Auckland Art Gallery

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Auckland Art Gallery

THROUGHOUT the 1870s many people in Auckland felt the city needed the municipal art collection but the newly established Auckland City Council was unwilling to commit funds to Such a project. Following pressure by Such eminent people as Sir Maurice O'Rorke (Speaker of the House of Representatives) and others, the building of a combined Art Gallery & Library Necessary was made by the promise of significant Bequests from two major benefactors; former colonial governor Sir George Grey, and James Tannock Mackelvie. 

Grey HAD promised books for a municipal library as early as 1872 and Eventually Donated large numbers of manuscripts, rare books and paintings from His collection to the Auckland Gallery & Library [in all over 12,500 items, Including 53 paintings]. I gave Present materials to Cape Town, Where He Had Also Been governor. The Grey bequest includes works by Caspar Netscher, Henry Fuseli, William

Mackelvie was a businessman Who Had retained an interest in Auckland affairs after returning to Britain. In the early 1880s I have Announced a gift of 105 framed watercolors, oil paintings, and a collection of drawings. 

His gift Eventually amounted to 140 items, Including paintings, decorative arts, ceramics and furniture from His London residence, These form the core of the Mackelvie Trust Collection Which is shared Between the Auckland City Art Gallery, the Public Library and the Auckland Museum. 

Mackelvie's will stipulated a separate gallery to display His bequest, This was not popular With the city Authorities but a special room was dedicated to the collection in 1893 and the top lit Eventually Mackelvie Gallery was built in 1916. The Mackelvie Trust Continues to purchase art works to add to the collection Which now includes significant 20th-century bronzes byArchipenko, Bourdelle, Epstein, Moore and Elisabeth Frink.

The Auckland Gallery INITIALLY collection was dominated by European old master paintings following the standard taste of the 19th century. Today the collection has expanded to include a wider variety of periods, styles and media, and numbers over 15,000 artworks. [2] Many New Zealand and Pacific are Represented artists, as well as Europe and materials from the Middle Ages to the present day. Notable New Zealand Artists with representation EXTENSIVE include Gretchen Albrecht, Marti Friedlander, C. F. Goldie, Alfred Henry O'Keeffe, Frances Hodgkins, Gottfried Lindauer and Colin McCahon. Some of These Were Donated works by the artists themselves.

In 1915 a collection of paintings of Maori by Gottfried Lindauer was Donated to the Gallery by Henry Partridge, an Auckland businessman. I have made the gift on the proviso That the people of Auckland raise 10,000 pounds for the Belgium Relief Fund. The money was raised Within a few weeks.

Another major benefactor was Lucy Carrington Wertheim. Miss Wertheim was an art gallery owner in London and through her support of expatriate artist Frances Hodgkins bestowed on the Auckland Art Gallery a representative collection of British paintings from the interwar period. Her gifts in 1948 and 1950 TOTALLED 154 works by modern British artists, Including Christopher Wood, Frances Hodgkins, Phelan Gibb, R. O. Dunlop andAlfred Wallis. The Wertheim INITIALLY collection was displayed in a separate room opened by the Mayor J. A. C. Allum on 2 December 1948.

In 1953 Rex Nan Kivell Donated an Important collection of prints, Including work by George French Angas, Sydney Parkinson, Nicholas Chevalier, and Augustus Earle. The 1960s saw the arrival of the Watson Bequest, a collection of medieval European art. In 1967 the Spencer collection of early Inglés and New Zealand was Donated watercolors, This included early New Zealand views by John Gully, John Hoyt, and John Kinder. In 1982 on the death of Dr Walter Auburn, print collector and valued adviser to the Gallery's prints and drawings department, the Mackelvie Trust received His magnificent collection of over one and a half thousand prints, Including work by Callot, Piranesi, della Bella and Hollar .

