Defunct art museums and galleries

thumb|300px|right|The Pinacoteca di Brera in [[Milan.]] A pinacotheca (Latin borrowing from = + ) was a picture gallery in either ancient Greece or ancient Rome. The name is specifically used for the building containing pictures which formed the left wing of the Propylaea on the Acropolis at Athens, Greece. Though Pausanias speaks of the pictures "which time had not effaced", which seems to point to fresco painting, the fact that there is no trace of preparation for stucco on the walls implies that the paintings were easel pictures. The Romans adopted the term for the room in a private house c

Museum in Shanghai, China

Arsenal (later palace) in Catalonia, Spain

museum in Sovietic Union

1807 divided art collection

museum in Rome from 1844 to 1970

former art museum in Community of Madrid, Spain

Japanese museum closed in 2014

museum in Dhaka

Spanish art gallery (1906-1930)

art museum