 : K20/K21 Museum(Dusseldorf, Germany)
Two buildings in Düsseldorf, Germany that separate modern and contemporary, surprised the quality at K20, impressed the hidden power of contemporary art at K21.

#21 : Lisson Gallery (London, UK)
London, England. Feeling the energy of advanced artworks in a place that can be called as small museum rather than gallery. 

#22 : Dali-Theatre Museum (Figueres, Spain)
Figueres, a suburb of Barcelona, ​​Spain. Checking if there is a correlation between Dali’s artworks expresses the unreal space and the place where Dali grew up.

#23 : Mexico Museum of Modern Art (Mexico City, Mexico)
Mexico City, The museum city, surrounded by colorful artworks, feeling the power of Mexican Art. 

#24 : Latin American Museum of Art (Buenos Aires, Argentina) 
Buenos Aires, Argentina. Find the best museum in South America in a beautiful city called ”Paris in Europe” and feel the energy of Latin American art. 

#25 : San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  (SF, CA USA)
San Francisco feels like a museum itself. One day, I found a place where Anselm Kiefer’s artworks expressed strong and powerful feelings that deeply moved me.

#26 : Safnasafnid The Fork & Outsider Art (Akreyri, Iceland) 
Aqueiri, northern Iceland. Like a model for a privately running museum in a remote area, amazing at the existence of museum. 

#27 : National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa, Canada)
Ottawa, eastern Canada. Settling in a modern and huge museum and feeling the importance of space in the museum. 

#28 : Berardo Collection Museum (Lisbon, Portugal)
Lisbon, Portugal. At the end of the western part of Europe, surprising to find a textbook-like place in the Museum of Contemporary Art. 

#29 : ARoS Aarhus Art Museum(Aarhus, Denmark)
3 hours by train from Copenhagen, Denmark. Admired the scale of the art museum in a local city, got stuck in the permanent installation exhibition area.

#30 : Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Nice (Nice, France)
Nice, France. Overlaying the color of the Nice sea with International Klein Blue, and I recognize how Japanese people are perceived by foreigners.

​LACMA (Los Angeles, CA, USA)
Los Angeles, USA. Encountering a variety of artworks at the largest museum on the west coast. 

Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi, UAE)
In a white-based space that evokes an “extraordinary” atmosphere, the Uzbekistani staff speak in English, and the “extraordinary” feeling expands.

Nakamura Keith Haring Collection (Yamanashi, Japan)
Keith Haring Museum in Yamanashi. Feeling the 80’s while watching the artworks of the pioneer of street art. 

Tate Modern (London, UK)
London, one of the world’s three major modern art museums. Explore the vast space, huge number of artworks, thinking the British collection mania.

Boros Collection (Berlin, Germany)
Berlin, Germany. Step into a building with a strange atmosphere, admire contemporary art in a special space, and remember the history that once unfolded in this place.

Museum of Modern Art, Bangkok (Bangkok, Thailand)
A modern art museum in Bangkok, Thailand, where Buddhist culture is deeply rooted, showcases many artworks inspired by Buddhism in its modern architecture.

Aomori Museum of Art (Aomori, Japan)
Aomori city in Japan. Step into the space unified in white color and go down to the basement, Chagall appears in the vast space and filled with a sense of fulfillment.

Hara Museum ARC (Gunma, Japan)
In the north part of Tokyo. Stroll through the relaxing space at the foot of the mountain and encounter a space that combines Japanese and contemporary art.

Tel Aviv Museum of Art (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Tel Aviv, Israel. Wandering through a maze-like building, losing track of where I am and superimposing this situation on Israel’s complex history. 

Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
Stockholm, Sweden. In the Scandinavian design kingdom, surprised to find an unexpected artwork. 

Artizon Museum(Tokyo, Japan)
The center of Tokyo. When entering a modern building and see a rich collection of abstract paintings, I have the illusion that I am in an overseas museum.

Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art (Roswell, New Mexico, USA)
UFO incident city, Roswell, New Mexico, USA. Entering the gallery-style museum, overwhelmed by the space filled with artworks.

de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA, USA)
San Francisco, USA. The city itself is like a museum, and feeling the background of the hippie culture. 

Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, Texas, USA)
Dallas, Texas, art museum with natunal history. At the entrance, greeted by the staff, and in the exhibition room, greeted by the staff when having eye contact and feel the friendliness of the people here.

Art Factory Jonan island (Tokyo, Japan)
A warehouse district in the south part of Tokyo. After passing through a maze of carbon paper blocks, find a space paved with more than 10,000 bricks, and meditate in a quiet, empty space.

Branton Museum of Art (Austin, Texas, USA)
Austin, Texas, USA. After appreciating the fulfilling Latin American artworks, come across a sight that feels the friendliness of the people of Texas.

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Tokyo, Japan)
A gallery in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Visiting an exhibition by an artist never heard of, amazed by the excellent works and space.

El Paso Museum of Art(El Paso, Texas, USA)
Border town, El Paso, Texas, discover an empty and quiet space, feel the underlying strength of the art culture of the American South.

Museum Abteiberg (Mönchengladbach, Germany)
Mömphenglandbach in Germany that is home to one of the oldest football team. Interesting space where major artists from the 1960s and beyond, I stop in a room with only works by Gerhard Richter.

Georgia O’Keeffe Museum (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)
Santa Fe, New Mexico. Admire Georgia O’Keeffe’s painting of Mt. Fuji at the adobe-designed museum and imagine what Japan would look like in 1959.

Portland Art Museum (Portland, OR, USA) 
Portland, Oregon. Amazed at the good taste of contemporary art space and inferred the influence of a liberal environmental city. 

Museum Ludwig  (Cologne, Germany)
Cologne, Germany. At the museum next to the Cologne Cathedral, seeing artworks from the 1900s and think back to the 1960s, when pop art flourished.

MOCA Taipei (Taipei, Taiwan)
Taipei, Taiwan. The contrast between the historic red brick building and the contemporary art on display makes me imagine the hidden history of this place.

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, OR, USA)
At the university-affiliated art museum, encountered a tasteful artworks, and wonders whether this is the influence of a city where hippie culture remains.

New National Gallery (Berlin, Germany)
Berlin, Germany. After gazing out the modern art in chronological order, enter the cafe and sip a coffee while seeing the chandeliers and wallpaper.

Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art (Chiba, Japan) < Closed >
Art museum surrounded by greenery. In the Mark Rothko Room, admire the colors of the indistinct rectangular outline, meditate and get rid of distractions.