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- To answer to my first criticism there was absolutely no 'promotion' in the fifteen or so museums cited in the first version. I began with the most famous museums in the world and continued with museums listed in the "List of most visited museums in the world" and others. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 23:36, 26 February 2016 (UTC))
- The figures of exhibition space can be difficult to find. Many times we find the total space inside the building or the number for total space opened to the public. Knowing the museums, checking an image and a map of the museum, is recommanded. I also recommand, for better results, to use the formula "of exhibition space" in your research, or the search algorithm " "square feet" OR "sq ft" OR "m2" OR "square meters" OR "square foot" " + translations in other languages. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 23:36, 26 February 2016 (UTC))
- It can be useful to search for references inside the museum's official website. Type : "site:'museumsite'.org + "80000..200000 square feet" " ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 23:23, 28 April 2016 (UTC))
- An easy way to track the biggest museums is by typing, alongside the keywords art + museum, the keywords million + renovation (or extension). Then look for $100+ million projects. "100..1000 million" for shortcut. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LinguisticStudent ( talk • contribs) 11:45, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- For the calculation method, Google Earth (desktop version) offers a measurement tool giving the sides of a given building. Google Earth Pro (now free) offers directly the perimeter. This number must then be confronted with the museum floor plan (multiply by number of floors, substract the non-gallery spaces etc.). Number of rooms should not be a criterium for calculations but you often realize that one room = 200 square meters. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 12:18, 25 February 2016 (UTC))
The article description suggests that, being a list of large art museums, there should be a relatively hard cutoff at 8000 square meters. Given how far above 8000 most of the museums on the list are, and how many museums (I'm told) there are in the 6000-8000 range, the 8000 cutoff strikes me as reasonable. The article description offers the possibility of exceptions for museums with a global reputation, but to my mind that exception is meaningless unless a pretty high standard is set for global reputation. I say that because even many second-tier and third-tier museums have a global reputation, since cultural institutions like museums seldom are limited by national boundaries. One example I'm familiar with is the George Eastman Museum, which is tiny by measures like exhibition space and endowment, but that has a legitimate global reputation. Going by that reasoning, I removed the Broad, Museo Soumaya, and Louvre Lens. All three of these were founded in the last five years. So if they have some kind of exceptional global reputation that entitles them to be on the list in spite of the reasonable 8000 sqm cutoff, they came by that reputation astonishingly quickly. Certainly, they're nowhere close to being in the league of the Whitney or the Guggenheim, which are among the very few institutions below 8000 that I could see qualifying for exceptions based on global reputations. Jbening ( talk) 00:03, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I have my doubts about the Boston MFA number. It's based on an Indoor Space Available number. Judging from the floor plan, that includes a few dining spaces including one rather large courtyard, entrance spaces, bookstore, etc.
Can it really be impossible to find a number for Philadelphia that is at least as reliable as numbers for some of the other museums? I ask that having looked around myself for a while, without success. But it's such a significant museum, that it is a pity not to be able to add it to the table. Jbening ( talk) 00:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Any better references than the following?
The amount of work put into this list is appreciated and this could become a good list someday but right now the references are seriously flawed. Brian W. Schaller ( talk) 12:20, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
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I see another list is titled List of most visited art museums in the world. What do you folks think about adding "in the world" to the title of this article, to clarify that it's global in nature, and to match that other list, which has been on Wikipedia for much longer? It's a simple change. If I were to do it, I could also fix the links on pages that link to this article. Jbening ( talk) 23:31, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
The United States are by far the country with the most museums. The following document lists all large-but-not-huge-museums in the country (6,000 sqm - 18,000 sqm approx) : https://mam.org/pdfs/strategicPlans/06_stratPlan.pdf (page 12). They have all been checked. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 02:05, 12 March 2016 (UTC))
Based on what I've found, these appear to be a cluster of museums in nearby buildings, administered together. While their collections are of historic as well as aesthetic interest, I think they may qualify as art museums for purposes of this list. Anyway, they sound fascinating. I can't find clear information in English as to the combined gallery space of these museums (as opposed to the entire interior space of the buildings, which isn't relevant to this list. First, is a cluster of co-administered museums one entity for purposes of this list? If so, can anyone verify the exhibition gallery floor space for these museums? Jbening ( talk) 22:39, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
References
Any objections to moving this to List of largest art museums per this? Pinging User:Randy Kryn. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
See also Talk:List of most visited art museums in the world#Page move.
