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Top 25 Photography museums worldwide
RevenueBase identified 642 photography museums worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 5,411 professional contacts across them, including 1,062 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers photography museums worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for photography museums follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest photography museums worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The International Center of Photography (ICP) is the world’s leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 190 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are the Contemporary Museum of Photography, Art & Culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 142 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Türkiye’nin sanatsal yaratıcılığını ve kültürel kimliğini ulusal ve uluslararası sanat ortamıyla paylaşmak amacıyla 2004 yılında ülkemizin ilk modern ve çağdaş sanat müzesi olarak…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 93 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1947, the George Eastman Museum is the world’s oldest photography museum and one of the largest film archives in the United States, located on the historic Rochester…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam exhibits all genres of photography: fine art, documentary, applied, historical and contemporary; a museum with international allure.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Museo de Artes decorativas y diseño” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Aperture is a nonprofit publisher that leads conversations around photography worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Soho Photo Gallery is New York City’s longest operating member-run photography gallery, and is now located in Chelsea at 539 West 23rd Street, just steps from The High Line.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lieu d’inspiration, d’expérimentation et de rencontres, le Jeu de Paume est un centre d’art situé au cœur de Paris qui invite à une réflexion sur l’histoire visuelle, à…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Het Nederlands Fotomuseum is het nationale museum voor fotografie met een indrukwekkende collectie van meer dan 6,5 miljoen beelden.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pionnière et unique dans sa configuration, la MEP est une institution culturelle dédiée à la photographie qui rassemble dans un même lieu des espaces d’exposition, une…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “FOMU - Fotomuseum Antwerp offers photography in all its facets: photo exhibitions, tours, workshops, events, an own collection and much more.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Contrasto is a unique institution in the world of photography, characterized by manifold activities and diversified high quality art enterprises.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PCNW is a place for everyone to explore the photographic arts.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MOMus, the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki is ocially launched!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “XXIX Festival internacional de fotografía y artes visuales | 13 mayo - 13 septiembre 2026 PHE98.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Polygon is one of Canada’s most acclaimed photography and media art galleries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Houston Center for Photography is an organization dedicated to the art of photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 28 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Jönköpings läns museum är ett konst- och kulturhistoriskt museum som gör kulturarv i länet tillgängligt för alla.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “FotoŠkoda – záchytný bod pro fotografy FotoŠkoda – to jsou komplexní fotografické služby pod jednou střechou.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Noorderlicht is een dynamisch platform dat sinds 1990 beeldcultuur toegankelijk maakt voor iedereen, met fotografie en lens-based media als middel voor dialoog en reflectie.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Photo London is the leading fair for celebrating the past, present, and future of Photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Penumbra Foundation is a NYC-based nonprofit arts organization committed to promoting a broad understanding of the contemporary photographic medium.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 24 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Griffin Museum of Photography is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the art of photography.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Started by the Région Hauts-de-France in collaboration with Les Rencontres d'Arles, the Institut pour la photographie is a new resource centre, for dissemination, dialogue and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: photography museums. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names photography museums.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photography museums, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photography museums. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Photography museums worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among photography museums, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for photography museums are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “photography museums”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names photography museums), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among photography museums, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,062 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Photography museums by location
5 lists · largest firstEvery Photography museums list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names photography museums, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many photography museums are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 642 photography museums worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
International Center Of Photography, headquartered in New York, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most photography museums?
The United States leads with 135 companies, followed by France (69) and Germany (47). Every photography museums list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most photography museums?
Paris leads with 26 headquartered companies, followed by London (20) and New York (20).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,062 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 642 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.