Friday, April 29, 2011

National Air and Space Museum


The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport is the companion facility to the museum on the National Mall, the building was in December 2003 and provides space for the Smithsonian to the thousands of aerospace artifacts not be exhibited on the National Mall can be displayed. The two sites together showcase the largest collection of aerospace artifacts in the world.

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Museums in İstanbul

Archaeological Museum:
Archaeological museum this complex was the end of the 19th Century by the architect Vallaury thanks to great efforts of famous Turkish painter Osman Hamdi Bey build. It includes the exquisite Tiled Kiosk and the Museum of the Ancient Orient and houses a large collection of artifacts and works of art belonging to ancient Greek, Roman and other Anatolian civilizations dating from the 6th Century BC. The sarcophagus of Alexander the Great, Sarcophagus of Mourning Ladies, and other ancient sarcophagi and various objects in the Sidon excavation are among the most interesting pieces.

Ancient Eastern Archeological Museum was designed and open for 1917 by Halil Bey Eldem service. The collection shows together at some 15,000 archaeological pieces of Ancient Mesopotamia, Pre-Greek Anatolia, Assyrian, Sumerian, Acadian, Babylonian, Egyptian and ancient pre-Islamic Arabic culture.

Open daily from 9.30 to 16.30 except Mondays between clock. Osman Hamdi Bey Yokusu, Gulhane, Eminonu Tel: (212) 520 77 40 and 41 Admission: 10 TL



Hagia Sophia (Hagia Sophia) Museum:
Hagia Sophia (Hagia Sophia) churchThe old Byzantine church built by Justinian I between 532-537 AD after the Nika Riot, was later a mosque with the addition of minarets in the middle of the 15th Century rebuilt. The remarkable structure with its 56m high immense dome is now a museum where you both Christian and Islamic art are visible. There are good examples of Byzantine mosaics as well. For about 1000 years ago, this was the largest church in the world, and the glory of the Byzantine Empire.

Open daily from 9.30 to 16.30 except Mondays between clock. Sultan Ahmet Meydani, Eminonu Tel: (212) 522 17 50 and 528 45 00 Admission: 20 TL


St. Savior in Chora (Kariye) Museum:

St. Saviour in Chora churchAncient Byzantine church, the first in the 6th was built as a monastery century AD and restored several times in the 9th, 11th and 12 Century, renovated, and finally in the 14th by Theodore Metochites, Minister of the Byzantine Empire, from which we have the best of mosaics. It was the 15th in a mosque Century after the conquest of the city transformed. Today it is a museum of Byzantine mosaics and frescoes. The typical Ottoman district of wooden houses is also very interesting to stroll.


Open daily from 9.30 to 16.00 except Wednesday between clock. Edirnekapi, Fatih Tel: (212) 631 92 41 Admission: 15 TL


Fethiye Mosque (Church Pammakaristos) Museum:
The Byzantine church was built in 1261 and in honor of the Virgin "Pammakaristos" The Most Happy. After the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 it was used as a convent and it was converted from the Orthodox Christian Patriarchate of 1455 to see 1587, then changed into a mosque named after Fethiye. His parekleison (funeral corridor) was recently a museum where you beuatiful Byzantine mosaics and frescoes from the 14th Century opened to see.


Open daily from 9.30 to 16.30 except Wednesday between clock. Fethiye Camii, Carsamba - Fatih Admission: 5 TL

The Atatürk Museum:

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk - founder of modern turkey house where Ataturk lived and worked before the War of Independence during his stay was in Istanbul between 1918 and 1919, originally in 1908, built and restored by the Municipality of Istanbul in 1943, opening to the public in 1981st Attic of the building was reserved for his mother and his sister Makbule Zubeyde Hanim, now middle floor for himself and lower floor for his loyal officer Ataturk.

On display are photographs of Ataturk from his birth until his death, and some of his clothing, personal items and paintings.
Open daily from 9.30 to 16.00 between clock except Thursdays and Sundays. Halaskargazi Caddesi No: 250, Sisli Tel: (212) 240 63 19



Asiyan Museum:

This museum is the former residence of famous Turkish poet Tevfik Fikret (1867-1915) who built the building itself. In addition to an exhibition of personal belongings of Fikret there is a room dedicated to the poet Nigar Hanim and displaying some of the things from Abdülhak Hamit. It is in Asiyan neighborhood on the Bosporus.
Open daily from 9.00 to 16.00 between clock except Sundays and Mondays. Asiyan Yokusu, Bebek Tel: (212) 263 69 86


Calligraphy Museum:

The Beyazid Madrasa, which was used as a community library since 1945, was evacuated, restored and new as the Turkish Calligraphic Arts Museum. It has interesting and valuable examples of Turkish art of the pen, Korans, imperial seals, diplomas, Hilyer-i serif (descriptions of the Prophet), equipment and apparatus for calligraphic writing, samples of bookbinding, relics and miniatures, mainly Ottoman and Seljuk period.
Open daily from 9.00 to 16.00 between clock except Sundays and Mondays. Beyazit Meydani, Eminonu Tel: (212) 527 58 51

Sadberk Hanim Museum:

Founded by the Vehbi Koc Foundation in 1980 in the historic Azaryan residence on the Bosphorus, this museum is a beautiful three-story "Yali" (old Ottoman house) and houses a rich collection of Anatolian-based works of art, antiques and relics from 6000 BC . It is the first private museum of Turkey opened by Koc family, the richest of Turkey.

Open daily from 10.00 to 17.00 clock except Wednesday between. Piyasa Caddesi No :27-29, Buyukdere - Sariyer Tel: (212) 242 38 13 and 14

Museum of Modern Art:

Opened its doors in December 2004 due Eczacibasi family, this is the first and only museum of modern art in Istanbul. It is in the renovated old docks in Karaköy housed district against the Topkapi Palace, with a rich library, exhibitions, photo gallery, sculpture, cinema, cafe and gift shop. One can see in this private museum almost everything about modern Turkish art.
Open daily from 10.00 to 18.00 except Mondays between clock. Meclisi Mebusan Cad. Liman Isletmeleri Antrepo 4, Karakoy Tel: (212) 334 73 00 Admission: 7 TL

Painting & Sculpture Museum:

The museum opened in 1937 in the crown prince suites of Dolmabahce Palace of the order of Atatürk. It was the first art museum in Turkey and one in Istanbul until recently. The permanent collection presents a panoramic view of the Turkish Fine Arts and also includes works by famous artists, an impressionist collection, sculptures and works of military painters in several halls and exhibition rooms. Occasionally there are also painting classes during the year.

Every day between 12.00 to 16.00 except Mondays and Tuesdays. Dolmabahce Sarayi yani, Besiktas Tel: (212) 261 42 98 and 99

Friday, April 22, 2011

National Museum of Rome

The National Museum of Rome, which has one of the world's most important archaeological collections, is housed in three facilities: the Baths of Diocletian, who completed the octagonal hall, is include Palazzo Massimo and Palazzo Altemps.The complex restructuring and renovation effort partially , but the work is still ongoing. For this reason, only a portion of the museum exhibitions are being visited.

The historical site of the Museum is the Baths complex by Diocletian between the last years of the third century AD, built (the dedicatory inscription dated 306 AD in a fragmentary state preserved in the museum).
The building of the baths, the largest in the ancient world, including many areas in addition to the traditional Calidarium, tepidarium and Frigidarium-which were designed to hold 3,000 people at the same time. It was a natatio or Frigidarium for float (large pool) and various other rooms, conference rooms, libraries, nympheum, dressing rooms, concert and rooms for physical exercises, etc.

Baths of Diocletian









source:http://www.roma2000.it/zmunaro.html

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

MUSEUM OF EL PRADO

The Prado Museum is known as the largest art gallery in the world. There are also sculptures, drawings, coins and other works of art, but it is undoubtedly its large collection of paintings, which gave it world fame. It houses more than 8,600 paintings, of which they are less than 2,000 to because of lack of space available. Many museums around the world have less artistic riches in their halls than the Prado Museum in memory.

Today's art gallery comes from the royal collections of the old Trinidad Museum, as well as acquisitions, donations and bequests.


His story began during the reign of Charles III as he tried to create a single collection of art under one roof. But it was not until the reign of Ferdinand VII, when the Royal Museum of Painting and Sculpture was created to 19 November 1819th The kings of death caused inheritance problems and threatened the unity of the collection, but with the disappearance of the monarchy in Spain, the museum was nationalized and became known as the Prado Museum.

