Institutions that collect and carefully preserve objects of history, science, art of a particular country or people are always a priority for visiting for any self-respecting tourist. Of course, on vacation you can limit yourself to only beaches and shops, but a real traveler will definitely look into one or another museum if he really wants to “feel” a new country and take away a piece of it as a souvenir, not only in a bag in the form of a souvenir from a tray, but also deep into soul.
In anticipation International Day museums BiletyPlus.ru introduces you to the smallest and most large-scale museums on the planet.
The smallest museums in the world
If you think that to attract visitors you need to have grandiose premises, thousands of exhibits and world fame, we hasten to dissuade you. Small museums enjoy no less, and sometimes even greater fame among tourists, who are sometimes too lazy to spend whole days examining huge collections. Yes, and I want something unusual. What could be more unusual than the smallest museums in the world?
For example, “Baublyai”, in the town of Bijotai. The museum is located... in the hollow of an old huge oak tree! This tree, according to legend, is at least a thousand years old; it was this tree that Adam Mickiewicz sang in his famous poem, it is also on the city's coat of arms. A long time ago, oak served as an object of religious pagan cult, and in 1812 the tree was given new life, placing in its hollow the exhibits found during archaeological excavations. Entire exhibition local history museum(antique books and coins, ancient weapons and knightly ammunition, portraits of famous Lithuanians) is housed in a “room” with a diameter of only two meters. IN Lately The museum in oak is hidden under a glass cover for greater safety.
Or Museum - a miniature art gallery in Somerville the size of... a mailbox. The museum, measuring 25x20x40 cm, was invented by a local artist and placed on a popular city street in order to attract public attention to the problem of a shortage of exhibition space that people in the arts constantly face. In this gallery, behind solar-lit plexiglass, six miniature paintings are exhibited, “entrance” is free for everyone. On grand opening gallery, the mayor of the city presented the creator with a mini-certificate “For a small contribution to art.”
Although some consider another museum to be the tiniest and most unusual in the world: a street “homeless” art museum created by an artist. The establishment consists of two plastic chairs, a booth with a small collection of items and the art director - a stuffed coyote named Florence. The artist himself sells tickets and communicates with visitors about art.
The largest museums in the world
If with small museums everything is more or less clear, then with large museums the statistics come to a dead end. How to measure them? By area, by the number of exhibits, by the richness of the exhibition, by the size of museum buildings, by the richness of the collections? Unclear. That’s why there are dozens of ratings circulating on the Internet, each of which claims to be the only true truth.
We will not break spears and will simply list several of the most grandiose and famous world “temples of the muses”, and you yourself decide which of them is the best.
Louvre
This museum occupies (just imagine!) more than 160,000 m2, and its collection includes about 400,000 exhibits. The central building of the museum is the ancient royal palace (Palais du Louvre), and the exhibition is divided into seven huge parts, allowing to some extent systematize the wealth of the museum. And there is something to systematize: the Louvre’s collection includes art objects from a huge number of countries, times, peoples, making the museum a real center of the artistic and spiritual heritage of mankind.
It is believed that it will take the average tourist at least several weeks to get at least a superficial acquaintance with all the exhibits of the Louvre.
Vatican Museums
This is a huge complex of valuable collections and unique buildings in. It is estimated that to get around all its exhibits, you will have to walk seven kilometers. In terms of the number of works of art per number of inhabitants (or per unit area) it ranks first in the world.
The Etruscan Museum, the Egyptian Museum, the Belvedere, the Pinacoteca, the Library, the famous Sistine Chapel... All these and many other Vatican institutions provide visitors with the opportunity to get acquainted with painting, sculpture, mosaics, frescoes, ancient manuscripts of a religious and secular nature from all over the world.
Metropolitan
This one of the largest and second most visited art museums in the world is located in New York () on the so-called Museum Mile, where best museums countries. The Metropolitan opened to the public in the 19th century as a collection of three private collections, and today more than two million works of art can be found here in twenty departments. The collection is very diverse and contains exhibits from rock paintings Australian aborigines and medieval weapons of European knights to ritual objects of the inhabitants of Tibet and musical instruments ancient East.
