1800s

Years

1800

Amsterdam - Rijksmuseum

First public opening (as Nationale Kunst-Galerij)

1803

Brussels - Musée Oldmasters Museum

First public opening (as Royal Museum of Ancient Art)

1807

Budapest - Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum

First public opening

1810

Berlin - Museum für Naturkunde

First public opening

1818

Prague - Národní muzeum

First public opening

1819

Copenhagen - Nationalmuseet

First public opening (as an Old Norse museum)

Madrid - Museo Nacional del Prado

First public opening

1821

Ljubljana - Narodni muzej Slovenije

First public opening

1823

Bogota - Museo Nacional de Colombia

First public opening

1824

London - National Gallery

First public opening

Turin - Museo Egizio

First public opening

1825

Cape Town - Iziko South African Museum

First public opening

1829

Athens - National Archaeological Museum

First public opening

1830

Berlin - Altes Museum

First public opening

1832

Dublin - National Museum of Ireland, Merrion Street

First public opening

1837

Versailles - Château de Versailles

First public opening (as a museum)

1841

Washington D.C. - Smithsonian American Art Museum

First public opening

1842

Port Louis - Natural History Museum

First public opening

1846

Zagreb - Arheološki muzej u Zagrebu

First public opening

1849

Singapore - National Museum of Singapore

First public opening

1852

London - Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A)

First public opening

Saint Petersburg - State Hermitage Museum

First public opening

Tbilisi - Simon Janashia Museum of Georgia

First public opening (as museum of the Caucasian Department of the Russian Imperial Geographic Society)

1855

Berlin - Neues Museum

First public opening

1856

London - National Portrait Gallery

First public opening

1858

Washington D.C. - National Museum of Natural History

First public opening

1859

Edinburgh - National Galleries of Scotland: National

First public opening

1862

Boston - Museum of Science

First public opening in a dedicated museum building

Gatineau - Canadian Museum of History

First public opening

Warsaw - Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie

First public opening

1863

Belgrade - Narodni Muzej Srbije

First public opening

Reykjavík - Þjóðminjasafn Íslands

First public opening

1866

Edinburgh - National Museum of Scotland

First public opening

Stockholm - Nationalmuseum

First public opening

1868

Georgetown - Guyana National Museum

First public opening

Jakarta - National Museum of Indonesia

First public opening

1869

Riga - Latvijas Nacionālais mākslas muzejs

First public opening

1872

New York City - American Museum of Natural History

First public opening

New York City - Metropolitan Museum of Art

First public opening

1873

Tokyo - Tokyo National Museum

First public opening

1874

Bangkok - National Museum Bangkok

First public opening

Leipzig - Ägyptisches Museum der Universität Leipzig

First public opening

1876

Berlin - Alte Nationalgalerie

First public opening

Tashkent - State Museum of History of Uzbekistan

First public opening (as People's Museum of Turkestan)

1877

Colombo - Sri Lanka National Museum

First public opening

1880

Paris - Musée Carnavalet

First public opening

1881

London - Natural History Museum

First public opening in its own dedicated building (previously part of the British Museum since 1759)

1883

San Salvador - Museo Nacional de Antropología Dr. David J. Guzmán (MUNA)

First public opening

1884

Lisbon - National Museum of Ancient Art

First public opening

1887

Chicago - Art Institute

First public opening in a dedicated museum building

San José - Museo Nacional de Costa Rica

First public opening

1888

Milwaukee - Milwaukee Art Museum

First public opening (as two prior art institutions: Layton Art Gallery and Milwaukee Art Institute)

Sarajevo - Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine

First public opening

Tunis - Musée National du Bardo

First public opening

1889

Vienna - Naturhistorisches Museum

First public opening

1890

Dublin - National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street

First public opening

1891

Vienna - Kunsthistorisches Museum

First public opening

1892

Port of Spain - National Museum and Art Gallery of Trinidad and Tobago

First public opening (as Royal Victoria Institute)

1893

Moscow - State Tretyakov Gallery

First public opening

1895

São Paulo - Museu do Ipiranga

First public opening

1896

Buenos Aires - Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes

First public opening

1897

Algiers - Musée National des Antiquités et des Arts Islamiques

First public opening

1898

Guatemala City - Museo Nacional de Arte Maya — Arqueología y Etnología

First public opening

Saint Petersburg - State Russian Museum

First public opening

Zurich - Landesmuseum

First public opening

1899

Kyiv - National Museum of the History of Ukraine

First public opening (as Museum of Antiquities and Arts)

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