The Van Gogh Museum is an art museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands dedicated to the works of Vincent van Gogh and his contemporaries. It is located at the Museum Square in the borough Amsterdam South, close to the Stedelijk Museum, the Rijksmuseum, and the Concertgebouw. The museum opened on read more
The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid. It features one of the world’s finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of read more
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met), located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, located read more
The Louvre or the Louvre Museum (French: Musè©e du Louvre, pronounced: [myze dy luv?]) is one of the world’s largest museums and a historic monument in Paris, France. A central landmark of the city, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (ward). Nearly read more
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (English: “Museum of Art History”, also often referred to as the “Museum of Fine Arts”) is an art museum in Vienna, Austria. Housed in its festive palatial building on Ringstraèe, it is crowned with an octagonal dome. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum applies to both the institution and read more
The Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga (Portuguese pronunciation: [mu?zew n?siu?na? d? ?a?t???ti??]) is an art museum in Lisbon, Portugal. The museum is also known as MNAA (in English, National Museum of Ancient Art) and as the Museu das Janelas Verdes (“Museum of the Green Windows”) for its location in the read more
The Museu Picasso (Catalan pronunciation: [mu?z?w pi?kasu], “Picasso Museum”), located in Barcelona, Spain, houses one of the most extensive collections of artworks by the 20th-century Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. With 4,251 works exhibited by the painter, the museum has one of the most complete permanent collections of works. The museum read more
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofèa (MNCARS, also called the Museo Reina Sofèa, Queen Sofèa Museum, El Reina Sofèa, or simply The Sofia) is Spain’s national museum of 20th-century art. The museum was officially inaugurated on September 10, 1992 and is named for Queen Sofèa. It is located read more
The Musè©e d’Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and photography. It houses the largest collection of impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces in the world, read more
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the read more