We have listed just a few famous museums in the world. But there are also the Hermitage and the Tretyakov Gallery, which are beloved by many, and the British Museum in
Today, there are about one hundred thousand museums all over the world, and this figure is not exact, since new ones are periodically opened and existing ones are developed. In every corner of the world, even the smallest populated areas, there are local history or other museums dedicated to one or another topic. The largest museums in the world know everything: some contain maximum quantity exhibits, while others amaze with their scope and area.
Largest museums of fine art
If we take European fine art, then one of the largest collections is collected in Uffizi Gallery in Italy. The gallery is located in the Florence Palace from 1560 and consists of paintings by the most famous creators of the world: Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, Lippi and Botticelli.
No less famous is one of largest museums visual arts- . The foundation of the museum dates back to the end of the 18th century, when it was decided to make the royal collection a property and heritage of culture, to give everyone the opportunity to look at it. Complete collections works by Bosch, Goya, El Greco and Velazquez are kept there.
Among the largest museums, it is definitely worth noting Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin in Moscow. Priceless collections of works are stored there French impressionists, collections of Western European painting.
The largest art museums in the world
The most famous among the largest artistic works is rightfully considered Hermitage. A museum complex of five buildings housing exhibits from the Stone Age to the 20th century. Initially, it was only a private collection of Catherine II, consisting of works by Dutch and Flemish artists.
One of the largest art museums is Subway in New York. Its founders were several businessmen who revered art and knew a lot about it. Initially, the basis consisted of three private collections, then the exhibition began rapid growth. Today, the main support for the museum is provided by sponsors; the state practically does not take part in the development. The amazing thing is that you can get into one of the largest museums in the world for a nominal fee, even just asking for a ticket at the ticket office without money.
Among the largest museums in the world, both in terms of the number of exhibits and the space occupied, Gugun in China and Cairo Egyptian Museums. Gugun is a huge architectural and museum complex, which is approximately three times larger than the Moscow Kremlin. Each museum has its own special story and is worthy of the attention of tourists.
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220 years ago, in November 1793, the most visited and one of the largest art museums in the world, the Louvre, opened to the general public. In honor of this event, we talk about him and other most popular museums peace.
1. Louvre, France.
This central landmark of Paris, located on the right bank of the Seine River, is visited annually by about 9.5 million people. Before becoming a museum, the Louvre was a fortress and palace of French kings. However, during French Revolution National constituent Assembly decided that the Louvre would be used as a museum where national masterpieces would be exhibited.
Thus, in 1793 the museum was opened to the general public with a collection of 537 paintings. Under Napoleon, the Louvre was renamed the Musée Napoleon, and its art collection was expanded. However, subsequently the collection was steadily replenished. And in 1989, the palace acquired an unusual architectural element - a glass pyramid, which today is the main entrance to the museum. It was designed by an architect Chinese origin Yo Ming Pei.
The appearance of this pyramid in front of a medieval building shocked many people and caused stormy criticism, however, despite this, the pyramid was destined to become part of the architectural ensemble of the Louvre and one of the symbols of Paris. Today the museum's collection consists of more than 350 thousand objects and works of art that were created in the period from ancient times to the first half of the 19th century. The main attractions of the Louvre are the painting “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo da Vinci, as well as the sculptures “Venus de Milo” and “Nike of Samothrace”.
Sculpture "Nike of Samothrace". Photo by: Thomas Ulrich.
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States with the largest collection of art in the world. About 6 million visitors visit it annually.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Photo by: Arad Mojtahedi.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. Among them were entrepreneurs and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the time, who wanted to open a museum to introduce art to the American people. The museum opened on February 20, 1872 and today occupies about 190 thousand m².
The museum's main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park, is one of the largest in the world art galleries, and a smaller building in Upper Manhattan houses medieval art. The permanent collection of the museum contains works of art that were created in the period from antiquity to the present day. There you can see paintings and sculptures of almost all European masters, such as Botticelli, Rembrandt, Degas, Rodin and others, and also get acquainted with the extensive collection contemporary art.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is home to collections of musical instruments, period costumes, accessories and weapons from around the world. By the way, one of the museum’s many impressive masterpieces is the copper engraving “Adam and Eve” by Albrecht Durer.
Engraving "Adam and Eve".
