Louvre, France 1
The Louvre (French: Du E Louvre Museum) is located in the north bank of the Seine River in the center of Paris, France, ranking first among the four largest museums in the world.
Founded in 1204, it was once a French palace, where 50 French kings and queens lived. It is one of the most precious buildings in the French Renaissance and is famous for its rich collection of classical paintings and sculptures.
Now it is the Louvre Museum, covering an area of about 198 hectares. It is divided into old and new parts. The pyramid-shaped glass entrance in front of the palace covers an area of 24 hectares and was designed by China architect I.M. Pei. On August 1793 and 10, the Louvre Art Museum officially opened to the public and became a museum.
The Louvre has become a world-famous art palace, one of the largest art treasures, as well as the Wanbao Palace.
2. British Museum
The British Museum, also known as the British Museum, is located in Russell Square, north of New Oxford Street in London, England.
The museum was established in 1753 and officially opened to the public on 1759 65438+ 10/5. It is the oldest and largest comprehensive museum in the world and one of the five most famous museums in the world.
The museum collects many cultural relics and treasures from all over the world, as well as manuscripts of many great scientists. The richness and diversity of collections are rare in museums all over the world. The British Museum has more than 8 million collections. Due to space constraints, 99% of the collections are not on public display.
On August 18 and 10, the British Museum held a private ceremony to return eight items about 5,000 years ago to the Iraqi ambassador to Britain, Saleh Hussein Ali.
3. Tashi Museum in Elmy
Tashi Museum in Elmy was originally the private residence of Catherine II. 1764, Catherine II bought 250 paintings by Rembrandt and Rubens from Berlin and stored them in the newly-built wing "Elmy Tachi" in the Winter Palace (the name comes from the ancient French hermit, which means "hidden palace").
The museum was designed and named after the French architect Jean-batiste Valin de Ramos Jean-Baptiste Valin de Ramos, covering an area of about 90,000 square meters.
4. Metropolitan Museum of America
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States and a world-famous museum. The museum is located at 82nd Avenue, Fifth Avenue in the United States, far away from the famous American Museum of Natural History and the Hayden Planetarium in new york.
The American Museum of Natural History mainly reviews the history of other animals in nature to satisfy the curiosity of human beings to explore the unknown world, that is, outer space, while the Metropolitan Museum reviews the development of human civilization.
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Four major museum collections:
Louvre, France 1
The Louvre has the statue of Venus with a broken arm, the Mona Lisa oil painting and the stone carving of the goddess of victory, which is known as the three treasures of the world. It has more than 400,000 art collections, including sculptures, paintings, arts and crafts, ancient orient, ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
From the artworks of ancient Egypt, Greece, Etruscan and Rome to the artworks of eastern countries, there are sculptures from the Middle Ages to the modern times, as well as an amazing number of royal treasures and exquisite paintings.
2. British Museum
The collection originally came from more than 80,000 cultural relics and specimens collected by Sir hans sloane, the physician of King George II of England. 1823, King George IX of England donated a large number of books of his father.
In the past 200 years, the museum has continued to collect cultural relics from ancient countries such as Britain and Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, India and China.
Ancient Egyptian art is the most famous collection in the British Museum. The most striking thing in the British Museum is the Museum of Oriental Art and Cultural Relics. The museum has more than100000 cultural relics from China, Japanese, Indian and other Southeast Asian countries.
Among them, China showroom occupies half of Hall 3, and exhibits range from bronzes in Shang and Zhou Dynasties to porcelains in Tang and Song Dynasties and precious jade articles in Ming and Qing Dynasties. There are 23,000 rare treasures from China alone, most of which are priceless.
For example, paintings and embroideries of various dynasties in China, cultural relics unearthed in various periods, paintings and calligraphy of Tang and Song Dynasties, and porcelain of Ming and Qing Dynasties. Among them, the most precious are the True Picture of the Female History, the three-color portrait of Luohan in the Song Dynasty, Dunhuang scriptures, famous paintings in the Song and Ming Dynasties, etc.
The bronze statue of Shang Dynasty is two conjoined sheep with a round elephant tube in the middle, which is very beautiful and exquisite. There is also a Song Dynasty porcelain hip flask with a lotus flower around the base and responsibility and a lion sitting on the lid, which is a rare treasure.
3. Tashi Museum in Elmy
There are more than 2.7 million pieces in the eight departments, including prehistoric culture and Egyptian art collections, as well as a large number of oil paintings and sculptures from Italy, Spain, Germany, Britain, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.
Among them, there are 6,543,800 paintings, 6,543,800 sculptures, 600,000 line drawings, 6,543,800 coins and badges, and 224,000 ancient furniture, porcelain, gold and silver products, precious stones and ivory handicrafts.
These handicrafts are displayed in more than 350 exhibition halls, such as Picasso's three-dimensional painting exhibition hall, Italian and French painters exhibition hall, Russian clothing exhibition hall and so on.
4. Metropolitan Museum of America
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has more than 3.3 million art treasures from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, the Far East and Near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, Africa, America, pre-Columbian times and New Guinea.
Including buildings, sculptures, paintings, sketches, prints, photos, glassware, ceramics, textiles, metal products, furniture, ancient houses, weapons, armor, musical instruments and so on.
The museum displays not only paintings and sculptures, but also carpets, musical instruments, clothes and decorations. The five exhibition halls are: European painting, American painting, primitive art, medieval painting and Egyptian antiques.
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