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Probably each of you has been to a museum at least once. Every day around the world, thousands of tourists line up in long lines to see works of science and art, visit various exhibitions and then exchange their impressions of what they saw.

Many of the cultural attractions are famous throughout the planet. Do you know those - those where any traveler would like to go?

I suggest recalling the most famous museums in the world, scattered across different countries, so that when you get ready for a long journey, you can plan a visit to them in your excursion program. Well, right now, so that you can talk about them in an interesting and exciting way in class.

So, the top ten most famous of the famous, according to the ShkolaLa blog.

Lesson plan:

Paris Louvre

Once a medieval fortress and then home to French kings, it opened to visitors in 1793. 160,106 square meters of total area, more than 400 thousand exhibits on display - all this is about the great and fascinating Louvre!

Its central glass pyramid attracts around 9.5 million visitors each year and is photographed as one of the symbols of Paris. This is the place where one of the world's artistic mysteries is located - Da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa".

Today the Louvre has seven huge departments, see in detail exhibition items in which it is possible, as they say, only in a week, no less. Here are present:

• department of applied arts;
• halls of painting, graphics and sculpture;
• art Ancient Egypt and the Ancient East;
• Islamic and Greek departments;
• Roman hall;
• and the culture of the Etruscan Empire.

Vatican Museums in Rome

IN exhibition complex There are 1,400 halls and 50,000 objects are located in them. Be prepared to walk about 7 kilometers to see all the exhibits on display.

With my heart Vatican Museum The Sistine Chapel is considered to be a Renaissance monument, the walls of which were painted by the hand of Michelangelo. You can reach it only by going through the entire museum corridor.

They began to build the Italian museum back in the 4th century - then the first stones of St. Peter's Church were laid, only in the 9th century the walls appeared, and by the 13th century they were built into the papal Vatican residence. Every year, about 5 million visitors come here to see with their own eyes the treasures collected by Roman Catholics over several centuries.

British Museum in London

The exhibition center, which opened in 1759, has enough complicated story, and the characteristic contains dark spots. It is called not only a museum of all civilizations, but also a repository of stolen masterpieces.

This is a place where cultural objects of Egypt, Greece, Rome, Asia and Africa are found, as well as medieval Europe. But many of the 8 million exhibits appeared in the British Museum through dishonest means. Thus, the ancient Egyptian Rosetta Stone, as well as some other treasures from Egypt, came here after being taken from Napoleon’s army.

From Greece, with the strange permission of the Turkish ruler, precious sculptural exhibitions were taken to London.

By the way, entry to the British Museum is absolutely free.

Japanese National Museum in Tokyo

Dedicated to nature and science, it is distinguished by the fact that, along with the wonders of technology, it contains stuffed animals, found remains of dinosaurs and their models.

Here, on the roof of a six-story building, you will find a botanical garden with sun umbrellas that automatically open when you approach. There is a “forest hall” where you can wander among the rich flora.

In the global gallery you can follow the evolution of all life on Earth and get acquainted with modern technologies, and in Japanese find out historical facts about the land of the rising sun.

This museum is also on the list of famous places because visitors can become scientists for a moment and personally conduct a series of experiments.

American Metropolitan

This museum is located in New York and is rightfully one of the most famous. Judge for yourself: artifacts from the Paleolithic era are collected here, which side by side with modern exhibits from the field of pop art, there are cultural objects from Africa, the East and Europe, paintings from the 12th to the 19th centuries, musical instruments, weapons and clothing of the peoples of five continents.

The museum appeared thanks to a group of entrepreneurs, public figures and artists who donated their collections to him, and they were replenished with two million exhibition items. Overall, there is a lot to see here!

America's Cultural Heritage Plaza is divided by luxurious passages and staircases that unite buildings from different eras with tall columns, fountains and stained glass windows. Moreover, its name has nothing to do with underground transport, but is derived from the word “metropolis”, that is, “big city”.

Madrid Prado Museum

Spanish cultural center painting collected under one roof more than 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 8,000 drawings, 1,300 objects of art. It got its name thanks to the park of the same name in which it is located.

