Attractions
The Science Museum in London
The Science Museum was founded in 1857 as part of the South Kensington Museum, and gained independence in 1909. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions.
The Science Museum as an institution has been in existence for about a century and a half. It has its origins in the Great Exhibition of 1851, held in Hyde Park in the huge glass building known as the Crystal Palace. The popularity of the exhibition ensured a large financial surplus, which its patron Prince Albert suggested should be used to found a number of educational establishments on the land available nearby. The first of these was the South Kensington Museum, opened in 1857 on land which is now part of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Adresse:
Visitor Experience Manager
The Science Museum
Exhibition Rd
South Kensington
SW7 2DD
Telephon: 0870 870 4868 (020 7942 4000)
E-Mail: feedback@nmsi.ac.uk
Opening times:
Mo to Fri: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sat / Sun: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Internet:
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister in Dresden
The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) are among the foremost museums of the world. A total of twelve museums offer a thematic diversity that is exceptional for its kind.
The museum originated in the collections of the Saxon electors, several of whom were also kings of Poland. Historical sources show that August I, Elector of Saxony, founded the electoral Kunstkammer (literally “art chamber”) in the Residenzschloss Dresden (Dresden Royal Palace) in 1560. August the Strong and his son, August III, King of Poland, were important patrons and remarkable connoisseurs. They developed their art collections in a systematic fashion; in the process, they not only provided a foundation of extraordinary masterpieces for the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, but also made these works accessible to select circles in their own time. To the present day, the organisers of the collections consider it their duty to preserve tradition while developing their visions and helping to shape the future.
The year 2010 marks 450 years of collecting in Dresden – an appropriate occasion for the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen to celebrate their tradition and future.
Adresse:
Besucherservice der Staatlichen Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Residenzschloss
Taschenberg 2
D-01067 Dresden
Telephon: +49 – (0)351 – 49 14 2000
Fax: +49 – (0)351 – 49 14 2001
E-Mail: besucherservice@skd.museum
Opening times:
Mo to Fri: 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sat / Sun: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Internet:
www.skd.museum
Sjöfartshistoriska Museet in Gothenburg
Over 400 years of Sweden’s deep relationship with the sea have been transformed into entertaining and informative exhibits in Gothenburg’s maritime museum. Military actions, shipbuilding, and fishing are given the spotlight here as they have been integral to Swedish society for centuries. The second part of the museum, the aquarium, focuses on what lies beneath the surface of Sweden’s chilly waters. A sample of indigenous marine life is displayed in its natural habitat.
www.sjofartsmuseum.goteborg.se
Adresse:
KARL JOHANSGATAN 1-3, 414 59 GÖTEBORG
Reception: 031- 368 35 50
Arkiv: 031- 368 35 58
Visningar: 031- 368 35 69
Kafé: 031- 24 87 33
Opening times:
Tuesday-Sunday: 10.00 – 17.00
Wednesday: 10.00 – 20.00
Acropolis Museum in Athens
The new Acropolis Museum was designed with two objectives: the first to offer the best conditions for the exhibition of its exhibits and secondly to be a Museum that welcomes and befriends its visitors.
A walk through its galleries is a walk through history – between the masterpieces of the Archaic and Classical periods, but also in the ancient neighborhoods of Athens.
The Museum offers many opportunities for rest and recreation, as well as a visitor friendly environment for some of the most emblematic works of antiquity.
Dimitrios Pandermalis – President
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/
Address & Contact details
Address: Acropolis Museum, 15 Dionysiou Areopagitou Street, Athens 11742
Tel.: +30 210 9000900
Email: info@theacropolismuseum.gr
Entrance
The main entrance of the Acropolis Museum is at the Dionysiou Areopagitou Street. A bus drop off point for tour buses is available at Hatzichristou Street and entrance for groups is at Mitseon Street.
Hours
Tuesday to Sunday: 8.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m.
Last admission: 7.30 p.m.
Galleries cleared at 7.45 p.m.
The Museum is open every Friday until 10 p.m.
Monday: Closed.
Closed: 1 January, 25 March, Easter Sunday, 1 May, 25 December & 26 December.
Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
A visit to the Van Gogh Museum is a unique experience. The museum contains the largest collection of paintings by Vincent van Gogh in the world. It provides the opportunity to keep track of the artist’s developments, or compare his paintings to works by other artists from the 19th century in the collection. The museum also holds an extensive offer of exhibitions on various subjects from 19th century art history.
http://www.vangoghmuseum.nl/
Address
The Van Gogh Museum is on Museumplein in Amsterdam, between the Rijksmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum. The museum entrance is at Paulus Potterstraat 7 (see the map below for exact location).
