Talk:List of largest museums

Candidate for the list: National Museum of the United States Air Force

From the National Museum of the United States Air Force Wikipedia page: "In 2016, the museum opened its 224,000-square-foot (20,800 m2) fourth building, bringing its size to 1,120,000 square feet (104,000 m2)." Sarrica (talk) 02:50, 28 July 2024 (UTC)

The list was random, arbitrary, and lazy

I am currently working on turning this list into something fairly informative and consistent (progress so far: ), and I have noticed that many inclusions are just based on lucky guesses, while obvious candidates for "very large museum" (Berlin, Brussels, Oslo, Warsaw...) had been overlooked. On the plus side, it pleases me exceedingly well that frumpy little Mulhouse has two museums in the list, who would have thought? In fact, everybody who had heard about the largest automobile museum in the world and the largest railway museum in Europe would have thought. This is why I call this list, as I found it, "lazy". Edelseider (talk) 14:21, 30 January 2025 (UTC)

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Sortable table

The table of this list is sortable, but it doesn’t work quite well. Countries don’t sort alphabetically and the numbers don’t go high to low, so 8,000,000 artifacts of the British Museum goes lower than 9,000 of the National Gallery Singapore. How can we fix that? EncyclofanAlie123 (talk) 08:32, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Maybe it will work if we replace the commas by dots.EncyclofanAlie123 (talk) 16:59, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

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Field Museum of Natural History

Field Museum of Natural History is 1.2M sqft, or 85k sqm, and has over 22 million pieces…how is it not on the list? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2025-34852-40 (talk) 20:28, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Why is the National Museum of Korea on here twice?

With two vastly different floor sizes. ~2026-35989-77 (talk) 02:01, 20 June 2026 (UTC)