POST WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE MUSEUMS.

[Armand_Duval]

Alrite lads and gals, I was thinking it should be interesting to read about your fave museums, post a handful of what you cponsider the most beautiful and/or interesting of them, how many have you visited?.


Lets start.



I think one of my faves, if not number one in my list, it shoul be the Orsay Museum in Paris, because it is relatively small and friendly to see, it has no complication and the art that encloses left me an ever lasting impression.-



Its building, an old train station is actually beautiful too.

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html


Second, Uffizi Museum at Firenze. An other little museum however a tastyful candy to people who enjoy exquisite art such as me. As a matter of fact and to tell ture, Italy is one of those places where you literally stumble with art while turning every corner.



The Prigione really took my breath.


http://www.uffizi.com/



In third it couldn't miss the very famous Louvre Museum. This museum is perhaps one of the most impressive, magnificent and complete of its kind in the world.



What I don't like about it is only that being as big as it is makes you tyred and in my opinion you should take a 2 day visit to calmly appreciate all its art.

http://www.louvre.fr/en


My forth nominee is actually a Mexican Museum which in my opinion is also one of the most beutiful and complete museums of its kind.

Museo de Antropología e Historia. (Anthroopology and History Museum).



http://www.mna.inah.gob.mx/index.html


No wonder Mexico City is the City with more museums in the world.


Post about your picks.

[Hithaeglir]

Science Center Nemo



Le Louvre



Acropolis Museum

[Jana]

Museum of broken relationships : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_..._Relationships It's crazy, there are lot of weird objects there that people donated, such as broken television husband threw out of window when he found out his wife has a lover. Something like that... It's popular with tourists.

I like Technical museum in Zagreb, best part is the mine tunnel. And you have all kind of old stuff from City trams to telescopes. Really not boring.

[♥ Lily ♥]

The Natural History Museum
in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, West London.

"The best natural history museum in the world.''

The museum.is free entry to the public.
(There's over 250+ museums in London and they're free entry!)

The beautiful building is home to the wonders of the natural world
and contains more than 70 million different specimens inside the museum,
which are studied by 300 scientists who visit the museum every day.

Many new discoveries have been made inside the museum;
from the discovery of new species, to understanding new ways
in which the natural world works.

A large statue of Charles Darwin is placed in the main hall
of the church-like building
along with a massive skeleton of a dinosaur.

There are approximately 850 staff at the Museum.
The museum is home to life and earth science specimens
comprising some 80 million items
within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy,
palaeontology and zoology.

The museum is a world-renowned centre of research specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation.
Given the age of the institution, many of the collections
have great historical as well as scientific value,
such as specimens collected by Charles Darwin.

The museum was established in 1881 and later incorporated the Geological Museum.
The Darwin Centre is a more recent addition,
partly designed as a modern facility for storing the valuable collections

Travel back in time, see amazing exhibitions,
and take part in a whole range of fantastic activities;
people are able to meet the scientists and receive guided tours,
there's something to suit all ages and tastes inside the museum;
from the microscopic to the gigantic,
and from the bizarre to the beautiful.
Visitors and children are welcome to stay overnight at the museum.
During the winter months, an open-air public ice-skating rink
is placed next to the museum
(one of many open-air ice-rinks in London during the winter season.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural...Museum,_London
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/










Gigantic prehistoric dinosaur skeletons:

[♥ Lily ♥]

The V&A Museum, London.

'The worlds most fashionable and exciting museum.'

'The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A), Central London,
is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design,
housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objets d'art.

It was founded in 1852 and named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The V&A is located in the Brompton district
of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,
in an area that has become known as "Albertopolis"
because of its association with Prince Albert,
the Albert Memorial and the major cultural institutions with which he was associated.
These include the Natural History Museum, the Science Museum
and the Royal Albert Hall.

The museum is a non-departmental public body
sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Like other national British museums,
entrance to the museum has been free since 2001.

The V&A covers 12.5 acres (51,000 m2) and 145 galleries
Its collection spans 5,000 years of art, from ancient times to the present day,
from the cultures of Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa.

The holdings of ceramics, glass, textiles, costumes, silver, ironwork, jewellery,
furniture, medieval objects, sculpture, prints and printmaking, drawings and photograph
are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world.

The museum owns the world's largest collection of post-classical sculpture,
with the holdings of Italian Renaissance items being the largest outside Italy.

The departments of Asia include art from South Asia, China, Japan,
Korea and the Islamic world.