Although there are no elegant interiors and gilded staircases here, the museum contains a collection of huge amount collections of paintings of different European schools: Spanish, Italian, German, British, most of which were collected by the church and representatives royal family.

By the way, there is a copy of the “Mona Lisa” located in the Louvre, painted by a student of Leonardo da Vinci.

Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

The main state museum of Holland is located in an ancient palace with towers and relief sculptures and is divided into 200 halls, where many masterpieces of Dutch and world art are located. The red brick building stands on the canal embankment and stretches for an entire block.

The main masterpiece of the Amsterdam museum is Rembrandt's painting " Night watch».

There are also canvases by artists from the Golden Age. And also exhibition halls are replete with various antique items from antique furniture to porcelain dishes.

St. Petersburg Hermitage

Russia can also rightfully be included in the list and boast of a museum property known throughout the world. The Russian cultural giant is famous for the world's largest collection of paintings. Here you can get acquainted with history from the Stone Age to the present, and the Golden Room is a separate story, because jewelry is collected there Russian Empire and more!

The Hermitage originates from the collection of Empress Catherine II and, having subsequently expanded, today represents a museum complex of six buildings, where more than 3 million exhibits are presented.

Cairo Museum

This cultural site was until recently known for its complete collection of Egyptian art, which contains thousands of treasures from the tombs of Tutankhamun.

Before the revolution took place in Egypt, Cairo Museum there were more than 120,000 ancient exhibits, including monumental sculptures Sphinx of the ancient period, tombs and mummies of Egyptian pharaohs, jewelry of queens.

We can only hope that the Egyptian nation will be able to preserve its wealth.

Archaeological Museum in Athens

This is the largest cultural center in Greece, which houses exhibits from different eras, but the collections of ceramics and sculpture are among the richest in the world.

The museum's diverse collections include finds dating back to 6800 BC, including clay, stone and bone vessels, weapons, jewelry and tools.

Various museum attractions

Today we have compiled a list of ten famous museums world located in different countries oh, which are on everyone's lips. But there are also museums in the world that few people know about, but which would be worth finding out about, because they are very unusual. The video below shows some of them.

I hope the information presented in this article will help you in developing your research projects.

Good luck with your studies!

Evgenia Klimkovich.

Coming on vacation to a new country, any tourist tries to visit as many interesting places and attractions as possible to make the trip memorable for a lifetime. Besides the amazing natural landscapes and outstanding architectural monuments, the majority of travelers seek to visit places associated with the culture of the country, for example, famous museums or art galleries, to see the great masterpieces of world art with their own eyes. Today we will talk about the most interesting galleries in the world that are definitely worth visiting when visiting these countries.

1. Gallery of St. George in the Czech Republic– this museum-gallery is located in the Czech city of Benesov, in the beautiful Konopiste castle, fifty kilometers southeast. This ancient castle-fortress, with powerful towers, houses the Museum of St. George. There are more than four thousand here most interesting exhibits Collected around the world: rare paintings great artists, amazing sculptures, objects decorated with filigree wood carvings, and other objects of decorative and applied art, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

2. Dresden Gallery in Germany– located in Dresden, in the Old Town area. The Dresden Art Gallery has been operating for five centuries, and every year its exhibition is replenished with great world masterpieces best artists. The year 1945 became tragic for Dresden and this art gallery, since during the bombing of the Anglo-American aviation, it was partially destroyed, and many paintings were irretrievably lost, and the surviving part of them was hidden by the Nazis in wet limestone mines, which damaged the paintings enormous damage. But, fortunately, they were saved from their inglorious disappearance by Soviet soldiers, who, having found them in the mines, took the paintings to the USSR, where they were carefully restored, and already in 1955, transferred to the German Democratic Republic. The gallery building in Dresden was restored and the paintings that came to life again adorned these walls. In the gallery you can get acquainted with the great works of the masters of Italian painting of the fifteenth-eighteenth centuries: Titian, Giorgione, Veronese, Raphael, Correggio, Tintoretto. Works presented here Dutch masters: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruisdael, Hals, as well as famous Flemings: Rubens, Van Dyck, Snyders. In addition, the gallery has a room dedicated to Spanish artistic arts. But, probably, the main treasure of the Dresden Gallery is the “Sistine Madonna” by the inimitable Raphael. Today there are fifty halls with wonderful exhibitions, and another three thousand paintings are stored in storerooms - a great part of the world cultural heritage planets.

