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An interactive visit of the largest museums of Art in the world |
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No need
for a plane ticket, neither a passport nor a bag to visit the most beautiful
museums of the world. You'll find here a compilation of the best museums
sites. We wish you a nice journey! No need to fasten your seat belt. |
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The
Louvre Museum: the largest museum in the world deserves 2 sites: |
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Another
page, encyclopedia or catalog like, allows you to get accurate information on
most of the masterworks. |
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The
museum of Orsay proposes its very beautiful collection of impressionist
painters. |
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The
Centre George Pompidou: a very interesting visit of European modern painting
(Picasso, Braque, Kandinsky...). The site covers more or less the CD-ROM
content. |
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Famous
country for art and archaeology, the United Kingdom has put on the Web its
most important collections. In the National Gallery, you will have access to
a very broad presentation of the most popular paintings of the museum (from
Rubens to Turner) |
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The Tate
Gallery layout is less attractive with its alphabetical index but you'll get
a very broad list of modern artists. |
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For
archaeology lovers, the reference remains the British Museum: documentation
and texts are really abundant and impressive. |
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A generic site on the Netherlands initiates you to interesting aspects of the country i.e. arts and exhibition. Te page is build according to your own country and proposes exhibition before travelling. " |
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The
Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has built a new site with a virtual visit in
QuickTime: a must for Dutch painting (Rembrandt, Vermeer etc.) |
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Van Gogh
museum, a must in Amsterdam. A very detailed collection on the net with a
high tech virtual tour. |
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2
generic sites on Brussels : first one multilingual containing all kind of
interesting information for tourists and indigenous, discover the living
Brussels! |
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Second
one: a very exhaustive list of museums in Brussels and area |
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Royal
Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, including the Ancient Art Museum (XV - XVII
century) and the Modern Art Museum (XIX XX century): Bosch, Bruegel, Rubens,
Rembrandt, David, Gauguin, Ensor, Permeke, Chirico, Magritte, Delvaux,
Jorn... |
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Royal Museums of
Arts and History in Brussels have the same function as the British Museum:
archaeology and history as guest stars. Unfortunately, only the Egyptian
collection is available on the net. |
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To start
the journey, a list of Russian museums, in Russian; English version to come
especially if you participate to the donation ;-( |
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For the
most exhaustive virtual exhibition of Western painting, it is necessary to
move to St Petersburg, in the State Hermitage Museum. From Michelangelo
sculptures to French impressionists... Even more fun visiting it in Russian. |
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With the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, you will discover a less known collection including Egyptian antiquities as well as Picasso's paintings. Alas, in Russia, the access time is particularly slow! |
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.Rome,
the Eternal City. First things first: you have to pay a visit to the Vatican
Museums. Even if the quality of the images is far from being perfect, you can
admire most of the Pope's collection masterpieces: frescos in the Raphael
Stanze & Loggia, Sistine Chapel, St Peter Basilica. |
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A short
overview of the Eternal City with, i.e. a very few pieces of the Capitoline
Museums.: |
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.Venice,
the romantic city, awaits you with the official site of the city. Virtual
visits as the Palazzo Ducale one are cheap in pictures: |
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The official
the site of Gallerie dell'Accademia doesn’t offer any visit. |
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But,
this page allows you to visit in English or in Italian the most important
paintings through artists’ or rooms’ lists. |
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Reopening
of the Palazzo Grassi gives us the opportunity to go through excellent
exhibitions like the Francois Pinault collection with a special mention of
the very interesting technology "webcam like" |
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In Florence,
you get in the richest collection of Renaissance art: the Uffizi. . 2 sites
are available: the official one rather exhaustive with alphabetical list of
painters and rooms in English and Italian. |
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The most exhaustive especially for the proposed images is also the most interesting for art specialists ! Concept of this page is more catalog like. ! |
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Visit ot
the Accademia Museum of Florence: |
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Visit of
the Florence Dome (English and Italian): |
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A rather
exhaustive list of Italian Museums is available at : |
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Two
useful guides to visit Spain and especially Madrid: |
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Don't
miss the Prado. A long journey through Spanish or Italians paintings awaits
you: El Greco, Tiziano, Velazquez (its famous Meninas), and Francisco Goya...
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Greece
is certainly one of the favourite destinations for archaeologists. |
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The
National Museum of Archaeology of Athens exhibits classical masterpiece's
of Greek ancient art such as the Treasury of Mycenae. |
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Other
country for archaeology specialists, Egypt will soon invite you to its very
ambitious project : The Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo where you will admire
i.e. the famous pieces of the tomb of Tutankhamun. But the GEM as its
web site is still under Construction |
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In New
York, the Metropolitan Museum offers you, beside famous European artists
masterpiece's - such as Vermeer, Veslasquez, Bernini - a section of American
art. |
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Pollock,
De Konninck, Warhol, you will find them beside many other contemporary
artists in the Guggenheim Museum about which you will also admire the superb
architecture in spiral! |
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The Museum
of Modern art (MOMA) proposes to you masterpiece's of Van Gogh, Picasso
(famous "Demoiselles d'Avignon"), Klimt and Mondrian. |
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Among
other North-American museums, let me recommend to you the National Gallery of
Art in Washington DC. This is a very well documented museum listing
the American artists and the most popular European ones. You can also get
there a guide in PDF format (easy to download) by periods, painters or styles
in several languages. |
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Let us
complete this journey around the USA, by the " far west ": Two
Museums: Legion of Honor and deYoung, gathered under the site Fine Arts
Museums of San Francisco (FAMS): from El Greco to Picasso through African
Art. |
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For a
more exotic visit: join Tokyo and its National Museum of Modern Art (English
version recommended). |
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Before
ending this chapter, let us mention that there are many virtual museums. |
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By
virtual museum, we refer to collections compiled by specialists, amateurs or
organisations which want to expose masterpieces without being attached to a
real museum. There are plenty of them, to many to be able to quote them here. |
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I would
like to pay tribute to one of the precursors and most known in the French
field: Nicolas Pioch and his Virtual Museum:: metalab.unc.edu/louvre which had to cease its
activities because of royalties problems i.e. with the Picasso family. |
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To have
an idea of what can be a amateurish virtual museum,
pay a visit to www.awildorchid.com/museums.htm where you can
get interesting links too. |
Search engines:
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Through
this direct access to the university of Verne, you'll get a major list of
museums but not always up to date! |
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This
gallery lists many artists and links of various museums in the world. |
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This
site dedicated to Art includes a long list of museums, artists by country or
subjects and plenty of other information. |
Do not hesitate to contact me to forward me some other Online Museums
addresses: