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The National Museums of Scotland
The National Museums of Scotland show Scotland to the World and the World to Scotland through extensive collections built up over more than two centuries. Displays of the collections can be seen at six sites, and research collections which contribute to our knowledge of the human and natural world are available for study.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art--in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe--seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collections in particular, and the visual arts in general, to an increasing and increasingly diverse audience as a source of delight, illumination, and lifelong learning.
The Phillips Collection
http://www.phillipscollection.org/
The Phillips Collection is a publicly supported, non-government museum of modern art and its sources. The mission of The Phillips Collection is to present and interpret the museum's permanent collection, to diverse, local, national and inte rnational audiences. This will often be done in conjunction with special exhibitions, lectures, concerts and other cultural initiatives designed to enhance public pleasure and understanding.
The Prado Museum
In the Prado Museum you can not only enjoy one of the biggest art galleries in the world, sculptures, drawings and other artistic treasures. Contained within its walls is more than one century of history, the knowing of which will help you enjoy your visit all the more.
The Stedelijk Museum
The Stedelijk Museum has responsibility for a large part of the collection of modern art belonging to the City of Amsterdam. This diverse collection counts more than 100,000 objects from 1850 to the present: paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, graphic design, applied arts, industrial design and new media. Part of the permanent collection is always to be seen in changing combinations.
The Tate Galleries
Tate is a family of galleries and operates on four sites in different parts of Britain.
The Tate galleries house the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art.
The Tate Gallery
The Tate galleries house the national collection of British art from the sixteenth century to the present day, including the Turner Bequest, and the national collection of international modern art.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
The works of art in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection are the fruit of seventy years of collecting. Among the 775 paintings, which form the collection, are a number,
which can truly be considered masterpieces.
Van Gogh Museum
At the Amsterdam museums's web site visitors can glide through several excibition rooms and examine 70 of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings.