Museums provide the unique experience of seeing some of the greatest masterpieces of all time close up. Walking the halls of some of the famed museums allow the chance to learn about different societies, ideas, and values. Museums make better understanding among people about the importance of cultural diversity and to appreciate it. They are also one of the important resources for education and provide many informative programs.
1. Natural History Museum, London, England
It is one of the most popular natural history museums in the United Kingdom, located in South Kingston in London. The building itself known for its cathedral-like design. The museum houses more than 80 million Earth and live specimens. There are four main zones in London’s natural history museum known as the red zone, orange zone, green zone, and blue zone. The green zone of the museum covers the evolution of Earth and life on it, the red zone concentrate for notable changes within in planet in different period of time, blue zone focus for the vast diversity of life on Earth and orange zone displays the specimens collected by Charles Darwin and wildlife garden.
2. Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy
Vatican museums display a huge collection of sculptures, paintings and many other artworks collected by popes of Roman catholic church through different centuries. There are 54 galleries in total and the whole routes along Vatican museums stretch over seven miles in length. The museums are globally popular for the collection of important Renaissance arts spanned from the 14th to 17th centuries. Vatican museums are also the fifth most visited museums in the world with 5.5 million annual visitors.
3. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of art in New York City is the largest art museum in the United States. The museum houses more than 2 million works which include thousands of European paintings, artworks from ancient Egypt, and America. The museum also contains musical instruments, weapons, accessories, and clothes from various parts of the world.
4. National Museum of China, Beijing
The national museum of China is located in Tienanmen square, in Beijing in China. The museum is dedicated for art and history of China. The museum houses more than 1 million objects dating from 1.7 million years ago to last period of Qin dynasty (ruling from 1644 to 1912). Many of artifacts within the museum can’t see anywhere else in the world. It is also the one of largest and most visited modern museums in the world.
5. Louvre Museum, Paris, France
Louvre museum in Paris is the most visited museum in the world, attracts more than 9.7 million visitors every year. Louvre museum is also known as ‘banana of death’. It hold more than 35000 objects spans from 6th century B.C to 21st century. The collection within Louvre museum include crown jewels, sculptures, old paintings and Egyptian antiquities. It was opened in the year 1763. Later the collection was increased by emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The collection within Louvre museum further increased by emperors who ruled France in 18th century.
6. The Inhotim, in southeast Brazil
The Inhotim is a contemporary art museum in southeast Brazil. Founded by the mining billionaire Bernardo Paz, the contemporary art museum was once his own personal ranch. Paz converted the garden into a contemporary art space, and it opened to the public in 2006.
7. The Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
The Rijksmuseum is a national museum dedicated to arts and history in Amsterdam. The museum has 8,000 objects of art and history on display, among which some are masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer. The museum's most famous painting is called "The Night Watch.”
8. Sultanahmet, Eminonu District, Istanbul
Once a church, later a mosque, the Hagia Sophia Museum is an architectural marvel, with 30 million gold tiles throughout its interior and a wide, flat dome that was an impressive engineering feat when constructed in the 6th century.
9. Galarvarvsvagen, Stockholm
The Vasa Museum is a maritime museum in Stockholm that is home to the world's only existing preserved 17th-century warship, called the Vasa. The ship sank in the middle of Stockholm in 1628 and was not salvaged for restoration until 300 years later. The 69-meter-long warship is almost fully intact. In addition to the incredible ship, there are nine other maritime exhibitions to explore.
10.Herzl Blvd, Jerusalem
Yad Vashem is Israel’s official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, and it is located on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. It contains a 45-acre campus consisting of indoor museums, outdoor monuments, memorials, gardens, sculptures, and research and education centers. "Since 1954, Yad Vashem has worked to fulfill its mandate to preserve the memory of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by collecting their names, the ultimate representation of a person’s identity."
11. Paseo del Prado, Madrid
The Museo del Prado is the main Spanish national art museum, located in Madrid. The Museum, with one of the largest art collections in the world, is known for having works by Velasquez, Goya, and El Greco. The collection currently comprises about 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints, and 8,200 drawings.
12. The Acropolis Museum, Athens
The Acropolis Museum is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was opened in 2009 and has almost 4,000 works spread across an area of 14,000 square meters.
13. Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
The collection at the State Hermitage has more than 3 million works of art from around the world. The Baroque style Winter Palace was home to the Russian monarchs until 1917 when the ruling dynasty was overthrown.