So, are there more "in the world"s and how do we find them? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:24, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
A few more for your consideration:
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I think this museum should be on the list. The floor space is about the same as Shandong Provincial Museum, I would have thought possibly bigger. Sorry, I can't add it myself. XierZhanmusi ( talk) 00:54, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
El Prado had 41,995m² surface in 2012 [1]. In 2019 it was 45,322 m² [2]. The extension by Foster will add another 2,500m² to the museum in 2021/22. -- Ecelan ( talk) 19:56, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hello,
I am LinguisticStudent and I have written most of the article a few years ago, doing a lot of research to track art museums and figures across the internet. The idea was to share to the world a list of the very large museums, some very unknown, and to have it all in one list. It was meant as a gateway to the importance of collections. The size was a good criteria to introduce and organize this list (and to limit it: the 8,000 square meter toll was perfect for that).
I have stopped from updating or even checking this page for many months. The new updates by some users are frustrating, with an obsession on perfect ranking and not on exhaustiveness. By exhaustiveness I mean giving an overview that is the most faithful to reality while doing the best with metrics. I guess two different conceptions of encyclopedia oppose each other: all-metric vs inclusiveness. I must add that I have nothing against perfect figures: I actually spent hundreds of hours searching for that, sometimes a few hours for only one museum.
What has disappeared from the article:
- some museums with approximate size space (but with a controlled methodology). Thus the ranking strategy is all the more irrevelant.
- all the museums in the 8,000-12,000 square meters range (because apparently "ranking lists" shouldn't excess 50 entries. What a shame to have these removed. No one could say that 8,000 sqm isn't very big).
- list of large museums with unknown size.
What has appeared :
- explicit rankings (i.e. number 1, number 43, etc.)
There are two things I would like to debate :
- Does anybody think that these changes should be reversed ? Perharps User:Epistulae ad Familiares could justify to the assembly why he did many of those? Could you at least bring back the 8,000 sqm - 12,000 sqm museums? No one cares if a ranking is limited to 50 or 80 entries. But people care to know about these museums!
- The page itself could maybe be renamed "List of very large museums", using a classification by continents. It would bring more focus on the museums themselves, rather than on the metrics.
I am pinging User:Jbening, who helped me at the beginning, and others who made the most contributions according to the stats : User:Derek R Bullamore, User:Anna Frodesiak, User:Qono, User:Jaedglass, User:Horse Eye's Back, User:Randy Kryn, User:DerechoReguerraz, User:Uvo.
Finally, I am not aware how you could move the subject to Wikipedians who debate such things, but it could be a good idea if anyone could do that. I also have to say that I won't have time to make changes to the page for the next coming months.
Have a great day!
Antoine
LinguisticStudent ( talk) 18:32, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
That's considerably off, there's nearly one million square feet of gallery space, the 264,000 sq feet is just the modern wing and per the cited source increased the gallery space by ~35%. (See 2010-Present section and floor plan for "almost a million square feet to explore". The original building seems to be 562,000 square feet ( [4] and our [ [5]]. But it is certainly larger than the 280k sq feet we have listed now (and also larger than Houston's museum, with several sources saying it is the second largest art museum in the US behind the Met. nableezy - 23:14, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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According to your own Wikipedia Page, the British Museum is 807,000 sq ft (75,000 m2) in 94 galleries and has been the subject of a major 22,000 square metre extension by Norman Foster.
/info/en/?search=British_Museum
However it is cited on this wikipedia page as being 277,000 sq ft (25,700 m2) and this apparently includes the 22,000 metre extension cited in the 1993 link you have used in relation to the British Museum.
Both can't be right, so which is the correct figure???
The British Museum is by fat the largest museum in London, and this inaccuracy is making Wikipedia look like a laughing stock.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:9937:A400:F0E4:B71B:F3B7:68C7 ( talk) 12:37, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
The official webpage of Hermitage has suddenly changed its exhibition size from 66,842 to 100,000 square meters. I wonder what could motivate such a big change, as well as the passage from a very precise number to this over the top figure. I suspect that it could be State propaganda to be able to steal the first place from the Louvre, but there is nothing we can do about it... https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/about/facts_and_figures/?lng=en LinguisticStudent ( talk) 00:05, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
The exhibition size could of course be very big, but it is far from being used to its full potential. It would thus be very misleading to consider it a bigger museum than the MET. Example for one exhibition: "70 paintings, 50 graphic artworks, 40 photographs". Of course, some others exhibitions are much bigger. Therefore, I have put the museum in the subsidiary list.
