Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Washington DC all have museums with western art but my wayout favourite is London's National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/ Ever since I started attending history of art classes at Birkbeck, University of London http://www.bbk.ac.uk/ under the skilled effortless scholarship of Dr Richard Williams, the Sainsbury Wing has been a special place. The Wing covers western painting from 1200-1500 and across the link bridge into the main NG we pass into the sixteenth century and beyond. Having the NG http://www.googleartproject.com/ the V&A and other treasure houses on the doorstep was a wonderful way of actually seeing the panels we were studying. Dr Williams always insisted on the primacy of standing or sitting in front of the works we were studying over 'mechanically' reproduced images.
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm
Walter Benjamin'sThe Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction'
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