Category: Popular Museums

Opened in 1929, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art in New York, has become its own right in the museum of modern art in the world .

Some of the most important works on display at the Moma are: Starry Night by Van Gogh, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon by Picasso, The Persistence of Memory by Dali and Miro Dutch Interior .

MOMA is a museum big enough and, if you cross it entirely, it will take at least two hours to visit quickly . If you have little time and do not be passionate about modern art, the plants that are worthwhile are the fourth and fifth , where some of the most famous paintings in history.

Advance tickets

To visit the museum without queuing, the best option is to book the tickets online.

When to visit?

The museum is free on Fridays from 4 to 8 pm , at least you can take advantage of modern art lovers to visit the museum and see the most famous paintings.

Location

53rd Street between 5th and 6th Avenue .

Visiting Hours

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 to 17:30.

Fridays from 10:30 to 20:00 hours.

Closed Tuesdays.

Price

Adults: $ 25.

Students: $ 14.

Over 65: $ 18.

Children under 16: free.

Free Entry with New York Pass .

Transport

Metro : Avenue/53 Fifth Street , E and V lines Bus : lines M1, M2, M3, M4 and M5.

Chicago Art Institute

The Art Institute of Chicago is hands down sure to be a highlight of the trip for any person to the bustling city of blues and thick pizza. The Art Institute of Chicago has a reputation as one of the destinations in the United States premiere of art, a reputation with travelers that art enthusiasts simply must agree. The famous museum is full of art from 5,000 years ago. Besides finery inside, the building exhibits a distinctive touch of Chicago by the elegance and architectural beauty, becoming a work of art in itself.

Although it began as a combination of school-museum, currently the 1893 building is only as a place to display beautiful pieces, attractive and great art. The Art Institute of Chicago is home to such famous works as Vincent Van Gogh “The Room” by Grant Wood “American Gothic” and Pablo Picasso’s “The Old Guitarist”, to name a few.

The first floor of the museum also contains extensive ancient artifacts like a mummy head cover, a large sitting Buddha statue, and a Chinese food container tripod. It also shows the sculpture court, which has several impressive structures above the photo gallery. Always changing and expanding, the Art Institute of Chicago also has a new modern wing. The wing provides enough configuration change of the ancient art, with over eight hundred innovative artworks today. The Art Institute of Chicago also has several distinctive exhibitions, such as the miniature Thorne rooms (a maze recreations tiny house with Georgia, French, American Classic, or basically any architectural style) on the ground floor.

There is also a children’s area where children and adults can have fun tracking medieval brass rubbings, and a special exhibition space in flux in Regenstein Hall. Other features include an abbey Art Institute calm where guests can enjoy food from one of the places to eat at home, and the gift shop. The store is an impressive feat full of reprints of various artworks, like Georgia O’Keefe “Yello Hickory Leaves with Daisy” cup of coffee, or an umbrella with George Seurat’s “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte. – 1884” With all this, the Art Institute of Chicago, just has to be a place in the list of all travelers Chicago hub. The entrance fee is minimal at around $ 12, and the treasures within yourself that involve everyone.

Introduction

The British Museum is a must for anyone visiting the city and has a minimal concern for history, archeology and art.

Best antique objects are exposed is this great museum.

Description

In stylish Russell Street , is one of the most famous museums in the world, thanks to its impressive collection of archaeological fruit of long domination and expansion of the British Empire and plundering in five continents .In any case, this looting has served us to see at a single point and a free countless historical treasures.

The museum was founded in 1753 thanks to the collection of Sir Hans Sloane .

The most famous objects are the Rosetta Stone , sculptures from the Parthenon , the English medieval remains found at Sutton Hoo and Mildenhall, Egyptian mummies and sarcophagi and the famous Portland Vase Roman. Very interesting is also the African collection, possibly the largest in the world.

Information for the visit

The museum is a short walk from Holborn Underground stations, Tottenham Court Road, Russell Square and Goodge St., and the following bus lines: New Oxford Street 7, 8, 19, 22b, 25, 38 , 55, 98, Tottenham Court Road, northbound and Gower Street, southbound, 10, 24, 29, 73, 134, Southampton Row 68, 91, 188.

Open all year with the following schedule:

– From Saturday to Wednesday: 10:00 to 17:30

– Thursday and Friday: 10:00 to 20:30

Closes March 25, 24 and 26 December and 1 January.

Admission is free .

Opened in the late eighteenth century, the Louvre Museum is the largest museum in France and the most visited in the world . Currently receives over eight million visitors each year.