https://artarsenal.in.ua/en/vystavka/oleg-holosiy-non-stop-painting/
LinguisticStudent ( talk) 00:43, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
I see comments here arguing over relative sizes of galleries as if this is a source of pride. A large gallery is only valuable if it has a sizable collection of notable art. I would rather see galleries listed by the size of their art collection and it’s net worth. 216.180.86.159 ( talk) 02:33, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
I've visited nearly every large art museum in the USA, and some of these rankings are wildly inaccurate. The Dallas museum can be seen in just a few hours, while the DIA requires a good 5 to 6 hours to cover every gallery in the museum. The Birmingham museum is also supposedly larger than the DIA, but it can be covered in less than an hour. This entire article needs a serious revamp if oversights like this have been made. To append this, a quick Google search for the largest art museums in the USA brings up a number of results that appear to be citing the exact numbers on this page. This has the effect of giving people an extremely distorted view of the size and scope of the museums listed here. The impression one would get from those web pages is that a visit to the Birmingham museum would take a similar or longer amount of time as the DIA, when in reality, its entire collection can be viewed in a fifth of the time. The emphasis in this article on "gallery space", whatever that means, is setting a false narrative throughout the web. 96.27.82.176 ( talk) 17:52, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Ive been to the DIA too, no way it takes 5-6 hours. But also, the numbers here are largely divorced from reality as well. nableezy - 22:50, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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hi, why Did u remove the "well deserved"part while the world's largest museum is 5 times bigger than the second largest museum in the world ??? Johan5885 ( talk) 15:23, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Question, why is the Royal Ontario Museum on this list? If is far from primarily an art museum, and is a major general purpose museum. There are other museums on the list which are not art museums, shouldn't this be a correct listing of purely the largest museums of art? Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 12:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
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- To answer to my first criticism there was absolutely no 'promotion' in the fifteen or so museums cited in the first version. I began with the most famous museums in the world and continued with museums listed in the "List of most visited museums in the world" and others. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 23:36, 26 February 2016 (UTC))
- The figures of exhibition space can be difficult to find. Many times we find the total space inside the building or the number for total space opened to the public. Knowing the museums, checking an image and a map of the museum, is recommanded. I also recommand, for better results, to use the formula "of exhibition space" in your research, or the search algorithm " "square feet" OR "sq ft" OR "m2" OR "square meters" OR "square foot" " + translations in other languages. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 23:36, 26 February 2016 (UTC))
- It can be useful to search for references inside the museum's official website. Type : "site:'museumsite'.org + "80000..200000 square feet" " ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 23:23, 28 April 2016 (UTC))
- An easy way to track the biggest museums is by typing, alongside the keywords art + museum, the keywords million + renovation (or extension). Then look for $100+ million projects. "100..1000 million" for shortcut. — Preceding unsigned comment added by LinguisticStudent ( talk • contribs) 11:45, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
- For the calculation method, Google Earth (desktop version) offers a measurement tool giving the sides of a given building. Google Earth Pro (now free) offers directly the perimeter. This number must then be confronted with the museum floor plan (multiply by number of floors, substract the non-gallery spaces etc.). Number of rooms should not be a criterium for calculations but you often realize that one room = 200 square meters. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 12:18, 25 February 2016 (UTC))
The article description suggests that, being a list of large art museums, there should be a relatively hard cutoff at 8000 square meters. Given how far above 8000 most of the museums on the list are, and how many museums (I'm told) there are in the 6000-8000 range, the 8000 cutoff strikes me as reasonable. The article description offers the possibility of exceptions for museums with a global reputation, but to my mind that exception is meaningless unless a pretty high standard is set for global reputation. I say that because even many second-tier and third-tier museums have a global reputation, since cultural institutions like museums seldom are limited by national boundaries. One example I'm familiar with is the George Eastman Museum, which is tiny by measures like exhibition space and endowment, but that has a legitimate global reputation. Going by that reasoning, I removed the Broad, Museo Soumaya, and Louvre Lens. All three of these were founded in the last five years. So if they have some kind of exceptional global reputation that entitles them to be on the list in spite of the reasonable 8000 sqm cutoff, they came by that reputation astonishingly quickly. Certainly, they're nowhere close to being in the league of the Whitney or the Guggenheim, which are among the very few institutions below 8000 that I could see qualifying for exceptions based on global reputations. Jbening ( talk) 00:03, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
I have my doubts about the Boston MFA number. It's based on an Indoor Space Available number. Judging from the floor plan, that includes a few dining spaces including one rather large courtyard, entrance spaces, bookstore, etc.
