List of museums with major collections of European prints and drawings

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) Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
 * 200 000 drawings, 10 millions prints
 * 1) British Museum, London, England
 * 50,000 drawings, 2 million prints
 * 1) The Metropolitan Museum of Art *, New York, US
 * 15,000 drawings, 1.5 million prints
 * 1) Albertina, Vienna, Austria
 * 50,000 drawings, 1 million prints Excludes 25,000 architectural drawings
 * 1) Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
 * 110,000 drawings, 500,000 prints
 * 1) Royal Library of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
 * Over 20,000 drawings and 700,000 prints
 * 1) State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
 * 39,000 drawings, 486,000 prints
 * 1) 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)
 * 1) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * Over 500,000 prints and drawings
 * 1) National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Prints and Drawings, Prague, Czech Republic
 * 60,000 drawings, 400,000 prints
 * 1) Bibliothèque Municipale, Lyon, France
 * 203,500 prints
 * 1) Cabinet des estampes et des dessins, Strasbourg, France
 * Over 200,000 prints and drawings
 * 1) Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
 * 20,000 drawings, 180,000 prints
 * 1) Royal Collection, London, England
 * 40,000 drawings, 150,000 prints Including 600 drawings by Leonardo da Vinci
 * 1) Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
 * 140,500 drawings, 43,000 prints The main print collection is at the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
 * 1) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
 * 150,000 drawings and prints
 * 1) Uffizi, Florence, Italy
 * 120,000 drawings and prints
 * 1) École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
 * 20,000 drawings, 100,000 prints. Excludes 45,000 architectural drawings
 * 1) National Gallery of Art, Washington, US
 * 105,000 drawings and prints
 * 1) Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal, Paris, France
 * 100,000 prints
 * 1) Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
 * 11,500 drawings, 60,000 prints
 * 1) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France
 * 10,500 drawings, 60,0000 prints
 * 1) Musée des Beaux-Arts, Orléans, France
 * 10,000 drawings, 50,000 prints
 * 1) Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
 * 6,000 drawings, 50,000 prints
 * 1) Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
 * 2,000 drawings, 40,000 prints
 * 1) Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
 * 9,000 drawings, 6,000 prints. The main drawing and print collection is at the Biblioteca Nacional de España.
 * 1) Zelandia Illustrata, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 * 18,000 maps, prints, drawings, photographs, glass negatives, slides and postcards
 * 1) Museo ABC de Dibujo e Ilustración, Madrid, Spain
 * 200,000 drawings and illustrations by 1,500 artists from 1891 up to the present
 * 1) Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
 * 17,000 drawings, 60,000 to 70,000 prints
 * 1) Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
 * 130,000 prints and drawings
 * 1) Teylers Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands
 * 2) Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
 * 100,000 prints and drawings
 * 1) Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
 * 100,000 prints, 10,000 drawings
 * 1) National Art Museum of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
 * 50,000 drawings, 70,000 prints
 * 1) Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, Madrid, Spain
 * 15,300 drawings, 35,000 prints
 * 1) Hispanic Society of America, New York, US
 * 6,000 drawings, 15,000 prints
 * 1) Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
 * 75,000 drawings and prints
 * 1) Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany
 * 400,000 drawings and prints