The following list, the museums from New York to Los Angeles and includes everything is put together by a recent survey of the most visited museums of world art. Just quality speaks volumes museums, art or not, devoted in the United States. So I suggest you follow my Twitter list of museums in the United States for more ideas from museums to visit.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
On the edge of Central Park in New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the largest museum in the United States, where more than two million pieces live in the permanent collection in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East is organized. Late 2011 and early 2012, The Met his renovated American art and Islamic art galleries. It is also located here is the Costume Institute, the examples of forms through the centuries has.
Must see art: Hokusai "The Great Wave at Kanagawa (left), is a piece of Asian art collection of the Signature Collection Met Egyptian Temple of Dendur, an original 15 BC temple European collection contains early works .. some of the biggest names - Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Renoir, Gauguin, Monet.
National Gallery of Art
The National Gallery of Art, founded in 1937, is the U.S. national art collection of the National Mall in Washington, DC. The museum is divided into East and West buildings, including the first, the majority of American and European museum collections, and has modern and most of the time the exhibition space special art. The entrance to the National Gallery is free. (Note: The National Gallery of Art is not the jurisdiction of the Smithsonian Institution.)
Must be able to see the work of art: The most prized possession of the NGA is the portrait of Ginevra de 'Benci by Leonardo da Vinci (left). This is the only painting by Leonardo in America.
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan contains a large collection of modern art and organizes exhibitions of contemporary art galleries, newly renovated regularly. Some of the most famous of the 20th century by artists such as Van Gogh, Rousseau, Pollock, Picasso and beautify the walls of the MoMA painting.
Tips for Visitors MoMA: Please note that admission to MoMA is free on Fridays 08.04 clock (expect crowds). This modern restaurant is only open for museum visitors, one of the best restaurants do not accept reservations in New York, The Modern.
Must-See Art: Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night" is amazing in person. Other must see works are "The Sleeping Gypsy" by Henri Rousseau; "Number 31" by Jackson Pollock; "Flag" by Jasper Johns; "Cans". Andy Warhol
J. Paul Getty Museum
The J. Paul Getty Museum is in two locations in Los Angeles. The Getty Center in Brentwood houses the collection of pre-20th century European paintings, sculptures and furniture and 19 photographs of Europe and North America in the 20th century. It is designed in a building by architect Richard Meier, and its center was designed by Robert Irwin.
The Getty Center receives a majority of the total visitors to the Getty Museum, Getty Villa, but is located in Pacific Palisades, is also impressive. This is where the Getty show his collection of antiques, some of which are controversial (see the book [Compare Prices] "Chasing Aphrodite") Must art. Van Gogh's "Iris," "Venus lying on a monster find Marine with Cupid" John Deare; "The Supper at Emmaus" by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi.
Art Institute of Chicago
Impressionists and Post-Impressionists are the strengths of the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, a museum in the famous city park. The Art Institute also has a collection of African American art.
Must to see works of art: Georges Seurat "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" (left) is a famous piece in the collection of the Art Institute. In addition, there are many paintings by Monet, Manet, Cezanne, Renoir and Cassatt. In its American collection, search Grant Wood "American Gothic".
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The more than 450,000 works of art that the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is one of the largest museums in the United States. His most famous collections include American art, Egyptian art and French Impressionist paintings. Thanks Boston twinned with the city of Nagoya, Japan, Japanese art collection of MFA (Edward S. Morse Collection) is the largest outside of Japan. Chinese art is also on display.
Must See Artwork: John Singleton Copley Portrait of Paul Revere (left). Copley also remarkable, "Watson and the Shark"; Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington; Works by Gauguin, Cézanne, Monet.
De Young Museum
This institution of Fine Arts in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is famous for its collection of American art, including a focus on art, especially California. The de Young Museum also has a large collection of art from North and South America, from pre-Columbian times to the 20th century, and Oceanic art. More than 13,000 textiles and costumes consist young important collection of textiles.
Must be able to see the work of art: "Three Machines" by Wayne Thiebaud (left), "Prometheus Bound" by Thomas Cole, Edward Hicks Peaceable Kingdom "and" Miss California "by Albert Bierstadt.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMA, as it is called, is the largest art museum west of Chicago, with an estimated 100,000 works of art from antiquity to the present. Your best for his American galleries that focus on known pre-Columbian art and Latin America. Thanks constantly nice weather LACMA has many permanent and temporary outdoor installations. Also the Asian art collections, including the collection of Korean art, is the largest outside of Korea, and some religious pieces from Southeast Asia.
Must to see works of art: Presentation of new star is LACMA "mass levitation", a sculpture by the artist Michael Heizer blocks of "Urban Light" (left) by Chris Burden has another flagship ..
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Located in a striking building designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the Upper East Side is home designed by Manhattan, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for its modern technology is known. Originally called the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, when it opened in 1939, the Guggenheim began with a collection of abstract works and outside the United States and European destinations. For its founding in 1952, famous, Guggenheim now shows his abstract base collection as well as works of all genres of contemporary art, including Dadaism, Impressionism, Pop Art and Surrealism.
Must to see works of art: Any number of works by Wassily Kandinsky, an artist for a special gallery. "Through Paris Window" by Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani Collection "Nude" photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The most popular museum Museum of American Art, which is located in downtown Washington, DC, Gallery Place, Smithsonian Institution. Housed here are works of all genres, from painting from the colonial era of Popular Art and from all regions of the United States.
Must See Art: Albert Bierstadt "Among the Sierra Nevada" (left); "Electronic Highway: Western Europe, Alaska, Hawaii," a video installation in the form of National from artist Nam June Paik; Georgia O'Keefe "Manhattan"; and "Cape Cod Morning" by Edward Hopper.
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