3. Gallery contemporary art in Germany– located in the city of Düsseldorf, in the Kunsthalle Exhibition Center, built in 1967. The building of the art center initially had an urban style, as it was built from ready-made blocks of concrete panels, and it acquired its current shape as a result of reconstruction. It opened its doors to visitors again in 2002, and new options appeared here: an information department, ticket offices, and a cafe. This gallery does not have a permanent exhibition; there are constantly exhibitions of new talented artists modernity. By the way, many of today’s well-known artists were able to reveal their talent to the general public, precisely thanks to such exhibitions at the Kunsthalle.

4. Gallery of art from European and American countries of the 19th-20th centuries in Russia is a department of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin, opened in 2006. Paintings by artists from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are stored here. The gallery rooms are divided by theme. There is a hall of masters of the German school of painting, early nineteenth century, chamber halls where paintings by Delacroix and Ingres are displayed, and the Spanish school of masters is represented by the works of the great Goya. In addition, there are separate rooms where artistic creations French impressionists, post-impressionists, artists of the early twentieth century: Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec.

5. Tretyakov Gallery in Russia is a famous art museum located in Moscow. This gallery was founded in 1856 by P. M. Tretyakov. At first it was a private collection, which in 1892 was transferred to the Moscow authorities, along with the mansion. In the Tretyakov Gallery you can see beautiful sculptures and graphics from the period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, a large collection of Russian paintings, as well as ancient Russian icon painting from the same period. Since 1985, the Tretyakov Gallery has been merged with the State Art Gallery. The museum building was reconstructed in 1986, and since 1989 it has been supplemented with a new complex, with a children's studio, information center, conference room and exhibition halls. The number of paintings stored in the gallery is constantly growing, and if in 1917 there were about four thousand, now there are already about sixty thousand. Since 1991, the gallery was awarded the title “All-Russian museum association"State Tretyakov Gallery".

6. Cariton Art Gallery in Canada– located in the British Columbia region, in the city of Abbotsford. She has been working for over forty years, exhibiting interesting works local artists, natives British Columbia. Over the years, more than three thousand exhibitions have taken place, revealing to the general public many brilliant painters who later achieved world recognition. The gallery is always crowded, and admission is free.

7. National Gallery of Armenia– this famous museum is located in the city of Yerevan. It is entirely dedicated to fine art. This art gallery is the largest in the post-Soviet space, which is why it is considered national treasure countries. The gallery was founded in 1921. Today, more than thirty-five thousand paintings by great artists of the world are stored here. There are a lot of paintings by Armenian and Russian artists, as well as Western European painters: French, Dutch, Spanish, Italian and German schools. This gallery contains the most complete collection of Aivazovsky’s works, magnificent masterpieces by Rubens, Van Dyck, Rousseau, and Goya.

8. Dulwich Art Gallery in the UK- This is one of the most interesting art galleries in the world and a wonderful art museum, opened in 1817, in a building specially erected for this purpose. Architect John Soane arranged the halls of the building in such a way that their close relationship can be seen. The main part of the collection is paintings from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, but there are also paintings from other eras. Visitors will be able to get acquainted with the works of Rembrandt, Antoine Watteau, Bartolome Esteban Murillo, Paul Rubens, Raphael. It is in this museum that you can see the richest collection of portraits famous painters Britain.

