Best Museums in Europe | Art, History & Cultural Collections

National Museum of Denmark

Denmark's largest cultural history museum, set inside an 18th-century Rococo palace in central Copenhagen.

Carl Jacobsen's 19th-century art museum in Copenhagen, built around ancient sculpture and a glass-domed Winter Garden.

Kraków's Renaissance trading hall at the center of the Main Market Square, still a working marketplace after 700 years.

The former enamel factory where Oskar Schindler protected over a thousand Jewish workers, now a Kraków history museum.

A contemporary art museum in Kraków's Zabłocie district, built on the former Schindler's Factory site, with rotating international shows.

The best-preserved 17th-century warship in the world, raised after 333 years on the seabed and displayed in a purpose-built museum on Djurgården.

A living history park on Djurgården with around 150 relocated Swedish buildings, a Nordic zoo, working crafts, and year-round festivals.

An interactive Djurgården museum celebrating ABBA, with original costumes, gold records, a Polar Studio replica, and a hologram stage.

A compact museum in Stockholm's Gamla Stan telling the story of the Nobel Prize and its laureates since 1901.

A leading photography museum in a converted 1906 customs house on Stockholm's Södermalm waterfront.

Sweden's largest cultural history museum, set inside a castle-like building on Djurgården island.

Scotland's national museum on Chambers Street, with free galleries of Scottish history, natural history, science, world cultures and rooftop views.

Scotland's national art collection, from Renaissance masters to the Impressionists, housed in a neoclassical building on The Mound.

A historic optical attraction on the Royal Mile with a rooftop camera obscura, mirror maze and hands-on illusion exhibits.

An award-winning Warsaw museum tracing a thousand years of Polish Jewish history and culture.