The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam or Rijksmuseum which is a State Museum is commonly known as Dutch national museum is located in Amsterdam, on the Museumplein. The museum is has various sections which are dedicated to the crafts, arts as well as history. It has a huge collection of paintings which belongs to the Dutch Golden Age you will also find a good amount of collection of the Asian art. Founded in 1800 the museum has a huge collection of Dutch Stadtholders which is kept in display in The Hague. It was very much inspired by the French. Later it was named as the National art gallery. King Louis Bonaparte had ordered to displace the existing museum and move it to Amsterdam. King Louis Bonaparte was the brother of the very famous Napolean Bonaparte. The city owned the paintings of the museum. The painting of Rembrandth named the night watch was  [...] 

The Kunsthistorisches Museum which means Museum of Art History, and is very much commonly known as the “Museum of Fine Arts” is located in Vienna, in a festive building on Ringstraße, also is been crowned with a dome which is octagonal in shape, is one of the popular museums of decorative arts and fine arts in the world. The term Kunsthistorisches Museum is used for both the main building as well as the institution. Every year nearly 619.318 people visit the museum. Vienna is the capital city of the German nation and hence is easily accessible from any corner of the world. The museum was started in 1891. The same time the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, named Franz Joseph I had opened the Naturhistorishes museum. The two museums stand opposite to each other on the Maria-Theresien Platz also they have quite similar exteriors. The plans  [...] 

Having a huge collection of fine arts The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) can be truly stated as an encyclopedia for fine arts. AIC is located at Illinois’s Grant Park in Chicago, at 111 South Michigan Avenue. In the permanent fine art collection of the museum there are many extra-ordinary collections of Impressionist as well as post-impressionist art. The various collections do include American arts, Old Master works, American and European decorative arts. You will also come across contemporary as well as modern arts and also a huge collection of Asian arts. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is connected with the AIC and is looked after by the President and Director James Cuno. AIC ranks second in the list of the largest art museum in United States. The total area of the museum is around one million square feet. The Art Institute  [...] 

Baalbek is a small town located in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. It is situated at an altitude of 1,170 metres towards the east of the Litani River. It is very much popular for their elegantly detailed temple ruin which belongs to the Roman period, popularly known as Heliopolis, Baalbek was then ranked among the largest sanctuaries in the Empire. It is supposed to be the Lebanon’s best Roman treasure. It is also counted among the ancient world’s wonder. Also it described as the most noble as well as the largest Roman built. They are also the best preserved temples. Baalbek stands high up on the Beqaa plain. The wealth and power that the Majestic Rome possessed could be easily noticed in its monuments. You can feel the influences of the locals in the layout and the planning of the temple; it was very much different from that of the classic  [...] 

The national art Gallery is located on the National Mall in Washington DC. It has got the pride of being the national museum for art. The museum was first opened in the year 1937 and there is no entrance fee if you want to visit the museum. It was construction with funds donated by Andrew W. Mellon and built by the passing of a joint resolution by the United States Congress. Andrew W. Mellon donated a huge amount of art collection to the museum. The collections of the museum also include many donations of art works did by various artists such as Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Paul Mellon. Samuel Henry Kress, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Chester Dale. Rush Harrison Kress, Joseph E. Widener, Peter Arrell Brown Widener. The collection of medals, decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints and drawing will surely give you an idea about the development  [...] 

The Roman Forum is known as the Forum Romanum in latin is the common name for the forum.It is located in the city of Rome in between the Capitoline hill and the Palatine Hill. It is supposed to be the central area and around it there was the development in the age-old Roman civilization. The local citizens of the place address the Roman Forum as the Forum Magnum and also as the Forum. In the forum you will come across the most ancient and the most important structures of the old city. There is a former royal palace known as the Regia. The old republic was supposed to be having a Comitum in the forum where the senate and the government began. The people of the city were gathering at the forum for the faith and justice as the forum was the central hub as well as the city square. The forum had a pride of being the economic center of the city  [...] 

The metropolitan Museum of Art is often known as The Met. It is an art museum. The metropolitan Museum of Art is located on the eastern side of the Central Park in the New York City of the United States of America. There are around two million art works which are included on the permanent section of the museum. These two million art works are placed in to nineteen different sections. The Met, which is the main building of the museum, is one of the largest art galleries in the world. The Met has a sub-division named as The Cloisters, in the upper Manhattan which displays the medieval art. The permanent collections of the art works has the various collection of the Ancient Egypt, Classical Antiquity also Sculptures and Paintings of mostly all the European masters. It also has a huge collection of the modern art as well as the American art. The  [...] 

The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney is most important branch of the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences located in Sydney. The other museums are merely Sydney Observatory. The powerhouse museum has a huge gathering encircling all type of technology including Media, Decorative arts, Space technology, Communication, Science, Furniture, Costume, Steam engines, Computer technology and the transport. The collection is displayed for nearly 125 years. There are about 400000 artifacts displayed in the museum since the year 1988. The electric tram power station which lies in the suburban area of Ultimo in the inner west are is what the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney is more famous for. Originally it was constructed in the year 1902. It is one of the most popular tourist’s attractions in Sydney. The museum publishes a quarterly magazine named Powerline is available  [...] 

Pompeii is a Roman town near the modern city of Naples which is ruined as well as buried. Pompeii is located in the Italian region of Campania. Herculaneum is Pompeii’s sister city. The volcanic eruption went on for nearly 2 days in 79 A.D which ultimately buried and destroyed the city. The high roof lines also collapsed due to the volcano and as a result the Pompeii city was buried deep under 60 feet of pumice and ash. The city was lost for almost 1700 years. The Pompeii city was again rediscovered in 1748 due to an accident.  Extraordinary information of the life of the city was also found. Pompeii is one of the most popular tourist destinations in Italy. UNESCO declared Pompeii as the World Heritage Site in 2007. In the same year nearly 2,571,725 people visited Pompeii in the same year. A very little is known about the first settlers  [...] 

A prehistoric monument, Stonehenge is located at Wiltshire. Wiltshire is situated at a distance of about 3.2 km to the west of Amesbury and also to a distance of 13 km to the north of Salisbury. Stonehenge is one of the most popular cities in the world. Stonehenge has a composition of earthworks which is being surrounded in a circular shape by huge standing stones. The centre has a huge monument which belongs to the Neolithic and the Bronze Age. Also there are many mounds which are buried.  Many archeologists have stated that the monuments which are made up of stone do belong to 2500 BC. Many also believe that they might be erected much before a 3000 BC and some do believe that till 2400-2200 BC there were no such stones erected. The circular construction dates back to 3100 BC. The UNESCO added this monument as well as its neighboring buildings  [...]