World Art Museums

World Art Museums.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.