The Grand Egyptian Museum will open in Giza in 2015. It will be built next to the famous pyramids. It is planned to become one of major museums in the world (its area should be about 480 thousand square meters).

The museum will contain more than 120 thousand artifacts reflecting the history of Egypt over the past 7 thousand years, as well as all the treasures from the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. In addition, it will become the largest center of Egyptology in the world, as well as the largest restoration center in the Middle East.

The Grand Egyptian Museum promises to be no less significant than other major museums in the world. Let's recall the most famous of them.

Louvre, Paris

A week is not enough to walk around the entire museum.

Once the Louvre was an ancient castle of the French kings. It was built in 1790 by King Philip Augustus. It was opened as a museum on November 8, 1793. The Louvre occupies a space of approximately 195 thousand square meters. m and has a total exhibition area of ​​60,600 sq. m. It exhibits 400 thousand exhibits.

For the convenience of visitors, the museum is divided into seven parts: departments applied arts, painting, sculpture and graphics, ancient Egyptian department, department ancient east and islamic art, as well as the Department of Art of Greece, Rome and the Etruscan Empire. To get around all this, not even a week is enough. Therefore, for tourists who, as a rule, have only a day left, there are special signs leading to the main treasures of the Louvre (for example, the Gioconda by Leonardo da Vinci).

Vatican Museum, Rome

Another largest world museum is the Vatican Museum with 1400 rooms, 50 thousand objects - to get around all the exhibits presented, you will need to walk 7 km.

Of course, most visitors want to immediately visit the Sistine Chapel, which is decorated with paintings by Michelangelo, but you can get there only by passing many other places. You should start from the Egyptian Museum, then head to the Belvedere, then to Raphael's Stations and in the end see the same chapel.

British Museum, London

The exhibits presented in the museum are not obtained in a very honest way.

British museum was founded on June 7, 1753 at the initiative of the government, and 6 years later it was opened to visitors. It is based on three major collections.

The museum is called the Museum of Stolen Masterpieces and the Museum of All Civilizations. Both names appeared for a reason. Some of the museum exhibits were obtained in a not very honest way. For example, the Rosetta Stone, with which scientists were able to decipher hieroglyphs, was taken in Egypt from Napoleon's army.

Initially, the museum was conceived as a collection of objects of culture and art. Ancient Greece and ancient rome, but today it has halls dedicated to the East and many European countries.

National Museum of Nature and Science of Japan, Tokyo

The Tokyo Museum was founded in 1871. It includes the Global Gallery, dedicated to the planet as a whole, and the Japanese Gallery.

The basis of the exposition of the Global Gallery is natural science exhibits: stuffed animals, dinosaur remains, their modern models, and so on. Also here you can conduct independent experiments in physics.

The gallery has a "forest" hall and its own botanical garden, where you can appreciate all the wealth flora our planet.

The Japanese Gallery, of course, exhibits the natural world of Japan and has a 3D cinema with a 360-degree viewing angle, which shows films about the origin of the universe, the world of dinosaurs, continental drift and food chains.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the second most visited museum in the world and the largest site on the Museum Mile, located in New York between Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. It is on this mile that best museums America.

The museum was founded in 1870 by a group of American businessmen and art lovers, and opened to the public two years later. It is based on a collection of 174 works of European painting.

You can find literally everything in it: from Paleolithic artifacts to pop art objects. There are rare collections of art from Africa and Oceania, the Middle East and Egypt. It also houses a special hall with clothes worn by the inhabitants of all five continents for seven centuries.

Prado Museum, Madrid

Here you can see paintings by Raphael and Bosch.

Another of the largest and most important museums in the world is the Spanish Prado. It was founded in 1819. A significant part of his exposition was collected royal family and the church.

In the museum you can see paintings by Raphael and Bosch, El Greco and Velazquez, Botticelli and Raphael, as well as Titian and many other recognized masters.

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

The Hermitage is the largest art and cultural-historical museum not only in Russia, but throughout the world. It is a complex complex of six buildings. The main exposition is located in the legendary Winter Palace.

