Museums and Galleries

A building whose own recorded description identifies its present day primary function as a museum, gallery or comparable public collecting and exhibiting institution, spanning encyclopedic national museums, dedicated house museums preserving a notable former occupant's residence, and art galleries built or repurposed specifically to display a permanent or changing collection to the public. This group gathers members under this subcategory whose own defining first sentence states that museum or gallery function directly, distinguishing them from a building whose only institutional role is a library, a theater, a school or an athletic venue, and from a farm or plantation gathered separately below even where that property also operates a small museum program of its own.