Famous Museums
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Types of Museums
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It was established in 1872, it is the oldest and largest museum in its country. It's collection focuses on ancient Japanese art, Greco-Buddhist art, and Asian art along the Silk Road.
What is the Tokyo National Museum? (in Japan)
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This online museum offers virtual tours to visitors to view such collections like the Egyptian, Greek, Roman and European antiques, paintings, sculptures, and more. It also offers virtual tours of its Egyptian antiques, Galerie d’Apollon and the remains of its famous moat. You can zoom into images and learn more details about each exhibit.
What is the Louvre?
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It is also known as an art gallery, a space for the exhibition of art, usually in the form of art objects from the visual arts, primarily paintings, illustrations, and sculptures. Collections of drawings and old master prints are often not displayed on the walls but kept in a print room.
What is an art museum?
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What does museum mean in Latin?
What is a temple or space dedicated to the muses
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It is the largest and most prestigious museum for art and history in its country. It has a large collection of paintings from the Dutch Golden Age including works by Vermeer and Rembrandt.
What is the Rijksmuseum? (in the Netherlands)
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This New York City-based virtual museum gives visitors access to a selection of 1.600 works of art referred to as the "Collection Online" but it does not provide virtual tours. It also features over 7,000 works, as well as the Peggy ** Collection, Venice, and the ** Museum Bilbao.
What is the Guggenheim?
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This museum revolves around scientific achievements, its marvels, and its history. It explains complicated inventions, a combination of demonstrations, interactive programs, and thought-provoking media are often used. Some museums may have exhibits on topics such as computers, aviation, railway museums, physics, astronomy, and the animal kingdom.
What is a science and/or technology?
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Where did the movie Night at the Museum take place?
American Museum of Natural History, NYC
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It is one of the top museums in its country. It features some of the best collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century. The best-known works on display are the Majas of Goya and the Las Meninas by Velazquez.
What is the Prado Museum? (in Spain)
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This online museum has exhibits dedicated to history, art and culture. Although it does not provide 360 degree online tours or special multimedia offerings, it does have a vast detailed exhibit display with audio descriptions. It has a Word in Art section which features various exhibits made of paper.
What is the British Museum?
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Today, this museum is largely an extinct subtype of a museum. It has a few notable exceptions, such as the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Hunterian Museum at the Royal College of Surgeons in Glasgow, Scotland. Its origins date back to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities which often featured displays of human skeletal material and other materia medica.
What is a medical museum?
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Who painted this painting?
Vermeer, "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"
It permanently resides in the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague.
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It is one of the world's largest and most visited art museums in the world. It opened in 1793 and includes exhibits from diverse origins as ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, medieval Europe and Napoleonic France. Its most famous exhibit is Leonardo de Vinci's painting of the Mona Lisa.
What is the Louvre? (in Paris)
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This interactive site allows visitors to view special collections from the Air and Space Museum to the sculpture garden, watch videos, listen to audio tracks, and even view various images from a 360-degree angle, thereby providing as close to a real in-person experience as possible.
What is the Smithsonian?
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This type of museum developed in the 1990s and is generally defined as a short term institution existing in a temporary space. This museum has been increasing in favor among more progressive museum professionals as a means of direct community involvement with objects and exhibition. Often, this concept relies solely on visitors to provide both the objects on display and the accompanying labels with the professionals or institution providing only the theme of the pop-up and the space in which to display the objects.
What is a pop-up museum?
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The Dome church of Les Invalides seen from avenue de Tourville
What is Musee de l'Armee?