Museums

Every museum that holds a Vermeer painting, from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

The grand neoclassical facade of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in New York City, featuring tall columns, ornate pediment, and wide stone steps leading to the entrance, with exhibition banners under a bright blue sky.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

The iconic red-brick Rijksmuseum building in Amsterdam with its twin towers under a blue sky, with Vermeer exhibition banners and visitors in the foreground.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The neoclassical West Building of the National Gallery of Art on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., featuring a grand portico with Ionic columns and wide stone steps under a bright blue sky.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

The Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue in New York City, home of the Frick Collection, a grand limestone Beaux-Arts mansion with classical architecture and an American flag, viewed from the street on a sunny day.

The Frick Collection

New York, United States

The golden-yellow classical facade of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, featuring ornate windows, decorative garlands, a central pediment with coat of arms, and a black wrought-iron fence with gold accents in the foreground under a bright blue sky.

Mauritshuis

The Hague, Netherlands

The grand neoclassical Sempergalerie (Semper Gallery) wing of the Zwinger in Dresden, Germany, housing the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, with columns, pediments, arched windows and sculptures on the facade viewed from the square.

Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister

Dresden, Germany

Exterior of the modern Kulturforum complex in Berlin, Germany, housing the Gemäldegalerie, with large white facade, glass windows, plaza and 'Kulturforum' and 'Gemäldegalerie' signage under blue sky.

Gemäldegalerie

Berlin, Germany

The historic ornate stone facade of the Palais du Louvre in Paris, with classical architecture, columns, pediments, and numerous sculptures in the Cour Carrée.

Musée du Louvre

Paris, France

The neoclassical facade of the National Gallery, London, with its grand portico of Corinthian columns supporting a pediment and topped by a prominent dome, viewed from Trafalgar Square on a bright day with visitors in the paved forecourt.

The National Gallery

London, United Kingdom

The neoclassical Strand block facade of Somerset House in London, home of the Courtauld Gallery, viewed across the Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court with its fountains and wet cobblestone paving under an overcast sky.

Courtauld Gallery

London, United Kingdom

The classical stone facade of the Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum in Braunschweig, Germany, a grand historic building with tall columns, ornate pediment, arched windows, and a central staircase entrance, set against trees and a blue sky.

Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum

Braunschweig, Germany

The modern glass-walled new wing of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, featuring a large banner on the facade, viewed from the street with parked cars, trees, and pedestrians on an overcast day.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, United States

Kenwood House, a grand white neoclassical villa with a pedimented Ionic portico and symmetrical wings, set amid expansive green lawns and mature trees on the edge of Hampstead Heath in London under a bright blue sky; visitors visible on the grounds.

Kenwood House

London, United Kingdom

A high-angle view of the grand ornate facade of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, a pale stone Renaissance Revival building with a prominent dome, arched windows and sculptures, facing Maria-Theresien-Platz with its central monumental equestrian sculpture, manicured topiary, and visitors on a sunny day.

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Vienna, Austria

The brick facade and main entrance of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, featuring large colorful exhibition banners including one for "Van Bosch tot Bruegel", a prominent abstract black sculpture in the foreground, entrance columns, trees, and a tall brick tower in the background under an overcast sky.

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Rotterdam, Netherlands

The historic brick facade of Kasteel het Nijenhuis (Museum de Fundatie) near Heino, with twin towers, central clock gable, white drawbridge entrance, and a sculpture on the lawn under a blue sky with clouds, Overijssel, Netherlands.

Museum de Fundatie, Kasteel het Nijenhuis

Heino, Netherlands

Stone facade of the National Gallery of Ireland on Merrion Square, Dublin, with classical columns, arched windows, pediment details, a foreground statue, and Irish flag under an overcast sky.

National Gallery of Ireland

Dublin, Ireland

Wide view of the neoclassical National Gallery of Scotland building with its grand columns and pediment on the Mound in Edinburgh, on a sunny day with a blue sky, people and red post boxes in the foreground, and the city skyline with a church spire in the background.

National Gallery of Scotland

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

The National Museum of Western Art in Tokyo, a modernist concrete building designed by Le Corbusier with a distinctive green pebble-textured facade, viewed across a sunny plaza with visitors and security guards under a clear blue sky.

National Museum of Western Art

Tokyo, Japan

The grand neoclassical facade of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with its massive columns, pediment, and broad stone steps leading up from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, under a bright blue sky with clouds.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Philadelphia, United States

Overcast view of Windsor Castle's historic stone facade and towers with visitors walking along the path and lawn in the castle grounds, Windsor, United Kingdom.

The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle

Windsor, United Kingdom

View of the grand stone facade and entrance stairs of the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, with its classical columns, sculptures, and adjacent modern wing, on an overcast day.

Städel Museum

Frankfurt, Germany