In 1952 Eric Westbrook was appointed as the first full-time director of the Art Gallery (previously the Head Librarian was formally in charge of Both the Gallery and Library). He was succeeded in 1955 by Peter Tomorywho Until 1965. Both men stayed Sought to revitalize the Gallery and introduced modern art to a Largely conservative public in the face of resistance from a hostile Largely City Council. The 1956 Spring Exhibition "Object and Image 'Showed works by modern artists: such as John Weeks, Louise Henderson, Milan Mrkusich, Colin McCahon, Kase Jackson and Ross Fraser. Other controversial exhibitions, Including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, Resulted in serious confrontation Between the Council and Tomory, RESULTING In His resignation.

Tomory's Intended purchase of Hepworth's Torso II in 1963 (likened by one councilor to 'the buttock of a dead cow') changed the climate of art and culture in New Zealand. Even the conservative NZ Herald ITS pointed out to readers, "It is no function of an Art Gallery to be stuffed with exhibits Which everyone can comprehend." The bronze statue was bought privately by the local businessman George Wooler and anonymously Donated to the Gallery.

In 1988, Christopher Johnstone Rodney Wilson succeeded as principal. During His 8 years as director of major exhibitions included Pablo Picasso: The artist before nature (1989), Rembrandt to Renoir, Which Attracted to record attendance for an exhibition charge exhibition of 210,000 (1993) and, in 1995, a Programme marking the centennial of the artist's visit to the gallery, Including the exhibition Paul Gauguin: Pages from the Pacificand a major book: Gauguin and Maori Art Other achievements During His incumbency Were the funding and development of the New Gallery for contemporary art, Which opened in 1995, the. establishment of Haerewa, the Maori Advisory Group and a significant range of acquisitions for the collection and the Trust Mackelvie Including Including works by works by Vanessa Bell, John Nash, John Tunnard, Anish Kapoor, Jesus Rafael Soto and Ed Ruscha.

On 4 April 2012, it was Announced That the Auckland Art Gallery would join the Google Art project. 'It is a fantastic opportunity to Share with the rest of the world some of the best of our New Zealand and international collection,' Said RFA Gallery director Chris Saines. [3] 'People Can Learn About New Zealand art and enjoy up close even When They are on the other side of the planet. ' Auckland Art Gallery has 85 artworks Contributed to the project: STI 56 are from New Zealand and Pacific collection by 29 international artists. The Gallery's two Senior Curators, Ron Brownson (New Zealand and Pacific Art) and Mary Kisler (Mackelvie Collection, International Art), selected the works. Examples of New Zealand art now available via Google Art Project include Colin McCahon's On Building Bridges (1952) and paintings by Dunedin-born Frances Hodgkins.

                                                             

   

National Museum of Air and Space

A paradise for lovers of terrestrial and space flight is in the United States. The National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of Air and Space in Washington DC, the Smithsonian Institution in the United States contains the largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world.

To me that I love everything about space (not to the point of wanting to travel to it, but that's another topic ...) I would love to introduce this unique museum and to discover the interesting collection, in which almost all objects on display are originals or backup copies of the originals.

A must for lovers of aeronautics in which also investigates the history, science and technology of aviation and space flight, as well as planetary science, terrestrial geology and geophysics place.
In addition, the building itself is interesting, as the National Museum of Air and Space is considered one of the most significant examples of modern architecture in Washington D.C.

Due to its proximity to the Capitol, the Smithsonian Institution wanted a building that was impressive but not overshadow the Capitol.

The design of the museum shows four large cubes of travertine rock or sinter which are connected by three spacious courts of metal and glass, which house the exhibits of missiles, aircraft and larger spacecraft.

The museum was opened in 1976 and since then has expanded its collection in an unstoppable advance of the conquest of air and space. The exhibition galleries highlight the history of aviation, the solar system, satellite imagery and aerial photography as well as exploring the universe

These are some of the most interesting pieces from the National Museum of Air and Space, although they are divided between the main building in Washington and its annex, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, a spectacular resort located near Washington Dulles International Airport in northern Virginia.

