8 well-known museums over the world
October 27th, 2009 by dee
Recently, a German website has selected “the eight European museum most worth visiting” through online poll.
Madam Tussald’s waxwork museum in London of Britain ranks first and was founded in London Baker Street by the waxwork sculptor Madam Tussald in 1835.The collection of the waxworks contains historic celebrities, royalty members, sports and entainment stars and the famous amoks and so on.
The Paris Louvre in France is the museum with the largest number of visitors. It was opened to the public and become public museums in 1792.Among the many art treasures on display, the most famous ones should be “Venus” statue, “Mona Lisa” painting and the “Goddess of Victory” a stone sculpture.
British Museum of London is established in 1753. At present it has a collection of more than 13 million.Known as the British Museum, it is the world’s largest museum of history and culture.
The London Dungeon is one of the world’s most eerie attractions. It offers a true representation of the dark and miserable side of the medieval history of London.The dark dungeon, the drip from the roof, the white skeleton, the small bells and so on, the atmosphere construted by the backgroud sound makes the scene of the dungeon seem more ghostly and horrific.
Prado Museum in Spain’s largest art museum, and is also one of Europe’s oldest museums.Prado Museum is in Madrid, has a collection European most famous works of art from the 14th century to 19th century
Since German port city-Hamburg launched the miniature train park in 2001, this modeling realistic miniature landscape attracted a large number of visitors and it became one the most popular scene spots in German.
The Anne Frank House, located in downtown Amsterdam, Netherland, is the hiding place of Anne during world war two, where she wrote the famous works “Diary of Anne Frank”.This world famous book’s original is exhibited permanently here. Visitors here come in endless stream during the tourist season.
The Uffizi is the biggest art gallery in Italy.You can enjoy not only the most well-known Italian paintings in the Renaissance but also the famous painting masterpieces from other countries like Spain, Germany and Holland.
Tags: museum
Related posts
- No Comments »
- Posted in Travelling