The largest museums in the world

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

In 2015, the Great Egyptian Museum will open in Giza. It will be built next to the famous pyramids. It is planned that it will become one of the largest museums in the world (its area should be about 480 thousand square meters).

The museum will house over 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 Tutankhamun. In addition, it will make the largest center for Egyptology in the world, as well as the largest restoration center in the Middle East.

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

Louvre, Paris

It won't take a week to get around the entire museum.

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

For the convenience of visitors, the museum is divided into seven parts: the departments of applied arts, painting, sculpture and graphics, the ancient Egyptian department, the department of the Ancient East and Islamic art, as well as the department of the art of Greece, Rome and the Etruscan empire. It won't take a week to get around all this. 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, "La 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, you will need to walk 7 km.

Of course, most visitors tend 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 Stanzas and finally see the very chapel.

British Museum, London

The exhibits presented in the museum were received in a not very honest way.

The British Museum was founded on June 7, 1753 at the initiative of the government, and after 6 years it was opened to visitors. It was based on three large 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 exhibits in the museum were not received in a very honest way. For example, the Rosetta Stone, with which scientists were able to decipher the hieroglyphs, was taken from Napoleon's army in Egypt.

Initially, the museum was conceived as a collection of items of culture and art of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, but today it has rooms 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 for the planet in general and the Japan Gallery.

The basis of the Global Gallery's exposition 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 richness of the flora of our planet.

The Japan Gallery, of course, displays expositions of the natural world of Japan and a 360-degree 3D cinema, 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 in the Museum Mile, located in New York City between Fifth Avenue and 57th Street. It is on this mile that the best museums in America are collected.

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 residents 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 significant museums in the world is the Spanish Prado. It was founded in 1819. Much of its exhibit has been collected by the 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 renowned masters.

State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

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

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

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