Great Museums of the World Trivia Questions

Sample Great Museums of the World Quiz Questions

A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.

1. 1.This Paris museum, once a royal palace, is now home to the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • The Louvre
   • Musée d'Orsay
   • Centre Pompidou
   • Palace of Versailles

2. 2.In 1990, thirteen works valued at $500 million were stolen from this Boston museum in what remains the largest art heist in history.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • Museum of Fine Arts Boston
   • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
   • Fogg Museum
   • Institute of Contemporary Art

3. 3.This British artist's 1840 bequest stipulated his paintings remain together in a dedicated gallery, now part of the Tate Britain.

   Difficulty: Hard
   • J.M.W. Turner
   • John Constable
   • Thomas Gainsborough
   • William Hogarth

4. 4.This massive museum complex on the National Mall in Washington D.C. comprises 21 museums and is free to enter.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • The Getty Center
   • The Smithsonian Institution
   • The National Gallery
   • The Metropolitan Museum

5. 5.This cylindrical New York museum was designed by I.M. Pei and houses the collection of an oil heiress who championed Native American and Oceanic art.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • The Met Breuer
   • The Jewish Museum
   • National Museum of the American Indian
   • Rubin Museum of Art

6. 6.This Oxford museum, the world's first public museum, opened in 1683 and was named after an antiquary whose collection formed its core.

   Difficulty: Hard
   • The Pitt Rivers Museum
   • The Bodleian Library
   • The Ashmolean Museum
   • The Oxford University Museum

7. 7.Leonardo da Vinci's most famous portrait, depicting a woman with an enigmatic smile, hangs behind bulletproof glass at this museum.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • The Uffizi Gallery
   • The National Gallery London
   • The Louvre
   • The Prado

8. 8.This ancient Persian document in the British Museum is often called the world's first declaration of human rights, issued by Cyrus the Great.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • The Rosetta Stone
   • The Elgin Marbles
   • The Cyrus Cylinder
   • The Oxus Treasure

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