Contemporary art museums around the world specialize in collecting and exhibiting contemporary art. The following is an alphabetical listing of major contemporary art museums, divided by country. A number of such museums are named Museum of Contemporary Art.
Argentina Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Rosario
Armenia Cafesjian Museum of Art
Australia Artspace Visual Arts Centre, Sydney Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (GOMA, part of QAGOMA), Brisbane Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA), Sydney Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart
Austria Albertina Modern (part of the Albertina), Vienna 21er Haus, Vienna Mumok, Vienna
Belgium Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp KANAL – Centre Pompidou, Brussels Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Brazil Inhotim Museum of Contemporary Art, University of São Paulo Niterói Contemporary Art Museum
Bulgaria Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art (part of the National Gallery)
Canada Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto The Blackwood (Blackwood Gallery), Mississauga Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA Toronto) Vancouver Art Gallery
Chile Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Valdivia, Valdivia
China Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Shanghai Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing Power Station of Art, Shanghai Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Croatia Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb
Czech Republic DOX Centre for Contemporary Art
Finland Kiasma, Helsinki
France Château de Montsoreau-Museum of Contemporary Art, Montsoreau Lille Métropole Museum of Modern, Contemporary and Outsider Art, Villeneuve d'Ascq Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris Musée d'Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux Collection Lambert, Avignon Les Abattoirs, Musée - Frac Occitanie Toulouse, Toulouse Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice
Germany Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Fotografiska Berlin Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Museum Insel Hombroich, Neuss
Greece National museum of Contemporary Art, Athens State Museum of Contemporary Arts, Thessaloniki Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
Hong Kong M+ Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong Museum of Art
Iran Museum of Contemporary Art, Isfahan Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art
Israel Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Italy Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Rome Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan Triennale, Milan Museo del Novecento, Milan Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Trento Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato Museo Marino Marini, Florence Museo d'Arte Gallarate MAGA, Gallarate Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genoa Lucca Center of Contemporary Art, Lucca
Japan Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima
Liechtenstein Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
Jordan Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts
Mexico Museo de Arte contemporaneo, Monterrey Museo Jumex, Mexico City Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City Museum of Contemporary Art (Aguascalientes), Aguascalientes Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo Juan Soriano, Cuernavaca, Morelos
Morocco Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco
Netherlands Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht Centraal Museum, Utrecht Cobra Museum, Amstelveen De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague Groninger Museum, Groningen Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterloo Kunsthal, Rotterdam Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam Singer Laren, Laren Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch, 's-Hertogenbosch Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Norway Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
Panama Panama Museum of Contemporary Art, Panama City
Philippines Metropolitan Museum of Manila Iloilo Museum of Contemporary Art, Iloilo City
Poland Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw Zachęta, Warsaw Ujazdów Castle, Warsaw Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Kraków Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, Łódź (one of the oldest museums of modern art in the world, opened in 1931) Wrocław Contemporary Museum
Portugal Soares dos Reis National Museum National Museum of Contemporary Art (Portugal) (Museu do Chiado) Museu Fundação Serralves José Malhoa Museum Casa das Histórias Paula Rego Museu da Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia
Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Museum of Contemporary Art, San Juan
Romania National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest
Russia ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow Erarta, Saint Petersburg Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow MAGMA, Moscow Moscow House of Photography, Moscow Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Serbia Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade
Singapore Singapore Art Museum
South Korea National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Spain CAAC, Seville CAAM, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Centre d'Art La Panera, Lleida Centre d´Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona Es Baluard, Palma Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia La Casa Encendida, Madrid MACBA, Barcelona MARCO, Vigo Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo, Badajoz MUSAC, León Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Madrid) Museo de Escultura al Aire Libre de Alcalá de Henares MNCARS, Madrid Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, Madrid Tabakalera, San Sebastian
Sweden Fotografiska Stockholm Moderna Museet Moderna Museet Malmö
Switzerland Aargauer Kunsthaus Kunstmuseum Basel Museum of Contemporary Art (Basel) Kunstmuseum Bern Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Bündner Kunstmuseum Kirchner Museum Davos Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen MASI Lugano, Lugano Kunstmuseum Solothurn Kunstmuseum St. Gallen Fotomuseum Winterthur Kunsthaus Zürich
Taiwan Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taipei Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Thailand Bangkok Art and Culture Centre Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Bangkok
Turkey Borusan Contemporary Doğançay Museum Istanbul Museum of Modern Art Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum (iS.CaM.) SALT (institution) Elgiz Museum (Proje4L)
Ukraine National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv Khanenko Museum, Kyiv Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv Lviv National Art Gallery, Lviv Lviv National Museum, Lviv
United Kingdom Tate (formerly known as the Tate Gallery, Liverpool, London and St Ives) Arnolfini, Bristol BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (also known as the Baltic Flour Mill) Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Whitechapel Gallery, London Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham Tramway, Glasgow National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough
United States
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Artpace, San Antonio, Texas Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, Houston, Texas Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas The Broad, Los Angeles, California Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, New York Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, Raleigh, North Carolina Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, Texas The Delaware Contemporary, Wilmington, Delaware Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Honolulu Museum of Art Spalding House, Honolulu, Hawaii Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Miami, Florida Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri KMAC Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, Massachusetts Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, Colorado Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, Florida Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, San Diego, California Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, Tucson, Arizona Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, New York Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Pérez Art Museum Miami, Miami, Florida P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York City, New York The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida Rubell Museum DC, Washington, D.C. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose California Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, New York The Contemporary Austin, Austin, Texas University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst, Massachusetts Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, Utah Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Virginia Beach, Virginia Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, New York