From then on that date, the art survived several challenges and were transferred several times during the Spanish civil war, ending up in the Swiss city of Geneva and back to Madrid during the Second World War.

The building Villa Nueva, where the majority of the works are housed, and the Cason del Buen Retiro: Today his treasures in two adjacent buildings on display.


source:http://www.spanisharts.com/prado/prado.htm

Van Gogh Museum

Most of Vincent van Gogh's work has never left the Netherlands, and, as a result of 200 paintings and 500 drawings on permanent exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum. The paintings are presented unadorned and in chronological order, according to the different periods and residences in Van Gogh's career. The second floor of the colorful paintings van Gogh during his stay are made ​​in southern France, including the famous "Sunflowers".

You can see also the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and Gauguin, van Gogh's contemporaries. Temporary exhibitions highlight different phases in the artistic development of van Gogh.

source:http://www.amsterdamhotspots.nl/museums.html

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Historic House is Most Visited Museum in the World

Despite the drop in visitor numbers needs to gain some museums continue growing masses.

There was little movement among the ten most-visited museums last year, but the directors have to feel happy about the increase in the presence of the line. The British Museum attracted 270,000 visitors more than in 2009, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, said of 326,000 and more visitors to Tate Modern it joined them in the elite club, the 5m-plus over the museum. The director of the Museu Picasso, Barcelona, ​​a modest size institution that is hiding in the city The old town, may have reason to feel satisfied. The museum sprang from the 40s to 24 overall, have organized shows how tempting the "Secret Files: Picasso and the Japanese erotic print. These and other exhibitions attracted 1.3m visitors in 2010.

But the Louvre, the former residence of the kings of France, high on the list of the most visited museum in the world with 8.5 million visitors (and I think they were all there the day I visited). Not bad for a historic house museum.

And the collections of the National Trust was doing well, too. "Designing the Lincoln Memorial at the National Gallery of Art presented a plaster model of the seated Lincoln in the collections of chester Wood, a National Trust Historic Site in Massachusetts. Almost 3 million people saw the show in 2009-10 and is the world's most visited exhibition for the year.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum for modern and contemporary art by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial developed and is located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built next to the Nervion river that runs through the city of Bilbao to the Atlantic coast. The Guggenheim is one of several museums of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. The museum has permanent and visiting exhibitions of works by Spanish and international artists.

One of the most admired works of contemporary architecture, the building as "one moment in the architectural culture" celebrated, because it "is one of those rare moments in which critics, scholars and the general public were all completely united about something." The museum, the building was completed most often named as one of the most important works since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture survey of architecture experts.


The museum is in glass, titanium-clad and limestone
Thecurves on the building were to appear at random. The architect has been [by whom?] In the words that "the randomness of the curves designed to capture the light" quotes. When it was opened to the public in 1997, it was immediately hailed as one of the world's most spectacular buildings in the style of deconstructionism, although Gehry not be associated with it, that architectural movement. Architect Philip Johnson called it "the greatest building of our time" .

The museum's design and construction serve as an object lesson in Gehry's style and method. Like many other works of Gehry, it has a structure consisting of radical sculptures, organic contours. Located as it is in a port town, it should resemble a ship. His brilliant, reflective titanium panels resemble fish scales, echoing the other organic life (and especially fish-like) forms that recur commonly in Gehry's designs, as well as the river Nervión, which is located on the museum. Also in typical Gehry fashion, the building is clearly a product of the time technology. Computer Aided Three Dimensional Interactive Application (CATIA) and visualizations were used heavily in the design of the structure.


Computer simulations of the building's structure made it possible to find forms that architects of earlier eras would have to build to build almost impossible. While the museum is a spectacular monument from the river, on the road it is quite modest and do not overwhelm its traditional surroundings. The museum was opened as part of a revitalization effort for the city of Bilbao and the Basque country. Almost immediately after its opening, the Guggenheim Bilbao became a popular tourist attraction, drawing visitors from around the world. It was in general [who?] With "putting Bilbao on the map" and credited subsequently inspired other structures of similar design around the world, as the Cerritos Millennium Library in Cerritos, California.

