MUSEUMS OF THE WORLD

THE ACROPOLIS MUSEUM
SITE http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en

The Acropolis Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Ακρόπολης,Mouseio Akropolis) is an archaeological museum focused on the findings of the archaeological site of the Acropolis of Athens. The museum was built to house every artifact found on the rock and on its feet, from the Greek Bronze Age to Roman and Byzantine Greece. It also lies on the archaeological site of Makrygianni and the ruins of a part of Roman and early Byzantine Athens.

It exhibits all the famous findings of the site of the Acropolis.
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en/content/3d-projections
Every Saturday and Sunday you may see the virtual presentation of the Acropolis Monuments.

WATCH THE VIDEO AND HAVE A SHORT VISIT TO THE MUSEUM

THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

The Metropolitan Museum has a site created only for kids.It is worth visiting it.
http://www.metmuseum.org/learn/for-kids
There is also a series of videos created by Met kids to watch and explore
WATCH SOME OF THEM

FROM WIKIWAND
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.

Represented in the permanent collection are works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic,Byzantine, and Islamic art.[10] The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world.Several notable interiors, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met's galleries.[12]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870. The founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.

As of 2012, the Met occupies about 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m2). Admission is pay what you wish with a recommendation of $25.

THE STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM



THE SITE OF THE MUSEUM IS  https://www.hermitagemuseum.org/wps/portal/hermitage/

ENJOY A VIDEO TOUR WATCHING THIS VIDEO

 One of the larges] and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1764 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items.
ITS COLLECTIONS INCLUDE
FROM EGYPTIAN AND CLASSICAL ANTIQUITES TO POST-IMPRESSIONIST ART
THE LOUVRE MUSEUM
OFFICIAL SITE http://www.louvre.fr/en

BBC THE TREASURES OF THE LOUVRE

THE LOUVRE MUSEUM IS THE LARGEST MUSEUM OF THE WORLD
It is situated in Paris and it is found upon the remains of the
LOUVRE PALACE which was built in the 12th century by Philip the 2nd. It has been extended many times since then .
It opened as a museum in 1793 for the first time but it has also been restored a number of times.
One can see 380,000 objects and 35,000 works of art at the Louvre.The museum displays a plethora of collections dating back from ancient times (Greek, Roman, Eyptian,Etruscane)
to Renaissance.

THE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN LONDON

SITE OF THE MUSEUM http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit.html

The Natural History Museum in London is a museumexhibiting a vast range of specimens from various segments ofnatural history. It is one of three major museums onExhibition Road in South Kensington, the others being theScience Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The Natural History Museum's main frontage, however, is on Cromwell Road.

The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 80 million items within five main collections: botany, entomology, mineralogy, palaeontology and zoology. 

A DAY AT THE NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM

THE SMITHSONIAN NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
SITE http://www.mnh.si.edu/
FOR A VIRTUAL TOUR OF THE MUSEUM GO TO

http://www.mnh.si.edu/panoramas/

FORM WIKIPAEDIA

The National Museum of Natural History is a natural historymuseum administered by the Smithsonian Institution, located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., United States. With free admission and open doors 364 days a year, it is the third most visited museum in the world, the most visited natural history museum in the world, and the most visited museum (of any type) in North America. Opened in 1910, the museum on the National Mall was one of the first Smithsonian buildings constructed exclusively to hold the national collections and research facilities. The main building has an overall area of 1,320,000 square feet (123,000 m2) with 350,000 square feet (33,000 m2) of exhibition and public space and houses over 1,000 employees.[3]

The museum's collections total over 126 million specimens of plants, animals, fossils, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and human cultural artifacts. With 8 million visitors in 2013, it is the most visited of all of the Smithsonian museums  and is also home to about 185 professional natural history scientists— the largest group of scientists dedicated to the study of natural and cultural history in the world.

WATCH A VIDEO ABOUT THE MUSEUM CREATED BY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

THE PRADO MUSEUM

OFFICIAL SITE https://www.museodelprado.es/

THE EL PRADO MUSEUM IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MUSEUMS OF EUROPEAN ART

The Museo del Prado (Spanish pronunciation: [muˈseo ðel ˈpɾaðo]) is the main Spanish national art museum, located in centralMadrid. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, dating from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection, and unquestionably the best single collection of Spanish art. Founded as a museum of paintings and sculpture in 1819, it also contains important collections of other types of works. El Prado is one of the most visited sites in the world, and is considered one the greatest museums of art in the world. The numerous works by Francisco de Goya, the single most extensively represented artist, as well as by Diego Velázquez,El Greco, Titian, Peter Paul Rubens and Hieronymus Boschare some of the highlights of the collection.

The collection currently comprises around 7,600 paintings, 1,000 sculptures, 4,800 prints and 8,200 drawings, in addition to a large number of other works of art and historic documents. By 2012 the Museum will be displaying about 1,300 works in the main buildings, while around 3,100 works are on temporary loan to various museums and official institutions. The remainder are in storage.The museum received 2.8 million visitors in 2012.

THE PRADO MUSEUM HAS GOT A COLLECTION OF EL GRECO PAINTINGS 

OTHER PAINTINGS OF THOMINIKOS THEOTOKOPOULOS ARE IN TOLEDO IN ATHENS 

AND IN OTHER MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES IN THE WORLD