Postal address
P.O. Box 75366
1070 AJ Amsterdam
T +31 (0)20 570 5200
F +31 (0)20 570 5222
info@vangoghmuseum.nl
Natural History Museum in London
At the Natural History Museum, we want to make sure the visitor experience is always improving and that we reach a wide variety of people. Through our long tradition of visitor studies, we carry out audience research, evaluation and consultation on many of our exhibitions, activities and programmes. Find out more below.
Our vision is to advance our knowledge of the natural world, inspiring better care of our planet.
Our mission is to maintain and develop our collections, and use them to promote the discovery, understanding, responsible use and enjoyment of the natural world.
Location:
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Cromwell Road
- London, United Kingdom, SW7 5BD
- +44 (0)20 7942 5000
The National Archaeological Museum in Athens
The National Archaeological Museum is the largest museum in Greece and one of the world’s great museums. Although its original purpose was to secure all the finds from the nineteenth century excavations in and around Athens, it gradually became the central National Archaeological Museum and was enriched with finds from all over Greece. Its abundant collections, with more than 20,000 exhibits, provide a panorama of Greek civilization from the beginnings of Prehistory to Late Antiquity.
The museum possesses a rich photographic archive and a library with many rare publications, the latter of which is constantly enriched to meet the needs of the research staff. There are also modern conservation laboratories for metal, pottery, stone and organic materials, a cast workshop, a photographic laboratory and a chemistry laboratory. The museum has temporary exhibition spaces, a lecture hall for archaeological lectures and one of the largest shops of the Archaeological Receipts Fund.
Location:
National Archaeological Museum
44 Patission St., Athens (Prefecture of Attiki)
Telephone: +30 210 8217724
Fax: +30 210 8213573, 8230800
Email: eam@culture.gr
Musée d’Orsay in Paris
The history of the museum, of its building is quite unusual. In the centre of Paris on the banks of the Seine, opposite the Tuileries Gardens, the museum was installed in the former Orsay railway station, built for the Universal Exhibition of 1900. So the building itself could be seen as the first “work of art” in the Musee d’Orsay, which displays collections of art from the period 1848 to 1914.
Location:
Museo de Orsay
62, rue de Lille
75343 Paris Cedex 07
France
In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres
The In Flanders’ Fields Museum is devoted to the study of World War I and occupies the second floor of the Cloth Hall, Ypres in Belgium. The building was virtually destroyed by artillery fire during the Battles of Ypres and has been reconstructed. The curator, Piet Chielens, is a World War I historian. The museum is named for the famous poem by Canadian John McCrae.
Visitors to the museum will find no glorification of war; rather the museum suggests the futility of war, especially as seen in Flanders in World War I.
Address
In Flanders Fields Museum
Halle aux Draps Grote Markt 34
B-8900 Ieper
Tél. : 00 32 (0)57 239 220
Fax : 00 32 (0)57 239 275
E-mail : flandersfields@ieper.be
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum, in its handsome neo-Renaissance brick building, is best known for paintings from the Golden Age of Dutch art. Masterpieces include Rembrandt’s The Night Watch and works by Vermeer, Van Ruisdael, van Heemskerck, Frans Hals and Jan Steen. The museum also has sections devoted to prints, sculpture, furniture including exquisite dolls houses, glass, porcelain and Asiatic art.
As a large museum, the Rijksmuseum naturally relies on a large organisation – it has an annual budget of approx. 40 million euro and a staff of more than 350. In 1995, the Rijksmuseum became an independent organisation and was reorganised as a Foundation run by a supervisory board of trustees. Each year the Rijksmuseum publishes an annual report. Besides the yearly government subsidy, the museum requires extra funds to finance its numerous activities. Money which is generated by ticket sales, hiring rooms and involving sponsors.
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Postbus 74888
1070 DN Amsterdam
Phone number: +31 (0)20 6747000
Atlantic Wall Museum in Normandie
Located at a stones throw from the beach and the Ferry terminal, the Atlantic Wall Museum is inside the old German headquarter which was in charge of the batteries covering the entrance of the river Orne and the canal. The 52ft high concrete tower has been fully restaured to make it look how it was on the 6th of june 1944.
The museum is open every day:
10 Am to 6Pm from February 1 until november15
9 Am to 7Pm from april 1 until September 30 nd
for group open upon request every day
Address:
Avenue du 6 juin — 14150 OUISTREHAM Riva Bella — Normandie France
Tél.(33): 02 31 97 28 69 – Fax.(33): 02 31 96 66 05
http://www.musee-grand-bunker.com/
The Pushkin Fine Arts Museum
Opened in 1912, the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum possesses a collection of European art second in Russia to only St. Petersburg’s Hermitage. Much of the strength of the collection is in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting, a result of the oft-forgotten fact that such works gained an appreciative audience in Russia long before they captured the imagination of collectors further west. Manet’s Dejeuner sur l’herbe resides here, as do Renoir’s Bathing in the Seine, a host of fine works by Van Gogh and Matisse, and an entire gallery of Gauguins. Perhaps most exciting, however, is the long-anticipated “Gold of Troy” exhibition, slated for April 1996.
The Tretyakov Gallery
The Tretyakov Gallery possesses the finest collection of traditional Russian painting in the world. The core of the museum’s collection was assembled in the middle of the nineteenth century by Pavel Tretyakov, a wealthy Moscow merchant whose passion for collecting included violins, birds, and milk cows as well as Russian art. Tretyakov donated his extensive collection to the city in 1892, and subsequent enlargement has long since provided the Gallery with far more works than it can possibly exhibit in its limited space. Although this means that innumerable fine works rarely see the light of day, it also means that those works that are displayed are without exception masterpieces of their period and genre. While everything in the Tretyakov deserves and rewards patient attention, its collection of icons stands as the definitive presentation of this most Russian of art forms.
Address
- Postal Address: 121019, Russia, Moscow, Volkhonka st., 12
- E-mail: Finearts@artsmuseum.ru
- http://www.geographia.com/russia/moscow04.htm
Le Mémorial de Caen
The world has changed. And so have we!
The extraordinary success of Le Mémorial de Caen lies in the initial resolve of its founder, Mr Jean-Marie Girault. With destruction wreaked across almost three quarters of this martyr city of the Liberation in the summer of 1944, Caen deserved a fitting tribute for the damage it suffered. And such a tribute was paid, but with the focus on what continues to be the Mémorial’s running theme: reconciliation.
This vocation, unique to Le Mémorial de Caen, will guide you through the museum’s different stages, taking you back over the 20th century. This chapter in global history opened in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and partly ended on 9 November 1989 in Berlin with the “Fall of the Wall”.
Between these two dates and between these two World Wars, some 60 millions people would lose their lives and the most hostile of political systems to the key principles of respecting life would plunge the world into the chaos and brutality that characterized the last century.
We are all heirs to this century whose memory we must keep alive at all costs. The memory of the people who suffered, the memory of ideas and the memory of sacrifices to save us from “man’s inhumanity to man”.
We are delighted to welcome all our visitor friends, whoever you may be and wherever you’re from, in the hope that the time you spend at Le Mémorial de Caen proves fulfilling and worthwhile.
Le Mémorial de Caen
Prado Museum in Madrid
In response to the size of its collections and the problem of choosing what to see in the Museum, the Prado has organised three routes for visitors that focus on its masterpieces.
Depending on the time available for the visit, routes of 15, 30 and 50 works have been devised which cover the most important artists represented in the Museum, in addition to outstanding examples of goldsmiths’ work and sculpture from the permanent collection.
The three routes around the galleries feature major masterpieces of European art such as The Annunciation by Fra Angelico, Christ washing the Disciples’ Feet by Tintoretto, The Descent from the Cross by Rogier van der Weyden, The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymous Bosch, and The Three Graces by Rubens. They also include key works of Spanish art such as Las Meninas by Velázquez, Jacob’s Dream by Ribera and The Third of May: the Executions on Príncipe Pío by Goya.
If you wish to know the main details and the description of the recommended works, please click on the images that appear in each route.
If you wish to know the basic information and the description of each work, including the possibility to listen to the corresponding audioguideAudioguide symbol, click on each image. We recommend that once you have begun listening to the audioguide that you enlarge the image by clicking on the “enlarge” Enlarge symbol or “zoom” Zoom symbol buttons that you can find below each image. By doing so you will appreciate with much more clarity the techinical characterists and composition of each work (of art).
Location:
Museo Nacional del Prado.
Madrid 28014
Gemäldegalerie in Berlin
The Gemäldegalerie is an art museum in Berlin, Germany. It holds one of the world’s leading collections of European art from the 13th to the 18th centuries. It is located on Kulturforum west of Potsdamer Platz. Its collection includes masterpieces from such artists as Albrecht Dürer, Lucas Cranach, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio, Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt and Johannes Vermeer. It was first opened in 1830, and was rebuilt in 1998.
Credit Photo: Flicker user scharwenka
Location:
Gemäldegalerie Berlin
Stauffenbergstraße 40
10785 Berlin – Germany
+49(30)2663666
Uffizi Gallery in Florence
The Uffizi gallery was built in 1581, under the request of Granduca Francisco de’ Medici, son of Cosimo I. The original design was that of Giorgio Vasari, one of the leading painters and architects during the 15th century. His plan for this museum was quite a strategically planned building as it was constructed adjacent to the Medici Palace and extended until the Arno river, over the Ponte Vecchio bridge. The space was originally intended for offices and to host bureaucratic meetings for various magistrates as apposed to holding masterpieces as it is today. It was built rapidly despite minor difficulties and major social events taking place in the area (ie: the marriage of Francisco and the Giovanna of Austria).
In 1584, the magnificent Octagonal Platform (or ‘Tribuna Ottagonale’) was built by Vasari’s successor Buontalenti. This special cosmological structure consists of a weathercock which connects to an inside pointer alluding to the Air element. The sky vault and red upholstery allude to the Water and Fire elements respectively. There is an extraordinary octagonal table preserved since since 1589 which sits in the middle of the room.
In it knows them adjacent to this a time conserved scientific instruments, the Armory found place, and to the term of the first corridor Cabinet of the miniature- was the “Cabinet of the Madame” – today where the Granduchessa conserved its joys and small art objects.
These as soon as described they were know them them museali more ancient and several in the content.
From the other side of the building they were found instead the laboratories of smaller limbs, the Foundry (or pharmacy), where medicines, scents were distilled and sometimes poisons, while to the term of the corridor, over the Loggia of the Lanzi it had been created a hanging garden.
The extraordinary wealth that the Gallery had its origins since carried the enjoyment of the art, than in the city of Florence always it had been of public domain, to a private dimension, or at least to one much narrow one, and that was justified from the Doctors like one necessity dictated from the will of conservation of the works.
The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg
The collection of the State Hermitage includes more than three million works of art and artefacts of the world culture. Among them are paintings, graphic works, sculptures and works of applied art, archaeological finds and numismatic material.
The main architectural ensemble of the Hermitage situated in the centre of St Petersburg consists of the Winter Palace, the former state residence of the Russian emperors, the buildings of the Small, Old (Great) and New Hermitages, the Hermitage Theatre and the Auxiliary House. The museum complex also includes the Menshikov Palace and the Eastern Wing of the General Staff building, the Staraya Derevnya Restoration and Storage Centre and the Museum of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.
Opening Hours of the State Hermitage Museum
Tuesdays – Saturdays: 10.30-18.00
Sundays: 10.30 – 17.00
Closed Mondays
Ticket windows shut one hour before the museum closes
The Main Museum Complex’ address: 2, Palace Square
Entrance from Palace Square
General information by phone: (812)
710-90-79
Bonnefanten Museum of Maastricht
A world of difference
The Bonnefantenmuseum combines, in a building by Aldo Rossi, private and public collections with both old master painting and sculpture as cutting edge contemporary art. Furthermore it hosts the so-called Rijksmuseum Maastricht and collections focused both on medieval applied arts (Neutelings) as on mainstream contemporary (Vandenhove).
Profile
It’s aim is not to often the extremes, but to present them in their own right. Why not accept the differences? We keep them in the air, just as the juggler does with his skittles. Does the essence of magic not lie in the handling of abnormality and difference (risk), instead of normality and equal standards? Profile the eccentric location demands eccentric positions.
Mission
- to link the art of the Southern Netherlands until 1625 to that of South European cultural centres in Italy and France.
- to show work by artists from the region, the Netherlands and the Euregion in connection with international developments.
- there is emphasis on the spiritual wealth of art besides its aesthetic value.
- there is encouragement to form personal opinions.
- we are a museum ‘with a view’.
