List of modern or contemporary art collections

Collections for modern or contemporary art is an umbrella term for art museums , private collections and art foundations that are dedicated to art from classical modernism to contemporary art .

For collections of works by individual artists, see also → List of international artists' museums

Germany

collection	Headquarters / exhibition	place	country	Genre, notes
Architecture Munich!Collection of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Munich	Pinakothek der Moderne - Architekturmuseum TU / Architekturmuseum Schwaben	Munich / Augsburg	Bavaria
Berggruen!Berggruen Collection	National Gallery - Museum Berggruen	Berlin	Berlin	classic modern
Federal Art Collection!Collection of contemporary art of the Federal Republic of Germany ( Kunstsammlung-Bund )	-	Bonn	North Rhine-Westphalia
Honest man!Biedermann Collection	Museum Art.Plus	Donaueschingen	Baden-Württemberg	modern contemporary art
Burda!Frieder Burda Collection	Museum Frieder Burda	Baden-Baden	Baden-Württemberg
Falckenberg!Falckenberg Collection	Phoenix works	Hamburg-Harburg	Hamburg
FER!Collection FER Collection (Rentschler)	ZKM Museum for New Art and in the Ulm city shelf	Karlsruhe and in Ulm	Baden-Württemberg	Avant-garde!international avant-garde
Flick!Flick Collection at Hamburger Bahnhof	National Gallery - Museum of the Present	Berlin	Berlin	Art of the last decades of the 20th century
Freiburg!Collection of the Museum of New Art	Museum of New Art	Freiburg	Baden-Württemberg
Happy!Froehlich collection	ZKM Museum for New Art	Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg
Goetz!Goetz Collection	Museum Collection Goetz	Munich Oberföhring	Bavaria	Arte Povera , media art , reference library
Graphic Munich!State Graphic Collection Munich	Pinakothek der Moderne	Munich	Bavaria	15th century - modern
Grässlin!Grässlin Collection	Kunstraum Grässlin / spaces for art	Sankt Georgen in the Black Forest	Baden-Württemberg
Cans!Collection of the Alexian Hospital	Kunsthaus pitchers	Munster-Amelsbueren	North Rhine-Westphalia	Kind of brut
Small!Collection Alison & Peter W. Klein	Artwork Eberdingen	Eberdingen	Baden-Württemberg
Ludwig!Collection Ludwig	Ludwig Museum in the Deutschherrenhaus	Koblenz	Rhineland-Palatinate	French art after 1945
Marzona!Marzona collection	National Gallery - Museum of the Present	Berlin	Berlin
Marx!Marx Collection	National Gallery - Museum of the Present	Berlin	Berlin
Modern Munich!Modern Art Collection	Pinakothek der Moderne	Munich	Bavaria	Part of the Bavarian State Painting Collections
Monk house!Monk House Collection	Monk's House Museum	Goslar	Lower Saxony
National Gallery New!New National Gallery	National Gallery - New National Gallery	Berlin	Berlin	20th century, linked to the new department in the Kronprinzenpalais
National Gallery Hamburger Bahnhof!Collection of the National Gallery in the Hamburger Bahnhof	National Gallery - Museum of the Present	Berlin	Berlin	Object art , photography , multimedia art ( Mike Steiner Collection , Joseph Beuys Media Archive)
New Munich!The new collection	Pinakothek der Moderne - State Museum of Applied Arts	Munich	Bavaria	Design , applied arts
New Munich!The new collection	Neues Museum - State Museum for Art and Design in Nuremberg	Nuremberg	Bavaria	Design , applied arts
Prinzhorn!Prinzhorn Collection	Heidelberg University Museum	Heidelberg	Baden-Württemberg	Kind of brut ; Copies: Prinzhorn Archive , Felsenmeer Museum Hemer
Doe!Ricke collection	Museum of Modern Art / Art Museum Liechtenstein / Art Museum St. Gallen	Frankfurt am Main / Vaduz / St. Gallen	Hesse
Knight!Marli Hoppe Ritter Foundation	Museum knight	Waldenbuch	Baden-Württemberg	Artwork on the subject of "Square"
Sharp Gerstenberg!Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection	National Gallery (currently in the Egyptian Museum )	Berlin	Berlin	French romanticism to surrealism
Selinka!Selinka collection	Ravensburg Art Museum	Ravensburg	Baden-Württemberg	Expressionism, CoBrA, SPUR
Win!	Museum of Contemporary Art	Wins	North Rhine-Westphalia
Stoffel!Stoffel Collection	Pinakothek der Moderne / Sculpture Park Cologne	Munich / Cologne	Bavaria / North Rhine-Westphalia	German and American art of the 1960s – 90s
Ströher!Ströher Collection	Museum of Modern Art	Frankfurt am Main	Hesse
Viersen graphically!Graphic collection	Municipal gallery in Viersen Park	Viersen	North Rhine-Westphalia	15th century to the present
Viersen sculptures!Viersen sculpture collection	Municipal gallery in Viersen Park	Viersen	North Rhine-Westphalia	Large sculpture
Weishaupt!Weishaupt collection	Weishaupt Art Gallery	Ulm	Baden-Württemberg
Wörlen!Wörlen Foundation	Museum of Modern Art	Passau	Bavaria
Show!Collection Schaufler	Sindelfingen exhibition	Sindelfingen	Baden-Württemberg	Works of the ZERO movement, conceptual art, concrete art
Würth!Würth Collection	Würth!Kunsthalle Würth , Schwäbisch Hall / Museum Würth , Künzelsau / Museum Hirschwirtscheuer , Künzelsau	Schwäbisch Hall / Künzelsau	Baden-Württemberg
ZKM!Collection ZKM ( Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe )	ZKM Museum for New Art	Karlsruhe	Baden-Württemberg
Reinking!Reinking Collection		Hamburg	Hamburg	Art of the 1960s, Informel , Fluxus , minimalism , conceptual art , graffiti / street art , contemporary painting
Long Foundation!Long Foundation	Long Foundation	Neuss	North Rhine-Westphalia	[Classical modernism, abstract art of the post-war period]

Belgium

International Art Center East Belgium , Eupen
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp (MuHKA), a museum founded in Antwerp in 1985
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Gent , a museum founded in Ghent in 1975, was created on the initiative of the Ghent art association Vereniging voor het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst , today the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (SMAK)