The National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen is Denmark’s largest museum of cultural history, comprising the histories of Danish and foreign cultures, alike. The museum's main building is located a short distance from Strøget at the center of Copenhagen. It contains exhibits from around the world, from Greenland to South America. Additionally, the museum sponsors SILA - The Greenland Research Center at the National Museum of Denmark to further archaeological and anthropological research in Greenland.The museum has a number of national commitments, particularly within the following key areas: archaeology, ethnology, numismatics, ethnography, natural science, conservation, communication, building antiquarian activities in connection with the churches of Denmark, as well as the handling of the Danefæ .
National and University Library in Zagreb is the national library of Croatia and central library of the University of Zagreb.
The Library was established in 1607. Its primary mission is the development and preservation of Croatian national written heritage. It holds around 3 million items.
Since 1995 the NSK has been located in a purpose-built cubical building in central Zagreb.
The Iziko South African National Gallery is the national art gallery of South Africa located in Cape Town. It became part of the Iziko collection of museums – as managed by the Department of Arts and Culture – in 2001. It became an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture Its collection consists largely of Dutch, French and British works from the 17th to the 19th century. This includes lithographs, etchings and some early 20th-century British paintings. Contemporary art work displayed in the gallery is selected from many of South Africa's communities and the gallery houses an authoritative collection of sculpture and beadwork.
The National Gallery of Modern Art is the premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India. The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore. Its collection of more than 1700 works by 2000 plus artists includes artists such as Thomas Daniell, Raja Ravi Verma, Abanindranath Tagore, Rabindranath Tagore, Gaganendranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Jamini Roy, Amrita Sher-Gil as well as foreign artists. Some of the oldest works preserved here date back to 1857. With 12,000 square meters of exhibition space, the Delhi branch is one of the world's largest modern art museums.
The National Gallery of Armenia is the largest art museum in Armenia. Located on Yerevan's Republic Square, the museum has one of the most prominent locations in the Armenian capital. The NGA houses significant collections of Russian and Western European art, and the world's largest collection of Armenian art. The museum had 65,000 visitors in 2005.
The National Football Museum is England's national museum of football. It is based in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre, and preserves, conserves and displays important collections of football memorabilia.
The museum was originally based in Deepdale, Preston, Lancashire, but moved to Manchester in 2012.
Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is Japan's fourth-largest incorporated city and the third most populous urban area. Located on the Pacific coast on central Honshu, it is the capital of Aichi Prefecture and is one of Japan's major ports along with those of Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe, Yokohama, and Chiba. It is also the center of Japan's third-largest metropolitan region, known as the Chūkyō metropolitan area. As of 1 October 2019, 2,327,557 people lived in the city, part of Chūkyō metropolitan Area's 10.11 million people, making it one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.
In 1610, the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu, a retainer of Oda Nobunaga, moved the capital of Owari Province from Kiyosu to Nagoya. This period saw the renovation of Nagoya Castle. Nagoya was proclaimed a city in 1889, during the Meiji Restoration; it became a major industrial hub for Japan. The traditional manufactures of timepieces, bicycles, and sewing machines were followed by the production of special steels, chemicals, oil, and petrochemicals, as the area's automobile, aviation, and shipbuilding industries flourished. Nagoya was impacted by bombing from US air raids during World War II.
After the war, Nagoya developed into a major port and transport center. The Shinkansen high-speed line connecting Tokyo and Osaka converges on Nagoya. Nagoya is served by two airports: Chubu Centrair International Airport in nearby Tokoname, and Nagoya Airfield, home to Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation. Nagoya remains an important center for the automotive, aviation, and ceramic industries, hosting the headquarters of Brother Industries, Ibanez, Lexus, and Toyota Tsusho, among others.
Nagoya is home to Nagoya University, the Nagoya Institute of Technology, and Nagoya City University. It is also the location of numerous cultural institutions, including the Tokugawa Art Museum, Atsuta Shrine, Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Aichi Arts Center, and Misono-za. Nagoya TV Tower is the oldest TV tower in Japan.
The Museum of Western Art in Kerrville, Texas, is an art museum dedicated to the painting and sculpture of living artists of the American West who follow in the tradition of Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. In addition to the rotating collection, the museum also has an art library and teaching facilities. The museum uses the motto "Where the Legend Lives Forever".
The Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry, formerly the Museum of Lakeland Life and sometimes abbreviated to MOLLI, is a local museum in Kendal, Cumbria, northwest England.The museum was opened in 1971 by Princess Alexandra. It won the first ever UK Museum of the Year award in 1973.The Museum presents life in the Lake District from the late 18th century onwards. The museum is located within the original Georgian stables of the Abbot Hall Art Gallery. It is managed by Lakeland Arts.
The displays include presentations of the author Arthur Ransome and the Swallows and Amazons series of books, local photographers, and the Arts & Crafts Movement in the Lake District.The museum is the registered office of the Arthur Ransome Society.
