THE MOST FAMOUS MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD
Helping people understand and appreciate the natural worldThe history of civilizationsThe record of humanity's artistic, scientific, and technological achievements
• SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION• THE HERMITAGE• THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Smithsonian Institution
• A major center for research and education
• 16 museums, the National Zoo, and several prominent research centers
• 1846 • The bequest of James
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• 140 million items• Masterpieces of modern
sculpture• The world's oldest fossil• The original compass used
by the Lewis and Clark expedition to the American West
Smithsonian Institution
The Hermitage1764
• Catherine the Great purchased a collection of 255 paintings from Berlin
• Over 2.7 million exhibits
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• A neoclassical 19th-century building reconstructed from the Baroque Winter Palace (1754 - 1762)
• Museum complex: the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage
The Hermitage1764
Departments• The department of primitive
culture (1931)450,000 items - from the early
Stone Age to the Formation of the Russian state
• The department of antiquities - from Ancient Greece and Rome, Roman sculptural portraits
• The numismatic department1,100,000 itemsItalian Renaissance medals by
Antonio Pisano, Benvenuto Cellin
• The department of the history of Russian culture (1941)
from palaces, mansions, private collections and small museums
Departments
THE BRITISH MUSEUM
• A museum of human history and culture in London
• 7 million objects• Illustrating and
documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present
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• Established in 1753• Based on the collections of
Sir Hans Sloane (collection of curiosities)
• An encyclopedia of nature and of art
THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Museum, Video
Departments
• Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan
Egyptian antiquities• Department of Greek and
Roman Antiquities Antiquities from the Classical
world (from 3200BC to the 4th c AD)
• Department of Prehistory and Europe
the art and archaeology of Europe
the history of Britain under Roman occupation
• Department of Conservation and Scientific Research (1920)
ceramics & glass; metals; organic material; stone, wall paintings and mosaics
Departments
• CAPACITY TO REFLECT CONTINUITY AND CHANGE
• TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE
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