Victoria and Albert Museum Established in 1852, the Victoria and Albert Museum's collections span two thousand years of art in virtually every medium, from many parts of the world, and visitors to the museum encounter a treasure house of amazing and beautiful objects. The Victoria and Albert Museum seeks to make works of art [...]
The Scottish National Gallery houses a collection of fine art from the early Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. For a nation of Scotland’s size, the collection is rightfully regarded as one of the best in the world. The Royal Scottish Academy, which is an independent organization, provides a premier venue for international [...]
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is shares its vast collections through exhibitions, public programs, and research facilities. Established in 1910 as part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, in Exposition Park, in 1961, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was established as a separate, art-focused institution which attracts [...]
The Art Institute of Chicago was founded as both a museum and school for the fine arts in 1879. In 1893, the Art Institute moved to its permanent home with the entry guarded by the two famous bronze lions built for the World's Columbian Exposition. Today, the Art Institute of Chicago has approximately 300,000 works [...]
The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States. Its collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art. The Museum is part of a complex of parks and gardens which include Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Prospect Park Zoo, Mount Prospect Park, the Central Library of the Brooklyn, and the [...]
Museum of Fine Arts opened its doors to the public on July 4, 1876 in Copley Square. In 1909, the Museum moved to its current home on Huntington Avenue. Today the MFA is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world. The collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art. We welcome more than [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York... encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts..." By the twentieth century, the Met had become one of the world's great art centers. Today, the Met's two-million-square-foot building houses over two million objects, tens [...]
Musee d'Orsay is located in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. The national museum of the Musée d'Orsay opened to the public in 1986 to show the great diversity of artistic creation in the western world between 1848 and 1914. It was formed with the national collections from three [...]
Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Central to The Museum of Modern Art's mission is the encouragement of an ever-deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art by the diverse local, national, and international audiences [...]
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The Norton Simon Museum is a hidden gem found in Pasadena just outside of Los Angeles. Over [...]
