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The school that rejected Hitler, thereby perhaps inadvertently causing WWII

Founded in 1560 by Saxons who also happened to be Kings of Poland

Founded by Ludwig I, who made the mistake of introducing a beer tax, causing the beer riots of 1844

Located in Grant Park, site of the annual Lolapalooza music festival

All 'bout that bass, 'bout that bass, no treble

Emperor Franz Joseph I ran out of space to hang his art, and this museum was his solution

Founded with a purchase of 88 Paul Klee paintings from a Pittsburgh steel tycoon.

Come for Guernica stay for ghost hunting

Built by momma van den Bergh for her baby boy

If you pull a museum out of debt, you get to call it whatever you want

Prado, not Prada

Goya, Picasso, and Dalí walk into a museum . . .

The only way to get money is to spend money

Their collection was saved by the Monuments Men

Vision of a man who stood on his head every day

Hosts art shows and chess tournaments

If anything, visit for the Isenheim Altarpiece

Also an observatory, library, convent, and botanical garden. Diversify those assets!

Created by Sister Suffragette

Japan's only museum for Western art and works really hard at it

Burglary in a Swiss Villa

Yes, it used to be a railway station

Only museum to have famous poetry written about it

The world's most visited museum

There's more than sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck here

Likes to botch restoration projects and spend a lot of money

Famous British Mugs

Its collections were nationalized whether the owners wanted to or not

Replaced prisoners with artwork

Former seat of the Medici empire

The Pope's house

Beauty queens taking care of business

Created as part of the New Deal

Russian Ark

Who says you can't marry your cousin?

Barely made it through World War II with the help of some sandbags

You can't see a David this big anywhere else

Not ideal for those with vertigo

"Maybe that's what hell is: the entire rest of eternity spent in f***in' Bruges"

Big Alma's pride and joy

Can you spot the fakes?

A gift to the Nation

Not one, but two giant cannons guard the lawn

The Blue House

Enjoy art in an architectural iceburg

Embrace your inner underdog and recreate Rocky Balboa's run to the top!

Get Smart! See art!

Popular place to film when you're trying to prove the movie is actually in LA

Fort Worth a trip

Also happens to be the Duke of Wellington's house

The best backdrop President Obama ever had

It's THE Met

Josephine and Napoleon's love nest

MOMA knows everything goes better with Bacon!

Don't get stomped on

Aye laddy...

The only place where all lost and destroyed art can still be seen: online

Come and say g'day

Mostly a library with fancy books that dabbles in art

The oldest of the four Tate siblings

Bratwurst and museums just don't mix

Big, very, very big. Huge

If nobody is around to view art, does it disappear?

Rub elbows with Hollywood's elite

It's good to be the king

A treasure trove of gold

Was the Medici's office building

Opened to the public by the Grand Duke hoping to gain their favor

Former tobacco plantation

Quality, not quantity

Strange combination of old masters, modern art, and an in-house art video production department

Built by Bernini and Borromini

Expanded in 2016!

Napoleon forces his brother-in-law to sell him all his art

Oldest museum in the world

In fair Verona, where we lay our scene...not

One of the oldest public art museums in America

If you were catholic and rich in the 1600's you wanted to join this club and give them art

Diego Rivera is 96% of the paintings collection

Has a cool grand staircase

Motor city

Crazy architecture and a rocking view

Not a one trick pony

Countryside home of a multi-chinned archbishop

All Vinny, all the time

Was in an episode of Breaking Bad

Best art deco building in San Francisco

Chicago's front yard

Good wine and interesting art

You'll need a bicycle to get around the entire place

Not to be confused with the São Paulo Museum of Modern Art

Drawing crowds for 500 years

Their first curator added much of his own work

Best collection of dead Medicis anywhere

Two museums in one

Who run the world? Girls!

Go at your own risk

Nazis looted it, Allies bombed it, finally got its building back in the 1990s

The working class citizens weren't super excited about funds going to an art museum

"Let no stranger to the Muses enter"

If you want to see Spanish art and can't get to Spain, book yourself a ticket to Dallas, Texas

Bringing Austria and Germany to the States

Klimt City

Somehow this is the small one

Only things made 300 years ago or more

One of the wealthiest museums in America

Brand spankin' new!