9. Baroque gallery in front of the Jesuit College in the Czech Republic– is located in the interesting, from a historical and architectural point of view, city of Kutna Hora. This gallery opened at the beginning of the eighteenth century, at the same time as the construction of this college began. The design of the gallery building was developed by the architect Orsi from. The structure is interesting in itself: its baroque gallery is located on an approach that is similar in architecture to the Charles Bridge in Prague, it is also decorated with a terrace with a sculptural group of twelve saints, including: St. John of Nepomuk, St. Barbara, St. Joseph , Saint Francis of Xavier, Saint Charlemagne. Under each sculpture there is an inscription indicating the name of the saint and the event associated with this person, and the date of creation of this sculpture is also indicated. That is, this baroque gallery not only decorates the city, but is also a historical chronogram that clearly tells tourists the history of the Czech Republic.

10. National Gallery of Australia in Canberra– this building, where an art gallery and a museum were combined, was built in 1967. It occupies a huge area of ​​​​twenty-three thousand square meters, and was built in the brutalist style: it has angular shapes, concrete walls, a rough texture, sharply contrasting with the bright and lush greenery around. On the main floor of the gallery there are large exhibition rooms, with interesting collections, dedicated to local aborigines, but there are also collections from European countries and America. The main exhibit of the Aboriginal collection is two hundred logs, they were used to mark graves; it is called the “Aboriginal Memorial” and is dedicated to the indigenous people of Australia who died fighting the Europeans who came to their lands. The European and American collections are represented by works of famous world artists. There are also exhibits of Asian art, which are located on the lower floor of the gallery building. All exhibits represent different eras: from the Neolithic to the present day, there are: sculptures, miniatures, engravings made on wood, ceramics and textiles. On the top floor you can see Australian art, as well as paintings, sculptures, photographs. In total, the National Gallery houses more than one hundred and twenty thousand pieces of art.

11. Salzburg Gallery in the Residence is a unique collection of paintings of European painting from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, collected in the Austrian city of Salzburg. The gallery has luxurious decoration and an exquisite, rich collection. Mostly paintings are presented here Dutch painters seventeenth century, French, Italian, Austrian baroque painting, seventeenth - eighteenth centuries, Austrian painting of the nineteenth century. It often hosts traveling exhibitions or specialized shows where visitors are presented with examples of contemporary and historical art. This museum opened its doors to visitors in 1923, but at that time, the gallery did not own a single painting, because... they were all borrowed.

12. National Gallery of Slovenia in Ljubljana– is the largest art museum in the country and an interesting gallery in the world. There are many ancient works of Slovenian and European artists collected here, including different styles and genre directions. The National Gallery opened in 1918. It is divided into several halls dedicated to different directions: neoclassicism, realism, impressionism. In addition, sculptures and statues from the Renaissance are kept here.

13. National Gallery of Italy in Emilia-Romagna– located in the city of Parma, in a beautiful palace - Palazzo della Pilotta, near the Cathedral Square. Initially, the collection of paintings was collected by the influential Italian family of the Farnese Dukes, and the first collection of the National Gallery included paintings donated by the Academy of Painting of Parma. You can see works in the gallery famous masters Italian painting of the period from the fifteenth to the sixteenth centuries: Fra Beato Angelico, Tintoretto, Giulio Romano, Leonardo da Vinci, paintings by masters who worked in the period from the seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries: Carracci, Canaletto, Tiepolo, paintings by the painters Parmigianino and Correggio - residents of Parma.

14. Ivan Mestrovic Gallery in Croatia– house museum in the city of Split, where more than three hundred works of art are stored various directions, starting with religious paintings and great masterpieces portrait art to nude sculptures. There are sculptures made of stone, marble, wood, bronze, and there is also large collection beautiful drawings and interesting antique furniture. Ivan Mestrovic opened the doors of his gallery to visitors in 1952, and until now, it is a popular place to visit, not only among local residents, but also among numerous tourists.

15. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh– the gallery is located in beautiful building nineteenth century, in neoclassical style. There is a large collection of works here contemporary artists. In front of the gallery building there is interesting garden, where you can admire sculptures by Henry Moore, Rachel Whiteread, Tony Cragg, Barbara Hepworth, and since 2002, the entrance lawn has been turned into a huge sculpture by Charles Jencks. In 2005, thanks to the support of the Art Fund, the exhibition of this gallery was replenished with twenty drawings by artist Tracey Emin from Britain; in 2008, they were allocated as a separate topic. Here are the works of others, more famous artists world: Picasso, Braque, Mondrian, Ben Nicholson, Matisse, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud. Unfortunately, in order to demonstrate to the public all the paintings stored in the gallery, there is not enough space in the building, which is why temporary exhibitions are practiced here.