3. British Museum, UK.
This museum is located in London, and it is dedicated to the history and culture of mankind. Its permanent collection, numbering about 8 million items, is one of the largest and most comprehensive. About 5.5 million people visit the museum every year. Entry to this museum is free.
The British Museum was created in 1753 and was formed primarily from the collections of its founder, the physician and scientist Hans Sloan. The museum opened to the public on 15 January 1759 at Montagu House, an aristocratic mansion located in London's Bloomsbury district, where it remains today.
The UK's largest museum houses archaeological and ethnographic collections that number more than eight million objects. And the museum's Egyptian Gallery boasts the world's second-best collection of Egyptian antiquities, including, for example, the Rosetta Stone with an inscription of gratitude carved on it in 196 BC. The Egyptian priests addressed this inscription to Ptolemy V Epiphanes, a monarch from the Ptolemaic dynasty.
4. Tate Modern, UK.
This gallery is located in London and is the most popular contemporary art gallery in the world ,
since about 5.3 million people visit it every year.
Tate Modern is a former power station on the south bank of the River Thames in Battersea, which was built between 1947 and 1963. Today, the gallery building still resembles a 20th century factory in its appearance, both outside and inside. So when you walk into the gallery space, you are greeted by dark gray walls, steel beams and concrete floors. The collections at Tate Modern consist of works of modern art created between 1900 and the present day. The gallery building has 7 floors, numbered from 0 to 6. Moreover, each floor is divided into 4 wings, which correspond to certain themes or subjects.
For example, in 2012, exhibits on the following topics. The "Poetry and Dreams" wing is dedicated to surrealism, "Structure and Clarity" focuses on abstract art, the Transformed Vision wing is dedicated to expressionism, while Energy and Process focuses on the artistic movement of Arte Povera and features works by artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Kazimir Malevich, Ana Mendieta and Mario Merz.
5. London National Gallery, UK.
It is located in Trafalgar Square and is visited by about 5 million people annually.
Unlike other major museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed through nationalization, that is, transfer royal collection arts into state ownership. It came about when the British government bought 38 paintings in 1824 from the heirs of John Angerstein, an insurance broker and patron of the arts. Since this acquisition, the gallery has been replenished only by its directors, in particular the artist Charles Eastlake, and by private donations, which make up two-thirds of the collection. Today the gallery is owned by the UK public and is therefore free to enter. The London National Gallery used to have a permanent exhibition, but today it is constantly changing.
6. Vatican Museums.
Presented in the Vatican Museums huge collection exhibits collected by the Roman Catholic Church over several centuries. About 5 million people visit museums every year.
The Vatican Museums have 22 separate art collections. And, perhaps, the most famous of them is kept in the Pius Clement Museum, where magnificent classical sculptures are presented. Pinacoteca Brera ( Art Gallery) houses medieval and Renaissance masterpieces. The Gregorian Egyptian Museum houses ancient Egyptian exhibits, and the Gregorian Etruscan Museum contains numerous Etruscan household items. But, of course, the main attractions of the Vatican Museums are the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, and the Stanzas of Raphael.
Stanzas of Raphael.
7. Imperial Palace Museum, Taiwan.
One of the national museums of the Republic of China, it has a permanent collection of approximately 696,000 ancient Chinese artifacts and works of art. The collection tells the story of more than 8,000 years Chinese history from the Neolithic to the end of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912). Most of the collection was formed by the emperors of China.
The Imperial Palace Museum is located in the Taiwanese capital of Taipei and is visited by approximately 4.4 million people annually. The main attractions of the museum are painting and calligraphy, as well as rare books, the number of which in the museum reaches 200 thousand volumes.
8. National Gallery of Art, USA.
Located in Washington, D.C., this gallery attracts approximately 4.2 million visitors annually. It was founded in 1937 by decision of the US Congress. A large collection of art objects, as well as funds for the construction of the gallery, was donated by the American banker and billionaire Andrew William Mellon.
Paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs, sculptures, medals, as well as decorative arts tell gallery visitors about the development Western art from the Middle Ages to the present day. In the National Gallery of Art you can see the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in America, as well as the world's largest mobile ( kinetic sculpture), ever created by the American sculptor Alexander Calder.
Portrait of Ginevra de Benci.
