There are so many interesting things in the world, and life is so short that you should not waste it for visiting boring places, for communicating with empty people and for watching stupid programs. It's time to make a wish list, where you must include at least a couple of museums, which we'll talk about in more detail.
1. Museum of Modern Art
It is also known as the Museum of MoM. This is one of the first museums of modern art. Located in Manhattan. It was founded in 1928 with the assistance and patronage of famous American entrepreneurs Rockefellers. The collection of his works includes "Starry Night" by Van Gogh, "Avignon's Maidens" by Picasso, "The Permanence of Memory" by Dali and many other masterpieces of brilliant artists.
2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It is one of the largest and most visited museums in the world. Founded in 1870 in New York. As for the collections of the museum, it is based on 174 works of European painting, among which the works of the French artist Nicolas Poussin, the Dutch artist Frans Hals and many others. To date, the museum has more than 2 million paintings. The Metropolitan Museum consists of several departments:
- Costume Institute (in his collection more than 30 000 suits and accessories, and his exhibitions tell about such designers as Gianni Versace, Yves Saint Laurent and many others);
- Asian Department (covering about 4,000 years of Asian art history);
- the art of Africa, Oceania, America (there are more than 11,000 exhibits);
- the art of the Ancient East (the collection covers the period from the late Neolithic period to the fall of the Sassanid state);
- Department of weapons and armor (among the exhibits armor of King Henry VIII of England).
3. The Solomon Guggenheim Museum
It is located in Bilbao, Spain. It is one of the branches of the museum of the same name, which is located in New York. Here you can see the exhibition of Spanish and many foreign artists. This museum attracts tourists not only with its collections, but also with architecture. It is located on the waterfront. The building is constructed in the style of deconstructionism made of titanium, sandstone and glass. It embodies the idea of a futuristic ship. Often it is compared with a blossoming rose and a bird.
4. Whitney Museum of American Art
It contains the largest collection of modern American art. The museum was founded in 1931 in New York by Gertrude Whitney, who donated 700 paintings from his collection. If you come here, do not forget to visit the restaurant "Untitled" where you can enjoy delicious honey. Interestingly, it is made up of bee hives located on the roof of the Whitney Museum.
5. The Louvre Museum
How not to include it in the list of museums that you just need to visit? By the way, its area is 22 football fields. Moreover, 35,000 paintings, prints, engravings, frescoes - this is only a small part of what is presented in the Louvre. And, if you spend no more than 1 second to inspect each exhibit, then in 10 hours you will have time to admire the beauty of this museum in Paris.
6. The Marmottan-Monet Museum
If you adore the creations of impressionists and post-impressionists (Paul Gauguin, Edouard Manet, Pierre Auguste Renoir), be sure to visit this museum located in Paris. In addition, there is the world's largest collection of paintings by Claude Monet.
7. The Museum of Rodin
This is one of the most popular and most visited in Paris after the Louvre and the Museum of Orsay (we will talk about it below). In this exquisite mansion with a magnificent and unique exposition, surrounded by a luxurious park, the flow of tourists does not run out all year round. The museum houses the best creations of Rodin, among which are the famous sculptures The Thinker and The Citizens of Calais.
8. The Vatican Museum
Or rather the Vatican Museums. They are scattered all over Rome. Here you can see the huge statues of the pharaohs, the beautiful painted jars belonging to the ancient Etruscans, the mysterious mummies and the magnificent frescoes of Michelangelo. And most importantly the treasure of the Vatican Museum is the Sistine Chapel, a room once painted by Michelangelo and Botticelli. By the way, you can not take pictures and make videos in it, and you can only talk in whispers. Do you know why? This is done in order to preserve the quality of the frescos in the chapel.
9. Museum of Design
The Museum of Contemporary Design in London was the first dedicated to this field of activity. Today, for many designers, it is a standard of professionalism. In its walls are collected exclusively unique creations of contemporary artists, sculptors, designers. The main expositions are achievements in architectural design, in the design of clothing, footwear, furniture and other. If to be a designer for you more than just a profession, then this museum will be for you the main source of inspiration.
10. Borghese Gallery
If in your wish list there is an item "Visit all the significant Roman sights", then welcome to the Borghese Gallery. It is a real treasure trove of artistic and sculptural masterpieces of various eras. In addition, you can admire the canvases of many eminent masters of the Renaissance of various schools.
11. The Victoria and Albert Museum
It is the world's largest museum of decorative and applied art and design in London. On attendance, he ranks 14th in the world. The museum includes 145 galleries. All 140 rooms are divided into 6 levels, and to inspect the entire exhibition, it will take at least several months. By the way, the entrance to the museum, as well as all state museums in London, is free.
12. The National Museum of the Prado
This Madrid art museum is one of the largest and most significant in Europe. To date, it contains works of Spanish, Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, French masters. The museum's collection includes more than 8000 paintings and about 400 sculptures.
13. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
It is located within the "Golden Triangle of Art", a small Madrid district, which is home to several large museums, including the Prado Museum and the Queen Sofia Museum. The Thyssen-Bornemisza exhibition offers visitors a large collection of paintings, in which there are many works of the most famous artists covering the period of 8 centuries.
14. The Rijksmuseum
Welcome to Amsterdam. This art museum is among the 20 most visited in the world. And he was the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte. To date, the basis of his art collection is the work of Dutch painters, among which you can see the works of Rembrandt, Vermeer, Huls and many others.
15. The Van Gogh Museum
Even if you are not a fan of his work, the exposition of this museum will necessarily inspire the creation of something genius. Here is the largest collection of works by the artist - about 200 canvases. In addition, anyone can see 700 letters addressed to the brother of Van Gogh, Theo. Thanks to them, many interesting facts were opened from the biography of a Dutch artist.
16. The Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA)
It collects collections of Spanish, Catalan and many foreign artists of the second half of the XX century. Also on the territory of the museum is the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture. The attention of tourists is attracted not only by the exposure of MACBA, but also by the huge white mass of the museum building, created in the modernist style by Richard Meyer.
17. The Picasso Museum
It was in Barcelona that important years of Picasso's emergence as an artist passed. The museum, which is located in the capital of Catalonia, in Barcelona, collected the early works of the painter, created in the period 1895-1904. By the way, and the building itself is located in the old city palace of the XV century.
18. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
No wonder they say that the Hermitage is a small copy of the Louvre. Here are kept the masterpieces of Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Rembrandt. In one of the galleries, a collection of portraits of the Romanov dynasty was recreated. Not only to admire all the exhibits (which is about 3 million), to visit all 6 historic buildings, it will take at least 11 years.
19. The Uffizi Gallery
Literally, the Uffizi Gallery translates as "gallery of offices". It is located in a palace built in Florence in 1560-1581. It is one of the oldest European museums. The Uffizi has many remarkable and remarkable collections and exhibits. For example, here is stored a unique collection of self-portraits of famous artists. The heart of the famous museum is a collection of the equally famous Medici family, who ruled here for many years.
20. La Specola
La Specola is a museum of zoology and natural history. Among the collections of fossils, minerals, stuffed animals and natural rarities, the museum has a unique collection of wax figures. At first it belonged to the Medici family. In total, La Spezola has more than 1,400 wax figures. Among them are "bodies" with interiors sticking outward, heads consisting of one muscles and other illustrations of "autopsy".
21. The new museum of the Acropolis
In Athens, at the foot of the Acropolis in the modernist building is a museum, in the collections of which are represented reliefs, statues and artifacts collected from the Parthenon and other parts of the Acropolis. The museum's exhibits are of a religious nature, including a collection of antique statues used in religious ceremonies.
22. The Benaki Museum
It is one of the oldest private museums in Greece. It contains valuable exhibits, including ancient sculptures, paintings, textiles, icons, dishes, gold jewelry of the inhabitants of ancient Greece. Particular attention should be paid to the objects of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, objects of the early Hellenistic period. By the way, the Benaki Museum has its own workshops and a rich library.
23. The City Museum of Brussels
Here you can see artifacts related to the history and development of Brussels. Also in the museum there are many archaeological finds, sculptures and paintings of talented artists. One of the treasures of the museum is the canvas of the Dutch painter Peter Brueghel the Elder, written in 1567. Along with this, the City Museum stores the outfits, in which the most popular monument of not only Brussels, but the whole of Belgium - the sculpture of the Manneken Pisan, is sometimes worn.
24. Museum of Musical Instruments
It is located in Brussels and is the world's largest museum of musical instruments. It stores about 8,000 academic, folk and traditional instruments. On each floor, except the last one (there is a restaurant), there is a separate thematic exposition: string and keyboards, including rare and exotic instruments of the modern orchestra, traditional ethnic "bell rings" and "knockers", jukeboxes and music boxes.
25. Museum Island in Berlin
He has no world analogues. The museum island is located in the heart of Berlin and includes 5 buildings, from the side resembling the ancient temples. By the way, this unusual island is included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage sites. In each of the five museums, there are exhibits of the history and culture of mankind, created over six thousand years.
26. Dongdaemun Plaza Design (Dongdaemun Design Plaza), Seoul, Korea
It is not just a museum in which historical relics and artifacts are collected, but also a cultural and entertainment complex with architecture in a modernist style. On its territory is also located the Museum of Design. Often exhibitions of modern art and design objects are held here.
27. Underwater Museum of the Atlantic, Lanzarote Island
Not long ago, the first underwater museum in Europe opened in front of the island of Lanzarote, in which 400 sculptures in the size of human growth are exhibited. All of them are located at a depth of 12 meters and are designed to reflect the person's attitude to the environment, as well as the harmony of life and art. For example, the architectural ensemble "Rubicon", consisting of 35 frozen in the half-step of human figures, symbolizes climate change, and "Raft Lampedusa" recalls the famous painting of the same name by the French painter Theodore Gericault.
28. Museum of broken relations, Zagreb, Croatia
It is also called the Museum of Divorce. It is a unique and unusual museum, in which evidence of lost love is collected. Each exhibit symbolizes the relations severed between the partners. Interestingly, all objects were sent from different parts of the world. In this case, the exhibits have a history with which each visitor can get acquainted in more detail.
29. Museum of Science and Arts, Singapore
It is located on the coast of the resort in Singapore. This is the first museum in the world, the main task of which is to study the role of the creative process in science, art, and its influence on the consciousness of each of us. First of all, not only the exhibits of the museum are unique, but also the architecture of the building. So, its unusual roof collects rainwater, which through the hole flows into the inner reservoir of the museum. By the way, the outside of the museum is decorated with material that is usually used for the construction of sea-going vessels, yachts, - reinforced polymer.
30. The National Museum of Sweden
At the heart of its exposition is a collection of more than 30,000 works of decorative and applied art, 16,000 sculptures, paintings, 500,000 medieval drawings. The main pearls of the museum are canvases of German, Italian, French, English, Dutch artists. Here you can see the genius works of Van Rijn Rembrandt, Peter Rubens, Thomas Gainsborough, El Greco, Pietro Perugino, Francisco Goya, Camille Pissarro, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin , Jean Batista Corot. Also in the National Museum is a collection of Russian icons of the XV-XVIII centuries.