Including historical and curious pieces, like the Apollo module 11, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, meteorites, original costumes of astronauts or moon rock:



The original Wright Flyer, a plane that made the first powered and controlled flight in 1903 (Orville Wright and Wilbur Wright).

One of the Douglas World Cruiser (specifically Chicago) that successfully conducted the first aerial circumnavigation of the earth for 175 days, covering more than 42,000 kilometers.

The Spirit of St. Louis, in which Charles Lindbergh made the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

The Bell X-1, in which Chuck Yeager made the first supersonic flight.
A V-2 Rocket reconstructed, the first human object to reach space.

The Friendship 7 capsule, with which John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.
The module of Apollo 11, the first manned mission to reach the moon.

One of the few samples of lunar rock accessible to the public (you can even touch).
A rock from Mars (a meteorite).

A replica of Pioneer 10, the first human object to leave the solar system.
SpaceShipOne, the first private piloted vehicle to reach space.

The prototype of the Boeing B707, known as Boeing 367-80 or Dash 80.
The SR-71 Blackbird, a reconnaissance spy plane high speed and height.
The Air France Concorde, famous supersonic airliner.

The prototype space shuttle Enterprise.
The Enola Gay, the plane from which the atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima was launched on August 6, 1945.

A Messerschmitt Me 262, the Nazi model aircraft was the first fighter-bomber jet propulsion history.

                                                                

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Swiss comes from a humble family in the mid-nineteenth century emigrated to the United States. His father had to get ahead of him and his six brothers working as a traveling salesman until his entrepreneurial spirit made him owner of an empire of copper and silver mines.

Solomon already owned one of the largest fortunes in the country, where in 1927 he meets the Baroness Hilla Rebay von Ehrenwiesen who would spread his passion for abstract art. Advised by the Baroness, Guggenheim acquired works by artists in different parts of the world to get the country's largest collection of Non-Objective Painting was named as. In 1937 he creates the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and two years later the Museum of Non-Objective Painting in the premises of 54th Street.

The exhibition hall was small and in 1943 Hilla Rebay commissioned the design of a museum architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The architect showed his famous rebellion in the project by going against their clients, governments, the world of art and the public. Wright did not hide his disagreement with the choice of New York for the museum who saw it as a city without merit, but was convinced by arguments as to be located in the natural surroundings of Central Park. The design of the building, in inverted conch angered neighbors on the Upper East Side who saw it as an aberration among his select homes. The interior had a novelty in the art exhibition galleries separate lacking and that will be a single ascending spiral along the entire building, a fact that was loudly criticized by artists.

When the new museum on Fifth Avenue, and its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim or the architect Frank Lloyd Wright could attend was inaugurated in 1959. Solomon died in 1949 leaving the foundation in his son Harry and his niece, the famous and controversial art collector Peggy Guggenheim. Wright died six months before seeing culminated the most important work of his career.

In order to relieve the exhibition of works in the early 90s, the museum has been expanded to an adjacent building designed by architects Gwathmey Siegel and Associates, and in 1992 inaugurated the Soho Guggenheim Museum designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozake, a museum of short-lived and that lack of funding closed in 2001.

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation has grown over the years by different cities. A mid-70s, Peggy Guggenheim Foundation donates his art collection and his home in Venice, the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni. In 1997, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, a masterpiece of architect Frank Gehry, and the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin is inaugurated. The last branch, the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas, opened in October 2001 and is framed within the complex Venetian Resort Hotel Casino

Over 800 meters of galleries that spirals up by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and illuminated by a large central dome on the roof, abstract and impressionist works of art by artists such as Robert Delaunay, Constantin Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti are exposed, Alexander Calder, Rene Magritte, Vasily Kandinsky, Jackson Pollock, Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí.

