List of contemporary art museums

This article is about public galleries of contemporary art. For commercial galleries of contemporary art (after 1945), see List of contemporary art galleries.

Contemporary art museums around the world specialize in collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The following is an alphabetical listing of major contemporary art museums, divided by country. A number of such museums are named Museum of Contemporary Art.

Argentina

• Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Rosario

Armenia

• Cafesjian Museum of Art

Australia

• Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney
• Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
• Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (GOMA, part of QAGOMA), Brisbane
• Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne
• Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney
• Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart

Austria

• Albertina Modern (part of the Albertina), Vienna
• 21er Haus, Vienna
• Mumok, Vienna

Belgium

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
• KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels
• Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent

Brazil

• Inhotim
• Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo
• Niterói Contemporary Art Museum

Bulgaria

• Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art (part of the National Gallery)

Canada

• Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
• The Blackwood (Blackwood Gallery), Mississauga
• Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver)
• Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
• Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA Toronto)
• Vancouver Art Gallery

Chile

• Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Valdivia

China

• Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai
• Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing
• Power Station of Art, Shanghai
• Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Croatia

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb

Czech Republic

• DOX Centre for Contemporary Art

Finland

• Kiasma, Helsinki

France

• Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau
• Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Ascq
• Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
• Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
• Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine
• Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
• CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux
• Collection Lambert, Avignon
• Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse
• Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice

Germany

• Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
• Fotografiska Berlin
• Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
• Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
• Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss

Greece

• National museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
• State Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki
• Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

Hong Kong

• M+
• Hong Kong Arts Centre
• Hong Kong Museum of Art

Iran

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan
• Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art

Israel

• Tel Aviv Museum of Art

Italy

• Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome
• MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome
• Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
• Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Rome
• Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan
• Triennale, Milan
• Museo del Novecento, Milan
• Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Trento
• Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato
• Museo Marino Marini, Florence
• Museo d'Arte Gallarate MAGA, Gallarate
• Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa
• Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca

Japan

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
• Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
• 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
• Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima

Liechtenstein

• Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

Jordan

• Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts

Mexico

• Museo de Arte contemporaneo, Monterrey
• Museo Jumex, Mexico City
• Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
• Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
• Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Aguascalientes), Aguascalientes
• Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca, Morelos

Morocco

• Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco

Netherlands

• Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
• Centraal Museum, Utrecht
• Cobra Museum, Amstelveen
• De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg
• Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague
• Groninger Museum, Groningen
• Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo
• Kunsthal, Rotterdam
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
• Singer Laren, Laren
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
• Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch
• Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
• Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Norway

• Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
• Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen

Panama

• Panama Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City

Philippines

• Metropolitan Museum of Manila
• Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art, Iloilo City

Poland

• Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
• Zachęta, Warsaw
• Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw
• Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk
• Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Kraków
• Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Łódź (one of the oldest museums of modern art in the world, opened in 1931)
• Wrocław Contemporary Museum

Portugal

• Soares dos Reis National Museum
• National Museum of Contemporary Art (Portugal) (Museu do Chiado)
• Museu Fundação Serralves
• José Malhoa Museum
• Casa das Histórias Paula Rego
• Museu da Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia

Puerto Rico

• Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan

Romania

• National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Russia

• ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
• Erarta, Saint Petersburg
• Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
• MAGMA, Moscow
• Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
• Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
• Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
• National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Serbia

• Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

Singapore

• Singapore Art Museum

South Korea

• National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul

Spain

• CAAC, Seville
• CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
• Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida
• Centre d´Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona
• Es Baluard, Palma
• Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao
• Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
• Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona
• Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia
• La Casa Encendida, Madrid
• MACBA, Barcelona
• MARCO, Vigo
• Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz
• MUSAC, León
• Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid)
• Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares
• MNCARS, Madrid
• Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid
• Tabakalera, San Sebastian

Sweden

• Fotografiska Stockholm
• Moderna Museet
• Moderna Museet Malmö

Switzerland

• Aargauer Kunsthaus
• Kunstmuseum Basel
• Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel)
• Kunstmuseum Bern
• Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
• Bündner Kunstmuseum
• Kirchner Museum Davos
• Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
• Kunstmuseum Luzern
• Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen
• MASI Lugano, Lugano
• Kunstmuseum Solothurn
• Kunstmuseum St. Gallen
• Fotomuseum Winterthur
• Kunsthaus Zürich

Taiwan

• Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei
• Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
• National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung

Thailand

• Bangkok Art and Culture Centre
• Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Bangkok

Turkey

• Borusan Contemporary
• Doğançay Museum
• Istanbul Museum of Modern Art
• Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (iS.CaM.)
• SALT (institution)
• Elgiz Museum (Proje4L)

Ukraine

• National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv
• Khanenko Museum, Kyiv
• Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv
• Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv
• Lviv National Museum, Lviv

United Kingdom

• Tate (formerly known as the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, London and St Ives)
• Arnolfini, Bristol
• BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (also known as the Baltic Flour Mill)
• Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
• Whitechapel Gallery, London
• Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
• Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham
• Tramway, Glasgow
• National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
• Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough

United States

• The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
• Artpace, San Antonio, Texas
• Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
• Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
• Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina
• Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas
• Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas
• The Broad, Los Angeles, California
• Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
• Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
• Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas
• The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, Delaware
• Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York
• Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland
• Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
• Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Honolulu, Hawaii
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, Florida
• Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
• KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
• Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
• Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts
• Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio
• Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado
• Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan
• Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
• Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
• Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida
• Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, California
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Tucson, Arizona
• Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
• Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
• New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New York
• Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
• Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida
• P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, New York
• The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois
• Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
• Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida
• Rubell Museum DC, Washington, D.C.
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
• San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose California
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York
• SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
• Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
• SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas
• Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York
• The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas
• University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts
• Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah
• Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia
• Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York