You Have to Visit these 18 Museums
Historically, museums started as
private collections of individuals, families, or institutions of curious
and rare artifacts and other objects. The first museum known to
historians is the Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, which operated in 530 B.C.E.
in what is now modern-day Iraq. It was run by princess Ennigaldi,
daughter of the last king of the Babylonian Empire.
The traveler community of the website TripAdvisor recently created a list of the best museums
in the world. If you like to travel and enjoy the arts, history, and
science, you’re going to want to visit all of these museums. If you’re
not sure, use this list to help you choose which museums you should
visit.
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The Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) - Bogota, Colombia |
The Museum houses the largest collection of pre-Columbian gold artifacts, with over 55,000 pieces.
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Museum of New Zealand - Wellington, New Zealand
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Known as "Te Papa Tongarewa", the
museum holds several collections, including the most diverse collection
of colossal squids, fossils of ancient local flora and fauna, as well as
cultural textile and photography of the natives.
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Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim - Brumadinho, Brazil |
When developers planned to destroy
the area around his farm in the 1980's, Fernando Paz began buying the
land, eventually owning 5,000 acres, which he turned into a botanical
garden. He later invited Brazillian artists to add their art to the
garden and by 2008 it has become the most popular art museum in South
America.
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Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Museum - Xi'an, China |
The mausoleum was
discovered by mistake in 1974 by Chinese farmers who were digging
a well. Further excavation uncovered over 9,000 terra cotta statue of
soldiers, chariots and horses. Work on the mausoleum began in 230 B.C.E.
when Emperor Qin Shi Huang ascended to the throne. It is now a UNESCO
World Heritage site.
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - Washington DC, U.S.A. |
The Smithsonian museum holds the
world's largest collection of historic aircrafts and spacecrafts. It
houses many Nazi-ear prototypes, as well as the famous (or infamous) Enola Gay, The B-29 plane that dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima at the end of WWII.
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Musee du Louvre - Paris, France |
Considered the most famous museum in
the world, the Louvre has over 35,000 items on exhibition, dating from
all the way back to prehistoric time and up to the 21st century. It is
the permanent home of the Mona Lisa, the Code of Hammurabi, Venus de
Milo, and many more famous works of art.
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Instituto Ricardo Brennand - Recife, Brazil
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The Ricardo Brennand institute is
comprised of a museum, a garden, a library, and an art gallery, housing
one of the largest collections of armor in the world.
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British Museum - London, England |
With over 8 million works, this
museum is dedicated to human culture and history. The art represents the
progression of human cultures from the earliest known creations, up to
modern pieces of art. Like all official museums in Britain, it has no
admission fees and is free to the public.
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Vasa Museum - Stockholm, Sweden |
The most visited museum in Scandinavia, the Vasa museum holds the only intact 17th-century ship in the world - The Vasa: a 64-gun warship that sank on its maiden voyage in 1628.
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The National Gallery - London, England |
Founded in 1824, the National Gallery
holds over 2,000 paintings, ranging from the 13th century to 1900. It
is the fourth most visited museum in the world. To protect the paintings
during WWII, they were all moved to a quarry and the building was used
for musical shows, meant to raise morale.
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The National WWII Museum - New Orleans, U.S.A. |
The National WWII Museum was built to emphasize the American experience during WWII and in the battle of Normande in particular.
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Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial - Jerusalem, Israel
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The core of Yad Vashem's creation was
to commemorate non-Jews who worked to save Jewish people during the
holocaust, at personal risk and often high financial costs. Those
recognized as "The Righteous Among the Nations" by the state of Israel
are commemorated in the Garden of the Righteous. The museum holds the
world's largest collection of testimonials of holocaust victims, as well
as the largest collection of paintings produced by Jewish and gentile
victims of the Nazi occupation between 1933-1945.
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The Acropolis Museum - Athens, Greece |
Located on the archeological site of
the Acropolis, the museum was built to house every artifact and building
found on-site. It also lies on the archaeological site of Makrygianni,
the ruins of a part of Roman Athens, and early Byzantine Athens.
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Accademia Gallery - Florence, Italy |
The Accademia Gallery holds one of
the most famous statues in the world - Michelangelo's David. It holds
more of Michelangelo's works, as well as works by Andrea del Sarto,
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Paolo Uccello, and Sandro Botticelli.
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The Getty Center - Los Angeles, U.S.A. |
The former home of industrialist J.
Paul Getty, the Getty Museum is located on the hills of L.A.; it is the
home of over 44,000 works of art, ranging from Greek and Roman time,
side by side with modern sculptures.
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State Hermitage Museum - St. Petersburg, Russia |
One of the largest and oldest museums
in the world, the Hermitage was originally the winter palace of Russian
Emperors. It holds prehistoric artifacts, Ancient Egyptian antiquities,
jewelry, and many more pieces from Russia and Europe’s history.
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National Museum of Anthropology - Mexico City, Mexico |
The national museum of Mexico is also
the most visited museum in the country. It holds many anthropological
and archeological artifacts from the pre-Columbian era of Mexico,
including the famous Aztec Calendar stone.
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Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, U.S.A. |
Chosen as THE BEST museum in the
world by Trip Advisor, the Art Institute of Chicago is indeed a place
any art connoisseur must visit. Housing more than 260,000 works of art,
the Art Institute encompasses over 5,000 years of human existence and
art, with works from Monet and Renoir, Matisse and Toulouse-Lautrec, and
many other famous artists. If you ever visit Chicago, do yourself a
service and clear a whole day for a visit in this amazing place!
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vendredi 31 octobre 2014
You Have to Visit these 18 Museums
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