                                                                 

Egyptian Museum Cairo

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Egyptian Museum Cairo

commonly known as Egyptian Museum (Arabic المتحف المصري), it is located in Cairo (Egypt), and holds the greatest collection of artifacts from the era of ancient Egypt; It has more than 120,000 classified objects from different periods of Egyptian history.

Since the military campaign in Egypt Napoleon, European interest in Egypt was waking into a real mania for the Pharaonic and old.

During the early nineteenth century, European consuls and treasure hunters, explored throughout the country, some in search of relics and monuments and others in search of gold and precious treasures.

In 1835, the Service des Antiquités de I'Egypte was founded to protect the monuments and treasures of the country in the local and foreign greed. At first, the pieces found were kept in a small building near the current Azbakia area in the center of Cairo and later in the Citadel of Saladin.

However and during the visit of the Austrian Emperor Maximilian, Governor, Egypt Abbas Pasha gave the entire collection.

In 1858, Auguste Mariette prepared another museum, in the neighborhood of Bulaq, who later lost by a flood of the Nile.

In 1878, the contents of the museum Boulaq moved to Giza Palace of the Governor Ismael Pasha, the governor of the country. The collection remained there until the current museum was inaugurated in 1902.

The present building was designed by French architect Marcel Dourgrion in a style neoclassico, thinking it would be the most appropriate for your content. Two of the floors of the museum are devoted to public exhibition and classroom study, in which more than 120,000 pieces of different eras of ancient Egypt, in chronological order in the direction of clockwise is.

                                                           

Royal Palace in Milan

The Palazzo Reale in Milan, a former royal palace With its large halls, refined furnishings and sweeping staircase, is today an exhibition venue and Important Cultural Centre. 

With a space of 7,000 square meters, it displays Regularly modern and contemporary art works Including many famous collections from around the world in collaboration With renowned museums and Cultural Institutions.

The Symbolism exhibition at Il Palazzo Reale in Milan Brings together Symbolist art by Italian and foreign artists. On display are more than 100 paintings, sculptures and graphics, on loan from major European museum and private collections.

Symbolism That is an art movement started around 1850 as a reaction to Realism and Naturalism. It Placed imagination and intuition at its center and focused on the subconscious, the unusual and the unexplained.

The exhibition Brings to Italy some of the Symbolist masterpieces That Have never been seen here before. For example the The Caress (1896) by Fernand Khnopff, a reference to the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx, and La Mort d'Orphée (1893), a work by Jean Delville Celebrated. Both paintings are from the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Art in Brussels.

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The exhibition Alfons Mucha and Art Nouveau will atmosfere at Palazzo Reale in Milan recreates the elegant and sensuous feeling of the era of Art Nouveau. 

At the center of the exhibition are over 100 works by the Czech painter and decorative artist Alfons Mucha, Including posters and decorative panels.

Alfons Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the Most Important interpreters of Art Nouveau, Promoting a powerful new innovative visual language through art.

 His posters with female figures Were popular across many parts of society, That Having a signature style is still Widely Recognised today.

Mucha's works are complemented by a series of ceramics, furniture, wrought iron, glass, sculptures and drawings by European artists and manufacturers from the same.

                                                                 

California Academy of Sciences

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California Academy of Sciences

The Academy of Natural Sciences in California (California Academy of Natural Sciences) was founded in 1853, just three years after California joined the United States, becoming the first company of its kind in the American West. Its founding purpose was to undertake "a thorough systematic review of each part of the state and collecting a sample of his rare and rich products." It was renamed with a broader and California Academy of Sciences (California Academy of Sciences) in 1868 sense.

Academy showed a close, come to that time, on the participation of women in science, passing a resolution in its first year of existence where members' highly approve the aid of women in every department of natural sciences, and invite cooperation. " This policy led to a number of women working in professional positions as botanical, entomólogas and other occupations during the nineteenth century, when opportunities for women in science were limited, and often the positions that existed were restricted to mere work of calculation and cataloging .