9. Center Pompidou, France. The National Center for Art and Culture named after Georges Pompidou is Cultural Center in the Beaubourg quarter of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, built in high-tech style. About 3.8 million people visit the Pompidou Center every year.
The center is named after Georges Pompidou, the president who served from 1969 to 1974. He ordered the construction of this cultural center. The Pompidou Center officially opened on January 31, 1977. Today it houses a huge public library, State Museum of Contemporary Art, which is the largest museum of contemporary art in Europe, and the Institute for Research and Coordination of Acoustics and Music (IRCAM). Interestingly, according to the architect’s design, Alexander Calder’s mobile, whose height is 7.62 meters, was installed in front of the center building.
10. Orsay Museum, France.
This museum, located on the left bank of the Seine River in Paris, is visited by about 3.6 million people annually.
It was created in a former railway station built in the Beaux Arts style (eclectic style) between 1898 and 1900. By 1939, the station's short platforms became unsuitable for the large trains that were then emerging, so the station was used only for commuter trains. Subsequently, the railway station was used only as a location for filming films, such as, for example, “The Trial” by Orson Welles, based on the novel of the same name by Franz Kafka.
Main hall of the Orsay Museum. Photo by: Benh Lieu Song.
And in 1970, it was decided to demolish the station, but Jacques Duhamel, Minister of Cultural Affairs, was against this, and the station joined the list historical monuments France. A few years later, a proposal was made to make a museum in the station building. And finally, in July 1986, the museum was ready to receive exhibits. Another 6 months passed, and in December 1986 the doors of the museum opened to receive visitors.
Today the museum displays mainly objects French art, dating from 1848 to 1915. It houses the largest collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works in the world, including artists such as Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cezanne and Van Gogh.
Every year, on May 18, the world celebrates International Museum Day. It appeared in 1977, when at the next meeting of the International Council of Museums a proposal was adopted Russian organization on the establishment of this cultural holiday. Since 1978, International Museum Day has been celebrated in more than 150 countries. Today we invite you to familiarize yourself with the 10 best museums in the world.
Louvre. Paris
This is one of the largest art museums in the world. The Louvre was once an ancient castle of the French kings, built by Philip Augustus in 1190. As a museum, it was first opened to visitors on November 8, 1793. The Louvre occupies a space of approximately 195 thousand square meters, has a total exhibition area of 60,600 square meters .m. Today the museum's catalog contains 400 thousand exhibits. For convenience, the exhibition is divided into seven large parts: departments applied arts, painting, sculpture and graphics, the ancient Egyptian department, the department of the Ancient East and Islamic art, as well as the department of art of Greece, Rome and the Etruscan Empire. In general, even a week is not enough to get around everything. Therefore, if you are an ordinary average tourist who has allocated only one day to visit the Louvre, then visit only its main masterpieces, to which special signs lead. Or purposefully come to the painting department - the most impressive - and look at the works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Caravaggio, Durer, Goya, Vermeer and many others.
Vatican Museum. Rome
The Vatican Museum is the most big museum world: 1,400 halls, 50,000 objects, and to get around all the exhibits on display you need to walk 7 km. Of course, all visitors first try to get to the Sistine Chapel. However, the structure of the museum is very unique: you can get to the farthest point - Vatican Pinakothek- only bypassing all the previous ones. So you need to calculate the forces. You should start with the Egyptian Museum, which you just need to walk diagonally. and then run to the famous Belvedere, then to the Stanzas of Raphael. And finally, to the Sistine Chapel, rightly called the main shrine here.
British museum. London
The British Museum was founded on June 7, 1753 on the initiative of the government and was officially open to visitors on January 15, 1759. Thousands of people took part in its creation and development. The British Museum is also called the Museum of Stolen Masterpieces or the Museum of All Civilizations. These names are justified. After all, the treasures presented in the museum were not obtained in the most honest way. For example, the Rosetta Stone, thanks to which scientists deciphered ancient hieroglyphs, like many ancient Egyptian monuments, was taken from Napoleon's army in Egypt. Similar story happened to the precious sculptural friezes of the Parthenon: the Englishman Lord Elgin took them out of Greece, having obtained written permission from the Turkish government. In the same way, the museum’s collection was replenished with sculptures of the mausoleum in Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus and many other works of art. True, the exhibition of paintings in the museum is small - that’s why there is the National Gallery in London.