16. Art gallery of Samarkand in Uzbekistan– presents to its visitors an original collection of paintings from various eras, which characterize the life and culture of different eastern peoples. Almost four thousand paintings are presented here, including examples of painting and graphics, embossing and sculpture. IN museum collection rare works by Russian artists are presented: Samuil Dudin, Richard Sommer, Usto Mumin, Leon Bure, Vasily Vereshchagin.

17. National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin-an art gallery housing the world's largest collection of Irish paintings. The gallery was founded in 1864, at the time of opening there were only one hundred and twenty-five paintings, but the popularity of this place grew, and many ordinary people and artists gave paintings here as a gift. Today, the gallery owns more than fourteen thousand paintings. There is a collection of graphics, sculptures, antique furniture, photographs and other works of art. Entry to the National Gallery is free.

18. Gallery of Sigiriya murals in Sri Lanka- in this most interesting place in the rock, there are half a thousand ancient frescoes, which stretch one hundred and forty meters long and go up to forty meters in height. The favorite motif of Sigiriya mural painting is depicted here - naked dancers, next to whom poems are written on the walls, praising the power of female beauty. According to the guides, all these images refer to one female goddess - Tara - the mother of all Buddhas. On the frescoes she is depicted with different appearances and even differs in nationality. Get into this unusual, and one of the most interesting galleries peace, you can spiral staircase and real rope bridges that are stretched over the abyss.

19. Brera Art Gallery in Milan– here is the largest collection of artistic masterpieces ever created by Italian sculptors and painters. In the forty halls of the gallery you can get acquainted with the great creations of such masters as: Raphael, Titian, Hayes, Caravaggio, works of famous Flemish painters, as well as impressionist artists. In order to see all the exhibits in the gallery, a couple of hours is not enough for you; you need to spend at least a day here. If you are limited on time, then you should definitely look at the two-ton, three-meter statue of Napoleon, the work of sculptor Antonio Canova and Raphael’s painting “The Betrothal of the Virgin”. The gallery opened to the public in the Brera Palace in 1809, according to the decree of Queen Maria Teresa of Austria.

20. London Art Gallery– a place where a unique collection of paintings by English and Western European artists is collected. The gallery is located in Trafalgar Square. Here you will see the world's famous masterpieces: Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Titian, Rubens, Canaletto, Dürer, Thomas Lawrence, William Hogarth. The gallery also displays portraits of members of the royal family, works by masters of the twelfth – nineteenth centuries. The London Art Gallery opened in 1824 with a modest collection of thirty-eight paintings, but today, thanks to the help of patrons and the tireless work of the gallery staff, there are two and a half thousand paintings painted between the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. For the convenience of gallery visitors, paintings are exhibited in chronological order.

We hope that we were able to guide you through the most famous galleries in the world that are worth visiting if you find yourself in one of the above-mentioned countries to better understand their people, history and culture.

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Today the Tretyakov Gallery celebrates its birthday. It was founded by merchant Pavel Tretyakov 157 years ago, on June 4, 1856. Today I propose to go on a cultural journey and visit other famous art galleries in the world.

Louvre Art Gallery

How was it with Grishkovets in the play “Simultaneously”? Fly to Paris and immediately run from the plane to the Louvre, look at the Mona Lisa, because you are not like all the other tourists.

The Louvre, located in the royal palace, is the most famous, visited and oldest museum in the world.

In the collection of paintings of the Louvre about 6,000 works of art from the Middle Ages to the middleXIXcentury. Including "Mona Lisa", "St. Anne with the Madonna and Child Christ" and "Madonna of the Rocks" by Leonardo da Vinci, "The Imposition of crown of thorns" and "Woman in front of a mirror" by Titian, "Small holy family"Raphael, "The Oath of the Horatii" by Jacques-Louis David and many others.

