Memorize these and you could recognize 19.5% of all Museums clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the Louvre | 18 | In 1793, the French gov't declared that the royal collections here should be open to the public |
| 2 | the Prado | 13 | This Madrid museum has the art collections of the Spanish Hapsburgs & Bourbon monarchs |
| 3 | the British Museum | 12 | Head to Bloomsbury in London to visit this national museum & its famous collection of mummies & other antiquities |
| 4 | The Rijksmuseum | 12 | Architect Pierre Cuypers designed this museum that houses Vermeer's "The Kitchen Maid" |
| 5 | the Guggenheim | 11 | NYC museum seen here: |
| 6 | the Hermitage | 9 | Visitors were once required to wear court costume at this Leningrad museum |
| 7 | Chicago | 8 | This Midwest city's Museum of Science & Industry has a coal mine & a submarine |
| 8 | the Smithsonian | 8 | The National Air & Space Museum & the National Museum of the American Indian are part of this Washington, D.C. complex |
| 9 | Oslo | 7 | The famous raft "Kon-Tiki" has its own museum in this city, Norway's capital |
| 10 | New Orleans | 7 | The old U.S. mint in this city houses a fine collection of Mardi Gras regalia |
| 11 | the Uffizi | 7 | This art gallery in Florence, Italy was originally built to be the Medicis' office |
| 12 | the Metropolitan Museum of Art | 6 | This NYC art museum has acquired over 1,000 musical instruments since 1980 |
| 13 | Amsterdam | 6 | The Stedelijk Museum, known for its modern art, is in this city, also the home of the Rijksmuseum |
| 14 | the Field Museum | 5 | Bushman, a famous gorilla who once lived at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo, lives on forever at this nearby museum |
| 15 | Pablo Picasso | 5 | A collection of the art of this 20th century Spanish painter is housed at the Hotel Sale in Paris |
| 16 | Georgia O'Keeffe | 5 | In 1997 a museum devoted to this artist opened in Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 17 | Andy Warhol | 5 | Here's an early work by this artist, from the Pittsburgh museum that's devoted to him |
| 18 | the Victoria and Albert Museum | 5 | Located on Cromwell Road & home to more than 2.8 million objects, it bears in part the name of a cousin of a British queen |
| 19 | the Holocaust Museum | 4 | James I. Freed's design for this Washington museum includes elements of concentration camp architecture |
| 20 | the Getty Museum | 4 | This Malibu, California museum, named for its oil magnate founder, is the world's richest |
| 21 | Surfing | 4 | Hang ten & head on over to a real lighthouse in Santa Cruz, Calif., home to a museum devoted to this sport |
| 22 | Pittsburgh | 4 | The Frick Art Museum & Sarah Scaife Gallery are high points of this Pennsylvania city |
| 23 | Nevada | 4 | This state's state museum is in the old Carson Mint building across the street from a casino |
| 24 | Munich | 4 | This German city's BMW-Museum features cars & motorcycles made by that company |
| 25 | Mozart | 4 | His Salzburg birthplace is that city's second-most heavily visited attraction |
| 26 | Gene Autry | 4 | This singing cowboy has a western heritage museum in Los Angeles' Griffith Park |
| 27 | Florence | 4 | Once the home of Italian kings, the Pitti palace in this city houses some of the world's great paintings |
| 28 | Casey Jones | 4 | To track down the truth about this legendary engineer, make tracks to his museum in Vaughn, Miss. |
| 29 | Akron | 4 | A statue of Chas. Goodyear holding hunks of rubber graces Goodyear's World of Rubber in this Ohio city |
| 30 | The Vatican | 4 | Small independent state in which you'd find the Gregorian Museum of Etruscan Art |
| 31 | Vincent Van Gogh | 4 | The museum of this 19th C. Dutch-born painter is on an Amsterdam street named for 17th C. painter Paulus Potter |
| 32 | the Museum of Modern Art | 4 | Van Gogh's "Starry Night" & some of Monet's water lily paintings hang here in Midtown Manhattan |
| 33 | MOMA (the Museum of Modern Art) | 4 | Alfred Barr Jr., the founding director of this museum, intended it to help people enjoy the visual arts of our time |
| 34 | Washington, D.C. | 3 | Dumbarton Oaks in this city boasts one of the world's finest collections of Byzantine art |
| 35 | Venice | 3 | While the Guggenheim Museum is in NYC, Peggy Guggenheim's collection is in this Italian city |
| 36 | Sue | 3 | The largest T. rex ever found, she's the old gal seenhereat the Field Museum in Chicago |
| 37 | Stockholm | 3 | Sweden's Ethnographical Nordic Museum is in this capital city |
| 38 | Philadelphia | 3 | You can find the Mummers Museum in this U.S. city famous for its Mummers |
| 39 | Ottawa | 3 | Canada's National Gallery in this city contains the world's most extensive collection of Canadian art |
| 40 | Oklahoma | 3 | The Woolaroc Museum near Bartlesville in this state is famous for its collection of Indian blankets |
| 41 | Oak Ridge | 3 | The first museum devoted entirely to atomic energy was opened in 1949 in this Eastern Tennessee town |
| 42 | New York City | 3 | Guinness says the world's largest single museum is this city's American Museum of Natural History |
| 43 | New York | 3 | Founded in 1988, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum honors the immigrants of this city |
| 44 | Michigan | 3 | Displays on transportation can be found at the Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Museum in Flint in this state |
| 45 | Maine | 3 | Electric railroad equipment is exhibited at the Seashore Trolley Museum near Kennebunkport in this state |
| 46 | London | 3 | Sir Henry Tate, a sugar refining magnate, founded the museum now known as the Tate Gallery in this city |
| 47 | James Joyce | 3 | A Dublin museum devoted to this writer is housed in a tower used as a setting for his "Ulysses" |
| 48 | Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) | 3 | Her farmhouse in Kenya, now a museum, is in Karen, the Nairobi suburb named for her |
| 49 | Indianapolis | 3 | A furnished Hoosier log cabin can be found in the world's largest kids museum in this capital |
| 50 | Illinois | 3 | Clocks & other timepieces are on display in this state at the Time Museum in Rockford |