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 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 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 Louvre evolved from a 12th century fortress; the dwelling of François I and, later, the palace of the Sun King, Louis XIV into an extraordinary museum which opened in 1793. A museum among museums. Accumulated riches of art, on a scale unrivaled anywhere in the world, makes the Louvre a place of learning, delight, [...]
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 [...]
