Famous museums of the world

There are departments of Medieval Antiquities, Asiatic Antiquities, Prehistoric and Roman- British Antiquities and the Department of Asia. The museum also represents personal collection of Sir Hans Sloane, who was a physician and naturalist. He had a collection which consisted of a library ( books, manuscripts, prints, drawings), herbarium, coins and medals.
The building of the museum has a quadrangular form and was designed in the 19-th century especially for the museum by Sir Kobert Smirke.
The total number of all museum’s items is around seven million.

museum has galleries for ceramics and glass, gold and silver ware, sculpture, textiles, dress, furniture, as well as drawings, paintings, photographs. There are also figures of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as well as busts and figures of British artists whose works are represented at the museum.
At the museum’s main entrance there is a 9-meter high chandelier made of glass. It welcomes its visitors and opens 145 galleries which hold over four million items.

in 1872 and is called the treasury of human civilization. Now it consists of nineteen departments. The museum’s collection contains more than two million works of art from all parts of the world, from ancient to modern times, and represents major artistic movements. The Drawings and Prints Department contains drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrant.
The popular centerpiece of the Egyptian Art Department is the Temple of Dendur- the large sandstone temple.
In 1910 the Met became the first museum to display the paintings of Matisse.

was opened in 1989. The basis for the museum was the collection of Bill Harrah, the famous collector from Nevada. There are some legendary cars, race cars, special coupes, convertibles, cabriolets, minivans, pickup trucks. The exhibitions also tell about many advances which were achieved: dual- engine, multi- valve engine, four- wheel breaks, transmissions and throttle control.
The building of the museum covers about one thousand square feet and contains more than two hundred cars from 1892 to present.