The Art Institute of Chicago in Illinois, USA was founded in 1879 and is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States houses a collection that spans centuries and the globe.

The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, presents a full range of twentieth-century and contemporary American art, with a special focus on works by living artists.

The British Museum in London, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of some eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence, having been widely collected during the era of the British Empire. It documents the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of the largest and most influential museums of modern art in the world

The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument in Paris, France.

The Orsay Museum (Musée d’Orsay) is one of the major Paris museums famous for its very rich impressionist and post-impressionist collections, filled with renowned works of art by the most acclaimed European masters.

The Prado Museum, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It is widely considered to have one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 20th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and the single best collection of Spanish art.