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Purple dot: private collection, located but not open to the public.
1,258 institutions on the map out of the 1,332 the site names · 34 are still waiting for reliable coordinates
Pedro Américo Figueiredo e Mello collection · Palatine Gallery, Pitti Palace · The Leiden Collection · Silesian Museum in Katowice · Silesian Museum, Katowice · Ernest Zmeták Art Gallery · Henrique Bernardelli collection · Kondoa Rock-Art Sites, Dodoma Region, Tanzania · Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown · Art Gallery of Hamilton · Bhimbetka Rock Shelters, Raisen District (Madhya Pradesh), India · Foundation E.G. Bührle Collection (at the Kunsthaus Zürich) · Replica of Chauvet Cave (Ardèche, France), Anthropos Pavilion, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic · Replica of the Cave of Altamira (Cantabria, Spain), Anthropos Pavilion, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic · Sego Canyon, Grand County (Utah), United States · Serra da Capivara National Park, Piauí, Brazil · Tadrart Acacus, Ghat District, Libya · The Phoebus Foundation · Tsodilo Hills, Ngamiland District, Botswana · Blaisten Museum (Andrés Blaisten Collection, Mexico City) · Central Museum of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (MUCEN) · Courtauld Gallery, London · Cueva de las Manos, Pinturas River, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina · Davor Vugrinec Collection · Game Pass Shelter, Kamberg Nature Reserve, Drakensberg (KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa · Kenwood House (English Heritage) · Laas Geel, near Hargeisa, Somaliland (Somalia) · Magura Cave, Rabisha, Belogradchik (Vidin Province), Bulgaria · Musée d'Orsay (on deposit at the Musée de Dieppe) · National Library of Wales, framed works of art collection · Replica of a painting from Lascaux Cave (Montignac, Dordogne, France), exhibition venue not stated · Replica of Lascaux Cave (Montignac, Dordogne, France), Anthropos Pavilion, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic · Tassili n'Ajjer National Park, Jabbaren site, Algeria · Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel
40 have no location at all (private collections, dealers, rights holders)
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