Planning a trip to Europe this year? It’s likely you’ll want to check out a museum or two considering the continent has some of the most amazing history and art museums on the planet. Use our handy museum finder to personalize your itinerary. Have fun!
Heksenswaag (Witches Weighing Station) in Oudewater, Netherlands
If you like small museums that tell a story well, check out:
Our Lord in the Attic, Amsterdam, NL
Heksenwaag, Oudewater, NL
Museo San Telmo, San Sebastian, Spain
Stonehenge Museum, England
Pont du Gard Museum, Vers-Pont du Gard, France
Museo del Gallo-Romano, Cartagena, Spain
Hans Holbein the Younger ‘The Ambassadors’ found in the National Gallery in London, England
If you like huge art museums covering a wide range of time periods and genres, check out:
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Uffizzi, Florence, Italy
The Prado, Madrid, Spain
The National Gallery, London, England
The Louvre, Paris, France
Scheepvarten Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
If you like the clever use of technology in the curation of museum exhibits, check out:
Scheepvarten Maritime Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Castillo de la Concepcion, Cartagena, Spain
Pont du Gard Museum, Vers-Pont du Gard, France
Centre Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany
Two of the hundreds of sculptures throughout Skopje, Macedonia
If you like your art outdoors, check out:
Old town Reykjavik, Iceland
Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, NL
Budapest, Hungary
Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
Skopje, Macedonia
Musee D’Orsay in Paris, France is a former train station
If you enjoy the architecture of the museum as much as the collection, check out:
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NL
Newgrange, Ireland
Rila Monastery , Rila, Bulgaria
Musee Gallo-Romaine de Fourviere, Lyon, France
Turkish-Islam Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Musee D’Orsay, Paris, France
Picasso vase and reclining nude found at the Stedhiljk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
If you like modern art, check out:
Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, NL
Guggenheim Museum, Venice, Italy
Stedhiljk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Istanbul Modern, Turkey
Tate Modern, London, England
If you like collections focused on one artist, check out:
Picasso Museum, Barcelona, Spain
Dali Museum, Figueres, Spain
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Traditional Basque headdresses at the San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastian, Spain
If you like collections focused on one subject, check out:
Heksenwaag, Oudewater, NL (Witches Weigh Station)
San Telmo Museoa, San Sebastian, Spain (Basque culture)
Ephesus Museum, Selcuk, Turkey (Ruins of Ephesus)
Centre Charlemagne, Aachen, Germany
The Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archeology, Bodrum, Turkey (underwater archeology)
Great Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, Turkey (mosaics)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, NL (Dutch art)
Stones encircle the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, England
If you like the place to the be the museum, check out:
Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg, France
Monteriggioni, Italy
Pope’s Palace, Avignon, France
Carcassone, France
Goreme Open Air Museum, Goreme, Turkey
Paestum, Campania, Italy
Sinagoga de Santa Maria, Toledo, Spain
Avebury, England
Alhambra, Granada, Spain
Kariye Church, Istanbul, Turkey
Aphrodite fighting off amorous Pan with her sandal with help from Eros at the Archaeological Museum in Athens, Greece
If you like sculpture, check out:
Archeological Museum, Athens, Greece
Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, NL
Palazzo del Bargello, Rome, Italy
Archeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
BONUS TIP: Best museum deal? The Museumkaart gives you free entry to 400+ museums throughout the Netherlands (check out how many made our list!). Good for a year, at E59/$ it only takes visiting 4-5 museums to warrant the purchase.
LAST TIP: Hungry? Check out the museum cafe . . . we have found they are usually high quality and on par price-wise.
-written by Tammy, photographed by Tammy and Aaron
