Museums

14

Best Museums in the

World
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Established 1872, the Tokyo National

Museum is the oldest and largest
museum in Japan. The museums
collections focus on ancient Japanese
art and Asian art along the Silk Road.
There is also a large collection of
Greco-Buddhist art.

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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is the largest and

most prestigious museum for art and history in the
Netherlands. It has a large collection of paintings from
the Dutch Golden Age .

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One of the top museums in Spain, The Prado

Museum in Madrid features some of the best
collections of European art, from the 12th
century to the early 19th century

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The Museo Nacional de Antropologa (or National Museum of

Anthropology) in Mexico City contains archaeological artifacts from the
pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico. Opened in 1964 by, the museum
has a number of significant exhibits

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The National Palace Museum in

Taipei has the largest collection of
ancient Chinese artifacts and
artworks in the world

The museum features permanent and visiting exhibits

of works by Spanish and international artists.

The Museum of Modern Art

(MoMA), located in Midtown
Manhattan in New York City,
is often identified as the
most influential museum of
modern art in the world

Founded in 1764 by Catherine the

Great, the Hermitage Museum in Saint
Petersburg, Russia is a massive
museum of art and culture showing the
highlights of a collection of over 3
million items spanning the globe.

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, is

one of the oldest and most famous art
museums in the world.
. The collections of Renaissance
paintings and sculptures from classical
antiquity

Established in 1753, the British

Museum in London is a museum of
human history and culture. Its
collections, which number more than
seven million objects, are amongst the
largest and most comprehensive in the
world and originate from all continents,
illustrating and documenting the story
of human culture from its beginnings to
the present

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also

known as The Met, is an art museum
located on the eastern edge of Central
Park in New York City. This massive
gothic-style building, originally opened
in 1872 and with numerous expansions
added on over time,

Founded by Pope Julius II in the 6th

century, the Vatican Museums inside
the Vatican City in Rome are among
the best museums in the world. The
museums are most famous for the
spiral staircase, the Raphael Rooms
and the exquisitely decorated Sistine
Chapel

Home to at least 120,000 items of ancient

Egyptian antiquities, the Egyptian Museum
in Cairo is one of the worlds best
museums. There are two main floors of the
museum, the ground floor and the first
floor. On the ground floor there is an
extensive collection of papyrus and coins
used in by the ancient Egyptians. On the
first floor there are artifacts from the final
two dynasties of Ancient Egypt

The Louvre in Paris is one of the worlds

largest and most visited art museums in
the world. The museum opened in 1793
and is housed in the Louvre Palace,
Its exhibits come from such diverse
origins as ancient Egypt, classical
Greece and Rome, medieval Europe and
Napoleonic France. Its most famous
exhibit, of course, is Leonardo da Vincis
painting of the Mona Lisa, generally to
be found surrounded by hordes of
camera-flashing tourists.