List of museums by founder
This is a list of museums by founder . A number of museums have such a name in memory of an ideal or material legacy that was particularly constitutive for the museum's foundation. Sometimes such a name was added afterwards.
- Louis Agassiz Museum of Comparative Zoology , Cambridge, USA, Louis Agassiz (1807–1873), museum employee
- Ashmolean Museum , Oxford, Elias Ashmole (1617–1692), collector
- Museum Barbier-Mueller , Geneva, Josef Mueller; Jean Paul Barbier Mueller, collector
- Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen , Rotterdam, Frans Jacob Otto Boijmans (1767–1847), collector
- Museum Biedermann, from 2015 Museum Art.Plus , Donaueschingen, Margit Biedermann Foundation, foundation
- Bernice P. Bishop Museum , Hawaii, Charles Reed Bishop (1822–1915), patron
- Museum Brandhorst , Munich, Udo and Anette Brandhorst, collectors
- Bröhan Museum , Berlin, Karl H. Bröhan (1921–2000), collector
- Burke Museum , Seattle, Thomas Burke (1849–1925), patron
- Essl Collection , Klosterneuburg, Karlheinz Essl senior (* 1939), collector
- Focke Museum , Bremen, Johann Focke (1848–1922), collector
- J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles, Jean Paul Getty (1892–1976), patron
- Grassimuseum , Leipzig, Franz Dominic Grassi (1801–1880), founder
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation , USA, Solomon R. Guggenheim, (1861-1949) patron
- Wilhelm Hack Museum , Ludwigshafen, Wilhelm Hack (1900–1985), collector
- Museum August Kestner , Hanover, August Kestner (1777–1853), collector
- Leopold Museum Vienna, Rudolf Leopold (1925–2010), collector
- Linden Museum , Stuttgart, Karl von Linden (1838–1910), museum employee
- Lindenau Museum , Altenburg (Thuringia), Bernhard August von Lindenau (1779–1854), collector
- Museum Ludwig , Cologne, Peter and Irene Ludwig, collectors
- Museum Koenig , Bonn, Alexander Koenig (1858–1940), museum employee
- Osthaus Museum Hagen , Karl Ernst Osthaus (1874–1921), patron
- Museo Poldi Pezzoli , Milan, Giacomo Poldi Pezzoli (1822–1879), collector
- Pritzker Military Museum & Library , Chicago, Illinois, Jennifer N. Pritzker (* 1950), patron
- Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum , Cologne, Wilhelm Joest (1852–1897), collector, Adele Rautenstrauch (1850–1903), patron
- Museum Oskar Reinhart , Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart (1885–1965), patron
- Reiss-Engelhorn-Museums , Mannheim, Carl Reiss (1843–1914); Curt Glover Engelhorn (* 1926), patron
- Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim , Hermann Roemer and Wilhelm Pelizaeus, collectors
- Graphics Museum Foundation Schreiner , Bad Steben, Wolfgang Schreiner, collector
- Kleist Archive Sembdner , Heilbronn, Helmut Sembdner (1914–1997), collector
- Senckenberg Naturmuseum , Frankfurt am Main, Johann Christian Senckenberg (1707–1772), founder
- Smithsonian Institution , USA, James Smithson, (1765–1829), Donor
- Sprengel Museum Hannover , Bernhard Sprengel (1899–1985), patron
- Städel Museum , Frankfurt am Main, Johann Friedrich Städel (1728–1816), patron
- Tubman Center of African Culture , Liberia, William S. Tubman (1895–1971), politician
- Victoria and Albert Museum , London, Prince Albert and Queen Victorias, donors
- Von der Heydt-Museum , Wuppertal, von der Heydt (family), patrons
- Martin von Wagner Museum , Würzburg, Johann Martin von Wagners (1777–1858), collector
- Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud , Cologne, Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, (1748–1824), collector
- Whitney Museum of American Art , New York, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875–1942), patron