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 [...]
Museo Thyssen BornemiszaIn 1992, the Museo Thyssen Bornemisza pioneered a new formula for art museums - private management of public assets. The Thyseen-Bornemisza’s Foundation's strategy is to achieve a streamlined administrative management, seeking to maximize revenues and control the costs involved in organizing an intense program of cultural activities while maintaining optimum gallery conditions, facilities [...]
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 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 National Gallery of Art was created in 1937 for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress, accepting the gift of financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon. The National Gallery of Art serves the United States of America in a national role by preserving, collecting, exhibiting, and [...]
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 [...]
The San Diego Museum of Art located in the heart of beautiful Balboa Park, the Museum’s nationally renowned permanent collection includes Spanish and Italian old masters, South Asian paintings, and 19th- and 20th-century American paintings and sculptures. Hours Monday through Saturday, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Closed Wednesdays. Extended hours Friday, 10:00 am to 7:00 [...]
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 [...]
