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amoore reviewed Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
This museum features a comprehensive and authoritative collection of works by Van Gogh. There are also a sprinkling of paintings and drawings by his contemporaries, friends and the 19th-century artists that influenced him, including Toulouse-Lautrec, Gau…"
amoore reviewed Tokugawa Art Museum in Nagoya, Japan
The Tokugawa Art Museum, in Nagoya, shows the collections of the wealthy Owari, a branch of the powerful Tokugawa family, which ruled in the Edo Period, from 1603 to 1868. The collection includes lavishly designed swords and armour, artefacts from tea ce…"
amoore reviewed Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Spain
The third point in Madrid's Golden Triangle of Art, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is housed in a fine neo-classical building. The collection is shown chronologically, from the Renaissance to the late 20th century. It covers Impressionists, Expressionists,…"
amoore reviewed Sir John Soane's Museum in London, United Kingdom
The former residence of neo-classical architect Sir John Soane, The Soane Museum is an addictively eclectic tribute to the man and his collections of paintings, drawings and antiquities. There are over 30,000 pieces, which range from Hogarth's eight Rake…"
amoore reviewed Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Scotland's Royal Museum has satisfyingly diverse collections of everything from early fossils to the Dolly the Sheep, the first successfully cloned mammal from a cell. As you would expect, there are good displays covering the breadth of Scottish history …"
amoore reviewed Musee Auguste Rodin in Paris, France
The Rodin Museum in Paris primarily shows the artist's completed works, in marble and bronze sculptures, including The Kiss and The Thinker. They are housed in the artist's former residence, with many pieces displayed in the gardens. Rodin's work is comp…"
amoore reviewed Queen's Gallery in London, United Kingdom
The Royal Collection is a glorious anomaly, a trove of art and other treasures acquired by monarchs of Britain over the centuries and held in trust for the nation. As well as wonderful works of art, there are more unusual collections representing the tas…"
amoore reviewed Picasso Museum in Paris, France
An elegant mansion in the Marais, housing the definitive collection of works by Picasso ' thousands of paintings, drawings, sketches, sculptures and other artworks. They span the artist's career and show the development of his style. The museum also show…"
amoore reviewed National Museum of Singapore in Singapore, Singapore
The National Museum of Singapore provides an overview of Singapore's history, showing items of cultural and traditional importance. Ancient Javanese gold items, historic depictions of the city in photography and paint, weapons, art, costumes and other ar…"
amoore reviewed Stockholm's National Museum of Art in Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's National Museum of Art was founded in 1792 and represents a collection of 12,500 works of art, with particularly strengths in Swedish and Nordic art. The museum also has a very fine collection of Rembrandt paintings, which are shown in a single …"
amoore reviewed Canada's National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada
This Ottawa museum, in an award-winning glass and granite building, is home to Canada's premier collection of home-grown art. The Canadian displays include over 800 paintings, sculpture and decorative works ranging from 18th-century religious Qu'bec scul…"
amoore reviewed National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, Australia
The National Gallery of Australia's collections of arts can be broadly divided into four main areas: Australian art, Aboriginal and Torres Strait art, Asian art and International Art. A key piece in the Aboriginal collection is The Aboriginal Memorial (1…"
amoore reviewed Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, New Zealand
On the harbour in Wellington, Te Papa Tongarewa holds excellent displays of Maori art and culture, as well as sections devoted to the colonisation and recent history of New Zealand. Exhibitions make creative use of cutting-edge interactive and other tech…"
amoore reviewed Sweden's Museum of National Antiquities in Stockholm, Sweden
Sweden's national museum of cultural history and art, with exhibits from stretching from prehistory to the 16th century. There are rooms devoted to gold treasures and to the Vikings, as well as a good collection of textiles and, in the Gothic rooms, an e…"
amoore reviewed Hungarian National Museum in Budapest, Hungary
