Art Museum Ranking | the Best 14 – in Europe

When I was younger and traveling around the world, I had no interest in museums. I saw them simply as tourist attractions. As I continued traveling, however, I gradually found myself seeking out contemporary art museums. It was because I had come to appreciate museums not only for the artworks they contain, but also for the spaces they create. This page brings together the contemporary art museums that have left the strongest impression on me.

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#1 : 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.

#2 : 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.

#3 : 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.

#4 : 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.

#5 : 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.

#6 : 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.

#7 : 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.

#8 : 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.

#9 : 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.

#10 : 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.

#11 : 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.

#12 : 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.

#13 : 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.