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 J. Paul Getty Museum has two locations. The Getty Museum's primary location is the Getty Center in Los Angeles which houses European paintings, drawings, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, decorative arts, and European and American photographs. The Getty Museum's secondary location is at the Getty Villa in Malibu. As a museum and educational center dedicated to [...]
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 [...]
Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919), one of America’s most successful coke and steel industrialists, enjoyed the art he loved before he bequeathed it to the public. The art of The Frick Collection includes superb examples of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art, displayed in a serene and intimate setting. Each of sixteen galleries offers a unique [...]
Museo Nacional del Prado opened to the public in November 1819. The Museum's collection was built upon the royal collection of Charles V from the 16th century and continued to thrive under the succeeding Habsburg and Bourbon Monarchs. The Museum's greatest masterpieces are The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosh, The Nobleman with his hand [...]
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, [...]
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 original sculptures and paintings in the Borghese Gallery date back to Cardinal Scipione's collection, the son of Ortensia Borghese - Paolo V's sister - and of Francesco Caffarelli, though subsequent events over the next three centuries entailing both losses and acquisition have left their mark. The Borghese Gallery features the most incredible collection of [...]
953 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Located in scenic Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum features an unparalleled art [...]