The National Museum of Hungary is best-known for its displays about Hungarian and Magyar history, which chronicle the development of the nation and its people over centuries. The imposing building is said to have been a catalyst for the 1848 Hungarian re…"
amoore reviewed Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, United Kingdom
Cambridge's Fitzwilliam Museum has remarkable collections of art and antiquities from Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome and Cyprus. They encompass furniture, armour, pottery and glass, oriental art, illuminated manuscripts, coins and medals. Mas…"
amoore reviewed Edo-Tokyo Museum in Tokyo, Japan
The Edo-Tokyo Museum provides a fascinating insight into the history of Tokyo and its people, back to its roots as the small 15th century fishing village of Edo. The permanent exhibitions show artefacts, reproductions and scale models. Among the highligh…"
amoore reviewed Courtauld Institute Gallery in London, United Kingdom
The Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery at Somerset House has Britain's finest collection of Impressionist paintings, as well as world-famous Old Masters. The fine prints and drawings collection features works by Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Cﾎzanne and Turne…"
amoore reviewed Archeological Museum of Bologna in Bologna, Italy
Bologna's Archaeological Museum encompasses Greek, Roman, Egyptian and Etruscan artefacts and relics. The Egyptian collection is among Italy's best, with a large collection of mummies and sarcophagi. Treasures include a sculpture of a torso said to be Ne…"
amoore reviewed Museo Nationale del Bargello in Florence, Italy
Italy's National Museum of Sculpture houses an unrivalled collection of Italian Renaissance sculpture. Masterpieces by Donatello, Michelangelo, Cellini, Bernini and others fill the building's frescoed rooms, spilling out into courtyards, dotted with an e…"
amoore reviewed Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, Italy
The section of the Peggy Guggenheim collection on show in Venice is more eclectic than elsewhere; it's housed in the charming Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, where she lived for 30 years. The important artistic movements of the first half of the 20th century a…"
amoore reviewed Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, United States
A huge and hugely enjoyable collection of all things natural history - paleontology, geology, botany, anthropology. The collection now runs to some 20 million items, a portion of which are shown on the museum's nine acres of space. The dinosaurs, Egyptia…"
amoore reviewed Vatican Museums in Rome, Italy
The Vatican Museums show world-renowned collections of ancient sculpture, medieval and Renaissance art. They include the Sistine Chapel, the Galleria dei Candelabri (Gallery of Candelabras), the Galleria degli Arazzi (featuring an outstanding collection …"
amoore reviewed Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy
Much of the Uffizi's collection was once owned by the Medici family, a member of which originally commissioned the building in 1560. The Uffizi houses a stunning collection of Renaissance and medieval painting and sculpture, including priceless works fro…"
amoore reviewed The Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Egypt
The Cairo museum houses the world's most extensive collections of ancient Egyptian art and artefacts. The artefacts recovered from the tomb of Tutankhamun are on show here, a treasure trove of 1,700 pieces including his gold funerary mask. There is also …"
amoore reviewed The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Rijksmuseum, in its handsome neo-Renaissance brick building, is best known for paintings from the Golden Age of Dutch art. Masterpieces include Rembrandt's The Night Watch and works by Vermeer, Van Ruisdael, van Heemskerck, Frans Hals and Jan Steen. …"
amoore reviewed Pushkin Fine Arts Museum in Moscow, Russia
Moscow's finest arts museum, with a huge collection of Western art. It has excellent displays of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, with French Impressionists particularly well represented. A small annexe museum next door, the Musey Chastnykh Koll…"
amoore reviewed Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy
The Palazzo Pitti has long been a repository for art treasures in Florence. The beautiful mainly Renaissance building was the townhouse of a wealthy Florentine banker, then was owned by the Medici family before becoming home to the ruling families of the…"
amoore reviewed National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan
Taipei's National Palace Museum is a repository for thousands of years' worth of Chinese art and artefacts. The collections are so extensive that only a fraction are on show at one time - paintings, bronzes, oracle bones, porcelain, jewellery and more, i…"
