This museum property located in Madrid also containing the Jerónimos Cloister would and it is used as a venue for temporary exhibitions, restoration workshops, technical offices and other museum services, contained in a new building connected at its lower levels with Villanueva’s. Continue reading Moneo Museum Madrid
The House of Nature is always worth a visit! It is one of Austria’s best museums, although not among the best of Europe. If you have spare time in Salzburg, if you are interested in Natural History or if it rains really hard, it is certainly a worthwhile destination. The museum offers fascinating exhibitions about a variety of areas of nature from pre-history (Dinosaur Hall)… …to the present (Spaceflight Hall). Numerous highlights, events, lectures, guides, children programs and excursions await you. Continue reading The House of Nature (Haus der Natur)
The Louvre in Paris, France, is one of the most famous and most visited art museums in the world. The museum attracts 6 million visitors every year. Similarly it is one of the largest museums in the world, with over 35,000 pieces of art housed in a gigantic, 60,000 square foot building. It exemplifies traditional French architecture since the Renaissance, and it houses a magnificent collection of ancient and Western art. Located along the banks of the Seine, the glass pyramid outside the Louvre is a memorable landmark, and an often photographed view of the museum. Continue reading A great destination during a Paris vacation
The Minerva Gallery at the Grand Hotel Sofia Lobby never ceases to delight the art lovers all year round. Afresh flavor is brought by the title of Ralitsa Dencheva’s exhibition - Garden of Soul, which is on display until mid-September. The exhibition of 16 oil canvases conveys an existentialist message - let us discover the flower garden inside ourselves and follow Beauty everywhere, even though it may have wings and we have not, because where there is no Beauty, there is nothing. “I’ve paint the eternally blooming garden of the soul, inhabited by flowers and angels, a garden free of fences and keepers, a treasury that is always open to the beholder. In it one can enter freely and find joy in the simplest manifestations of the soul - just like we find in the most common flowers the whole glory and beauty of the Spring”, says the author. Continue reading Three Exhibitions at Minerva Gallery, Bulgaria
The Royal Academy of Arts in London, which had been founded in 1768, was at the very center of Victorian art in Britain. Its annual Exhibition of the Work of Living Artists (known from the 1870s simply as the Summer Exhibition) was not only the premier showcase for new artwork and a principal means of bringing together artist, purchaser and art dealer, but was both an important part of the upper-class social calendar and a popular attraction, open to everybody who could afford the shilling entrance fee. The Royal Academy was, and remains, a self-governing and self-funded private body. Its exclusiveness and innate conservatism attracted criticism throughout the century, but its constitution and practices remained virtually unchanged into the 20th century and formed the background to the success of the vast majority of the well-known artists of the per.
The famous for the summer exhibition and for the many major loan exhibitions, acclaimed both in Britain and overseas. But exhibitions include everything from recent fashion and photography retrospectives to much broader collections of post-18th century art, and immaculately researched explorations of historical cultures. Continue reading One of the finest galleries in London with a changing programme of exhibitions
The Museum of New Zealand “Te Papa Tongarewa” is the national museum of New Zealand. It is branded and commonly known as “Te Papa and Our Place”. “Te Papa Tongarewa” is broadly translatable as “the place of treasures of this land”. The main Te Papa building is on the waterfront in Wellington, on Cable Street. Inside the building are six storeys of exhibitions, cafes and gift shops dedicated to New Zealand’s culture and environment.
Spanish Museo del Prado art museum in Madrid, housing the world’s richest and most comprehensive collection of Spanish painting, as well as masterpieces of other schools of European painting, especially Italian and Flemish art. This gallery in Madrid has the most complete collection of Spanish painting from 18th centuries, and many masterpieces by great universal artists such as El Greco, Velzquez, Goya, Bosch, Tiziano, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. Continue reading The big and great collectors in Prado Museum