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The Top 12 Museums in the World
Here is my personal "top 12 museums" in the western world:
1- The Louvre in Paris is arguably the world's most famous Museum, with a wonderful collection of antiquities and European painting, including -of course- Leonardo's Gioconda
2- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is arguably America's greatest museum. Its spectacular collection is especially strong in American painting and Egyptian Antiquities.
3- The British Museum is England's greatest museum -and one of the best in the world- of Ancient Arts and antiquities, with an excellent collection of Art from Ancient Egypt to the Middle Ages.
4- The Vatican Museums houses the immense and outstanding Art collection of the Catholic Church, with some of the most important works of Art of the History, such as the Sistine Chapel or Raphael's The School of Athens
5- The Hermitage Museum is the most important Museum in Russia and also the largest Art collection in the world. More than 3,000,000 million of artworks, from the stone age to the post-impressionism
6- The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna houses an important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, and an outstanding collection of European painting.
7- The National Gallery of London houses one of the world's finest collection of European painting, from the 13th to the early 20th century.
8- The Museum of modern Art (MOMA) houses the world's best collection of modern and contemporary Art, featuring masterworks as Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon or van Gogh's Starry night.
9- The Museé d'Orsay in Paris is without doubt the best museum of impressionist and 19th century French painting in the world. Features masterworks from Monet, van Gogh, Renoir, Degas...
10- The Cairo Museum is by far the most complete collection of Egyptian Art in the world. Its most famous artworks are the objects from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, discovered in 1922.
11- El Museo del Prado is Spain's most important museum, featuring the best collection of Spanish painting in the world. Unfortunately, its website is not so complete.
12- The Uffizi in Florence is the most important collection of Italian Renaissance painting. In this excellent website you can works such as Botticelli's Venus or Giotto's Ognisanti Madonna.
You can read the full list (up to 28 museums!) at your source for Art and the Art world: www.theartwolf.com - Art, Artists, Art news, portfolios.
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