The Museum of John Paul II Collection in Warsaw, also known as the Porczyński Gallery or Carroll-Porczyński Collection, is a museum dedicated to its painting collection, which is housed in the building of the former stock exchange and National Bank. It is considered one of the finest collections of European art in Warsaw. The collection includes around 400 exhibits mainly Old Masters and the Impressionists along with some copies of masterpieces of European painting.
The Museum of Classical Archaeology is a museum in Cambridge, run by the Faculty of Classics of the University of Cambridge, England. Since 1983, it has been located in a purpose-built gallery on the first floor of the Faculty of Classics on the Sidgwick Site of the University.
The museum is one of the few surviving collections of plaster casts of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in the world. The collection consists of several hundred casts, including casts of some of the most famous surviving ancient Greek and Roman sculptures. Noteworthy casts include those of the Laocoön and His Sons, the Farnese Hercules, the Barberini Faun and Charioteer of Delphi.
The Peplos Kore is perhaps the best known exhibit in the museum. It is a plaster cast of an ancient Greek statue of a young woman painted brightly as the original would have been, which was set up on the Acropolis of Athens, around 530 BCE. In 1975, the museum attempted to replicate the sculpture's original appearance by painting a cast of the figure. The replica was then displayed next to a second, unpainted cast as a challenge to the erroneous equation of ancient Greek sculpture with pure white marble.The museum also holds a large collection of sherds and epigraphic squeezes.
The museum is open to the public Tuesday to Friday: 10.00am to 5.00pm and on Saturdays in University term time: 10.00am to 1.00pm.
The museum is one of eight which make up the University of Cambridge Museums consortium.
Its former home on Little St Mary's Lane was designed by Basil Champneys in 1883. In the 1970s it became evident that it was no longer adequate to house the collection, and it is now part of the buildings of Peterhouse.
The Behnhaus is an art museum in the Hanseatic city of Lübeck, Germany, and part of its World heritage site.
The Behnhaus as a structure is a neoclassical building with interior design by the Danish architect Joseph Christian Lillie. The museum exhibits furniture from this period, and paintings and sculptures from this period onwards. It specializes in Nazarene art, since Friedrich Overbeck was born in Lübeck.
The museum is also known for its collection of works by Edvard Munch.
O Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul Ado Malagoli é um museu brasileiro sediado em Porto Alegre, capital do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, pertencente ao governo estadual. Localiza-se na Praça da Alfândega, no Centro Histórico da cidade..
Instituído pelo governo do Rio Grande do Sul em 1954, sob a direção de Ado Malagoli, logo reuniu expressivo acervo e assumiu um papel de destaque no cenário artístico sulino, sendo um dos responsáveis pela consagração definitiva do Modernismo entre os gaúchos. Desde então, o MARGS vem aprimorando suas funções e afirmando sua posição no panorama museológico brasileiro como o maior e mais importante acervo público de arte gaúcha, montando mostras de reputados artistas locais e nacionais e recebendo importantes exposições do estrangeiro, mas sua trajetória é marcada por graves crises periódicas e muita polêmica.
A Villa Medicea di Cerreto Guidi é um antigo palácio da Família Médici que se encontra no centro de Cerreto Guidi, na Província de Florença, na Via dei Ponti Medicei nº 7. É uma das poucas villas dos Médici estavelmente aberta como museu, hospedando desde 2002 o "Museu Histórico da Caça e do Território" .
O Museu Soumaya é um museu de arte localizado na Cidade do México, capital do país homônimo. É uma instituição cultural privada, sem fins lucrativos, fundada em 1994 e vinculada à Fundação Carlos Slim. Ocupa dois espaços distintos: um edifício de importância histórica na Plaza Loreto, na região sul da cidade, e a nova sede, projetada por Fernando Romero e inaugurada em 2011, na Plaza Carso, região norte. O nome do museu é uma homenagem a Soumaya Domit, esposa do fundador, Carlos Slim, falecida em 1999.O museu abriga um acervo com mais de 60.000 peças, composto por coleções de artes plásticas, artes decorativas, documentos históricos, relíquias religiosas e numismática, cobrindo o período que vai do século XV aos dias de hoje, abrangendo sobretudo a produção artístico-cultural do México, da América Latina e da Europa. É um dos mais destacados acervos desse tipo no continente. Particularmente relevante é a coleção de 380 esculturas de Auguste Rodin, a segunda maior do mundo, além do conjunto de retratos, paisagens e pinturas religiosas do barroco novo-hispano.
No âmbito da difusão cultural e do ensino de arte, o museu atua organizando exposições permanentes e temporárias, editando catálogos e publicações próprias, promovendo conferências e seções de cinema e disponibilizando uma programação cultural permanente. É equipado com uma biblioteca, auditório com 350 lugares, ateliê e espaços para atuação didática.
