The best art museums in the world (Exhibitions)
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Louvre Museum in Paris, France
It is one of the most famous symbols of Paris. Louvre is an art gallery and museum renown in all the world. A former royal palace, it was turned in 1793 as a museum. The interest in the Louvre increased with the mention in Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code. Built as a royal palace, the building is a masterpiece in itself, "guarded" by a huge equestrian statue of King Louis XIV.
Hosting over 35,000 works held in eight departments, including the permanent collections of the Lo...
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Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA
Located in the Big Apple, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is perceived as the most important museum of modern art in the world. Hosted creations are varied - painting, sculpture, photography, video, printing, electronic media, architecture and design - more than 150,000 works of art, 22,000 films and four million of slides. The building was redesigned by the Japanese architect Yoshio Taniguchi in 2004, MoMA and now covers nearly 60,000 square meters.
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Museo del Prado in Madrid, Spain
Hosting some of the most valuable collections of European, Museo del Prado is actually a large royal court, with angular design, stone columns and the main entrance framed by huge stairs. In the museum are available to the public over 8600 paintings, 5,000 drawings, 2,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals and 700 sculptures and fragments.
Permanent collections: Illustrating the cultural movements of the 12th century to early 19th century, the museum is extremely valuable madreste a perm...
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