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 History of the Swiss National Museum
Country: Switzerland
City: Zurich
The Swiss National Museum, ZurichThe 19th century is generally regarded as the century of nations and nation states. While other countries were busily erecting memorials, monuments and institutions, though, the young federal state of Switzerland struggled with the idea of setting up a national museum.
Plans to create one met with widespread scepticism, and there were also entirely pragmatic reas ... |
Musee d'OrsayCountry: France
City: Paris
The musée d'Orsay is a museum housed in a grand railway station built in 1900. Home to many sculptures and impressionist paintings, it has become one of Paris's most popular museums.
New Railway Stations
At the turn of the 19th century, two large railway stations were built in Paris, the Gare de Lyon and the Gare d'Orsay. The Gare d'Orsay had the most prominent site, along the Seine opposite the ... |
Alcatraz IslandCountry: United States
City: San Francisco
Sitting like a beacon in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, between San Francisco and Oakland, California, is Alcatraz Island. Though most prominently known for the years it served as a maximum security prison, the “Rock’s” history stretches far beyond those infamous days, and its legends and stories continue to find their way into American lore, complete with a number of ghosts who are sa ... |
The Getty Center Country: United States
City: Los Angeles
The Getty is an international cultural and philanthropic institution devoted to the visual arts and the humanities that includes an art museum as well as programs for education, scholarship, and conservation.
The Getty Center opened to the public in December 1997, unites the J. Paul Getty Trust's museum, institutes, and grant program on one site in Los Angeles. It has received well over one mill ... |
The Art Institute of ChicagoCountry: United States
City: Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago holds one of the world's great art collections. The following describes just a few of the wonderful exhibits:
The African & Amerindian collection includes an African exhibit of wood sculpture, masks, ceramics, furniture, textiles, and beadwork from West, Central, and Southern Africa and an Amerindian collection of Mesoamerican and Andean ceramics, sculpture, texti ... |
The Pyramids of GizaCountry: Egypt
City: Giza
Between about 2700 and 2200 BCE, the Egyptian rulers began building the giant pyramids that many people have seen on postcards or in the movies. These pyramids were like huge gravestones for kings and queens.
The Egyptian builders used the most rare and interesting stones they could find to make the pyramids' chapels and statues. These stones often came from far away. The Egyptians brought red gr ... |
The Science MuseumCountry: United Kingdom
City: London
The Science Museum is an amazing place to visit. Even visitors who go there thinking they weren't really interested in science tend to soon find out that they are in fact interested, amazed, and fascinated by science. The Science Museum is a big place where many of the objects which you know exist in the physical scientific world are there for you to see on exhibition. Often bigger than expected, ... |
British MuseumCountry: United Kingdom
City: London
The British Museum was founded in 1753 to promote a better public understanding of the arts, natural history and science. It contains one of the world’s greatest displays of antiquities, documenting the rise and fall of civilisations from all over the world. The museum opened to the public in 1759, with the famous Rosetta Stone being presented to the museum in 1802, along with many other Egyptian ... |
The Archaeological Museum, CarnuntinumCountry: Austria
City: London
The ancient city of Carnuntum, the capital of the Roman province Upper Pannonia covered an area of about 10km² in today's municipalities of Petronell-Carnuntum and Bad Deutsch-Altenburg. From 35 to 40 AD the legion XV Apollinaris erected a fortified military camp. This was the start of the flourishing of the city later on as a centre of trade. Situated at the crossroads of the Amber Road and the L ... |
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of MostarCountry: Bosnia and Herzegovina
City: Mostar
Old Bridge Area of the Old City of Mostar - UNESCO World Heritage List
The oldest written testament of the existence of medieval Mostar date back to the 15th century, prior to the invasion of the Ottoman Turks. The testament was the work of Herceg Stjepan Radivoj (the Duke of Herzegovina).The first medieval bridge in Mostar was a wooden suspension bridge which was very unstable and of fragile con ... |
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