Formed from the collections of the French monarchy and the plundering carried out during the Napoleonic Empire, the Louvre Museum opened in 1793 showing a new model of museum, which passed from the hands of the ruling classes to the enjoyment of the general public .

 Building architecture

The Louvre Museum is housed in the Louvre Palace , a XII century fortress was enlarged and renovated several times. Before it became a museum, some monarchs Charles V and Philip II used the palace as a royal residence in which accumulated their art collections .

Following the move of the royal residence at Versailles Palace , the impressive building of 160,000 square feet would begin its transformation into one of the most important museums in the world.

In 1989 he built a pyramid of glass breaking the monotony of the big gray blocks of the museum, which now serves as a gateway.

The Louvre’s collection includes nearly 300,000 pre-1948 works, of which approximately 35,000 are exposed . The vast collection is organized thematically into different departments: Oriental Antiquities, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Etruscan history of the Louvre and Medieval Louvre, painting, sculpture, art, graphic and art of Islam.

Among the most important paintings of the museum is worth noting the following:

La Gioconda of Leonardo da Vinci.

Liberty Leading the People by Delacroix.

The Wedding at Cana by Veronese.

Among the sculptures the most outstanding works are:

The Venus de Milo of Ancient Greece .

The seated scribe of Ancient Egypt .

The Winged Victory of Samothrace Hellenistic period of ancient Greece.

The Louvre is huge and art lovers crossing it could be several days . To get an overview and see the most outstanding works, you need to spend at least a full morning to tour the museum.

While the Louvre is very important worldwide, maybe for people who are not too interested in art ever become too boring place because of its huge dimensions , in addition to the heat and the crowds .

The Guggenheim Museum is located between Fifth Avenue and 89th Street, east of Central Park, and is best known in the “Big Apple” as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

The driver of the Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. was Guggenheim, which names the museum, who was a Swiss-born Jewish billionaire who, after meeting in 1927 to Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen, was completely infected by his passion for abstract art. This led him to gradually acquire works throughout the world, to be the largest collection in the United States, which they called Non-Objective.

To promote his collection created the Foundation Solomon R. Guggenheim and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting on Calle 54. But this place was not big enough, so in 1943 he commissioned the design of the final Guggenheim Museum by Frank Lloyd Wright.

For the construction of the Guggenheim Museum , Wright was inspired by a ziggurat temple pyramid of ancient Mesopotamia, but gave a form of inverted conch. Inside there is a single gallery of 800 meters ascending spiral that goes through a spiral ramp. It is basically built with precast concrete blocks, that inside are painted white to highlight the works. At the top of the Guggenheim Museum a huge skylight, made ​​of glass and steel, provides much of the necessary light.

The Guggenheim Museum in New York opened in 1959, having passed both its driver as its architect. Although in the beginning he was involved in the controversial and was rejected by the residents of the Upper East Side, the truth is that today the Guggenheim Museum is one of the most visited in the city, and has a great international recognition.

Among the treasures it houses the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum are works by Kandinsky, Picasso, Modigliani, Chagall, Matisse, Braque, Miró, Pollock, Van Gogh or magritte, although the building itself is already a work of art.

The Guggenheim Museum and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , located in the 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street). Its time to visit is from Sunday to Wednesday from 10:00 to 18:00, closed on Fridays at 17:45 and Saturdays at 19:45. Closed on Thursday, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day.

The price or rate entries Guggenheim Museum is $ 18, for students aged 65 and older will be $ 15 and under 12 and members are free.

(Metropolitan Museum of Art, or just Met) is the second most visited museum in the world behind the Louvre Museum in Paris .

The museum was opened in February 1872 when Robert Lee Jenkins donated his private collection. Since then he has been increasing his collection to the over two million objects .

The most important objects are the Metropolitan Museum treasures of classical culture and the paintings of artists such as Monet, Cezanne or Rembrandt .

Among the more unusual exhibits is the Egyptian area, which is exposed beautifully reconstructed Temple of Dendur . This temple was a gift from Egypt for help in saving Abu Simbel .

Although the Metropolitan Museum is our favorite art museum in New York, sometimes do not have all the time to stop at each of your jewelry and you have to be selective.

If you have little time, the most interesting are the Roman and Egyptian as well as pictures of the second floor.

Location

82nd Street to 5th Avenue .

Visiting Hours

From Tuesday to Sunday from 9:30 to 17:30 pm, Friday and Saturday until 21:00.

Closed: every Monday, the day of Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year.

Price

Adults: $ 25.

Students: $ 12.

Over 65: $ 17.

Children 12 and under: free.

Free with New York Pass .

Transport

Subway : 86th Street , lines 4, 5 and 6. Bus : lines M1, M2, M3 and M4.