Best Museums in Europe | Art, History & Cultural Collections

Estonian Open Air Museum

A village-sized museum on Tallinn's coast where historic farms, a chapel, an inn and windmills bring Estonian rural life back to life.

Estonia's largest art museum, set into a limestone cliff beside Kadriorg Park, tracing Estonian art from the 1700s to contemporary work.

Riga's most photographed facade: a rebuilt medieval guild hall on Town Hall Square with ornate halls, medieval cellars and a silver collection.

Latvia's leading art museum, in a grand 1905 building on Riga's Boulevard Circle, showing Latvian art from the 18th to mid-20th century.

The Baltics' largest antique vehicle museum, home to 100+ cars, motorcycles and bicycles, including Soviet leaders' limousines.

Slovakia's leading art gallery combines centuries of visual culture with a striking architectural complex beside the Danube in Bratislava.

Explore Bratislava's past inside its historic Old Town Hall, from council rooms and city collections to a panoramic tower.

Bulgaria's archaeological treasure house in a historic domed mosque, from Stone Age tools to Thracian gold and medieval art.

Bulgaria's national art museum, housed in a former royal palace on Battenberg Square and spread across several venues in central Sofia.

Open-air museum on Herăstrău Lake with traditional farmsteads, churches and windmills from every region of Romania.

Romania's leading history museum, housed in a grand former post palace, with royal crowns, Dacian gold and a full-size Trajan's Column cast.

Bucharest's beloved natural history museum, with 2 million specimens, lifelike dioramas and a giant Deinotherium skeleton.

A villa museum in Vračar holding Tesla's archive, personal belongings, live demonstrations and the urn with his ashes.

Belgrade's museum of the Yugoslav era, set in a Dedinje park with Tito's House of Flowers, the Old Museum and the 25 May Museum.

Serbia's oldest and largest museum on Republic Square, with over 400,000 objects from prehistoric finds to modern art across three floors.