The world's largest art museums #1

Art is an indispensable part of life. Human history has recorded countless lifetime works of art. Many of those works of art are being stored and preserved in museums around the world. Perhaps you will have your eyes widened in surprise at the scale of the world's largest art museums in the following list.

Louvre Museum (Paris, France)

The Louvre Museum is located in Paris, France with an area of ​​72,735 m2. The museum went through many stages of construction. Initially, the Louvre was a fortress built by King Philippe II in 1190. Then in the 14th century, under Charles V, the Louvre became a royal palace and then continued to be expanded through dynasties. . Since the French Revolution, the palace became a national museum.



The museum's current magnificence and splendor began in the late 19th century when the original fortress was destroyed and rows of houses along the Seine were built. In the 16th century, the palace was expanded by architect Pierre Lescot, who expanded the palace into a complex with two small courtyards. A decade later, Queen Catherina de Medici added the Tuileries palace to the west of the Louvre museum. Construction of the museum was delayed for a while when King Louise XIV decided to move to Versailles palace.


Perhaps there is no need to explain much because the Louvre Museum is so famous. The Louvre is a massive palace with magnificent architecture located on the banks of the romantic Seine River in the middle of Paris. This is the place to display and store more than 35,000 masterpieces of human art from Eastern, Egyptian, Roman, Islamic art... The Louvre is not only the largest art museum in the world but also the largest art museum in the world.

The museum welcomes the most visitors in the world and is home to many of the most priceless masterpieces such as the painting Mona Lisa, the statue of the god of victory Samothrace, the painting "The Raft of the Medusa", the statue "Amore E". Psiche", the statue of the Seated Scrib of ancient Egypt, the statue of Venus of Milo,... It is not an exaggeration to say that stepping into the Louvre is stepping into the paradise of art.

State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)

The Hermitage Museum is located in one of six magnificent castles that were once the Royal Palace on the banks of the Neva River, St. Petersburg with an area of ​​66,842 m2. This is also the oldest museum in the world with more than 250 years of history. Currently, the museum is storing a massive collection of about 3 million works of art from all historical periods from all regions of the world. Coming to Hermitage, you feel like you can travel to any area, at any stage. Perhaps that is why people once considered Hermitage to be the place where all the beauty of the world gathers.


The Hermitage is truly a unique museum, reflecting the history and artistic achievements of almost every region in the world. The museum is actively developing and expanding, establishing branches in Russia and many other countries. In addition, on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg there is a restoration and conservation complex called "ancient village" associated with the place here.


The museum has begun construction of a building shaped like a glass cube with a height of 60m, inside there are many exhibition spaces and a library with more than a million books. Famous Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas proposed the creation of a modern facility, connecting the buildings of the Hermitage complex with the new area by corridors of galleries, with glass walls. transparent. Petersburgers often have a cautious attitude toward modern architecture, especially when associated with masterpieces of great master artisans of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (also known as MET) is located in Manhattan, New York with an area of ​​58,820 m2 and is home to more than 2 million of the world's finest works of art. With the huge amount of works on display, it is difficult to visit all of the Met within a day, or even a week. The most characteristic feature of the Met is the diversity of works. The art objects displayed here are not limited to just one country, continent or period, but almost cover the entire art history of humanity from works of Western painting such as paintings. from Picasso and Van Gogh to Ming Dynasty wooden furniture (China), Japanese art collections, ancient statues from Africa...


While other museums often only display artifacts on a few specific topics, the Met alone displays almost every period of art from every country in the world. Going through the wide and high white stone ground floor, it is always crowded with people resting or waiting for companions to visit the Museum. Next is the large reception room with a giant vase of fresh flowers. If you are interested in Egyptian culture, you will be guided to the left, before reaching the Temple of Dendun - a building preserved from the 15th century BC, which will lead to the literary galleries.


Egyptian art. These galleries present chronologically a civilization spanning 36 centuries, from 3000 BC to 641. The Met has many treasures brought back by archaeologists to Ai. At one time, the Egyptian government also allowed foreigners to bring back half of the documents and artifacts they excavated.

Vatican Museums (Rome - Italy)

The Vatican Museum is the treasure of the Vatican located in the heart of Rome, Italy with an area of ​​43,000 m2. The massive collection of artistic masterpieces that Popes through the ages have contributed to building for the museum can amaze any visitor.
The Vatican Museums are home to almost all of the most prestigious works of the Renaissance and traditional Roman artifacts. Not only that, the museum also makes a strong impression with its unique Renaissance architecture such as spiral staircases, domes, walls, and ceilings all decorated with unique artistic masterpieces. . The most famous here is the Sistine Chapel where the talented artist Michelan - Gelo painted the painting "The Last Judgment" on the ceiling.


The entire Vatican museum has 12 galleries and 5 corridors that store and display masterpieces by two famous painters Raphael and Michelangelo and collections of Roman, Greek, and Egyptian civilizations. In the museum area, the most famous is the Sixtina Chapel built under the reign of Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere, at the end of the 15th century. This is also where the Cardinals meet to elect a new Pope and is the venue for the ceremony. summit meetings between the Pope and heads of state.


But most of all, it is where Michelangelo's two paintings "The Genesis of the Century" and "The Last Judgment" are kept, painted on the ceiling and walls. Since its inception, after four hundred years, the two paintings still make the whole world amazed and admired. Michelangelo spent exactly 4 years (1508 - 1512) painting scenes from the book "The Genesis of the Century" on the ceiling of the Sixtina Chapel and had to lie on a wooden trellis with his face up to the ceiling to paint.

Tokyo National Museum (Tokyo, Japan)

Tokyo National Museum with an area of ​​38,000 m2 is the oldest and largest museum in Japan, founded in 1872, located in Ueno Park, Tokyo. The museum's architecture is boldly Japanese. In addition to the main exhibition area, there are also restaurants, shops as well as sightseeing rest areas to serve visitors. Currently, the museum is storing more than 110,000 artifacts. These are mainly artifacts related to ancient Japanese art such as tea ceremony, calligraphy, masks, lacquer... as well as Asian art along the Silk Road. In particular, there are 87 artifacts recognized as Japanese national treasures. In addition to exhibition activities, the Tokyo National Museum also organizes research and education related to the history of the museum's artifacts.


Visitors can spend a few hours to a few days exploring the regular and special exhibitions of the Tokyo National Museum. Many of these artifacts have been identified as national treasures and important cultural assets. Foreign visitors will certainly be very pleased that many of the exhibits are labeled in English, Chinese and Korean.


English-speaking volunteers serve regularly in the exhibition hall, and brochures are presented in seven languages. The museum is open from Tuesday to Sunday. On Friday nights, the museum will close later for special exhibitions. Visitors must pay a small admission fee and an additional fee to view special exhibits. Located in Tokyo's Ueno Park, the museum is a short walk from Ueno station, with subway and train service.