Historical and zoological, technology and art museums preserve the history of mankind, its culture and creativity. One day will not be enough to visit the largest museums in the world, and even a week will not be enough to appreciate all the magnificence of the collected exhibits.
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The Louvre is the largest art museum in the world. Previously, the building of the museum was an ancient castle, built in 1190 by Philip Augustus. He began his activity as a museum on November 8, 1793. Their masterpieces from all over the world are located on an area of 195,000 square meters. The catalog contains over 400,000 exhibits. For convenience, the exhibition was divided into seven parts: applied art, painting, sculpture and graphics, the department of the Ancient East, the ancient Egyptian department, the art of Greece and Rome. If you have only one day, visit the main masterpieces to which special signs lead.
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The Vatican Museum has 1,400 rooms that house 50,000 objects. In order to get around the entire exposition, you will have to cover no less than 7 km. Locals and seasoned tourists recommend starting the tour from the Egyptian Museum, moving towards the famous Belvedere, then to Raphael's Stanzas and the Sistine Chapel - the main local shrine.
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The British Museum opened its doors to its first visitors on January 15, 1759. It is known throughout the world as the Museum of All Civilizations or the Museum of Stolen Masterpieces. Such names are quite justified, since the exhibits exhibited within the walls of the museum were not always obtained in an honest way. The Rosetta Stone was taken from Napoleon's army in Egypt. A similar story of obtaining sculptural friezes of the Parthenon, sculptures of the mausoleum in Halicarnassus and many others.
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Fans of natural science exhibits: stuffed animals, dinosaur remains and their modern models should go to the National Science Museum in Tokyo. It takes your breath away from the beauty and variety of plants gathered in one place and huge toothy skeletons hovering under the ceiling.
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The Museum Mile in New York has collected the best museums in the United States, the largest of which is the Metropolitan. Here are collected exhibits from the Paleolithic era to the present. Of particular admiration is the hall, in which it is proposed to get acquainted with the clothes worn by the inhabitants of five continents for seven centuries.
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The State Hermitage in St. Petersburg is the largest art, cultural and historical museum in the whole world. It owes its appearance to the collection of Empress Catherine II. The Imperial Museum was opened to the public in 1852. Today, the walls of the Hermitage carefully preserve over three million works of art. The museum itself is a complex of six magnificent buildings, headed by the Winter Palace.
