This is a list of museums or print rooms with major collections of European old master prints and drawings. This list is incomplete, and should not be regarded as a correct ranking of the major collections.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France 200 000 drawings, 10 millions prints British Museum, London, England 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, US 15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints Albertina, Vienna, Austria 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium Over 20,000 drawings and 700,000 prints State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England 2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawings (V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Over 500,000 prints and drawings National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Prague, Czech Republic 60,000 drawings, 400,000 prints Bibliothèque Municipale, Lyon, France 203,500 prints Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg, France Over 200,000 prints and drawings Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints Royal Collection, London, England 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci Musée du Louvre, Paris, France 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints2005 Annual Report – Tableau récapitulatif de l’état d'avancement de l'informatisation des collections fin 2005, page 185. The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Uffizi, Florence, Italy 177,000 drawings and prints Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US 150,000 drawings and prints École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France 20,000 drawings, 100,000 prints. Excludes 45,000 architectural drawings National Gallery of Art, Washington, US 105,000 drawings and prints Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France 100,000 prints Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France 10,500 drawings, 60,0000 prints Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints Museum of Modern Art, New York, US 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints Brooklyn Museum, New York, US 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain 9,000 drawings, 6,000 prints. The main drawing and print collection is at the Biblioteca Nacional de España. Zelandia Illustrata, Amsterdam, Netherlands 18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración, Madrid, Spain 200,000 drawings and illustrations by 1,500 artists from 1891 up to the present Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 17,000 drawings, 60,000 to 70,000 prints Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany 130,000 prints and drawings Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 100,000 prints and drawings Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary 100,000 prints, 10,000 drawings National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain 50,000 drawings, 70,000 prints Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain 15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints Hispanic Society of America, New York, US 6,000 drawings, 15,000 prints Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium 75,000 drawings and prints Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany 400,000 drawings and prints
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