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The museum's collections are made up of more than 7 million objects from all continents. They illustrate human history from its beginnings to today.
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- Art -- Exhibitions Museums Art museums British Museum Engl -- London
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This gallery is a palace which contains the art collection of the Medicis, one of the most famous families in Italy.
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- Galleria degli Uffizi Art museums Italy -- Florence Art -- Exhibitions
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Also brought to you with the help of Google, this virtual tour is pretty cool too. Take a tour of the German Oceanographic Museum without ever having to get off your backside. Physically located in Stralsund, Germany, the museum is jam-packed full of exhibits about the wonders of the deep. This really is an interesting virtual tour if you cannot leave the house for whatever reason.
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- Oceanography -- Museums Germany Deutsches Meeresmuseum Exhibitions
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Specializing in modern art, the museum contains the Guggenheim spiral staircase, available on this virtual tour. From there, it is possible to discover works of art from the Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary eras.
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- Art -- Exhibitions New York (State) -- New York Art museums Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Hong Kong Philharmonic (HK Phil) is one of Asia's leading orchestras. From the 2012/13 season, Jaap van Zweden has become Music Director of the orchestra. The HK Phil annually touches the lives of over 200,000 music lovers through more than 150 performances including its extensive education activities for children and adults alike, and free concerts such as the popular Swire Symphony under the Stars, and regular broadcasts and telecasts, bringing the joy of classical music to the Hong Kong community. Outside of Hong Kong, the HK Phil has made a number of critically acclaimed tours in Asia and Europe.
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- Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra China -- Hong Kong Music -- Performance
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Many European works of art dating from the 8th century can be found in this California art museum, including a huge collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, manuscripts and photographs.
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- Art -- Exhibitions J. Paul Getty Museum Art museums California
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The famous Louvre museum can be visited online. If it is not fully accessible, Internet users can move around in the area of Egyptian antiquities and that of the medieval Louvre. The Apollo gallery is also available to observe all the details of the golden ceiling.
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- Art -- Exhibitions France -- Paris Musée du Louvre Art museums
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This non-profit organization is the first modern museum in Brazil. The works of art placed on transparent plexiglass frames give the impression of a work hanging in the air.
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- Art -- Exhibitions Brazil Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubri Art museums
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The Casino Nobile, which is already a “museum” from an architectural and decorative standpoint, contains a small but excellent museum devoted to pieces of statuary from the Torlonia collection found in the Villa (much of the collection still belongs to the family and is conserved in the palace in Via della Lungara) and several chance finds that have enabled a further strand of the Villa’s history to be added to the collection.The pieces displayed give a close idea of how the Torlonia family, in particular Giovanni (1756–1829) and his son Alessandro (1800–80) were for almost a century leading figures in the field of art collecting, a practice that had originated in at least the fifteenth century when distinguished families in Rome began to adorn their residences with fine works of art and furnishings. The works exhibited are not all from the same provenance: they were in part produced by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi, a noted eighteenth-century sculptor, restorer and antiques dealer, following Giovanni Torlonia’s purchase in 1800 of all the works in Cavaceppi’s studio; others come from finds on the properties belonging to the family; and yet others are pieces of the Villa’s furniture that managed to survive various spoliations. This nucleus of works was added to following a sensational discovery of several artworks in the basement of the Theatre in 1997. These were originally displayed in the principal palace but were removed from there at an unknown time and for an unknown reason. The discovery was of three large plaster reliefs by Antonio Canova, a woman’s head in the style of Michelangelo, several pieces of furniture from the Villa’s demolished chapel, and a splendid marble pediment taken from the tomb of Claudia Semne on Via Appia Antica. The final section of the museum is the reconstructed Bedchamber of Giovanni Torlonia (1872–1938), with the pieces of furniture that were used by Benito Mussolini during the period he resided in the Villa (1925–43).
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- Museo del Casino dei principi (Rome Italy)
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An awesome virtual tour you might want to check out is the one offered by the Museo Galileo. Located in the city of Florence, the museum houses some of the most important instruments in scientific history. Virtual tours of the museum might actually be the best way to see the museum as it can be a bit tricky to actually physically visit the place. It is a pretty small building and tends to be very popular over the summer months.
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- Museo Galileo Science museums Scientific apparatus instruments Italy -- Florence Exhibitions
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