Can it really be impossible to find a number for Philadelphia that is at least as reliable as numbers for some of the other museums? I ask that having looked around myself for a while, without success. But it's such a significant museum, that it is a pity not to be able to add it to the table. Jbening ( talk) 00:15, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
Any better references than the following?
The amount of work put into this list is appreciated and this could become a good list someday but right now the references are seriously flawed. Brian W. Schaller ( talk) 12:20, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
![]() | Note: The list is incomplete. Only a limited number of large museums have been added as many have no officially published gallery sizes. |
![]() | Note: The following list is only an estimation of ranking as reliable figures are not available for all museums worldwide. Many size figures are noted as based on satellite images of museum buildings and detailed floor plans when no official numbers are available. Total size measurements are rounded to the nearest 1000 in most cases. |
I see another list is titled List of most visited art museums in the world. What do you folks think about adding "in the world" to the title of this article, to clarify that it's global in nature, and to match that other list, which has been on Wikipedia for much longer? It's a simple change. If I were to do it, I could also fix the links on pages that link to this article. Jbening ( talk) 23:31, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
The United States are by far the country with the most museums. The following document lists all large-but-not-huge-museums in the country (6,000 sqm - 18,000 sqm approx) : https://mam.org/pdfs/strategicPlans/06_stratPlan.pdf (page 12). They have all been checked. ( LinguisticStudent ( talk) 02:05, 12 March 2016 (UTC))
Based on what I've found, these appear to be a cluster of museums in nearby buildings, administered together. While their collections are of historic as well as aesthetic interest, I think they may qualify as art museums for purposes of this list. Anyway, they sound fascinating. I can't find clear information in English as to the combined gallery space of these museums (as opposed to the entire interior space of the buildings, which isn't relevant to this list. First, is a cluster of co-administered museums one entity for purposes of this list? If so, can anyone verify the exhibition gallery floor space for these museums? Jbening ( talk) 22:39, 11 November 2016 (UTC)
References
Any objections to moving this to List of largest art museums per this? Pinging User:Randy Kryn. Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 08:03, 14 November 2016 (UTC)
See also Talk:List of most visited art museums in the world#Page move.
So, are there more "in the world"s and how do we find them? Anna Frodesiak ( talk) 23:24, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
A few more for your consideration:
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I think this museum should be on the list. The floor space is about the same as Shandong Provincial Museum, I would have thought possibly bigger. Sorry, I can't add it myself. XierZhanmusi ( talk) 00:54, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
El Prado had 41,995m² surface in 2012 [1]. In 2019 it was 45,322 m² [2]. The extension by Foster will add another 2,500m² to the museum in 2021/22. -- Ecelan ( talk) 19:56, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
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Hello,
I am LinguisticStudent and I have written most of the article a few years ago, doing a lot of research to track art museums and figures across the internet. The idea was to share to the world a list of the very large museums, some very unknown, and to have it all in one list. It was meant as a gateway to the importance of collections. The size was a good criteria to introduce and organize this list (and to limit it: the 8,000 square meter toll was perfect for that).
I have stopped from updating or even checking this page for many months. The new updates by some users are frustrating, with an obsession on perfect ranking and not on exhaustiveness. By exhaustiveness I mean giving an overview that is the most faithful to reality while doing the best with metrics. I guess two different conceptions of encyclopedia oppose each other: all-metric vs inclusiveness. I must add that I have nothing against perfect figures: I actually spent hundreds of hours searching for that, sometimes a few hours for only one museum.
What has disappeared from the article:
- some museums with approximate size space (but with a controlled methodology). Thus the ranking strategy is all the more irrevelant.
- all the museums in the 8,000-12,000 square meters range (because apparently "ranking lists" shouldn't excess 50 entries. What a shame to have these removed. No one could say that 8,000 sqm isn't very big).
- list of large museums with unknown size.
What has appeared :
- explicit rankings (i.e. number 1, number 43, etc.)
There are two things I would like to debate :
- Does anybody think that these changes should be reversed ? Perharps User:Epistulae ad Familiares could justify to the assembly why he did many of those? Could you at least bring back the 8,000 sqm - 12,000 sqm museums? No one cares if a ranking is limited to 50 or 80 entries. But people care to know about these museums!