The famous and unfortunate "Mona Lisa" has gone through so much here! One “modern Herostratus” poured acid on the painting, another threw a stone at its mysterious smile. After this, the canvas was protected with bulletproof glass, but still from time to time there are figures trying to encroach on it. I don’t know why she didn’t please them.

To avoid spending a lot of time in line, experienced tourists advise coming to the Louvre either early in the morning or after lunch. Another option is to try to enter not through the main entrance, but through shopping mall"Carousel".

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the largest art galleries in the world. But initially the collection was based on paintings from three private collections and consisted of only 174 canvases.

Today in the museum you can see paintings by Rembrandt, Velazquez, Van Gogh, Botticelli, Titian, El Greco and many other great painters.

A nice little thing - in quality entrance tickets The Metropolitan Museum of Art uses colorful badges that you can keep as a souvenir.

London National Gallery

The collection of the London Gallery is perhaps not as extensive as that of its predecessors, but no less representative. Here you can see paintings by almost all great artists. English school represented by the works of Gainsborough, Lawrence and the witty Hogarth, in particular his satirical series "Fashionable Marriage". Among the Italians are Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Piero della Francesca, Titian, Veronese and many others. Spaniards - El Greco, Goya, Velazquez. The Dutch school is represented by a rich collection of van Eyck, Bosch, Rubens, Rembrandt, van Dyck and many others.

Dresden Gallery

In the Dresden Gallery you can see collection of paintings by old masters– artists of the XIII-XVIII centuries. Previously, later works of art were also displayed here, but the collection has grown so large that it had to be divided.

Paintings began to be collected back in the 15th century. And in the 17th century, Augustus II set out to collect a rich collection and began buying famous works art, including "Sleeping Venus" by Giorgione and "The Kingdom of Flora" by Poussin. Later, the collection was replenished with masterpieces by such authors as Titian, Cuccino, Rubens, Rembrandt and many others. In addition, in the Dresden Gallery you can see the famous “Sistine Madonna” by Raphael.

By the way, the gallery is located in one of most beautiful places city ​​- in the Zwinger complex.

Prado

Has an impressive collection Madrid Prado Museum. Stored here most full meetings works by Bosch, Velazquez, Murillo, Goya and El Greco. In the gallery you can see the works of the most famous representatives of the Italian, Spanish, Flemish and German schools. Among them Raphael, Titian, Sandro Botticelli, Rubens, Anton van Dyck and many others.

"Threatening Weather", René Magritte, 1929

Louvre (Paris)

“Liberty Leading the People” (La Liberté guidant le peuple) or “Freedom on the Barricades”, Eugene Delacroix.

The Louvre is one of the oldest and largest art museums peace. Like many national museums, it began with the royal collection. The collection was actively replenished by patrons of art from war trophies and works confiscated during the revolution.

Today, about 300 thousand exhibits are stored here. 35 thousand of them are presented in the online gallery. The most famous are “La Gioconda” by Leonardo da Vinci, “The Beautiful Gardener” by Raphael, “The Lacemaker” by John Vermeer, sculptures of the Venus de Milo and the Nike of Samothrace.

Prado Museum (Madrid)

Triptych "Garden of Earthly Delights" Hieronymus Bosch, 1490-1500.

The Prado Museum (Museo del Prado) is one of the largest and most visited art museums in the world. Its collection contains the most complete collections of Bosch, Velazquez, Goya, Murillo, Zurbaran and El Greco. Total number There are about 30 thousand exhibits.

Photos of more than 11 thousand works stored in the museum have been published on the Internet. For easy navigation, there is a division by topic: nudes and saints, socialist realism and mythology. Also available alphabetical index with the names of the artists. The “Masterpieces” selection will not let you miss the most important thing.

New York Museum of Modern Art

"Three Musicians" Pablo Picasso. Fontainebleau, summer (1921).

The Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan in New York (Museum of Modern Art, abbreviated as MoMA) is one of the first and most representative museums of modern art in the world. It is one of the three most visited museums in the United States and one of the twenty most visited art museums in the world.

