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The Tretyakov Gallery in St Petersburg/Leningrad/Petrograd - whatever they've ended up calling it.  I think the Russians by and large cracked this painting lark long ago - but while Repin is my second favourite artist, the favourite remains Corot: so I'd like to visit one of the several galleries in which his work is displayed. Then there's the Vermeers and de Hoochs in the Rijksmuseum ....... This could go on to be quite a long dream......
I've been to St Petersburg a couple of times, but went to the Hermitage on both occasions.  Not only is it stuffed full of fantastic old masters, but it  its also a beautiful palace.  The floors are masterpieces of marquetry, and then there are the objet d'art, the pillars etc.  You just do not know where to look it is so overwhelming.  And then there are the other palaces, like Catherine's and Petrograd which makes Versailles look dull.  Not to mention the palace where Rasputin was murdered.  So St Petersburg is worth putting on the bucket list. But currently I yearn to revisit my local Museum, which only opened briefly last year, the Box.  It hold a couple of my favourite paintings - "The fish sale", by Stanhope Forrbes and Sir Joshua Reynolds' first self portrait.  It also holds an exhibition commemorating the sailing of the Mayflower 400 years ago last year as well as the South West Image Bank and South West Film and Television Archive.
Yes, St Petersburg and the Hermitage are right up there (as are all the other places you mentioned Linda in St. P.   I still adore the Uffizi gallery in Florence.   We had the most brilliant 1 to 1 guide who gave us a fantastic art history lesson over a 4 hour period - just brilliant.
Impossible to pin it down to one gallery...if I have to, it'll be the Gallery D'Orsay in Paris.  Manet, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh and that genius Rodin.  I sat for a long time looking at Renoir's Moulin de las Gallette.
Lewis is quite right, you cannot pin it down to one museum. I was amazed to find a large collection of impressionist paintings in Melbourne (Oz) Art Gallery - a delightful surprise.  I was also amazed at the huge collection of Toulouse Lautrec’s works at his dedicated gallery (The old bishop’s palace)in Albi, his home town. ( He wasn’t from Toulouse at all.)