THE MUSEUMS DEPARTMENT
MUSEUMS
The institutions that hold the world's memory — who leads them, what they keep, and how many people make the pilgrimage each year. LIKE® Museums opens with the worldwide guide: forty great public museums, every director verified, every visitor figure carrying its year.
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE
THE WORLDWIDE GUIDE · OCTOBER 2026
THE WORLD'S GREAT MUSEUMS
40 museums in 19 countries — from the Louvre and the British Museum to the National Museum of China and the Grand Egyptian Museum in its first year — with verified directors, collections and signature works, visitor figures with their years stated, the buildings, and how to reach each one. Where a director's chair stands empty, the guide says so; the gaps are named, never padded.
THE ESSAY · OCTOBER 2026
THE DIRECTORS: A NEW GENERATION OF MUSEUM LEADERS AS CULTURAL STATESMEN
A dozen of the world's great museum chairs changed hands in two years. What the new directors negotiate — loans insured by governments, collections lent between nations, crowds counted in millions — is a form of statecraft conducted in gallery light.
More Museums guides will join this department in the months ahead — beginning with the great museums of Latin America.