List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings
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This is a list of museums or print room
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Print room
A print room is either a room or industrial building where printing takes place, or a room in an art gallery or museum, where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours and photographs, are held and viewed. The latter meaning is the subject of this...
s with major collections of European old master prints and drawings. This list is incomplete, and should not be regarded as a correct ranking of the major collections. Fuller information is available at print room
Print room
A print room is either a room or industrial building where printing takes place, or a room in an art gallery or museum, where a collection of old master and modern prints, usually together with drawings, watercolours and photographs, are held and viewed. The latter meaning is the subject of this...
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- British MuseumBritish MuseumThe British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
, London, UK- 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/pd/pdhome.html
- The Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
*, New York, USA- 15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp#stu
- AlbertinaAlbertina, ViennaThe Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well as more modern graphic works, photographs and architectural drawings...
, Vienna, Austria- 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints http://www.albertina.at/cms/front_content.php?idcatart=257 Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings
- KupferstichkabinettKupferstichkabinett BerlinThe Kupferstichkabinett, or Museum of Prints and Drawings, is a prints museum in Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Berlin State Museums, and is located in the Kulturforum on Potsdamer Platz...
, Berlin, Germany- 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints http://www.smb.spk-berlin.de/smb/sammlungen/details.php?objectId=8
- State HermitageHermitage MuseumThe State Hermitage is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums of the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been opened to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display,...
, St. Petersburg, Russia- 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints http://www.khm.at/system2E.html?/staticE/page1946.html
- Victoria & Albert MuseumVictoria and Albert MuseumThe Victoria and Albert Museum , set in the Brompton district of The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects...
, London, UK- 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints http://www.vam.ac.uk/about_va/whoswho/collections/dept_word/index.html Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawings http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Reference/Library_888.html (V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004)
- Cabinet des Estampes et des DessinsCabinet des estampes et des dessins (Strasbourg)The Cabinet des estampes et des dessins is a museum in Strasbourg in the Bas-Rhin department of France. It is dedicated to engravings and drawings , but also woodcuts and lithographies, covering a period of five centuries from the 14th to the 19th. Graphic art since 1870 is displayed in the Musée...
, Strasbourg, France- 200,000 prints and drawings http://www.musees-strasbourg.org/index.php?page=Cabinet-des-Estampes
- Fitzwilliam MuseumFitzwilliam MuseumThe Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge, England. It receives around 300,000 visitors annually. Admission is free....
, Cambridge, UK- 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/dept/pdp/prints/
- Royal CollectionRoyal CollectionThe Royal Collection is the art collection of the British Royal Family. It is property of the monarch as sovereign, but is held in trust for her successors and the nation. It contains over 7,000 paintings, 40,000 watercolours and drawings, and about 150,000 old master prints, as well as historical...
, London, UK- 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/default.asp?action=article&ID=19 Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
- Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
- 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de FranceBibliothèque nationale de FranceThe is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...
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- 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Philadelphia Museum of ArtPhiladelphia Museum of ArtThe Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States. It is located at the west end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The Museum was established in 1876 in conjunction with the Centennial Exposition of the same year...
, Philadelphia, USA- 150,000 drawings and prints http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/216-436-429-341.html
- UffiziUffiziThe Uffizi Gallery , is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.-History:...
, Florence, Italy- 120,000 drawings and prints http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/disegni/
- Bibliothèque de l'ArsenalBibliothèque de l'ArsenalThe Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in Paris is one of the branches of the Bibliothèque nationale de France.-History:...
, Paris, France - Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of ChicagoThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
, Chicago, USA- 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/prints/index.php
- Musée des Beaux-ArtsMusée des Beaux-Arts de DijonThe Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon is a museum of fine arts opened in 1787 in Dijon, France. It is housed in the Palace of the Dukes of Burgundy in the historic center of Dijon.- Artworks :The Musée include a large and varied collection of art:...
, Dijon, France- 10, 500 drawings, 60 0000 prints http://mba.dijon.fr/collectionsag.html
- Musée des Beaux-ArtsMusée des Beaux-Arts d'OrléansThe Musée des beaux-arts d'Orléans is a museum in the city of Orléans in France. Founded in 1797, it is one of France's oldest provincial museums. Its collections cover the period from the 15th to 20th centuries...
, Orléans, France- 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints http://www.musees.regioncentre.fr/Les-musees.php?navID=&lang=FRA&preprod=0&idcat=C&idmusee=AAFG&idarticle=AAFGB
- Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern ArtThe Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York, USA- 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints http://www.moma.org/research/studycenters/index.html#drawstudy Includes more than 4,000 Old Master drawings and excludes over 10,000 architectural drawings http://www.metmuseum.org/education/er_lib.asp#stu
- Brooklyn MuseumBrooklyn MuseumThe Brooklyn Museum is an encyclopedia art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, the museum holds New York City's second largest art collection with roughly 1.5 million works....
, New York, USA- 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/collections/prints-drawings-and-photographs.php
- Museo del PradoMuseo del PradoThe Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of...
, Madrid, Spain- 9000 drawings and prints http://www.www.museodelprado.es/index.php?id=50
- Zelandia IllustrataZelandia IllustrataThe Zelandia Illustrata is the oldest collection of prints about the Dutch county Zeeland. The collection consists of 4 categories: maps and plans, topography, history and life, portraits and personal particulars....
, Amsterdam, Netherlands- 18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards