An interactive visit
of the largest museums of Art in the world
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An interactive visit of the largest museums of Art in the world |
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No need for a plane ticket, neither a passport nor a bag to visit the most beautiful museums of the world. You'll find here a compilation of the best museums sites. We wish you a nice journey! No need to fasten your seat belt. |
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The Louvre Museum: the largest museum in the world deserves 2 sites: |
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Another page, encyclopedia or catalog like, allows you to get accurate information on most of the masterworks. |
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The museum of Orsay proposes its very beautiful collection of impressionist painters. |
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The Centre George Pompidou: a very interesting visit of European modern painting (Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky...). The site covers more or less the CD-ROM content. |
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Famous country for art and archaeology, the United Kingdom has put on the Web its most important collections. In the National Gallery, you will have access to a very broad presentation of the most popular paintings of the museum (from Rubens to Turner) |
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The Tate Gallery layout is less attractive with its alphabetical index but you'll get a very broad list of modern artists. |
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For archaeology lovers, the reference remains the British Museum: documentation and texts are really abundant and impressive. |
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A generic site on the Netherlands initiates you to interesting aspects of the country i.e. arts and exhibition. Te page is build according to your own country and proposes exhibition before travelling. " |
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The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has built a new site with a virtual visit in QuickTime: a must for Dutch painting (Rembrandt, Vermeer etc.) |
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Van Gogh museum, a must in Amsterdam. A very detailed collection on the net with a high tech virtual tour. |
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2 generic sites on Brussels : first one multilingual containing all kind of interesting information for tourists and indigenous, discover the living Brussels! |
www.eurobru.com |
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Second one: a very exhaustive list of museums in Brussels and area |
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Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, including the Ancient Art Museum (XV - XVII century) and the Modern Art Museum (XIX XX century): Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens, Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, Ensor, Permeke, Chirico, Magritte, Delvaux, Jorn... |
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Royal Museums of Arts and History in Brussels have the same function as the British Museum: archaeology and history as guest stars. Unfortunately, only the Egyptian collection is available on the net. |
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To start the journey, a list of Russian museums, in Russian; English version to come especially if you participate to the donation ;-( |
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For the most exhaustive virtual exhibition of Western painting, it is necessary to move to St Petersburg, in the State Hermitage Museum. From Michelangelo sculptures to French impressionists... Even more fun visiting it in Russian. |
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With the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, you will discover a less known collection including Egyptian antiquities as well as Picasso's paintings. Alas, in Russia, the access time is particularly slow! |
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.Rome, the Eternal City. First things first: you have to pay a visit to the Vatican Museums. Even if the quality of the images is far from being perfect, you can admire most of the Pope's collection masterpieces: frescos in the Raphael Stanze & Loggia, Sistine Chapel, St Peter Basilica. |
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A short overview of the Eternal City with, i.e. a very few pieces of the Capitoline Museums.: |
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.Venice, the romantic city, awaits you with the official site of the city. Virtual visits as the Palazzo Ducale one are cheap in pictures: |
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The official the site of Gallerie dell'Accademia doesn’t offer any visit. |
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But, this page allows you to visit in English or in Italian the most important paintings through artists’ or rooms’ lists. |
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Reopening of the Palazzo Grassi gives us the opportunity to go through excellent exhibitions like the Francois Pinault collection with a special mention of the very interesting technology "webcam like" |
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In Florence, you get in the richest collection of Renaissance art: the Uffizi. . 2 sites are available: the official one rather exhaustive with alphabetical list of painters and rooms in English and Italian. |
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The most exhaustive especially for the proposed images is also the most interesting for art specialists ! Concept of this page is more catalog like. ! |
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Visit ot the Accademia Museum of Florence: |
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Visit of the Florence Dome (English and Italian): |
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A rather exhaustive list of Italian Museums is available at : |
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Spain:
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Two useful guides to visit Spain and especially Madrid: |
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Don't miss the Prado. A long journey through Spanish or Italians paintings awaits you: El Greco, Tiziano, Velazquez (its famous Meninas), and Francisco Goya... |
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Greece is certainly one of the favourite destinations for archaeologists. |
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The National Museum of Archaeology of Athens exhibits classical masterpiece's of Greek ancient art such as the Treasury of Mycenae. |
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Other country for archaeology specialists, Egypt will soon invite you to its very ambitious project : The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo where you will admire i.e. the famous pieces of the tomb of Tutankhamun. But the GEM as its web site is still under Construction |
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In New York, the Metropolitan Museum offers you, beside famous European artists masterpiece's - such as Vermeer, Veslasquez, Bernini - a section of American art. |
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Pollock, De Konninck, Warhol, you will find them beside many other contemporary artists in the Guggenheim Museum about which you will also admire the superb architecture in spiral! |
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The Museum of Modern art (MOMA) proposes to you masterpiece's of Van Gogh, Picasso (famous "Demoiselles d'Avignon"), Klimt and Mondrian. |
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Among other North-American museums, let me recommend to you the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. This is a very well documented museum listing the American artists and the most popular European ones. You can also get there a guide in PDF format (easy to download) by periods, painters or styles in several languages. |
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Let us complete this journey around the USA, by the " far west ": Two Museums: Legion of Honor and deYoung, gathered under the site Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMS): from El Greco to Picasso through African Art. |
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For a more exotic visit: join Tokyo and its National Museum of Modern Art (English version recommended). |
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Before ending this chapter, let us mention that there are many virtual museums. |
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By virtual museum, we refer to collections compiled by specialists, amateurs or organisations which want to expose masterpieces without being attached to a real museum. There are plenty of them, to many to be able to quote them here. |
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I would like to pay tribute to one of the precursors and most known in the French field: Nicolas Pioch and his Virtual Museum:: metalab.unc.edu/louvre which had to cease its activities because of royalties problems i.e. with the Picasso family. |
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To have an idea of what can be a amateurish virtual museum, pay a visit to www.awildorchid.com/museums.htm where you can get interesting links too. |
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Through this direct access to the university of Verne, you'll get a major list of museums but not always up to date! |
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This gallery lists many artists and links of various museums in the world. |
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This site dedicated to Art includes a long list of museums, artists by country or subjects and plenty of other information. |
Do not hesitate to contact me to forward me some other Online Museums addresses
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