National Science Museum of Japan. Tokyo
This museum was founded in 1871. Most of its exhibition consists of natural science exhibits: stuffed animals, remains of dinosaurs and their modern models, etc. However, this museum is not only the largest museum in Tokyo and Japan, but also one of the best in the world. The museum has a “forest” hall and its own botanical garden, allowing you to appreciate all the richness flora of our planet. And the huge toothy skeletons floating under the ceiling and appearing from the blue twilight will not leave anyone indifferent. Of course, here you will also find traditionally Japanese exhibits, because the inhabitants of the country Rising Sun very proud of their culture.
Metropolitan Museum of Art. NY
You've probably heard about Museum Mile, which is located in New York between Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. This is where the best museums in the United States are collected, the largest of which is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this museum you can find almost everything: from Paleolithic artifacts to pop art. There are also collections of art from Africa and Oceania, the Middle East and Egypt, which can safely be called a rarity. Here you will find a special room containing clothing worn by residents of all five continents over seven centuries. There is also an exhibition of art and architecture of medieval Europe, paintings of the 12th - 19th centuries, as well as musical instruments different countries. However, the main place here is still given American art.
Prado Museum. Madrid
Madrid can easily boast of having one of the largest museums of European fine art. It was founded in 1819. However, the building continued to be completed until 1830. If we recall the history of Spain, for several centuries art in the country developed under the patronage of the church and the elite. This explains the appearance of most of the museum’s exhibition, which was collected by the royal family and the church. Here you will find paintings widely famous Raphael and the brilliant Hieronymus Bosch. Philip II loved the latter very much: the artist’s peculiar imagination was able to fascinate the monarch so much that he even placed several paintings on the walls of his own bedroom.
Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao
This museum is located in the city of Bilbao, in northern Spain. It is just one of the branches of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art, located in the United States, and the most striking of them, because it is recognized as the most outstanding architectural project in the world. The museum has thematic halls: the hall of surrealism, which presents Dali, Magritte, Delvaux and Tanguy, the hall of cubism, crowned with masterpieces by Picasso, Léger and Chagall, the hall of futurism and abstractionism - Braque, Kandinsky. Its collection also includes works by Andy Warhol, Fernand Léger, Kandinsky and others. And here you can also see the collection of one of the most significant and extravagant collectors of avant-garde art - Peggy Guggenheim.
State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg
State Hermitage Museum is the largest art and cultural-historical museum not only in Russia, but throughout the world. It owes its origins private collection Russian Empress Catherine II. When the collection was already large enough, the Hermitage was formed and in 1852 it was opened to visitors, being at that time the Imperial Museum. However, the founding date of the museum is considered to be 1764, because it was then that the empress acquired large collection Western European painting. Today the museum has more than three million works of art and monuments of world culture. Its structure is quite complicated. It is a complex complex: six majestic buildings headed by the well-known Winter Palace, which occupies the main exhibition of the museum, are located along the embankment of the Neva River.
State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the most significant collections of Russian fine art on a global scale. Russians owe the presence of such a rich gallery to the merchant Pavel Tretyakov, because it was from his collection of works Russian art- the largest in the world - the history of the gallery began. The Tretyakov Gallery is famous for its exposition in engineering building Russian painting of the 11th – early 20th centuries, which is part of the All-Russian Museum Association State Tretyakov Gallery, formed already in 1986. Which also includes: Showroom in Tomachi, House-Museum of P.D. Korina and the House-Museum of V.M. Vasnetsov, A.M. Apartment Museum Vasnetsov and the Museum-Workshop of the sculptor A.S. Golubkina.
Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum is the main state museum in Holland. It is located in a huge ancient palace neo-gothic style with Burgundian towers and sculptural reliefs, which was built back in 1885. Its main exhibition is dedicated to the great Dutch artists of the 15th-17th centuries. Among them you will find such world famous names as Rembrandt, Vermeer and de Hooch. The size of the museum is impressive and you can’t get around it in one day, because the Rijksmuseum has 200 halls. However, the main exhibitions can be quickly viewed, starting with the main exhibit - the famous work of art by Rembrandt The night Watch. He is given a place of honor in the Gallery of Fame. And at the end of the museum marathon, you can go to the Museumplein - a huge lawn square, which offers a wonderful view of the Museum Quarter.
