Institutions With Public Collections of Spectacles or Key Artwork

Fernando Nino de Guevara - El Greco, c. 1600, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Click on the image to learn more about this wonderful painting.

Franklin with Bifocals, Charles Peale, 1785-87, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Detail from An Old Woman Praying, Nicolaes Maes, Dutch, 17th century, Worcester Art Museum

Detail of Rubens Peale with a Geranium, by Rembrandt Peale, 1801, National Gallery of Art, Washington. Click on the image to learn more about this wonderful painting.

Richard Mather (1596-1669) woodcut by John Foster c. 1670, courtesy American Antiquarian Society

Also see over 85 direct hyperlinks on the World’s Finest Public Collections page to other institutions with spectacle collections

• Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Amsterdam Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Bayerisches National Museum, Munich, Germany
• Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, Münich, Germany
• Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, Texas
• British Optical Association, London
• Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
• The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
• Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
• Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
• Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
• Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
• The Fitzwilliam Museum   Cambridge, UK
• Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
• Fruitlands, Four Museums of American Art and History, Harvard, MA
• Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
• Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
• Galleria G.Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venezia
• Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, the Netherlands
• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
• Historisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland
• Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
• Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen, Belgium
• Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
• Landesmuseum Mainz, Mainz, Germany
• The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA
• Loyola University Museum of Art (LUMA), Chicago, IL
• Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
• Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
• Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
• The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
• Musee Carnavalet, Paris, France
• Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaisme, Paris, France
• Musées de la Ville de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium
• Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
• Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris, France
• Museo de Bellas Artes de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
• Museo de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
• Museo Franz Mayer, Mexico City, Mexico
• Museo Lara, Ronda, Spain
• Museo S.Alfonso Maria De Liguori, Pagani, Italy
• Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy
• Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain
• Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain
• Museu Nacional do Azulejo (National Tile Museum) Lisbon, Portugal
• Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona, Spain
• Museum Boerhaave, Leiden, Netherlands
• Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
• Museum of Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (significant spyglass fan and sablè beadwork accessory case collections - by special appointment only)
• Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
• Museum Gustavianum, Uppsala University, Sweden
• Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
• Muzej Mimara, Zagreb, Croatia
• National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK
• National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (NGA)
• National Gallery in Prague, Czechoslovakia
• National Museum, Warsaw, Poland
• National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG)
• National Portrait Gallery, the Smithsonian, Washington, DC
• The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
• Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum, Hannover, Germany
• North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
• Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
• Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy
• Pinacoteca dell'Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo
• Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena, Siena, Italy
• Porvoo Museum, Porvoo, Finland
• Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Rosgartenmuseum, Konstanz, Germany
• Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
• Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
• Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Germany
• Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Germany
• Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt a Main, Germany
• Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, Germany
• State Museums of Florence, Italy (part of the State Administration of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage)
• Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
• Stibbert Museum, Florence, Italy
• Stiftungsverwaltung Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
• Strossmayer’s Gallery of Ancient Masters, Zagreb, Croatia
• Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany
• Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
• Thorvaldsen’s Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Van Loon Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Varaždin Municipal Museum, Varaždin, Croatia
• Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
• Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
• Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany
• Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
• Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

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