Gallery

Review National Gallery of Victoria

The National Gallery of Victoria is a famous museum and art gallery located in Melbourne, Australia. The museum was actually founded in the year 1861 and is the largest and most ancient art gallery located in Australia. The main gallery is situated in St Kilda road, in Melbourne Arts Precinct in Southbank, with a gallery at Federation Store.

When the time of opening of the gallery, Victoria remained as independent colony for another 10 years but during opening of Victorian Gold rush, it became Australia’s richest part and largest city of Melbourne. There were many wealthy citizens, who gave generous gifts including Alfred Felton, a famous industrialist who made it possible for National Gallery to purchase huge collections of art works from various countries. It presently holds more than 63,000 art works. The National Gallery of Victoria Art School was established in 1867 which is also related with the Gallery. It was actual centre for art training in Australia till the year 1910. The graduates from school started to become one of significant artists of Australia. Read the rest of this entry »

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Art Museum, which is shortly called as The Met is famous art Museum situated in eastern land of Central Park along with the Museum Mile in City of New York. The museum has permanent collection of more than 2 million art works, which is separated into 19 curatorial departments. The main building which is called simply as “the Met” is the largest art gallery in the world and there is also 2^nd location which is much smaller situated in Upper Manhattan that features only medieval art.

The museum of art has permanent collection of art work from traditional antiquity and from Ancient Egypt, sculptures and painting from many European master and very good collection of modern art from America. The Metropolitan Museum of Art also contains holdings of Asian, Africa, and Oceanic, Islamic and Byzantine art. The museum contains many encyclopedic collections of costumes, accessories, musical instruments, armor and antique weapons from around the world. There are many notable interiors which range from first century Rome through recent American Design and is permanently installed in galleries of Met. Read the rest of this entry »

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is located in San Francisco, California. The museum opened during the year 1935, by the Diego Rivera which was established as permanent collection. Bender who was the museum’s trustee, started to make donations of more than 1,100 objects to museum and endowed the purchase fund before the death in 1941. Grace Morley stayed as the museum’s director till the year 1958. The further directors were Neal Benezra, George D. Culler, Gerald Nordland, Henry T. Hopkins, David A. Ross and John R. Lane.

For its 46 years, the museum occupied the upper floors of War Memorial Veterans building in Civic center. The museum spaced “Modern” to the title in 1975 after establishing a famous representation. In 1994, museum moved to its present location at Third Street, near to Yerba Buena Gardens in Soma district and the show piece facility designed by the Mario Botta. Read the rest of this entry »