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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Athens Archeological Museum in Athens, Greece
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…"
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 Bodleian Library in Oxford, United Kingdom
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…"
amoore reviewed Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia
"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…"
amoore reviewed Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom
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…"
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 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 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 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 British Museum in London, United Kingdom
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…"
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 Brera Gallery in Milan, Italy
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…"
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…"
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 Iraqi Museum in Baghdad, Iraq
Spectacular and largely looted; it's hard to say accurately what remains of the collection."
amoore reviewed National Gallery, London in London, United Kingdom
"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…"
amoore reviewed Naples Museo Archeologico in Naples, Italy
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…"
amoore reviewed Archaeological Museum of Delphi in Central Greece, Greece
"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…"
amoore reviewed Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany
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). …"
amoore reviewed Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria
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."
amoore reviewed Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, Germany
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…"
amoore reviewed Capitoline Museums in Rome, Italy
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…"
amoore reviewed National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City, Mexico
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…"
amoore reviewed Capodimonte Museum in Naples, Italy
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…"
amoore reviewed Wallace Collection in London, United Kingdom
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."