It owes its origins private collection Empress Catherine II. The founding date of the museum is considered to be 1764, when Catherine acquired large collection Western European painting. The museum was opened to visitors in 1852.

Today, the Hermitage houses more than three million works of art and cultural monuments.

State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The annual rating The Art Newspaper collected information on the largest museums in the world for 2016 and revealed patterns. The Louvre, despite any terrorist attacks, is still the most visited museum in the world. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) displaced the British Museum (London) from second place, the Vatican Museums skipped ahead of the London National Gallery. The State Hermitage is firmly in the top ten, and the Reina Sofia Art Center (Madrid) managed to jump into the last carriage.

MoMA and the Metropolitan Museum had to move

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Whitney Museum of American Art, which moved to a new building in midtown Manhattan in 2015, made room for the traditionally dominant New York Museum contemporary art(MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Whitney Museum hosted five of New York's ten most visited exhibitions of 2016.

However, despite the meteoric rise of the Whitney Museum, the MoMA and the Met remain leaders among New York's museums. In the first place is still MoMA - thanks to the employees who every day during the long weekend in October performed the production of the French choreographer Jérôme Bel. This performance attracted up to 6.8 thousand people a day. The more traditional Picasso Sculpture exhibition, which was held in the same place, organized jointly with the Picasso Museum in Paris, was visited daily by about 5.9 thousand people.

Paris and Brussels are slowing down, Madrid is on the rise

Louvre, Paris

The decrease in the flow of foreign tourists after a series of terrorist attacks continues to affect the attendance of the Louvre, but it still tops the list of the most popular museums in the world with 7.4 million visitors in 2016 (in 2015 this figure was 8.6 million). Since 2014, attendance at the main French museum has fallen by nearly 2 million people, which means a significant drop in ticket revenues - while the cost of keeping the public safe has risen sharply. Attendance at the Musée d'Orsay also dropped from 3.4 million in 2015 to 3 million last year. But the Pompidou Center, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, is less dependent on tourists from the US, China and other countries. Its attendance in 2016 increased by 275 thousand people and amounted to 3.3 million.

The terrorist attacks in Brussels last March also seem to have affected the number of visitors to the Royal Museums. fine arts, which includes several venues, including the Magritte Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Attendance at the Belgian museum cluster has fallen by more than a quarter, from 776,000 in 2015 to 497,000 in 2016.

But the largest museums in Madrid, on the contrary, are on the rise. In 2016, the Reina Sofia Center for the Arts received 400,000 more visitors (3.7 million) than in 2015, and the Prado passed the 3 million threshold, something it has not been able to do since 2012. About 600 thousand people - or a fifth of the total number of visitors for the year - came to the Prado for a large-scale exhibition "Hieronymus Bosch", timed to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the artist's death.

Successes and failures in London

Courtyard of the British Museum, London

A slight decline in the number of visitors to the British Museum and an increase in the number of visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art means that London and New York are now going head to head. The Met does not share attendance at three of its sites: the main one on Fifth Avenue, the Cloisters in Upper Manhattan, and the Metropolitan Breuer, which opened last year. Together they attracted a record 7 million people. And having only one site, the London British Museum was visited for last year 6.4 million viewers.

National Gallery in London has recovered from the 2015 strikes that resulted in many of its venues being temporarily closed. With nearly 6.3 million visitors, it still outpaces the recently expanded Tate Modern, which has a record total attendance of 5.9 million. According to our data, the Tate Modern remains the world's most popular contemporary and modern art museum.

