List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings


This is a list of museums or print rooms with major collections of European old master prints and drawings. This list is incomplete, and should not be regarded as a correct ranking of the major collections.
  1. British Museum, London, England
  2. : 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints
  3. The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, US
  4. : 15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints
  5. Albertina, Vienna, Austria
  6. : 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings
  7. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
  8. : 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints
  9. State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
  10. : 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints
  11. Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England
  12. : 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawings
  13. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  14. : Over 500,000 prints and drawings
  15. National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Prague, Czech Republic
  16. : 60,000 drawings, 400,000 prints
  17. Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg, France
  18. : Over 200,000 prints and drawings
  19. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
  20. : 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints
  21. Royal Collection, London, England
  22. : 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
  23. Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
  24. : 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
  25. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  26. : 150,000 drawings and prints
  27. Uffizi, Florence, Italy
  28. : 120,000 drawings and prints
  29. National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
  30. : 105,000 drawings and prints
  31. Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
  32. : 100,000 prints
  33. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
  34. : 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints
  35. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
  36. : 10,500 drawings, 60,0000 prints
  37. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France
  38. : 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints
  39. Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  40. : 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints
  41. Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
  42. : 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints
  43. Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
  44. : 9,000 drawings, 6,000 prints. The main drawing and print collection is at the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
  45. Zelandia Illustrata, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  46. :18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards
  47. Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración, Madrid, Spain
  48. : 200,000 drawings and illustrations by 1,500 artists from 1891 up to the present
  49. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  50. : 17,000 drawings, 60,000 to 70,000 prints
  51. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
  52. : 130,000 prints and drawings
  53. Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands
  54. Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  55. : 100,000 prints and drawings
  56. Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
  57. : 100,00 prints, 10,000 drawings
  58. National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
  59. : 50,000 drawings, 70,000 prints
  60. Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
  61. : 15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints
  62. Hispanic Society of America, New York, US
  63. : 6,000 drawings, 15,000 prints
  64. Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
  65. : 75,000 drawings and prints