World Art Museums

1. World Art Museums.

WORLD ART MUSEUMS.

2. The National Gallery in London. The UK.

It represents all the
leading schools of
European painting from
the 12th to the early 20th
centuries.
Pictures of Rembrandt,
Turner, Monet, da
Vinci, Constable and
other great masters are
on display in the
gallery.

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4. The Tate Gallery. London. The UK.

It is one of London’s best
– known art galleries,
opened in 1897 with the
financial support of Sir
Henry Tate, who also
gave a collection of 65
paintings.
The Gallery contains a
unique collection of
British paintings from the
16th century to the present
day.

5. The Victoria and Albert Museum. London. The UK.

It is one of the world’s
outstanding art museum.
It is housed a national
collection of fine and
applied art of all countries
and periods, especially
collections of sculptures,
water – colors, miniatures
and a large art library.
In 1899 the Museum was
given its present name in
honor of Queen Victoria
and her husband Prince
Albert.

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8. The British Museum. London. The UK.

It has a priceless art
collection of antiquities
from almost every
period and every part of
the world.
It houses superb
collections of prints and
drawings, ethnography.

9. The Hermitage. St. Petersburg. Russia.

It is the largest fine arts
museum in Russia.
World famous is the
collection of west –
European paintings
covering a span of about
700 years, from the 13th
to the 20th century.
The Hermitage has
sections devoted to the
art if India, China,
Mesopotamia, Greece,
Rome, Ancient Egypt.

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12. Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow. Russia.

It takes its name from the
founder Pavel Tretyakov,
a Moscow merchant and
art connoisseur.
The Gallery reflects the
whole history of Russian
art, from the 11th century
to the present day.
It has a rich collection of
old Russian icons.

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15. Pushkin Fine Arts Museum. Moscow. Russia.

It was open in 1912.
Its collection has more
than 560 000 works of
paintings, sculpture, art
photos.
It must be ranked
among the richest in the
world in respect of
Impressionist art.

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17. Prado. Madrid. Spain.

National Museum of
painting and sculpture
opened in 1819.
It houses the richest
collection of Spain,
Italian, Holland artists.
It contains more than
6000paintings in its
collections.

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19. Albertina Museum. Vienna. Austria.

It has one of the largest
world famous
collections of graphic
(more than 6 500
drawings and more than
1 million of printed
graphic).
The collection covers
the period from the late
gothic to modern time.

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21. Metropolitan Museum. New York. The USA.

It opened in 1872.
The department of
American applied art is
the most famous.
It contains works of
modern West –
European and American
artists, from Ancient
East and middle
centuries.

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23. Dresden Picture Gallery. German.

It was founded in
1722.
It houses 15 paintings
of Rembrandt, Van
Dayk, Titzian, Rafael.
It has a rich collection
of fine and applied art,
collections of sculpture,
miniatures.

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26. Louvre. Paris. France.

When it opened in 1793,
there were 2 500
paintings in its collection.
The most popular
department in the
museum is called Denon.
You can admire the
works of famous painters
of the 19th century there.
There are more than 6000
paintings in Louvre.

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28. The museum of Solomon Gugeheim. New York. The USA.

The museum houses the
richest collection of
modern art in the world.
It contains works of art
from the end of the 20th
century to our days.
There are pictures of
Kandinskiy, Shagal,
Gogen…
It houses more than 6000
paintings.

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