Place in the ranking	Total number of visitors	Museum	City
1	7 400 000	Louvre	Paris
2	7 006 859	Metropolitan Museum*	New York
3	6 420 395	British museum	London
4	6 262 839	National Gallery	London
5	6 066 649	Vatican Museums	Vatican
6	5 839 197	Tate Modern	London
7	4 665 725	National Museum imperial palace	Taipei
8	4 261 391	National Art Gallery	Washington
9	4 119 103	State Hermitage	St. Petersburg
10	3 646 598	Reina Sofia Art Center	Madrid
11	3 443 220	somerset house	London
12	3 396 259	National Museum of Korea	Seoul
13	3 335 509	Pompidou Center	Paris
14	3 033 754	National Prado Museum	Madrid
15	3 022 086	Victoria and Albert Museum	London
16	3 000 000	Musee d'Orsay	Paris
17	2 788 236	Modern Art Museum	New York
18	2 714 271	National Museum folk art Korea	Seoul
19	2 668 465	National Gallery of Victoria*	Melbourne
20	2 623 156	Tokyo National Art Center	Tokyo
21	2 478 622	Museums of the Moscow Kremlin	Moscow
22	2 370 051	National Galleries of Scotland*	Edinburgh
23	2 325 759	State Tretyakov Gallery	Moscow
24	2 259 987	Rijksmuseum	Amsterdam
25	2 246 646	Soumaya Museum	mexico city
26	2 216 880		Rio de Janeiro
27	2 076 526	Van Gogh Museum	Amsterdam
28	2 023 467	J. Paul Getty Museum*	Los Angeles
29	2 011 219	Uffizi Gallery	Florence
30	1 949 330	National Portrait Gallery	London
31	1 926 844	Tokyo National Museum	Tokyo
32	1 876 908	shanghai art museum	Shanghai
33	1 810 948	National Museum of Scotland	Edinburgh
34	1 800 000	Art Institute of Chicago	Chicago
35	1 592 101	Los Angeles County Museum of Art	Los Angeles
36	1 461 185	Academy Gallery	Florence
37	1 409 849	Acropolis Museum	Athens
38	1 402 251	San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts*	San Francisco
39	1 349 663	Art Gallery New South Wales	Sydney
40	1 333 559	Doge's Palace	Venice
41	1 316 127	Australian Center for Moving Images	Melbourne
42	1 285 595	Royal Academy of Arts	London
43	1 267 280	Royal Ontario Museum	Toronto
44	1 259 318	Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum	Glasgow
45	1 240 419	Queensland Art Gallery/GoMA*	Brisbane
46	1 234 443	National Museum of Castel Sant'Angelo	Rome
47	1 205 243	Modern Art Museum	Sydney
48	1 200 000	National Portrait Gallery/SAAM	Washington
49	1 187 621	Serpentine Gallery	London
50	1 171 780	National Museum of Modern Art (MMSA)	Seoul
51	1 169 404	Guggenheim Museum	Bilbao
52	1 164 793	Museum of Fine Arts	Boston
53	1 162 345	National Museum of Western Art	Tokyo
54	1 154 031	Gazebo	Vein
55	1 151 922	Quai Branly Museum	Paris
56	1 151 080	Whitney Museum of American Art	New York
57	1 134 234	Dali Theater Museum	Figueres
58	1 133 200	Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts**	Moscow
59	1 130 556	National Galleries of the Grand Palais	Paris
60	1 122 826	Cultural Center Bank of Brazil	Brasilia
61	1 081 542	Tate Britain	London
62	1 066 511	University Museum of Modern Art	mexico city
63	1 050 000	National Art Museum of China	Beijing
64	1 040 654	Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum	Madrid
65	1 011 172	Imperial War Museum	London
66	1 006 145	Museum of the Berardo Collection	Lisbon
67	1 003 376	Saatchi Gallery	London
68	991 149	Palazzo Reale	Milan
69	965 929	Cultural Center of the Bank of Brazil	Sao Paulo
70	960 354	Museum of Fine Arts	Houston
71	958 353	Tomiv Otake Institute	Sao Paulo
72	954 895	Picasso Museum	Barcelona
73	953 925	Guggenheim Museum	New York
74	933 683	Montreal Museum of Fine Arts	Montreal
75	921 950	Ullens Center for Contemporary Art	Beijing
76	910 561	National Museum of the Republic	Brasilia
77	900 000	São Paulo Biennale Foundation	Sao Paulo
78	885 798	Petit pale	Paris
79	875 000	Modern Art Museum	San Francisco
80	873 627	Art Gallery of Ontario	Toronto
81	860 000	Ashmolean Museum	Oxford
82	858 632	Gyeongju National Museum	Gyeongju
83	855 810	Hong Kong History Museum	Hong Kong
84	852 095	Egyptian Museum	Turin
85	835 606	Århus Art Museum ARoS	Aarhus
86	820 516	National Art Museum of Catalonia	Barcelona
87	806 087	Huntington Library	San Marino (USA)
88	802 722	liverpool museum	Liverpool
89	780 879	Birmingham Museum	Birmingham
90	780 000	Orangerie Museum	Paris
91	780 000	Art Gallery of South Australia	Adelaide
92	775 043	Philadelphia Museum of Art	Philadelphia
93	770 714	National Museum in Krakow	Krakow
94	769 119	Museum of Art History	Vein
95	767 590	Minneapolis Institute of Art	Minneapolis
96	765 000	Renwick Gallery	Washington
97	758 300	German Historical Museum	Berlin
98	755 577	National Gallery of Ireland	Dublin
99	753 944	Caixa Forum Cultural Center	Barcelona
100	753 252	Museum Broad	Los Angeles

