Art forms
Ceramics, textiles, metalwork, furniture, and folk craft.
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Canada · Regional
Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum spans natural history and world cultures, with galleries for Indigenous Canadian, East Asian, and European decorative arts alongside touring exhibitions and hands-on family galleries.
Canada · Regional
Glenbow in Calgary collects Alberta history and western Canadian art, including Indigenous belongings, painting, photography, decorative arts, and extensive archives documenting prairie settlement and ranching.
Brazil · Regional
Museu de Arte da Bahia in Salvador, the state's oldest museum, holds colonial Brazilian painting, religious sculpture, furniture, and Asian ceramics in a historic mansion, and runs education programmes.
Brazil · Regional
Museu de Arte Sacra de São Paulo, at the Luz Monastery, holds Brazilian religious painting, sculpture, silverwork, and altar decoration from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Mexico · National
Museo Soumaya in Mexico City, run by the Carlos Slim Foundation, holds Rodin, Dalí, European old masters, and Mexican colonial to contemporary art across two venues.
Mexico · Regional
Museo Amparo in Puebla's historic centre covers pre-Hispanic to contemporary Mexican art, with colonial painting and a strong photography programme in a restored colonial building, plus regular talks and tours.
Chile · Regional
Museo Regional de Magallanes in Punta Arenas, housed in the Braun Menéndez palace, holds Patagonian Indigenous objects, regional painting, and decorative arts, and preserves the palace period interiors.
Colombia · National
Museo del Oro in Bogotá, run by the Banco de la República, holds over thirty thousand pre-Columbian gold objects and interprets Andean metalwork and cosmology.
Peru · Regional
Museo Regional de Ica holds Paracas, Nasca, Wari, and Inca ceramics and textiles alongside colonial painting in the city of Ica, with objects from the republican era.
Peru · Regional
Museo Santuarios Andinos in Arequipa, at the Catholic University of Santa María, centres on the Ice Maiden Juanita and Inca textiles, metalwork, and offerings, and explains the archaeology of high-altitude ritual sites.
Peru · Regional
Museo Inka in Cusco, run by the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad, holds Inca and pre-Inca textiles, ceramics, metalwork, and wooden objects, displayed in a colonial mansion near the main square.
Australia · Regional
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery in Hobart combines colonial painting, decorative arts, and natural history collections in one complex, offering a compact introduction to the island's culture.
Australia · Regional
The Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne cares for more than 18,000 works in the university collection and reopened in 2025 with a focus on Australian art.
Australia · Regional
The Chau Chak Wing Museum at the University of Sydney unites archaeology, natural history, and the university art collection, with free displays spanning Mediterranean antiquities and First Nations cultures.
New Zealand · Regional
Te Manawa in Palmerston North combines an art gallery, museum, and science centre under one roof, showing Māori taonga, local social history, and rotating visual art exhibitions.
New Zealand · Regional
The Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt is known for applied art and design, with more than 3,500 objects including jewellery, ceramics, and textiles; admission is free.
Egypt · Regional
The Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo's Dokki district occupies a former villa and holds 19th-century European painting, Japanese ukiyo-e prints, and Islamic decorative arts.
Egypt · Regional
Luxor Museum on the Nile corniche displays statues, stelae, and royal mummies from Theban temples and tombs, with restrained lighting and a focused, uncluttered installation.
Egypt · Regional
The Nubian Museum in Aswan traces Nubian history and culture in a sandstone building, showing artefacts from prehistory to the Islamic period, crafts, and a reconstructed Nubian house.
Morocco · Regional
The Bank Al-Maghrib Museum in Rabat uses more than 30,000 coins, banknotes, and monetary objects to trace Moroccan currency history, alongside a gallery of Moroccan and foreign painting.
Morocco · Regional
Dar Si Said in the Marrakesh medina is now the National Museum of Weaving and Carpets, showing around 400 carpets, textiles, and Berber crafts within a 19th-century palace.
Morocco · Regional
Dar El Bacha in Marrakesh presents Moroccan art, objects, and contemporary commissions under a confluences theme, with a shaded courtyard and café for a pause.
South Africa · Regional
Pretoria Art Museum in Arcadia Park concentrates on South African painting, sculpture, and ceramics, with 17th-century Dutch works from the Michaelis Bequest and rotating contemporary shows.
Kenya · National
Nairobi National Museum, run by the National Museums of Kenya, displays archaeology, ethnography, and contemporary art, a starting point for understanding East African human origins and cultures.
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