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Top 25 Contemporary art museums based in the United Kingdom
RevenueBase identified 268 contemporary art museums headquartered in the United Kingdom as of September 2026 and tracks 2,968 professional contacts across them, including 1,028 with verified work emails. London is the largest hub.
This list covers contemporary art museums headquartered in the United Kingdom, 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 19, 2026.
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The 25 largest contemporary art museums based in the United Kingdom
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “White Cube’s exhibition programme extends across locations in London, Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Seoul and online.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Championing the possibilities of new ideas in contemporary art since opening in 1970, Serpentine has presented pioneering exhibitions for almost half a century, showing a wide…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 108 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1982, Halcyon Gallery specialises in modern and contemporary art working closely with emerging and established international artists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Where people, art and technology meet.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 94 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Whitechapel Gallery is a ground-breaking arts institution located in the heart of London’s East End – one of the most diverse and creative quarters in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1946 by a collective of artists, poets and their supporters, the Institute of Contemporary Arts is an independent organisation and registered charity which supports the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading art galleries.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BALTIC is a major international centre for contemporary art, housed in a landmark industrial building on the south bank of the River Tyne in Gateshead, BALTIC does not have a…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Victoria Miro first opened her gallery on Cork Street, Mayfair, in 1985.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “We are one of Britain's most distinctive modern art museums.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The South London Gallery is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art space which has been free to the public since its foundation in 1891.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Camden Art Centre is a place for art and artists; a place for the curious, the novice and the expert alike.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 52 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Nottingham Contemporary is a free contemporary art gallery in the heart of Nottingham and is one of the largest and leading centres for international contemporary art in the UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ikon is an internationally acclaimed contemporary art venue located in Birmingham, UK.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Dundee Contemporary Arts is a world-class centre for the development and exhibition of contemporary art and culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Firstsite is a contemporary visual arts organisation based in Colchester with a mission to make contemporary art relevant to everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Modern Art Oxford is a leading UK contemporary art space with an international reputation for inspirational and innovative programmes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1961, Arnolfini is Bristol’s international centre for contemporary arts, presenting an ambitious programme of visual art, performance, dance, film and music.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Spike Island is an international centre for the development of contemporary art and design, located close to Bristol’s harbourside.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 36 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MK Gallery brings world-class exhibitions and events together with pioneering learning and community programmes to Milton Keynes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney) is a multi-arts space for the 21st Century.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Site Gallery is Sheffield’s international contemporary art space, supporting artists specialising in moving image, new media and performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Unit is dedicated to the preservation and celebration of creativity as a fundamental human force.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2009, Jupiter Artland is a unique, world-class private museum, 12 miles outside Edinburgh, housing the contemporary art collection of Robert & Nicky Wilson.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 29 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Studio Voltaire is a leading not-for-profit arts organisation based in London, supporting emerging and underrepresented artists through an acclaimed gallery programme, affordable…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 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: contemporary art 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 contemporary art museums.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of contemporary art museums, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name contemporary art 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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Contemporary art museums based in the United Kingdom at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United Kingdom, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United Kingdom, over 268 companies.
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 contemporary art 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.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United Kingdom whose own description of what they do matches “contemporary art 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 contemporary art 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 contemporary art museums, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United Kingdom are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- 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, 1,028 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 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
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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 contemporary art 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 contemporary art museums are there based in the United Kingdom?
RevenueBase identified 268 contemporary art museums headquartered in the United Kingdom 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?
White Cube, headquartered in London, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most contemporary art museums?
London leads with 117 headquartered companies, followed by Bristol (8) and Edinburgh (5).
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 1,028 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 268 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 19, 2026.
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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.
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