*Institutions located in several buildings are marked with an asterisk. The table shows their summarized indicators. Selected figures are: National Gallery of Victoria (International National Gallery of Victoria - 1,985,005, Ian Potter Centre: Australian National Gallery of Victoria - 683,460); National Galleries of Scotland (National Gallery of Scotland - 1,544,069, National Gallery of Modern Art in Scotland - 503,763, National Portrait Gallery of Scotland - 322,219); J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty Center - 1,569,565, Getty Villa - 453,902); Art Gallery of Queensland/GoMA (Art Gallery of Queensland - 572,762, Art Gallery of Contemporary Art Queensland - 667,657). The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Cloisters, Met Breuer) and the San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts (De Young Museum and the Legion of Honor) - separate data not provided.

I present to you the most famous and greatest museums in the world. If you are close to these museums, be sure to check it out. You will be impressed by what you see.

In the first place of such a list will definitely be the Paris Louvre.

Without a doubt the most famous museum in the world, the Louvre was a medieval fortress and palace of the kings of France before it became a museum two centuries ago. Even the modernization of the square with the addition of a glass pyramid in its center does not take anything away from the historical charm of the Louvre Palace. The museum's collections, which range from the birth of great ancient civilizations to the first half of the 19th century, are among the most outstanding on the planet. You will find here the works of the most famous artists in history such as da Vinci and Rembrandt. The main attraction of the Louvre is Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

This gigantic museum has the largest collection of paintings in the world. It is a stunning place that illuminates the history of the world from the Stone Age to the present, and especially impressive is the Golden Room with its amazing gems. The Hermitage Museum is the most visited in Russia. It is scenically located along the waterfront area in the Center of St. Petersburg. This is a whole museum complex, which includes six different buildings of unique architectural design. Without a doubt, Emitage is one of the greatest museums world, an outstanding landmark of St. Petersburg.

British Museum in London.

Here are collected millions of works of art from all over the world. The galleries of the British Museum are dedicated to Egypt, Greece, Roman civilization, Asia, Africa and medieval Europe, tracing human history and culture. It houses the Parthenon marble that once adorned the Parthenon in Athens. The museum attracts six million visitors every year. If you can't get to the Egyptian Museum, then you can view the largest and most comprehensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts outside of Cairo right here. Also impressive is the new reading room British Museum, which you can see in the photo below:

Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

In the Egyptian Museum of Cairo you will find the most complete collection of Egyptian art in the world. Among the thousands of treasures are also famous exhibits from the tomb of Tutankhamen. In 1835, the Egyptian government established the "Egypt Antique Treasure Service" in an attempt to stop the looting. archaeological sites and arrange an exhibition of the collected exhibits. The Egyptian Museum was built in 1900 and now houses more than 120,000 objects from the prehistoric era to the Greco-Roman period, including ancient sculptures of the Sphinx. If you are exploring the sights of Egypt, then you should not miss the Egyptian Museum of Cairo.