The East Asian collections are among the best in Europe,
with particular strengths in ceramics and metalwork,
while the Islamic collection is amongst the largest in the Western world.

Since 2001, the museum has embarked on a major £150m renovation programme,
which has seen a major overhaul of the departments,
including the introduction of newer galleries, gardens, shops and visitor facilities.'

http://www.vam.ac.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_and_Albert_Museum
























This is so magical, enchanting and beautiful!
A luminous interactive installation transformed the V&A's
John Madejski Garden one winter.
Volume was a sculpture of light and sound -
an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the garden.

Volume responds spectacularly to human movement,
creating a series of audio-visual experiences,
where you could see your actions at play with the energy fields
throughout the space, triggering a brilliant display of light
and sound corresponding with your body movements.


An exhibition of the iconic English musician and singer, David Bowie, inside the V&A


The wedding dresses of iconic supermodel Kate Moss and Kate Middleton
are displayed inside the museum,
along with designs by the late British fashion guru designer
Alexander McQueen and iconic designer Vivienne Westwood.


Supermodels gathered at the fashionable V&A museum
to see a retrospective of Alexander McQueens work.


Artists, sculptors, fashion designers, engravers, enamellers, and jewellery designers,
have contributed to the objects d'art within the V&A too.

[♥ Lily ♥]

The British Museum

"One of the most comprehensive and greatest collections of antiquities anywhere in the world.''

The British Museum is a museum dedicated to human history and culture,
located in the Bloomsbury area of London.


The British Museum is named after its location in London, Britain.

The British Museum holds the worlds largest collections of Ancient Egyptian, Ancient Roman,
and Ancient Greek treasures - outside of Italy, Greece, and Egypt.

The British Museum displays over 13 million antiquities,
which is amongst the largest and most comprehensive in existence,
and originates from all continents of the globe,
illustrating and documenting the story of human culture
from its beginnings to the present.







All items are carefully preserved and maintained, studied on by experts,
and they contribute to the free education about ancient civilisations.



The British Museum was established in 1753,
largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane.




The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759
in Montagu House in Bloomsbury,
on the site of the current museum building.
Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries
was largely a resultof an expanding British colonial footprint
and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions,
the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1881.



Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon,
are the objects of controversy and of calls for restitution to their countries of origin.



Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site,
the British Museum housed both a national museum of antiquities
and a national library in the same building.



The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored
by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport,
and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom
it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.

The glass ceiling inside the Great Court of the British Museum
was designed by the English award-winning architect Sir Norman Foster.


The massive museum includes some 40,000 printed books, 7,000 manuscripts,
extensive natural history specimens including 337 volumes of dried plants,
prints and drawings including those by Albrecht Dürer
and antiquities from Sudan, Egypt, Greece, Rome,
the Ancient Near and Far East and the Americas.
http://www.britishmuseum.org/

The massive Egyptian rooms are amazing to visit.
(I even saw mummified insects in the Egyptian Rooms of the museum;
showing that the Egyptians considered insects as sacred to them too in the dead world.)


This is the preserved body remains of an ancient man
who was found buried in a natural peat bog in England.
(I've seen this ancient corpse at the museum in real life too)



This is the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead

[♥ Lily ♥]

The worlds first complete bionic man is placed inside London's Science Museum.
Full details about the abilities of the bionic man are here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ing-HEART.html

London Science Museum Site:
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/




The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London.
It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions,
attracting 3.3 million visitors annually.



Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom
the Science Museum does not charge visitors for admission.
Temporary exhibitions, however, may incur an admission fee.
It is part of the Science Museum Group,
having merged with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester in 2012.

[HeadIndex75]

Athens War Museum.

[♥ Lily ♥]

The Museum of Natural History in Oxford, England.
Lots of skeletons of prehistoric creatures and fossils,
with a Charles Darwin learning site about evolution inside this educational learning centre too.
Massive dinosaur skeletons have been discovered in continents around the world
and they lived on our planet for millions of years.

There's also a Charles Darwin learning site at the zoology learning sites at the London Zoo
(the worlds oldest zoo), and at Kew Gardens in London
(the worlds largest collection of living plants from around the world)
and also at the Natural History Museum in Kensington, London.




The National Maritime Museum and The Royal Observatory complete with a museum of the role London plays in world time and astronomy (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) are another 2 I like in London, and also the Garden Museum, and the British Library in London with over 12 million items inside and historic books, drawings and maps, etc, dating back to 5000 years on display in there.

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Museum of Medieval Torture, Prague.



Musée Dupyutren, Paris.



Open Air Museum of Communism, Skopje.