When you go traveling, there are many ways to create your excursion itinerary. But almost everyone includes a visit to museums. Museums are an ideal destination for history and culture lovers. Today, the world's greatest museums offer a variety of interactive and engaging experiences that can allow you to discover the secrets of history in your own unique way. This selection contains 10 museums that are the most famous and recognizable landmarks in the world. You will be impressed by them alone appearance, not to mention what awaits inside.
1. Paris Louvre
Without a doubt the most famous museum in the world, the Louvre was a medieval fortress and palace of the kings of France before it became a museum two centuries ago. Even modernizing the square with the addition of a glass pyramid in its center does not take anything away from the historical charm of the Louvre Palace. The museum's collections, which range from the birth of great ancient civilizations to the first half of the 19th century, are among the most outstanding on the planet. You will find here the works of the most famous artists in history, such as da Vinci and Rembrandt. The main attraction of the Louvre is Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
2. Hermitage, St. Petersburg
This gigantic museum has the world's largest collection of paintings. This is a stunning place covering the history of the world from the Stone Age to the present, and the Golden Room is especially impressive with its amazing precious stones. The Hermitage Museum is the most visited in Russia. It is scenically located along the waterfront area in Downtown St. Petersburg. This is a whole museum complex, which includes six different buildings of unique architectural design. Without a doubt, the Emitage is one of the greatest museums in the world, an outstanding landmark of St. Petersburg.
3. British Museum in London
Millions of works of art from all continents are collected here. The galleries of the British Museum are dedicated to Egypt, Greece, Roman civilization, Asia, Africa and medieval Europe, tracing human history and culture. The Parthenon Marbles, which once adorned the Parthenon in Athens, are kept here. The museum attracts six million visitors every year. If you can't make it to the Egyptian Museum, then you can view the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts outside of Cairo right here. Also impressive is the new reading room of the British Museum, which you see in the photo below:
4. Egyptian Museum in Cairo
At the Egyptian Museum in Cairo you will find the most complete collection Egyptian art in the world. Among thousands of treasures also famous exhibits from the tomb of Tutankhamun. In 1835, the Egyptian government founded the "Egyptian Antique Treasure Service" in an attempt to stop the looting archaeological sites and arrange an exhibition of collected exhibits. In 1900, the Egyptian Museum building was built, which now houses more than 120,000 objects from the prehistoric era to the Greco-Roman period, including ancient sculptures of the Sphinx. If you are exploring the sights of Egypt, you should not miss the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
5. Uffizi Gallery in Florence
UNESCO estimates that 60% of the most popular artwork in the world are in Italy, and more than half of them are located in Florence. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence will amaze you to the core. This is definitely one of the finest collections of paintings and sculpture on the planet, with works dating back to the Renaissance by masters such as da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and many more. One of the main attractions here is Botticelli's Birth of Venus.
6. Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York
Established in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art houses more than two million works of art from around the world, from antiquity to modern times. You'll find everything from Islamic and European paintings, to collections of weapons and armor. Although there are many other great museums in New York, such as the Guggenheim, the Metropolitan is one of the most essential. This is truly one of the greatest museums in the world.
7. Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
8. Vatican Museum
The impressive Vatican Museum contains 22 separate collections, ranging from Etruscan and Egyptian art to maps and modern religious art. Even if you are not religious, you will still be impressed by the sheer beauty and magnificence of Michelangelo's dome and Bernini's spiral columns. The core values here are updated The Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms.
9. Prado Museum in Madrid
Although its collection is less impressive, the Prado is one of the most respected and visited museums in the world. The Prado Museum's greatest treasure is Spanish art, with works by Velazquez, Goya, Murillo, El Greco and many other celebrities. Although the museum specializes in paintings, it also houses a large number of drawings, coins, medals and decorative arts. The museum's neoclassical facade is typical of the city's 18th century architecture. Special attention It is worth paying attention to Rubens' Three Graces. It is one of the twenty most visited museums in the world.
10. National Museum Archeology in Athens
Completes the collection with greatest museums World Museum of Archeology in Athens. Exactly this appropriate place to admire the masterpieces of ancient Greece. 