The building was on time and budget, which is rarely built for this type of architecture. In an interview in Harvard Design Magazine Gehry explained how he did it. He first made sure that what he ruled the "organization of the artist" during the construction period to prevent political and economic interests from interfering with the draft. Second, he made sure he had a detailed and realistic cost estimate before proceeding. Thirdly, he used CATIA and control to work closely with the various trades, the costs during construction.

The exhibitions in the museum itself change often, thematic exhibitions, the museum, center, for example, in Chinese or Russian art. The museum's permanent exhibition relates to art of the 20th Century, traditional paintings and sculptures are a minority compared to installations and electronic forms. The highlight of the collection, and the only permanent exhibition, The Matter of Time, designed a number of weathering steel sculptures by Richard Serra and is known in the 430-foot (130 m) Arcelor Gallery (formerly Fish Gallery, but was renamed in 2005 for the steel manufacturer that sponsored the project). The collections tend to highlight avant-garde art of the 20th Century abstraction and nonobjective art.


There is a tram stop 100 meters from the Guggenheim Museum. Line 18 of the bus system also has a close. The museum is located 500 meters north of Moyua Station on the Bilbao Metro.

The building is in the 1999 James Bond film The World Is Not Enough in the opening sequence where Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan), a case of British money from a corrupt Swiss banker steals (Patrick Malahide played) to see associated with the villain Renard terrorist network .

The boss of S. Shankar for the song style of music composer AR together: The building was in the mega-budget film Rajinikanth, Sivaji presented Rahman. The song sequence, choreographed by Prabhu Deva was shot for 16 days.
The building was presented on a poster reading Arthur and his friends from Frank Gehry in the television series that was named after Arthur presented. The poster had Gehry signature on it.
Mariah Carey's music video "Sweet Heart" directed by Hype Williams shows singer Dupri and Carey in different places at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao .
The building is in the computer game SimCity 4 presented as a buildable landmark.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Musée du Louvre



The Musée du Louvre (French pronunciation: [myze dy luvʁ]), or officially Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or simply the Louvre — is one of the world's largest museums, the most visited art museum in the world and a historic monument. A central landmark of Paris, it is located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement (district). Nearly 35,000 objects from prehistory to the 19th century are exhibited over an area of 60,600 square metres (652,300 square feet).

The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace (Palais du Louvre) which began as a fortress built in the late 12th century under Philip II. Remnants of the fortress are still visible. The building was extended many times to form the present Louvre Palace. In 1682, Louis XIV chose the Palace of Versailles for his household, leaving the Louvre primarily as a place to display the royal collection, including, from 1692, a collection of antique sculpture.[4] In 1692, the building was occupied by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, which in 1699 held the first of a series of salons. The Académie remained at the Louvre for 100 years.[5] During the French Revolution, the National Assembly decreed that the Louvre should be used as a museum, to display the nation's masterpieces.

The museum opened on 10 August 1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the building, the museum was closed in 1796 until 1801. The size of the collection increased under Napoleon and the museum was renamed the Musée Napoléon. After the defeat of Napoléon at Waterloo, many works seized by his armies were returned to their original owners. The collection was further increased during the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X, and during the Second French Empire the museum gained 20,000 pieces. Holdings have grown steadily through donations and gifts since the Third Republic, except during the two World Wars. As of 2008, the collection is divided among eight curatorial departments: Egyptian Antiquities; Near Eastern Antiquities; Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities; Islamic Art; Sculpture; Decorative Arts; Paintings; Prints and Drawings.

British Museum



The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects,[3] are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginnings to the present.[a]

The British Museum was established in 1753, largely based on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on 15 January 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. Its expansion over the following two and a half centuries was largely a result of an expanding British colonial footprint and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the British Museum (Natural History) in South Kensington in 1887. Some objects in the collection, most notably the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon, are the objects of intense controversy and calls for restitution to their countries of origin.

Until 1997, when the British Library (previously centred on the Round Reading Room) moved to a new site, the British Museum was unique in that it housed both a national museum of antiquities and a national library in the same building. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all other national museums in the United Kingdom it charges no admission fee.[4] Since 2002 the director of the museum has been Neil MacGregor.[5] Conservative Peer Lord Sainsbury has pledged to donate £25 million to the Museum to aid funding for a large scale extension, set to make it the world's largest museum by collection upon completion.

 
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