Uffizi Gallery in Florence

UNESCO estimates that 60% of the most popular artworks in the world are located in Italy, and more than half of them are located in Florence. The Uffizi Gallery in Florence will amaze you to the core. It is definitely one of the finest collections of paintings and sculptures on the planet, with works dating back to the Renaissance by masters such as da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Caravaggio and many more. One of the main attractions here is the Birth of Venus Botticelli.

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York

Created in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art houses more than two million works of art from around the world, from antiquity to modern times. You will find everything from Islamic and European paintings to collections of weapons and armor. Although there are many other great museums in New York such as the Guggenheim, the Met is one of the most significant. This is truly one of the greatest museums in the world.

State Museum in Amsterdam

The Rijksmuseum is located near the center of Amsterdam. This is one of the greatest museums and definitely worth a visit during a trip to one of the most beautiful European capitals. The museum overlooks one of the iconic water channels of Amsterdam, while on the opposite side there is a spacious panoramic square with a green picturesque lawn. Inside, you can fully immerse yourself in the art and history of the Netherlands. With a collection of almost 1 million items, this is the perfect place to indulge in the inspiring masterpieces of Rembrandt, Frans Hals and other Dutch artists. Read more about it in the selection of the best museums in Amsterdam.

Vatican Museum

The impressive Vatican Museum contains 22 separate collections, ranging from Etruscan and Egyptian art to maps and contemporary religious art. Even if you are not religious, you will still be impressed by the sheer beauty and splendor of Michelangelo's dome and Bernini's spiral columns. The main values ​​here are the renovated Sistine Chapel and the Raphael Rooms.

Every year on 18 May, the world celebrates International Museum Day. It appeared in 1977, when at the next meeting of the International Council of Museums the proposal of the Russian organization to establish this cultural holiday was adopted. Since 1978, International Museum Day has been celebrated in more than 150 countries. Today we offer you to get acquainted with the 10 best museums in the world.

Louvre. Paris

This is one of the biggest art museums peace. Once the Louvre was an ancient castle of the French kings, built by Philip Augustus in 1190. As a museum, it was first opened to visitors on November 8, 1793. The Louvre occupies a space of approximately 195 thousand square meters, has a total exposition area of ​​60,600 square meters .m Today the museum's catalog contains 400,000 exhibits. For convenience, the exhibition is divided into seven large parts: the departments of applied art, painting, sculpture and graphics, the ancient Egyptian department, the department of the Ancient East and Islamic art, as well as the art department of Greece, Rome and the Etruscan Empire. In general, not even a week is enough to get around everything. Therefore, if you are an ordinary average tourist who has allocated only one day to visit the Louvre, then visit only its main masterpieces, to which special signs lead. Or purposefully come to the painting department - the most impressive - and look at the works of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Caravaggio, Dürer, Goya, Vermeer and many others.

Museum of the Vatican. Rome

The Vatican Museum is the most big museum world: 1,400 halls, 50,000 objects, and to get around all the exhibits presented, you need to walk 7 km. Of course, all visitors first of all seek to get into the Sistine Chapel. However, the structure of the museum is very peculiar: you can get to the farthest point - the Vatican Pinakothek - only by passing all the previous ones. So you need to calculate the forces. You should start with the Egyptian Museum, which is enough to go diagonally. and then run to the famous Belvedere, then to the Stanzas of Raphael. And, finally, to the Sistine Chapel, rightfully called the main local shrine.

