Art Museums around the World

By: Johan Milton
Submitted: 2008-01-23 01:28:13
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Museums collect and care for objects of scientific, artistic, or historical importance and make them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Large museums are located in major cities throughout the world and more local ones exist in small cities.

At Saatchi Gallery you can see the List of Main Art Museums around the World few of those are given as below.

The Museum Of Modern Art - New York
The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The rich and varied collection constitutes one of the most comprehensive and panoramic views of modern art. The Museum Archives contains primary source material related to the history of Museum of Modern Art and contemporary art.

National Gallery – London
The National Gallery houses some of the most famous and familiar paintings in the world, in a building that is an internationally recognised landmark.

The Metropolitan Museum - New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from pre-history to the present and from every part of the globe.

Tate Modern – London
Tate Modern is the national gallery of international modern art. Located in London, it is one of the family of four Tate galleries which display selections from the Tate Collection. The Collection comprises the national collection of British art and of international modern art from the year 1500 to the present day

National Gallery of Art, Washington - Washington DC
The National Gallery of Art, one of the world's preeminent museums, was created for the people of the United States of America by a joint resolution of Congress accepting the gift of financier, public servant, and art collector Andrew W. Mellon in 1937.

Guggenheim Museum - New York
The Foundation realizes this mission through exceptional exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications, and strives to engage and educate an increasingly diverse international audience through its unique network of museums and cultural partnerships.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Los Angeles
Established in 1910 as part of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Art and Science,
Experience European masterpieces, cutting-edge contemporary art, an extensive collection of American art from the United States and Latin America.

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