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"The glorious V&A is probably the world's finest museum of applied and decorative arts. It houses Britain's national collections of everything from photography to ceramics, via miniature paintings, sculpture to 1914, glass, jewellery, textiles and more. C…"
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…"
"The Finnish National Gallery is host to three independent museums: the Anteneum Art Museum, the Kiasma (Museum of Contemporary Art), and the Sinebrychoff Art Museum (Museum of Foreign Art). They collectively show a large selection of sculpture, painting,…"
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…"
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…"
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…"
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…"
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,…"
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 …"
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…"
"The Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, in the splendid Baroque Palazzo Barberini, forms part of Italy's national collection of ancient art. The Palazzo's lavish apartments are at their best in the rococo Gallery of Decorative Art. The collection contains …"
Spectacular and largely looted; it's hard to say accurately what remains of the collection."
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…"
"This Vienna museum houses a world-renowned collection of graphic art ' comprising some 60,000 drawings, etchings and watercolours and over a million other printed works. There are important works, such as Albrecht Durer's 1502 'Rabbit', as well as works …"
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…"
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…"
The Museo Archeologico Nazionale houses great treasures from Greece, Rome and Egypt - formed around the fabulous, rich Farnese Collection - as well as fascinating displays of art and artefacts excavated from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. There is lim…"
"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…"
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…"
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 …"
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…"
"Berlin's 1876 Alte Nationalgalerie (Old National Gallery), completely restored in 2001, represents 19th-century painting and sculpture. The collection includes fine examples of French and German Impressionists as well as masterpieces from the romantic an…"
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…"
"The Accademia was founded in 1750 as the school for painting, sculpture and architecture for Venice and is first point of call for art-lovers in this city. The collection is devoted to Venetian artists up to the 18th century; masterpieces by Titian, Tint…"
A grand neoclassical building housing one of the world's most important collections of European paintings from the 14th to the 18th centuries, including more works by Rubens than any other museum and such gems as Durer's monumental Self-Portrait (1500). …"
Incredible world class collection of Chinese, Asian, Aztec and Classical art, with Egyptian Mummies, the Rosetta Stone and the Elgin Marbles as highlights. The astonishing thing about the British Museum, too, is that it is free (except for special exhibi…"
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…"
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…"
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…"
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…"
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…"
One of the most important museums of classical antiquity in the world, the National Archeological Museum of Athens dates rom the late 19thC and houses treasures from Thessaly, the Cylcades, Santorini and Mycenae along with a peerless collection of sculpt…"
This huge, brutalist Chapultepec Park museum provides an overview of Latin American cultural history, from the earliest civilisations on. Significant exhibits include the Aztec Stone of the Sun, the mysterious giant stone heads that are relics of the Olm…"
The museum and art gallery of Naples is housed in a Bourbon palazzo, originally built to house the Farnese collection of art. Today, the collections represent European art from the 14th to the 18th centuries, though it is especially strong in Italian art…"
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. …"
"The State Hermitage occupies six magnificent buildings in St Petersburg, the most famous of which is the Winter Palace. This is a collection for superlatives ' two and a half centuries' worth of art, one of the world's finest and most valuable collection…"
One of Italy's finest collections of Renaissance art, the Brera was founded by Napoleon as a staging post for works of art looted from the rest of Italy, many of which eventually made their way to the Louvre. Includes fine paintings by, for example, Cara…"
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…"
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology was established in 1683, making in one of the oldest museums in the world. It was built to house the collection of Elias Ashmole, who gave it to Oxford University in 1677 and which included a stuffed dodo, whic…"
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 …"
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…"
On the Capitoline Hill in Rome, the group of art and archeological museums is housed in three palazzi, laid out around the Piazza del Campidoglio, the design of which was based on a plan by Michelangelo. The creation of the Capitoline Museums has been tr…"
"The Israel Museum is a fascinating repository of archaeology, art and Judaica. The archaeological section shows a history of Israel in seven chapters, from Prehistory through Biblical and Herodian times to the Islamic period. The Judaica section shows im…"
This charming, elaborate building houses fine and decorative artworks gathered by the empire-building Habsburgs. As well as works by great European masters, there are fine examples of work from Egypt and Ancient Greece."
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…"
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…"
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 …"
"The National Gallery houses one of the world's most important collections of Western European painting. Dutch and Italian Renaissance collections form two major highlights but the scope is huge and there are masterpieces from every major school of art, f…"
"One of the triumvirate of leading Greek museums, the Archaeological Museum of Delphi houses important sculptures from Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Greece. Highlights include such works as 5th-century BC Charioteer of Delphi, a larger-than-life bro…"
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…"
"The Galleria Borghese houses a substantial part of the Borghese collection of paintings, sculpture and antiquities. The collection orginated in the 1600s with Cardinal Scipione Borghese, nephew of the Pope. Primarily a collector of classical and neoclass…"
The Bodleian Library has a history dating back to 1602 and its roots date back even further. As well as being the main research library for Oxford University, it is a copyright deposit library; its collections are used by scholars around the world. The B…"
A large collection of European art from the 13th to the 18th centuries, housed in 7,000 square metres of exhibition space. It's strong in 13th to 16th century Italian painting and 15th and 16th century Dutch painting - and there are 16 works by Rembrandt…"
The charming Wallace Collection originates in the private collection of Sir Richard Wallace. It's best known for fine porcelain, especially Sevres and Meissen, and its excellent armoury, but also shows Old Master paintings and other objets d'art."