New York, The museums of New York, USA
The 9/11 Museum is located in the basement of the 9/11 Memorial, where the Twin Towers stood until the tragic day of September 11, 2001. These attacks marked America and the world. The museum created in memory of the 2983 victims is a true tribute to them. Built in the very foundations of the former […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
Founded in 1869, the New York Museum of Natural History welcomes more than 5 million visitors per year and houses more than 32 million objects and specimens. The Museum of Natural History’s diverse collections are spread over five levels and 150,000 square meters: The spaces about the environment and biodiversity where you can find a […]
New York, The museums of New York, USA
Created in 1929 by the “ladies”, three funny ladies who were amateurs of a modern art in its infancy, the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York is one of the most famous contemporary art museums in the world and houses many interesting collections and works. Some of the greatest artists’ works are also […]
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The collection of Ancient Egyptian art at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The MET) consists of approximately 26,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural significance, dating from the Paleolithic to the Roman period (ca. 300,000 BCE – 4th century BCE). More than half of the collection comes from the Museum’s 35 years of […]
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Photos of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the other collections
When the Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870, it did not own a single work of art. Over the years, through the combined efforts of generations of curators and scholars, collectors, and patrons, the Met collection has grown artistically, geographically, and culturally to represent more than 5,000 years of art from around the […]
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (MET) worldwide collection of European paintings encompasses works of art from the thirteenth to the nineteenth centuries, from Giotto to Gauguin. In addition to its many masterpieces by artists as diverse as Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, and Seurat, the museum has the largest collection of 17th-century Dutch art in the […]
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Photos of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek and Roman art
The collection of Greek and Roman art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET) includes more than 17,000 works ranging from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine to Christianity in 312 A.D. It includes art from many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. […]
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With a surface area of 52,000 m2, 1.5 million objects to discover and more than 500,000 visitors each year, the Brooklyn Museum of Art offers a true cultural world tour. It is one of the oldest museums in the United States, having opened its doors in 1897. Located in Prospect Park, it is known for […]