- The page itself could maybe be renamed "List of very large museums", using a classification by continents. It would bring more focus on the museums themselves, rather than on the metrics.
I am pinging User:Jbening, who helped me at the beginning, and others who made the most contributions according to the stats : User:Derek R Bullamore, User:Anna Frodesiak, User:Qono, User:Jaedglass, User:Horse Eye's Back, User:Randy Kryn, User:DerechoReguerraz, User:Uvo.
Finally, I am not aware how you could move the subject to Wikipedians who debate such things, but it could be a good idea if anyone could do that. I also have to say that I won't have time to make changes to the page for the next coming months.
Have a great day!
Antoine
LinguisticStudent ( talk) 18:32, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
That's considerably off, there's nearly one million square feet of gallery space, the 264,000 sq feet is just the modern wing and per the cited source increased the gallery space by ~35%. (See 2010-Present section and floor plan for "almost a million square feet to explore". The original building seems to be 562,000 square feet ( [4] and our [ [5]]. But it is certainly larger than the 280k sq feet we have listed now (and also larger than Houston's museum, with several sources saying it is the second largest art museum in the US behind the Met. nableezy - 23:14, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
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According to your own Wikipedia Page, the British Museum is 807,000 sq ft (75,000 m2) in 94 galleries and has been the subject of a major 22,000 square metre extension by Norman Foster.
/info/en/?search=British_Museum
However it is cited on this wikipedia page as being 277,000 sq ft (25,700 m2) and this apparently includes the 22,000 metre extension cited in the 1993 link you have used in relation to the British Museum.
Both can't be right, so which is the correct figure???
The British Museum is by fat the largest museum in London, and this inaccuracy is making Wikipedia look like a laughing stock.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7F:9937:A400:F0E4:B71B:F3B7:68C7 ( talk) 12:37, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
The official webpage of Hermitage has suddenly changed its exhibition size from 66,842 to 100,000 square meters. I wonder what could motivate such a big change, as well as the passage from a very precise number to this over the top figure. I suspect that it could be State propaganda to be able to steal the first place from the Louvre, but there is nothing we can do about it... https://hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/about/facts_and_figures/?lng=en LinguisticStudent ( talk) 00:05, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
The exhibition size could of course be very big, but it is far from being used to its full potential. It would thus be very misleading to consider it a bigger museum than the MET. Example for one exhibition: "70 paintings, 50 graphic artworks, 40 photographs". Of course, some others exhibitions are much bigger. Therefore, I have put the museum in the subsidiary list.
https://artarsenal.in.ua/en/vystavka/oleg-holosiy-non-stop-painting/
LinguisticStudent ( talk) 00:43, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
I see comments here arguing over relative sizes of galleries as if this is a source of pride. A large gallery is only valuable if it has a sizable collection of notable art. I would rather see galleries listed by the size of their art collection and it’s net worth. 216.180.86.159 ( talk) 02:33, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
I've visited nearly every large art museum in the USA, and some of these rankings are wildly inaccurate. The Dallas museum can be seen in just a few hours, while the DIA requires a good 5 to 6 hours to cover every gallery in the museum. The Birmingham museum is also supposedly larger than the DIA, but it can be covered in less than an hour. This entire article needs a serious revamp if oversights like this have been made. To append this, a quick Google search for the largest art museums in the USA brings up a number of results that appear to be citing the exact numbers on this page. This has the effect of giving people an extremely distorted view of the size and scope of the museums listed here. The impression one would get from those web pages is that a visit to the Birmingham museum would take a similar or longer amount of time as the DIA, when in reality, its entire collection can be viewed in a fifth of the time. The emphasis in this article on "gallery space", whatever that means, is setting a false narrative throughout the web. 96.27.82.176 ( talk) 17:52, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
Ive been to the DIA too, no way it takes 5-6 hours. But also, the numbers here are largely divorced from reality as well. nableezy - 22:50, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
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hi, why Did u remove the "well deserved"part while the world's largest museum is 5 times bigger than the second largest museum in the world ??? Johan5885 ( talk) 15:23, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
Question, why is the Royal Ontario Museum on this list? If is far from primarily an art museum, and is a major general purpose museum. There are other museums on the list which are not art museums, shouldn't this be a correct listing of purely the largest museums of art? Thanks. Randy Kryn ( talk) 12:24, 2 February 2024 (UTC)