List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings

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rdf:langString 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. 1. * British Museum, London, England50,000 drawings, 2 million prints 2. * The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, US15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints 3. * Albertina, Vienna, Austria50,000 drawings, 1 million prints Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings 4. * Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints 5. * Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, BelgiumOver 20,000 drawings and 700,000 prints 6. * State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints 7. * Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England2,000 drawings, 500,000 prints Excludes 600,000 architectural drawings, 100,000 design drawings and 10,000 British drawings [4] (V&A Collecting Plan Including Acquisition & Disposal Policy, August 2004) 8. * Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, NetherlandsOver 500,000 prints and drawings 9. * National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Prague, Czech Republic60,000 drawings, 400,000 prints 10. * Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg, FranceOver 200,000 prints and drawings 11. * Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints 12. * Royal Collection, London, England40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci 13. * Musée du Louvre, Paris, France140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. 14. * Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US150,000 drawings and prints 15. * Uffizi, Florence, Italy120,000 drawings and prints 16. * National Gallery of Art, Washington, US105,000 drawings and prints 17. * Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France100,000 prints 18. * Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints 19. * Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France10,500 drawings, 60,0000 prints 20. * Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints 21. * Museum of Modern Art, New York, US6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints 22. * Brooklyn Museum, New York, US2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints 23. * Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain9,000 drawings, 6,000 prints. The main drawing and print collection is at the Biblioteca Nacional de España. 24. * Zelandia Illustrata, Amsterdam, Netherlands18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards 25. * Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración, Madrid, Spain200,000 drawings and illustrations by 1,500 artists from 1891 up to the present 26. * Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands17,000 drawings, 60,000 to 70,000 prints 27. * Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany130,000 prints and drawings 28. * Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands 29. * Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany100,000 prints and drawings 30. * Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary100,000 prints, 10,000 drawings 31. * National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain50,000 drawings, 70,000 prints 32. * Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints 33. * Hispanic Society of America, New York, US6,000 drawings, 15,000 prints 34. * Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium75,000 drawings and prints