The first official museum of the Academy opened in 1874 at the intersection of California and Dupont (now Grant Avenue) streets in what is now Chinatown, and got up to 80,000 visitors per year. To accommodate its growing popularity, the Academy moved to a new, larger building on Market Street (Market Street) in 1891, funded by the legacy of James Lick, property tycoon inmuelbes nineteenth century San Francisco, businessman and philanthropist. However, only fifteen years later the installation of Market Street, a victim of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, which also brought down much of the library of the Academy and ruined specimen collections were destroyed. The vast destruction after the quake, conservatives Academy and employees were only able to recover a single carriage of materials, including minute books of the Academy, income files and 2,000 types of especímenes.6 Luckily an expedition to the Galapagos Islands (the first of several sponsored by the Academy) was already under way and returned seven months later, providing instant collections that replaced the lost.

It was not until 1916 when the Academy moved to the Pavilion of Birds and Mammals of North America in the Golden Gate Park, the first building of the place that would become his permanent home. In 1923, the Steinhart Aquarium, followed in 1934 by the African Pavilion Simson was added.

                                                                 

National Palace Museum, Taipei

Located in Taipei, it is considered one of the five most famous museums in the world, and houses works of art from nearly every period of five thousand years of Chinese history. It features unique works of the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing, painting, calligraphy, dynasties and all kinds of art objects that show the richness and beauty of the culture and art of China. It is a sanctuary of art that can not miss any lover of the artistic spirit.

The museum building is built in the style of the palaces of Beijing, with a majestic exterior, five floors, four of them with a total of about 20 showrooms. The museum houses more than 650,000 works of art are stored in warehouses and are showing off on changing.

In 2007 there was a remodeling of the museum by increasing the space for exhibitions and other spaces for the convenience of visitors. There are places of rest and cafes, as well as two gardens "Zhishan" and "Zhide" old style make visitors appreciate even better the spirit of Chinese art.

For a minimum of time displays need half a day or more. It is important not to rush and to enjoy in peace the artistic atmosphere and the deep flavor of the Chinese art world.

                                                              

caixaforum museum

CaixaForum is Madrid's culture and architectural latest star. It is One of Those sights Where the building is as much of an attraction as the content found in the interior, featuring With its exuberant façade to vertical garden by the French botanist Patrick Blanc.

It Consists of 15,000 plants from 250 species, attracting large crowds That Then proceed to the exhibitions and other events inside.

Once through the doors Then visitors are drawn to another curious sight, a staircase That Could Easily be mistaken for a Gaudi creation found in Barcelona. In reality however, the extraordinary Entire building is by the famous Swiss duo Herzog and De Meuron, best Known for designing the Tate Modern in London That led to Their Pritzker Award win.

The location Chosen by La Caixa Foundation for Its New Madrid home naturally HAD to be in the vicinity of the Prado, the Reina Sofia, and the Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, so for an old power plant That HAD to be restored and expanded. It is now one of the Spanish capitals best examples of architecture industry, and one of Its must-see sights.

The exhibitions feature works from the foundation's permanent collection (some 700 pieces by artists from the 1980s to the present), as well as temporary displays from other museums and foundations.
In Addition to the exhibition space, the complete $ 36-million Cultural Center includes a bookshop, a restaurant, and an auditorium That hosts concerts and conferences.

                                                                

Great Museums: Victoria and Albert, London

The second half of the nineteenth century was marked by the personality and the legacy of Queen Victoria of England. During his tenure he reached the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the heyday of the British Empire. But his figure would not be understood without the presence of her husband, Prince Albert who lived a love story whose death, also defined the character and the reign of Victoria past 40 years.

