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The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre) in Paris is the most visited museum in the world and for good reason. With more than 35,000 works of art on display ranging from paintings and sculptures to decorative objects and archaeological treasures, it is truly one of the greatest repositories of human artistic achievement anywhere on the […]

For lovers of Impressionism, a pilgrimage to the Marmottan Monet Museum (Musée Marmottan Monet) is absolutely essential.  Keeper of the largest public collection, 94 paintings plus 29 drawings, pastels and watercolors by Claude Monet, the movement’s founder and source of inspiration, the works include 1873’s seminal “Impression: Sunrise” from which the revolutionary school of artists […]

The M.H. de Young Museum is the San Francisco Bay Area’s premier fine arts museum with a collection totaling more than 27,000 works including paintings, sculptures, drawings and decorative objects dating from 1670 to the present day.  Located at the heart of the city’s Golden Gate Park, the museum was established in 1895 and is […]

Visiting the Frick Collection is like traveling back in time to the Gilded Age at the dawn of the twentieth century.  Housed in the one of the last remaining Fifth Avenue mansions that characterized the opulence of that bygone era, the art collection and the landmark building itself stand as a testimony to the aesthetic […]

As the second largest museum in New York after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan, the Brooklyn Museum boasts a vast collection of more than 1.5 million works of art, thousands of which are displayed in a gracious Beaux-Arts landmark overlooking Prospect Park. Embracing the inherent diversity of the global experience, the museum focuses […]

Grand in form and content yet still intimate and inviting, the California Palace of the Legion of Honor features an impressive and wide ranging collection of paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, decorative objects and archaeological artifacts spanning 6,000 years of human history. Famed for its holdings of the work of French sculptor Auguste Rodin in particular […]

Guimet Museum (Musée Guimet) Holding a collection of approximately 45,000 works of art spanning 5,000 years representing the cultures of Afghanistan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand, Tibet and Vietnam, the Guimet Museum (Musée Guimet) exhibits what is considered the largest and finest collection of Asian art outside of Asia.  Housed in a […]