British museum. London

The British Museum was founded on June 7, 1753 at the initiative of the government and on January 15, 1759 was officially opened to visitors. Thousands of people took part in its creation and development. The British Museum is also known as the Museum of Stolen Masterpieces or the Museum of All Civilizations. These names are justified. After all, the treasures presented in the museum were not obtained in the most honest way. For example, the Rosetta Stone, thanks to which scientists deciphered ancient hieroglyphs, as well as many ancient Egyptian monuments, was taken in Egypt from Napoleon's army. A similar story happened with the precious sculptural friezes of the Parthenon: the Englishman Lord Elgin took them out of Greece, having obtained written permission from the Turkish government. In the same way, the collection of the museum was replenished with sculptures of the mausoleum in Halicarnassus, the temple of Artemis in Ephesus and many other works of art. True, the exhibition of paintings in the museum is small - for that there is a National Gallery in London.

National Science Museum of Japan. Tokyo

This museum was founded in 1871. Most of its exposition is made up of natural science exhibits: stuffed animals, dinosaur remains and their modern models, etc. However, this museum is not only the largest museum in Tokyo and Japan, but also one of the best in the world. The museum has a "forest" hall and its own botanical garden, allowing you to appreciate all the richness of the plant world of our planet. And huge toothy skeletons hovering under the ceiling and appearing from the blue twilight will not leave anyone indifferent. Of course, here you will also find traditional Japanese exhibits, because the inhabitants of the country rising sun very proud of their culture.

Metropolitan Museum. New York

You have probably heard of the Museum Mile, which is located in New York between Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. It is here that the best museums in the United States are collected, the largest of which is the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this museum you can find almost everything: from Paleolithic artifacts to pop art objects. There are also collections of art from Africa and Oceania, the Middle East and Egypt, which can safely be called a rarity. Here you will find a special hall that has collected clothes worn by the inhabitants of all five continents for seven centuries. There is also an exhibition of art and architecture. medieval Europe, painting of the XII - XIX centuries, as well as musical instruments different countries. However, the main place here is still given to American art.

Prado Museum. Madrid

Madrid can safely boast of having one of the largest museums in Europe. visual arts. It was founded in 1819. However, the building continued to be completed until 1830. If we recall the history of Spain, for several centuries art in the country developed under the patronage of the church and the elite. This explains the appearance of most of the museum's exposition, which was collected by the royal family and the church. Here you will find paintings widely famous Raphael and the brilliant Hieronymus Bosch. The latter was very fond of Philip II: the artist's peculiar fantasy was able to fascinate the monarch so much that he even placed several paintings on the walls in his own bedroom.

Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao

This museum is located in the city of Bilbao, in northern Spain. It is just one of the branches of the Solomon Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art, located in the United States and the most striking of them, because it is recognized as the most outstanding architectural project in the world. The museum has thematic halls: the hall of surrealism, which presents Dali, Magritte, Delvaux and Tanguy, the hall of cubism, topped with masterpieces by Picasso, Léger and Chagall, the hall of futurism and abstractionism - Braque, Kandinsky. Its collection also includes works by Andy Warhol, Fernand Leger, Kandinsky and others. And here you can also see the collection of one of the most significant and extravagant collectors of avant-garde art - Peggy Guggenheim.

State Hermitage. St. Petersburg

The State Hermitage is the largest art and cultural-historical museum not only in Russia, but throughout the world. It owes its origins to the private collection of the Russian Empress Catherine II. When the collection was already large enough, the Hermitage was formed and opened to visitors in 1852, being at that time the Imperial Museum. However, the founding date of the museum is considered to be 1764, because it was then that the Empress acquired a large collection of Western European paintings. Today the museum has more than three million works of art and monuments of world culture. Its device is rather complicated. It is a complex complex: six majestic buildings, headed by the well-known winter palace, which are occupied by the main exposition of the museum, are located along the embankment of the Neva River.

State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow

The State Tretyakov Gallery is one of the most significant collections of Russian fine art on a global scale. The Russians owe the presence of such a rich gallery to the merchant Pavel Tretyakov, because it is from his collection of works Russian art- the largest in the world - the history of the gallery began. The Tretyakov Gallery is famous for its exposition in the engineering building Russian painting of the 11th - early 20th centuries, which is part of the All-Russian Museum Association The State Tretyakov Gallery, formed already in 1986, which also includes: Showroom in Tomachi, House-Museum of P.D. Korina and V.M. Vasnetsov, A.M. Vasnetsov and the Museum-workshop of the sculptor A.S. Golubkina.

Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam

Rijksmuseum - main state museum Holland. It is housed in a huge neo-Gothic palace with Burgundian towers and sculptural reliefs, which was built back in 1885. Its main exposition is dedicated to the great Dutch artists XV-XVII centuries Among them you will meet such world names as Rembrandt, Vermeer and de Hooch. The size of the museum is impressive and it is also impossible to get around it in one day, because the Rijksmuseum has 200 rooms. However, the main exhibitions can be quickly viewed, starting with the main exhibit - the famous work of art by Rembrandt's hands Night Watch. He has a place of honor in the Hall of Fame. And at the end of the museum marathon, you can go to the Museumplein - a huge lawn square with a wonderful view of the Museum Quarter.

The museum is more than just a landmark of the country. It is in the museum that you can get acquainted with the culture of the country, learn more about the main events in history that influenced the development of the country. We invite you to familiarize yourself with the three largest museums in the world.

Without a doubt, the Louvre is the most famous and largest museum in the world. There is not a single person who has not heard of this famous place. There were many events in the history of the Louvre that influenced not only appearance museum, but also on the collections that are presented in it.

Initially, the Louvre was a medieval fortress, and later the palace of the French kings. It was built by Philip Augustus in the distant 1190. And only two centuries ago it became a museum. The museum was first opened to tourists on November 8, 1793.

Recently, the entrance to the museum building, as well as the square in front of it, were modernized - the architects placed a magnificent glass pyramid in the center of the square, which has become a kind of symbol of the museum.

Today, the area occupied by the Louvre is about 200,000 square meters, and the area of ​​​​the exposition presented in it reaches 60,600 square meters! The Louvre catalog contains 400,000 exhibits, which are divided into the following groups: the department of art of Rome, Greece and the ancient Etruscan empire, the ancient Egyptian department, the departments of painting, applied art, graphics and sculpture, the department of Islamic art and the Ancient East. In the painting department you will find works by Titian, Rembrandt, Durer, Caravaggio, Rubens, Vermeer, Goya and many others worldwide. famous painters. The highlight of the Louvre, of course, is the immortal creation of Leonardo da Vinci "Mona Lisa".

If you are going to visit the Louvre, one day will not be enough for you - its collection is so large and versatile!

About unique collection Madame Tussauds in London knows the whole world. There are about 400 wax figures, among which are not only outstanding historical characters, but also famous people our time.

The talent of Marie Tussauds, the founder of the museum, is inimitable and unique. She owes her ability to create wax figures to Philip Curtis, for whom her mother was a housekeeper. She was so successful in this business that already in 1835 she presented the first exposition of figures in London. Among her first creations were the figures of Admiral Nelson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Voltaire and many other famous personalities of that time. Gradually, the collection grew, and in 1884 the museum was moved to a building on Marylebone Road, where it is located to this day.

Today, branches of Madame Tussauds are located in 10 cities around the world, and the realism of many figures is complemented by technical details. So, some figures can move, react to comments and actions of people, and even talk! The collection is regularly updated with new exhibits, including figures of presidents, show business and film stars, kings and queens. An interesting fact is that as soon as the real doubles of the figures lose their popularity, their statues are quietly removed from the collection.

The Vatican Museum in Rome is a whole complex of museums of various trends and eras. The museum today includes the Vatican Library and Pinakothek, the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, the Gregorian Museum of Secular Art, the Etruscan and Ethnological Missionary Museum, Historical Museum, Pius IX Christian Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Chiaramonti Museum, Raphael Stanzas, Niccolina Chapel, Borgia Apartments, Tapestry Gallery and the world famous The Sistine Chapel.

The latter serves as a place where, since the 15th century, cardinals have gathered to elect the pope. In addition, the Sistine Chapel is known for frescoes on themes of the Old Testament, painted by the great Michelangelo. Each Vatican Museum houses many exhibits that relate to different eras and centuries. More than 5 million tourists visit it every year