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Which is the largest museum?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

The Louvre Museum is the largest in the world and the Smithsonian is the largest in the United states.

Louvre, Located in Paris, France, the Louvre displays over 35,000 pieces of art. The museum owns a much larger collection but most of the pieces are kept in storage. Periodically, the museum rotates its collection. The museum has been open since 1793, although the building itself dates back to medieval times when it was a military fortification.

In terms of area in a single location, the Louvre in Paris is by far the largest single-location museum and gardens complex in the world. It is surpassed in the size of collection (~1 million at the Louvre) by The Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia (~3 million pieces); both of them are dwarfed by the collection of the Smithsonian Institution of the United States (~136 million pieces) and the British Museum (160 million piece, but that total includes the books of the British Library).

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