MoMA has posted 65,000 digitized paintings online, dating from 1850 to the present. In total, the museum’s collection contains over 200 thousand works by 10 thousand artists. The online collection can be searched by specific painting, by the name of the artist, and by specified filters.

Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)

"The Night Watch, or the Performance of the Rifle Company of Captain Frans Banning Cock and Lieutenant Willem van Ruytenburg." Rembrandt Van Rijn.

You don’t have to come to Amsterdam to wander the halls of the famous Rijksmuseum. The updated interiors of the 19th century building and the 200 thousand masterpieces housed there can be found on the Google Arts & Culture project. Make the gallery closer allow smartphone and Google app Cardboard, available for Android and iOS.

Along with the main collection of the Rijksmuseum, the digital recording includes five new exhibitions dedicated to the jeweler Jan Lutma, the artists Jan Steen, Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt van Rijn and, separately, the monumental painting “The Night Watch”, the pride of the museum.

Solomon Guggenheim Museum (New York)

Next to Jas de Bouffan (Environs du Jas de Bouffan). Paul Cezanne.

The permanent collection of the Guggenheim contains more than 7 thousand works. About 1,700 of them have been digitized. Each artist’s page on the museum’s website contains a voluminous overview of his work; many exhibits are supplemented with comments from art historians. The online archive covers the period from the late 19th century to the present day. There are works by Paul Cézanne and Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso, Camille Pissarro, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Bauhaus school teachers Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Wassily Kandinsky and many other modern classics. There is a search and an alphabetical index of the authors of all works in the collection.

Getty Museum (Los Angeles)

Haystacks, snow effect, morning. Claude Monet.

The Getty Museum is the largest art museum in California and the West Coast of the United States. It was founded by oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty, who at the time of his death was the richest man in the world. Thanks to the bequeathed billions, the museum has become the most active buyer of works by the “old masters” and ancient sculpture at international auctions.

Now you can create your own selections of your favorite paintings, select exhibits to visually teach art history, post them on social networks, or even just “stick” to the Museum’s electronic library, looking at the magnificent paintings in every detail.

Hermitage (St. Petersburg)

Annunciation. Filippino Lippi, Italy, mid-1490s.

Russia's largest museum occupies five buildings housing more than 3 million works of art.

The museum arose as a private collection of Catherine II and, thanks to the empress, acquired a collection of works by outstanding Flemish, Dutch, Italian and French artists. The archive of digitized works of the Hermitage is divided by topic, there is a convenient search, it is possible to create your own collection and view the collections of other users. On the “In Focus” section page, you can study the exhibits in detail, read detailed information about them and watch videos with expert comments.

British Museum (London)

Large gold buckle; early Anglo-Saxon period, early 7th century; burial mound necropolis of Sutton Hoo.

The main historical and archaeological museum of Great Britain and one of the largest museums in the world, the second most visited among art museums after the Louvre, has posted more than 3.5 million exhibits online.

The colonial expansion of the British Empire contributed to the rapid expansion of the collection of the country's main and first public national museum in the world. WITH mid-18th century century, it managed to collect more than 8 million exhibits: from ancient Greek bas-reliefs to Hirst prints. It is here that the Rosetta Stone, thanks to which it was possible to decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, is kept, the largest collection of Chinese porcelain in the West, and the richest collection of engravings and paintings of the Renaissance. The British Museum's online collection is also one of the largest in the world, with more than 3.5 million items on its website. An advanced search is available by date of creation, technique of execution and a dozen more parameters.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Group of thirteen “beheaded” soldiers / author unknown (1910)

Metropolitan Museum of Art ( Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts), the largest art museum in the United States and one of the most celebrated museums in the world, located in New York City, has made a collection of nearly 400,000 high-resolution digitized works of art and vintage photographs publicly available.

Anyone can look at the most interesting retro photographs from the museum collection. The images are not licensed for commercial use, but you can download the frame you like for your own needs, for example, to place it in a frame.

Vincent Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam)

The Van Gogh Museum has made 1,800 posters, books and drawings from its collection available online. The management of the art institution published the works due to the fact that they did not fit into the permanent collection, which is why they remained inaccessible to the general public for a long time.

