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  Louvre Museum is the most visited art museum in the world, a monument full of historical meaning and the greatest national museum of France. It is a central tourist attraction in Paris, located on the Right Bank of the Seine, in the first arrondissement. Here there are displayed over 35,000 art objects dating from the 6th millennium BC and up to the nineteenth century AD.       Louvre Museum is housed by Louvre palace, which was originally...

  Vatican City is the smallest state in the world, occupying an area of only 50 hectares. The population of this state is only slightly more than 550 people, and its form of government is theocracy, headed by Papa.      Inside the Vatican City there are the Vatican Museums, which are considered to be among the greatest museums in the world, with an impressive collection, where one can admire some of the world’s most renowned classical ...

  Hermitage Museum is the largest art gallery of Russia, one of the most remarkable museums in the world and certainly the main attraction in St. Petersburg. Hermitage Museum was founded as a collection of art works by Empress Catherine the Great in 1764, and opened to the public in 1852.      The main building of the Hermitage Museum is the Winter Palace, built by the architect Bartolomeo Rastrelli (1754-1762), in Baroque style. The first p...

  In the Italian city where Renaissance has flourished, the imposing palace of arts houses for centuries one of the richest art collections in the world. Uffizi Gallery is the largest Renaissance pinacoteca. Also, it  is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.The building, originally designed in 1561 at the request of Cosimo I de Medici for the Florentine magistrates' offices, turned into a museum.     Gallery owe...

  The imposing British Museum exhibits works of art created from prehistoric times up until nowadays, presenting human culture from its beginnings to the present in impressive collections that bring together masterpieces from all over the world.      A museum of human history and culture, it is currently one of the largest and most comprehensive museums in the world. The museum was founded in the mid eighteenth century, in 1753, on the basis...

  Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain features one of the greatest collections of European art from the fourteenth century until the early nineteenth century. This collection is impressive and can easily compete with what can be found in the Louvre Museum in Paris. Besides the art collection at “El Prado” (Spanish equivalent), here there is also found an impressive collection of over 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and almost 2,000 decorative objects. Sculpture is...

  The Museum of Modern Art, also referred to as MoMA, is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. Founded in 1929 as a settlement of culture and education, the Museum of Modern Art in New York is considered to be the most influential museum of modern art in the world. MoMA hosts the most beautiful art work collection in the world from the 19th century up to the present, including those belonging to van Gogh, Picass...

A landmark for the basque city of Bilbao in Spain, Guggenheim museum is one of the top museums in the world.    The Guggenheim Museum is a museum of modern and contemporary art located in Bilbao, Spain and it is one of the five museums belonging to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. It is by far the most recognizable building in Bilbao. Built at the initiative of the Basque government and managed by Guggenheim Foundation, it is a modern and impressive edifice, in relative terms, with 16,000 square meters of exhibition space, being just one of the stages of the ambitious project to tr...

  The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities is commonly known as the Egyptian Museum and is located in Cairo in Egypt. Egyptian Museum is one of the greatest museums in the world, housing the richest collection of ancient Egyptian art, among which the famous treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb, the museum's most valuable artifacts: jewelry, the gold coffin, the mask of solid gold, sandals and the young pharaoh’ gold gloves. If you are in Cairo, do not miss a visit to this museum –i...

  The largest city in South America and the third most populated one in the world, with over 10 million inhabitants, Sao Paulo is Brazil's economic capital, but also one of the most important cultural centers in the region, with numerous museums and attractions. Sao Paulo Museum of Art is a must-see destination for all those who arrive in town, even if they are not very interested or connoisseur in the domain. The museum was founded in 1947 by Assis Chateaubriand and Pietro Mar...

  Art Institute of Chicago is a world-class art museum and a famous, independent school of fine arts. It was founded in 1866 and from 1868 became an arts high school in Chicago, Illinois. Institute of Arts was born as a result of the city's wealthiest citizens' initiative, which donated funds and their collections of paintings, among these there are Arthur Jerome Eddy, Bertha Honoré Palmer and Martin Antoine Ryerson.      The first bu...

  National Gallery of London houses a brilliant collection of European art from the early period of the Renaissance (XIIIth century) up to Impressionism period (XIXth century). The gallery contains around 2300 paintings from each great European school, and was founded in 1824 when the private collection of 38 paintings of the banker John Angerstein was bought by the British Government. The 38 paintings were originally displayed at Angerstein's house Pall Mall. It was opened in 1938 ...

  The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts houses one of the richest art collections in Russia and it is conveniently located in downtown Moscow, few steps away from Kremlin and the Red Square. Pushkin Museum is the second largest museum of foreign art in Russia after the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and the largest museum of European art in Moscow.     One of the most beautiful buildings in the world, Museum Pushkin in Moscow was built in 1898 at t...

  Musée d'Orsay is one of the most popular tourist attractions in Paris and houses an incredible collection of art works from the 19th and 20th century belonging to some of the greatest artists in the world such as Degas, Monet, Manet, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Sisley, Gauguin or Van Gogh.      It is one of the most interesting museums of modern art in the world, not just for its collection, but particularly for its history. A f...

  The richest collection of ancient paintings in the United States is displayed at the National Gallery of Art, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art is closed only two days a year, on Christmas day and on the 1st of January 1 and access is free of charge. A unique feature is the guided visits organized for the blind people.     The collection owned by the National Gallery of Art comprises, on one hand, works be...