 
Miniature Collections
Australia
New South Wales:
Heritage Collection, Nelson Meers Foundation State library of
NSW, Sydney
New South Wales: Art
Gallery of New South Wales Sydney
Queensland: Queensland Art
Gallery Brisbane
South Australia: Art
Gallery of South Australia Adelaide
Tasmania:
State Library of Tasmania Miniatures Collection, Allport Library
and Museum of Fine Arts Hobart
Victoria: National Gallery
of Victoria Melbourne
Western Australia: Art
Gallery of Western Australia Perth
Austria
Vienna: National
Library of Austria
Vienna: The Albertina
Collection
Canada
Montreal: Montreal
Museum of Fine Arts
Ontario: Library and
Archives Canada, Ottawa
Ontario: The Royal Ontario
Museum, Toronto
England
Aylesbury: Waddesdon
Manor
Barnard Castle: Bowes
Museum
Bath: Holburne Museum
of Art
Birmingham: Birmingham Museum
& Art Gallery
Cambridge: The
Fitzwilliam Museum Miniature Portrait Collection
Grantham: Belvoir
Castle
London: The British
Museum
London: The
Gilbert Collection of enamel miniatures
London: The National Maritime
Museum
London: The National Portrait
Gallery
London: The Victoria and Albert
Museum
London: The Wallace
Collection
Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum
of Art and Archaeology
Rotherham: Welbeck
Abbey
Windsor: The Royal
Collection at Windsor Castle
York: Castle Howard
France
Chantilly: Condé
Museum
Paris: Musée de
Louvre, Miniatures Collection
Germany
Celle: The
Tansey Collection of Miniatures
Winterthur: The Winterthur
Museum and Country Estate
India
Bombay: Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalya Museum
New Delhi: Miniature Museum at the Academy of Fine Arts and
Literature [no website yet]
Ireland
Dublin: The Chester Beatty
Library
Dublin: Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland (The Book of Kells)
Italy
Turin: The Civic
Museum of Ancient Art in Palazzo Madama
Florence: The Uffizi Gallery
: Room 24 gabinetto delle miniature: 1392 works - second largest
collection in the world
Mexico
Mexico City: The National History
Museum of Anthropology
Netherlands
The Hague: Mauritshuis
Amsterdam:
House of Orange-Nassau Historic Collections Trust
Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum
Poland
Warsaw: The National Museum in
Warsaw
Portugal
Lisbon: Museu
Nacional De Arte Antiga
Russia
Moscow: The
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
St. Petersburg: The Hermitage
Museum
Scotland
Aberdeen: Aberdeen Art Gallery
& Museums
Edinburgh: Scottish
National Portrait Gallery
Edinburgh: Clan
Leslie Charitable Trust
Spain
Madrid:
Fundación Lázaro Galdiano Museo
Sweden
Stockholm: State
Museum
Switzerland
Geneva: The Patek Museum
[watch museum with small collection of miniature
portraits]
Winterthur:
Museum Briner und Kern Miniature Portrait Collection
Turkey
Istanbul: The Topkapi
Palace, Turkey
USA
California: The
Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena (California Society of
Miniature Painters Collection, 1911-1972)
California: Huntington
Library San Marino
Colorado: The Berger
Collection of British Art, Denver
Connecticut: The Yale
University Art Gallery,New Haven
Connecticut: The Yale Center for
British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Connecticut: Stamford Historical
Society: Anson Dickinson Collection, Stamford
Connecticut:
Litchfield Historical Society, Litchfield
Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of
Art, Hartford
District of Columbia: The
National Portrait Gallery, Washington
District of Columbia: The
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA
(Eulabee Dix)
District of Columbia: Smithsonian American Art
Museum, Washington
Florida:
Govenor's Mansion, Tallahassee, FL, USA
Florida: The
Clearwater East Library, Clearwater, FL, USA (Two cases of
the Miniature Art Society of Florida's Permanent Collection.
Note that the entire collection is displayed annually at the
January MASF Exhibition)
Illinois: The Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Indiana: The Historical
Museum of the Wabash Valley, Terre Haute
Indiana: The Swope Art Museum,
Terre Haute
Kentucky: The Speed Art
Museum, Louisville
Louisiana: Louisiana
State Museum Visual Arts Collection, New Orleans
Louisiana: New Orleans Museum of
Art (The Latter-Schlesinger Collection)
Louisiana: R.W. Norton Art
Gallery, Shreveport
Maryland: Maryland Historical
Society
Massachusetts: Boston Museum of Fine
Arts
Massachusetts: The
Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston
Massachusetts: The Mead
Art Museum, Amherst
Massachusetts: The
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester
Massachusetts: American
Antiquarian Society
Missouri: The
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
New York: The Albany
Institute of History and Art, Albany
New York: The Henry
Luce III Center for the study of American Culture, New
York
New York: The Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York
New York: The Morgan
Library " Museum
North Carolina: The Biltmore
Estate, Asheville
Ohio: The
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati
Ohio: Cleveland Museum of
Art (Edward B Greene Collection)
Ohio: Butler Insitute,
Youngstown
Ohio: The Taft Museum of
Art, Cincinnati
Oklahoma: The Woolaroc Ranch,
Museum, & Wildlife Preserve, Tulsa
Oklahoma: Gilcrease Museum,
Tulsa
Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts.
Pennsylvaia: The
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Pennsylvaia: The Rosenbach
Museum & Library, Philadelphia
Rhode Island: Rhode Island
Historical Society, Providence
South Carolina: Gibbes
Museum of Art, Charleston, SC, USA
Texas: Caroline A. Ross collection
at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Tennessee: The Cheekwood
Botanical Garden & Museum of Art, Nashville
Utah: The Utah Museum of Fine
Arts,Salt Lake City
Virginia: Virginia Museum of
Fine Arts, Richmond
Wisconsin: Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee [NB Miniature collection not on general
display]
ON-LINE RESOURCES
A Private
Miniature Collection
Artists and
Ancestors - A Miniature Portrait Collection
Catalogue of collections in French museums
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