During this period, Alberto drives the realization of the Great Exhibition to show the world the development attained by England. In 1851 the area of ​​Kensington in London Hyde Park is transformed to host the exhibition halls. Thus it was born, for example, the majestic building of the Crystal Palace we can still visit. The Great Exhibition was a success and one consequence of this was the creation of the present Victoria and Albert Museum.
The museum was established in 1852 under the principle of putting the works of decorative art exhibition worldwide, educate and inspire the working class and industrial designers British. At first it was called the Museum of manufacturers and their fund was created based on the acquisition of individual pieces and objects.

The museum moved to its present site in 1857 and is named South Kensington Museum. His collection grew rapidly by acquiring pieces of furniture, textiles and other decorative arts. He also added artworks as painting, drawings, prints and sculpture as a means to illustrate the different times in which they were created industrial objects.

Gradually they were adding and building outbuildings to house the ever-expanding collection until 1899 when Queen Victoria herself laid the foundation for the building we know today. At that time, it was Victoria who renamed the museum with his name and that of her husband died 30 years earlier.

                                                                

Archaeological Museum in Rabat

Description of architects. The Archaeological Museum in Rabat is part of the program to build an archaeological museum and earth sciences for the Ministry of Culture of Morocco. This project includes an environmental process linking visual comfort and collection preservation, rainwater recovery and energy creation (through solar cells).
Our decision is directly related to the topics related to the museum, with an anchor on the ground, as close to the ground, its topography, archeology. We want an entry in depth, to immerse the visitor directly in the sciences and subjects exposed and developed in the museum.

The architecture is mineral, because it refers to the components of our planet and is in motion, articulated as a skeleton for its arches of different heights and lengths. The building is not a solid block, on the contrary, respects the visual harmony of the Pavillon Lyautey and scale of the surrounding buildings, creating a soft link with the nearby gardens.

The arch is a significant and constitutive element of the project. It offers fluid spaces, adapted to different exhibition themes, required volume and surfaces. On the facades Games shadows and highlights. The arches are built with the topography, they enter the garden allowing vegetation to leak through it.

The structure creates a lively urban promenade museum since Roosevelt Avenue. The size of the arches, generous height can be adjusted according to the needs and program developments. The bows of different levels, courtyards, openings on the garden, create beautiful bright t environments with a dim light coming from the north and south light captured alive through the Arab-Moorish designed by photovoltaic cells motives.

This project includes an environmental process linking visual comfort and collection preservation, rainwater recovery and energy creation (through solar cells). Divided into three gardens (garden representations, Arabic-Moorish garden and playful garden) park refers to the relationship between man and the earth and science. The gardens maintain a continuity with the exhibition spaces and also spaces for visits and discovery, accompanied by glazed windows.

The outlook of the gardens from the Pavillon Lyautey, created from the contemporary building, ensure a link that unifies the three gardens. a simple and durable due to the sobriety of the project plastic, permanence of architecture and design of the environment is created. It is a sober support and allows you to highlight the richness and diversity of the collections on display. It is a didactic support for the dissemination of universal knowledge and Moroccan culture.

                                                                  

National Museum of Korea, Seoul

Receives many people from neighboring countries, which are China and Japan, because they do not waste the advantages offered by their geographical proximity and move towards the place. 

In Korea there are a variety of interesting places to visit, but if staying in place is not wide enough that meet two typical cities. One is Pusan, located near the Japanese coast and is promptly visited by the Japanese in the holiday period, as well as by tourists arriving in Hiroshima and make the decision to cross the pond, in the direction of Korean and Seoul, which is its capital. Right here, one of the possible destinations to visit is the National Museum of Korea, a perfect place to take a glimpse into the history of the country and is separated into two. Opened since 1945, the building being changed in 2005, so now it is in the Yongsan Family Park. 

The museum is composed of a collection corresponding to approximately 150,000 pieces, of which there are some 11,000 always on display. This is considered the largest museum in Asia. In order to protect the treasures to be found in the new building, a building that is earthquake-proof and each of its rooms has special platforms which are absorbed shocks and tremors were built. Likewise has a system of natural lighting and air purification system that has been specially designed to save energy and protect the articles.

