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TOKYO Metropolitan Museum of Photography is the only museum in Japan devoted to the photography world. Museum building consists of four floors and is located in Ebisu Garden Place, Tokyo. The Museum has a diverse collection of photographs and drawings ever in Japan. In addition about 20 programs ever held in this place, including an exhibition organized to put pictures snapped by the photographers are amazing.
In 1990 the museum was officially opened to the public. This is a photo gallery of the first in Japan that are not only dedicated to displaying the images from only a single photographer. Museum exhibiting a collection of photographs from many photographers and it is becoming enlightened in the world of photography to organize a show photos periodically.
A total of three exhibition rooms are available at the museum, located on floors B1, 2, and 3, and there is screening at the 1F hall. Museum has a collection of photographs from world renowned photographers around 25.000 photos, and 60,000 books on photography.
Singapore is not just a place for shoppers. Countries with a typical white lion statue symbol also has a number of museums for art lovers and history. One of the highlights and the latest, is a museum located in the region ArtScience Marina Bay Sands.
In addition to permanent exhibitions, the building with the shape ‘10 fingers’ which is also held an exhibition of iconic periodic changing in some particular period. If you happen to be in Singapore and interested in visiting museums renowned architect Moshe Safdie, it is worth visited two exhibitions that take place within a limited time only.
1. Dali: Mind of a Genius – The Exhibition
Museum visitors will enter the mind ArtScience surrealist Salvador Dali, one of the artists of the 20th century’s most famous. This exhibition displays over 250 works of art of Dali is divided into three themes; Femininity and Sensuality, Religion and Mythology, and Dreams and Fantasy.
Dali, famous for his works are always linking the conscious and unconscious. Dali was always into account the philosophical, such admiration for women. Even the fear of the insects also poured in a unique blend of art. Read the rest of this entry »
MUSEUM of Louvre is home to famous paintings including the Mona Lisa. This museum is the oldest museum in Europe. About 6 million tourists visit this museum every year because of the historical background of the museum and arts elements. Not surprisingly, the Louvre became the most visited museum in Paris. In 1204 the Louvre was built as a castle. Then, the place was rebuilt in the 19th century. From the palace for kings and queens, now turned into a palace of art. Mentioned that the Louvre is the world’s richest museum with a collection of arts.
Not only paintings but also antiques, sculpture and graphic arts design the main attraction of this place. There is also a varied collection of antique civilization of Egypt. Upon entering the museum, you will be greeted with a glass pyramid similar to the building of the museum. At the bottom there is the main entrance to the room of Napoleon.
It would be easy for you to explore the museum because each side is marked with a color code. Each floor also has its own color code and is divided into 10 sections. Each room is numbered. So, if you want to see a particular collection will be very easy to find. In the southern part of the museum there is a gallery lined with large glass so that visitors can see more closely the work of a revival of Italian society in the 19th century.
You can see a gallery in which there were several collections of the Spanish nation. In addition you can also enjoy the creations of art from artists such as Leornado Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Milo, Donatello, Berlin and Maillol.
IF you look at the outside, this building looks like a castle with a roof slanted. Then, you try to look into, what is more unique than ever before? It seems there are many many stone and bronze sculptures are strange here. With flows of U.S. $ 58 million, all artists from various arts organizations in the UK this year had the opportunity to work in West Yorkshire geleri Hepworth Wakefield (hepworthwakefield.org).
Wakefield named because in 1968, a sculptor Barbara Hepworth opened its largest art gallery in the City of London, England, Hayward Gallery. This proves that there are many places in the UK exhibition of modern sculptures. There are about 44 types of sculpture in plaster and encased in aluminum. There are also pieces of Hepworth’s work that has been completed and exhibited in the old Wakefield Art Gallery
Near Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire Sculpture Park is also there (ysp.co.uk) which offers a variety of local and foreign works of art. One of the very fine statue was made ??by sculptor Jaume Plensa Spaniard.
SO many historic sites with incredible views in Turkey are often too eager to make travelers, up until the confused where to start. Often, travelers do not take appropriate steps in haste to visit the palace continued to another one, so the impression is captured from a variety of destinations that enjoyed easy escape from the memories. Well, one place not to be missed during a visit to Turkey is the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul.
Again, many people often visit him as if in passing, around the objects on display in the palace, complete. Without much in-depth impression of what had just dilihatlihat.
Similar tours to museums that are often performed in field trips during school activities first. However, if you concentrate and focus on just a few rooms in the palace into a museum which is now enabled it, you’ll save so much memory and a sense of awe. Topkapi Palace was once the residence of the sultans for 400 years, the Ottoman dynasty that ruled for 624 years until the mid-19th century.
The palace was used for royal occasions, so it’s not surprising just how remarkable treasures stored there. Topkapi Palace was built in 1459 by Sultan Mehmed II as a royal residence. This palace is home to 4,000 people and is equipped mosques, hospitals, until the making of bread and place of making money. Read the rest of this entry »