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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 Museum of Contemporary Art

The Museum of Contemporary Art located in Los Angeles, California is a contemporary art museum and has three branches in California. The main branch is located in Downtown Los Angeles in Grand Avenue near the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The original space of MOCA which was actually intended as temporary space for exhibit and main facility was built and is now called as Geffen Contemporary in Little Tokyo, famous district in Los Angeles.

Since the inception of museum, the programs of MOCA has been defined by a multi-disciplinary approach towards contemporary art. With many popular events and exhibitions, MOCA is one of the finest museums which display modern art. During the 1^st Sunday of each month, family workshops are organized which includes discussion-based and interactive spotlight tour that highlights the selected works of present exhibition. The families will work collaboratively for creating artwork in response to work which they observed.

Designed by various artists, process-oriented and innovative workshops extend the experience of gallery and include frequent special activities like musical movement and performance and various other disciplinary approaches in the view. These programs are offered in Spanish and English. 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 »

The British Museum

The British Museum located in London holds finest collection of art works in London. There are more than 7 million objects and is the largest and diverse museum in world with art works from all continents that illustrate and document the story behind human culture from earlier to present. The British Museum was built during the year 1739, based on collections from Sir Hans Sloane, a famous scientist as well as physician.

The museum was opened to the public on Jan 15 1759 in Bloomsbury, along site with the present museum building. The expansion of building over 2 and ½ centuries has created many branch institutions, out of which the 1^st is British Museum in South Kensington in the year 1887. Some famous objects present in collection including Elgin Marbles from Parthenon are objects involving controversy and calls for return from the originating countries. Read the rest of this entry »