It is considered that the most important art museums are: [http://www.louvre.fr/en/homepage Musee du Louvre], Paris, France, [http://www.museivaticani.va/3_EN/pages/MV_Home.html Vatican Museums], Vatican City, Rome, Italy, [http://www.metmuseum.org/ Metropolitan Museum of Art], New York, New York, [http://www.getty.edu/art/ J. Paul Getty Center], Los Angeles, California, [http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html Musee d'Orsay], Paris, France, [http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/en/index.php Uffizi Gallery], Florence, Italy, [http://www.artic.edu/ Art Institute of Chicago], Chicago, Illinois, Tate Modern, London, England (part of the [http://www.tate.org.uk/ Tate group]), [https://www.museodelprado.es/ Prado Museum], Madrid, Spain, and the [http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb.html National Gallery of Art], Washington, D.C. [http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/02/29/us-travel-picks-museums-idUSSP17187820080229]
[[File:Amsterdam Rijksmuseum.jpg|thumb|370px|Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.]]
[[File:Samuel Palmer A Dream in the Appenine c 1864 Tate Britain.jpg|thumb|Samuel Palmer, A Dream in the AppenineApennine, ca. 1864, at Tate Britain.]]
[[File:Rembrandt Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee.jpg|thumb|[[Rembrandt]], Christ In The Storm On The Sea Of Galilee; In 1990, this painting was robbed from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.]]
[[File:Boulanger Rehersal the Flute Player.jpg|thumb|Gustave Boulanger, A Performance of The Flute Player..., 1861, at The Chateau De Versailles.]]