Avenue Ceramique 250
NL-6221 KX Maastricht
PO Box 1735
NL-6201 BS Maastricht
T:+31 (0)43 3290190 (Tue- Fri)
Getting There:- Car
A2, exit Europaplein, look for signs to district 21 (‘wijk 21′).
Parking
Limited parking space at the museum, entrance Daemslunet.
Walking distance: Parking Garages Q-park Ceramique Noord and Ceramique Zuid
- Bus
1, 3, 50, 53, 54, 57
departure: central station stop Bonnefantenmuseum
- Walking
Approximately 15 minutes walking distance from the central station and city centre
Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp is a Flemish public institution and the only Flemish museum with a scientific status. The principal missions of the KMSKA are the maintenance, management and expansion of the collection; the scientific study of the collection and the enhancement of its accessibility; the organisation of exhibitions and the development of public engagement activities. The KMSKA subscribes to the Statutes of ICOM, the International Council of Museums. Thanks to its exceptional collection, the KMSKA is a museum of international stature.
http://www.kmska.be/en/
Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen
Plaatsnijdersstraat 2
B-2000 Antwerp
T +32 (0)3 238 78 09
F +32 (0)3 248 08 10
A Magritte Museum in Brussels
The Musée Magritte Museum, open since the 2nd of June 2009 and situated in the Altenloh Hotel (a building of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) reached no less than 500.000 visitors within one year !
The museum is located at the Place Royale, in the very heart of Brussels. Thanks to the competences sponsorship developed by the French and Belgian GDF SUEZ subsidiary companies and with the support of the Magritte Foundation this museum was renovated. The museum displays the works of the surrealist artist, which belong to the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and which are mainly the result of purchases as well as of the legacies Irène Hamoir-Scutenaire and Georgette Magritte. Many private collectors, as well as public and private institutions have contributed to the Musée Magritte Museum project by lending their masterpieces.
This multidisciplinary collection is the richest in the world. It contains more than 200 works consisting of oils on canvas, gouaches, drawings, sculptures and painted objects as well as advertising posters, music scores, vintage photographs and films produced by Magritte himself.
The Musée Magritte Museum is the world reference centre regarding the study of the artist. With the support of INEO media system, the Musée Magritte Museum has developed an online research centre, which gives access to the archives in connection with the painter’s life and works.
http://www.musee-magritte-museum.be/
Location:
Musée Magritte Museum
Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique
Rue de la Régence 3, 1000 Bruxelles
Rue du Musée 9, 1000 Bruxelles (adresse administrative)
Tél. : +32 2 508 32 11
Fax : +32 2 508 32 32
The British Museum in London
The British Museum’s collection of seven million objects representing the rich history of human cultures mirrors the city of London’s global variety. In no other museum can the visitor see so clearly the history of what it is to be human.
Getting here
By London Underground
The nearest underground stations to the Museum are:
- Tottenham Court Road (300m)
- Holborn (500m)
- Russell Square (800m)
- Goodge Street (800m)
By bicycle
There are bike racks inside the Museum gates on Great Russell Street.
Transport for London: cycling
A comprehensive network of cycle routes.
By bus
The following buses stop near the Museum:
- 1, 7, 8, 19, 25, 38, 55, 98, 242
Stop on New Oxford Street - 10, 14, 24, 29, 73, 134, 390
Stop on Tottenham Court Road, northbound
Stop on Gower Street, southbound - 59, 68, X68, 91, 168, 188
Stop on Southampton Row
By car
The Museum is within the Congestion Charging Zone and there is very little parking in the area. The nearest car park to the Museum is located at Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2RJ
http://www.britishmuseum.org/
Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam
The Anne Frank House on Prinsengracht canal in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, is a museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building. As well as the preservation of the hiding place — known in Dutch as the Achterhuis — and an exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, the museum acts as an exhibition space to highlight all forms of persecution and discrimination.
It opened on 3 May 1960 with the aid of public subscription, three years after a foundation was established to protect the property from developers who wanted to demolish the block.
Location:
The Anne Frank House is situated in the centre of Amsterdam at Prinsengracht 263-267. It takes around 20 minutes to walk from the Central Station to the museum. Trams 13 and 17 and buses 142, 170 and 172 stop nearby, at the ‘Westermarkt’ stop
http://www.annefrank.org/
Discover the Louvre museum
From its beginnings as a royal fortress to the public institution we see today, discover the Musée du Louvre: its role, its aims, and the expertise of the people who make it work.
A visit to the Louvre Museum (Video)
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