Only place that call the Dutch Masters the "North Dutch school"

Old meets new at this Ivy League museum

Artwork and dairy farm together

SO. MUCH. JEWELRY.

Biggest collection of Rembrandts in one place

It really does look like a warehouse on the outside!

Most Roman temple like of the five museums on "Museum Island"

Named after a beer maker

Unchanged since 1918

Installed electricity to draw crowds at night shows

Works by Rodin and ... his mistress

Robbers did it like in the movies

Beautiful custom made rooms for Monet paintings

Don't get dizzy walking around this circular museum

Original pieces from 942 can still be seen

Underground in the City of Angels

Five museums for the price of one

Explore 300 acres of parkland

"You and I remember Budapest very differently."

A treasure trove of sculptures

Pretend you're in a Jane Austen novel

Has computer controlled lamps giving nearly shadowless light

Has a lot of money to throw around

Abraham Lincoln had his inaugural ball here

"The noblest of Washington buildings." - Walt Whitman

The building is inside out

Largest collection of Monets, DUH

Has a room lined with 440 pounds of beeswax

Go away Apple!

Former industrial site; looks better now

Dedicated to Human History and Culture

It's a natural history museum, so they have giant dinosaurs!

Do donuts around the mini Statue of Liberty in the parking lot

They took down the piper, but he came back

Heirs of a shipping fortune built it and then paid $5m for Koons' sculpture of Michael Jackson and Bubbles.

Lots of good fast food here, but try the "olieballen" (literally "oilballs" but really donuts)

Founded in 1880 by the 7th Duke of Argyle (after whose family's lands argyle socks are named)

The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!

In 1940, Hitler took the museum's 85 best artworks for himself, and had the curator killed in a concentration camp.

Started small

We're halfway there...

Don't tear down that wall!

Right across from the palace. It's good to be the king!

Off the wall

Peggy and her dogs are buried on site

Can't get more Oakland than Oak Street

They're keeping the name

Bring some shades when you visit SF's literally shining star

Giant robot threatens cafe-goers. Dine at your own risk!

Great Scott!

Just around the riverbend...

Figure out the way to San Jose...ASAP!

CHOCOLATE!!!

Awesome neighbor of Sartle! Or should we say, *vecino*

"No, I said the entrance is a GLASS HOLE"

Throw another cutting edge exhibit on the barbie...?

2 rich guys, a museum, and a wing place

Get elevated

Part of an amazing, technicolored palace!

You gotta check out the miniature paintings!

Will somebody please think of the children??

Heartless business man shows he has a heart

The setting for Kubrick's next film

Hippest place in Brighton

Commemorating the Holocaust

The floor is lava

Doctor Who is here a lot

Put a bird on it

A taste of Asia in the Tenderloin

Posher than Posh and Becks

Sweet Home Alabama

Where the 99% meets the 1%

Yes...they "borrowed" the art

Those Swiss have got it all!

Not too big, great collection and kid friendly to boot

Treasures around every corner

Does Renaissance art give you the hots?

Orphan Annie's favorite museum

Safe haven for when the big one hits

Between ferry terminal and financial district

Check out joggers and the bridge of lesser fame

Bankers and homeless people sit separately

For an art school, they sure have a lotta cash

All hail Andy Warhol!

Ancient architecture, delicious casserole and fabulous art

Poop in style while you enjoy art

Home of the most expensive art heist in history

Shopaholics, indulge your sweet tooth here

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy"

Dost thou knowest this place?

Happy wife happy life!

Cooler than an Orange Julius

Cheers to the gov'na!

Do the Antwerp art scavenger hunt until this building re-opens in 2017

The floating cube

Probably haunted

Your go-to spot for all things wonderfully weird

Holy Toledo, Batman!

