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
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
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
St. Petersburg: The Hermitage Museum
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
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
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)
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
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
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
ON-LINE RESOURCES
Artists and Ancestors - A Miniature Portrait Collection
Catalogue of collections in French museums
Picture Australia
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