| Â | | | | Europe,the Hermitage has attained an astonishing |
| Antique museums are stretched all over the globe. | | | | collection composed of three million items and objects |
| Every such museum is unique and extraordinary in | | | | in the past three centuries. indeed, it represents the |
| itself. Every museum is know of some or the other | | | | maturity and progress of world culture and art from |
| particular or exceptional attribute and facet But there | | | | the Stone Age to the 20th century. The Western |
| are some of the world's best known antique | | | | European Art section unaided covers French, Dutch, |
| museums, which are famous and renowned, both for | | | | English, Italian, Flemish and Spanish, German art. The |
| their collection and service. | | | | Hermitage possesses two of the ten or twelve original |
| | | | works by Leonardo da Vinci (Madonna with a Flower |
| The Vatican Museum, Vatican City, Italy | | | | and Madonna Litta). |
| This museum includes the eminent Sistine Chapel and | | | | The Prado, Madrid, Spain |
| Raphael rooms. One can take pleasure in the splendor | | | | The Prado is one of the most prized, respected and |
| and beauty of Bernini's spiral columns and | | | | visited museums on planet. The greatest potency |
| Michelangelo's dome. The imposing Vatican Museum | | | | being the Spanish art; it houses works by Goya, Murillo, |
| encloses 22 detached compilations, varying from | | | | Velasquez, El Greco, and other notables. Though it |
| Etruscan and Egyptian art to diagrams and | | | | specializes in paintings, it also demonstrates outsized |
| contemporary religious art. | | | | collections of coins, medals drawings and decorative |
| Â | | | | art. The neoclassical pretense of the museum is |
| Le Louvre, Paris, Franceit possess the legendary Mona | | | | characteristic of the city's 18the century architecture. |
| Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Also, it is the most | | | | The Smithsonian, Washington, D.C, USA |
| well-known museum in the world. Two centuries ago | | | | The Smithsonian Institute holds the honor of being the |
| the museum, Louvre was a medieval fortress and the | | | | world's biggest museum complex and research |
| palace of the kings of France. Even the renovation of | | | | organization. Composing of 16 museums and galleries |
| the square in addition to glass pyramid in its core takes | | | | and the National Zoo. It has covers no less than 142 |
| nothing away from the historical magnetism and charm | | | | million objects which represents the country's most |
| of the Louvre Palace. The museum's collections, | | | | important memories. Take out enough time and plan |
| ranges from the birth of the great antique civilizations | | | | your visit carefully to complete the Smithsonian. |
| to the first half of the 19th century, are among the | | | | Â |
| most significant. | | | | These 5 are the world best, well-known and |
| | | | respected antiques museums on the earth. Each one |
| The State Hermitage, St.Petersburg, Russiadespite | | | | is special and magnificent it itself. Representing the art, |
| Russia's isolation from the great art centers of | | | | history, culture and tradition of their native land. |