Hoarders: Art Edition

Lovers on the lawn

Oh say can you see

Phantasmal Fido

If these walls could talk

Gem of scenic Scotland

Only artist on Sartle to have a beer named after him

Math nerd, businessman, "most German of all painters" thus beloved by the Nazis

Child prodigy, charming, sophisticated. Like Renoir, impregnated two girls, married one

Margaret Thatcher called him "that man who paints those dreadful pictures"

One of the most morbid painters ever, and one of the best

Disliked the outdoors for being "trop vert et mal éclairé" ("too green and badly lit")

An enigma. All we really have are his utterly bizarre and awesome paintings

Canvas dealer's son

He's got 99 problems, but ale ain't one

Sigmund Freud's grandson, a mega womanizer who also liked to drink and fight

Real name of Moshe, maybe the greatest Jewish Painter of all time. Hitler hated him

Wife was posessed by demons, most of his work got destroyed, he died of the plague

Weird Al's "favorite MC"

Supposedly knew the secret of the Holy Grail

Probably banged your girlfriend

Rich diplomat/artist, loved fleshy girls, married a 16 year old when he was 53

Impregnated two of his models, married one of them, painted from a wheelchair

Rockstar painter and (unknowingly) painter of album covers for rockstars

Owed money all over town

Professional forger of both Picassos and bank notes

Awesomely bizarre. Claimed he never tried gay sex because he assumed "it hurts"

A perverted, morbid, horse loving adventurer. Fell off his horse and died

America, hell yeah!

One studly Russian.

Look Ma, no ear

Don't call it a comeback

Loved the countryside, and died of lyme disease contracted in the countryside

Big Daddy of it all

A better painter than lawyer

Confused birds with humans and hung out at insane asylums

Caravaggio's main rival, inventor of the caricature, got depressed and quit art

Blonde, good looking, Aryan, yet Hitler hated his art and therefore hated him

The only straight Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle

Openly gay, nasty personality, but untouchable because the Medicis loved him

Orphan, workaholic, died "from excessive devotion to his art" (or stomach cancer)

Suffered from ADD; good at starting, not finishing. Got caught in a gay foursome

Very gay, but not happy. His dad and the pope beat him with a stick

Banker's son, anti Semite, ended up wandering the streets of Paris blind and alone

Movies would have you believe he could pierce the hell out of an ear

Hypochondriac, loved prostitutes and women generally, tolerated male patrons only for their money

Married the virgin mother of Jesus and was betrayed by one of his pupils

Awful person, signed hundreds of death warrants

Hitler's official portrait painter

Most famous unibrow in art, cheated on her husband with Trotsky, loved Stalin

Hard drinking, homophobic, thought museum curators were pansies

Part monk, part playboy

Liked to paint male nudes

Showed one of his female students how the male pelvis works

Cross dressing revolutionary

Doyen of the domestic interior

A mama's girl

Gay, kinky, happy to stir controversy, brilliant, died of AIDS

Businessman, con artist, hypochondriac, shooting victim, awesome

Stockbroker's daughter who wowed Degas

Psychedelic sculptor

Ex-nun, harassed for painting without a license, official painter of Marie Antoinette

Went to great lengths to avoid milking cows

Raped by her tutor, tortured at his trial, spent her life painting women assaulting men

It's good to be the emperor's favorite painter

Used high end escorts as models

Convicted murderer, drunk, deemed "foul and rotten", but protected by wealthy patrons

Promoter, businessman, married a porn star more famous than him

Restorer, tax appraiser, portrait painter to the rich who died poor himself

Loves a tragic love story

Second of four David Teniers' and married to a Breughel

Now the big daddy of sculpture, Rodin was originally kind of a loser

Looked great naked.

Famous for wearing men's clothes, smoking cigarettes, and generally NGAF

Frida Kahlo called him her "Frog Prince"

Can lay credit to most beautiful mistress and most beautiful self portrait with a mistress

Equally comfortable with religion and softcore porn

Married Georgia O'Keeffe and took lots of nude pictures of her

Loves headless figures

University of California professor who died of cancer, possibly caused by chemicals used in his art

Ladies Man

He sort of invented being an artist

He loved his mommy

Still makes the rest of us look academic. - Jackson Pollock

Buried his book of poetry with his wife, then exhumed the book for publication

Had a Chinatown family thing going on

Fountain Lady

In her day it helped if a talented and ambitious woman artist had money

Who said artists can't be good at business?

Opened an art school for women, and then married one of his first students

So popular in Spain that even today a good painting is called a "Murillo"

Refused to be knighted

Dude loved his dots

Swiss Miss

All that glitters is probably something by Gustav Klimt

Close friend of Manet's, even though he took it upon himself to "fix up" one of her paintings

Rectangles, colors, alcoholism, depression, and suicide

Narrowly escaped the Nazis