 The National Museum of Korea has dimensions of 404 meters long. It is three stories high and around a number of large gardens. The left side is dedicated to the past and the right side is dedicated to the present and future of the country. At the first level are the elements related to archeology and historical documents, the second floor is devoted to the arts in general, ie the crafts, paintings, calligraphy, etc. 

as well as private collections that were donated, and finally on the third level the second part of the second, composed of more Korean Buddhist sculptures and handicrafts is also a special gallery devoted exclusively to Asian art

                                                                 

Acropolis Museum

The museum has been built on stilts to preserve and integrate into the new building important archaeological remains were found while digging the foundations. The project of the Franco-Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi has been inspired by mathematical concepts of classical Greece.

The building consists of:

A base, suspended by stilts, that through a transparent glass floor allows you to see the remains of archaeological excavations.

A central trapezoidal volume, 10 meters high, supported by imposing columns.

A superior, fully glazed volume that houses the rectangular Parthenon gallery where the protagonist is natural light that filters through the windows and skylights offering a suggestive view of the Acropolis.

The building has three floors. It houses more than 350 sculptures and archaeological remains, some up to 2,500 years old, found in excavations of the Acropolis.
One floor is dedicated exclusively to the Parthenon and it has reserved a room where the Elgin Marbles would be located if they are returned by the British Museum in London. Currently replicas of temple friezes are exposed.


One of the most valuable pieces of the museum is the kriophoros, a "kouros" Marble 165 centimeters tall bearing a ram shoulders and is considered one of the masterpieces of the Archaic Period in Greece.

                                                                

Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, (Spain)

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía opened in 1990, with an important collection of Spanish and international art, covering the period from the late nineteenth century to the present. Two years later, Pablo Picasso's Guernica, a seminal work that influences the speech and activities of the Museum was incorporated.

Located in a former hospital building from the late eighteenth century by the architect Francesco Sabatini, the growth of its collection necessitated its expansion, and in 2005 the new building designed by Jean Nouvel opened.

From the 18,000 pieces that make up the collection of the Museum, in recent years the collection has been rearranged, creating a journey that delves into the distinctive features of the museum, such as Surrealism, the Pavilion of the Republic of 1937 or Informalismo Spanish 50s in the international context. Currently, it is organized around three main sections: "1900-1945: The advent of the twentieth century utopias and conflicts", "1945-1968: The war is over Art for a divided world?" And "1962-1982: the revolt to postmodernism. "

Chronologically, the collection is an extension of the Museo del Prado, to cover the period from the late nineteenth century to the present. Royal Decree 410/1995, of 17 March, restated state collections, marking the year of birth of Picasso (1881) as the dividing line between the Prado and Reina Sofia, an approach that has been questioned as too rigid and will It is diluted by the latest initiatives of this museum, such as the incorporation of examples of Goya and Sorolla.12

The trajectory of contemporary art in Spain, for decades ignored by the private collectors and public institutions, explains that there are many gaps in the international repertoire of the museum, although it has some relevant examples of multiple artists. The collection takes as its core the contemporary Spanish art and contextualized in international flows of foreign authors with examples from Pierre Bonnard to Louise Bourgeois, emphasizing those related to Spain, including Robert and Sonia Delaunay, André Masson, Francis Picabia, Alexander Calder, Torres García and Rafael Barradas.

The inventory of artistic goods comprised, as of September 2014, 18,145 works, including 3408 paintings, 1654 sculptures and installations, 3148 drawings, 5502 prints, 3630 photos, 346 pieces of video, film and audiovisual arts included 354 performative and intermediate and 98 architecture, design and decorative arts. Many are set 1100, 6% .13 Moreover, some donated pieces are also exhibited in trust by third parties in order to complete the own funds of the museum.