The Louvre is a former royal palace, architectural monument and museum in the historical center of Paris. Since 1791, it has been transformed into a museum, which houses the richest collection of exhibits in Europe: from ancient and ancient Roman to late Western European works of art. The Louvre art gallery is especially rich in rare exhibits, which were constantly replenished by the collections of monasteries, private individuals, as well as numerous trophies of Napoleonic campaigns. → Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA) The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the world's richest works of painting and sculpture. The pride of the museum is its art gallery. Among the brilliant masterpieces of painting are paintings by Rubens, Velazquez, Titian, Monet, Renoir, Van Gogh and others. The photography department presents works by Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz. Each year the museum publishes an "Annual Report" which lists new acquisitions. → London National Gallery (UK) London's National Gallery is one of the world's best collections of Western European and English painting. Here are masterpieces by Rembrandt, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci. By exhibiting royal portraits, the art gallery presents works of only the most famous masters of the 12th - 19th centuries. → National Gallery of Art (Washington, USA) The National Gallery of Art is an art museum located in Washington, DC (USA). The collection contains approximately one thousand two hundred paintings, where works by masters from Italy, France and America are most widely represented. In addition, it contains the best collection of paintings in the world. Italian Renaissance, paintings of the Dutch and Spanish Baroque. The US government donated twenty thousand drawings and watercolors to the gallery that depict the history of development folk art and crafts of America. → Ambrosiana Art Gallery (Milan, Italy) The Ambrosiana Art Gallery was created at the beginning of the 17th century by Cardinal Federico Borromean, cousin St. Carla. The basis of the gallery was a collection of paintings that already belonged to the Borromean family. As a true connoisseur of beauty and a great connoisseur of painting, the cardinal conceived a grandiose project, which was embodied in the whole complex cultural sites: the Pinakothek proper, the Ambrosian Library, which opened in 1609, and the Academy of Drawing, where young artists of the Counter-Reformation learned the mysteries fine arts. → Brera Art Gallery (Milan, Italy) The Brera Art Gallery (Pinacoteca di Brera) is an art gallery founded in 1809 by Napoleon Bonaparte. Contains large number works of art "confiscated" from churches and monasteries across Europe. The works date from the 15th to the 20th centuries, and include paintings by such artists as Raphael, Caravaggio, Mantegna. In the courtyard there is a statue of Napoleon by Canova. → Dresden Art Gallery (Germany) The Dresden Art Gallery is one of ancient museums Europe, located in Germany. Throughout the world, the gallery is famous for its collection of paintings by Italian and Dutch masters. It was opened in 1855, at that time the collection amounted to two thousand two hundred paintings. Over time, the collection was replenished with both contemporaries and classics of fine art. As new items were acquired, the museum grew so large that in 1931 the paintings had to be divided, and only works from the thirteenth to eighteenth centuries remained in the Dresden Gallery. → State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) The State Tretyakov Gallery was named after Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, who was distinguished by his passion for collecting, which appeared in him in the mid-50s of the eighteenth century. It was at this time that Pavel Mikhailovich bought the first exhibits, which laid the foundation for the future museum. At that time, Tretyakov and his family moved to Lavrushinsky Lane, where the Tretyakov Gallery was founded. → Hermitage (St. Petersburg, Russia) The Hermitage is best gallery Russia, representing world art, one of the most famous art museums in the world and, of course, the main attraction of St. Petersburg. The museum was founded in 1764, when Catherine the Great acquired a collection of 255 paintings from the German city of Berlin. Today the State Hermitage has more than 2.7 million exhibits and displays variety of art and artifacts from around the world and throughout history (from Ancient Egypt to the early 20th century in Europe). The Hermitage collections include works by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, unique collections Rembrandt and Rubens, many works by the French impressionists Renoir, Cezanne, Manet, Monet and Pizarro, numerous paintings by Van Gogh, Matisse, Gauguin and several sculptures by Rodin. The collection is huge and varied, it took a long time to create and is an essential aspect for all those interested in art and history.