Museums of Fine Arts, natural sciences, contemporary art, secular or religious. There are hundreds of museums that each of us would like to visit, but they are usually located in another city or, worse, in another country. But in modern world You don’t have to travel far to do this. “Mel” has compiled for you a list of 15 museums that you can visit in any weather and at any time, completely free, without leaving your couch.
The museum complex on the Capitoline Hill in Rome is not just a few buildings with paintings and statues, it is almost an entire city in miniature. Three palazzos (Palazzo Nuovo, Palazza dei Conservatori and Montemartini Central) are located on the Capitoline Square, in the creation of which Michelangelo took an active part. And it’s not hard to believe: almost every meter of the complex breathes art. The museum contains the original of the Roman “She-Wolf”, try to find it.
Perhaps the most famous museum and the palace complex of St. Petersburg after the Hermitage. The main exhibition occupies five buildings: the Mikhailovsky Palace with the Benois exhibition building, the Mikhailovsky Castle, the Marble and Stroganov palaces and Summer Palace Peter I. In addition, the territory of the museum includes several gardens and parks - there is a lot to see. A virtual tour allows you to visit all parts of the Russian Museum, and this is not always possible to do even on a trip to St. Petersburg.
The second name of the museum is Museum fine arts. Considered the largest museum in France after the Louvre, it contains about 2,000 paintings and 1,300 sculptures. All these works of art (from the 15th century to the present day) are placed in 70 galleries, detailed panoramas of which are on the website.
The museum was built on the site of an old theater: Dali once noticed the ruins and turned them into a colorful and memorable complex. The basis of the museum's collection is, of course, the works of the artist himself. There are rooms here that are part of the exhibition in themselves. The theater-museum is best described by the words of Dali himself: “I want my museum to be a monolith, a labyrinth, a huge surreal object. This will be an absolutely theatrical museum. Those who come here will leave feeling like they were in a dream.”
There is probably no person in the world who has not heard anything about Madame Tussauds. This is a museum of wax figures (actors, politicians, directors, philosophers, athletes), which are made with incredible precision. A curiosity and peculiarity of this particular London building is the Cabinet of Horrors. It contains copies of various revolutionaries, murderers, psychopaths and other dangerous criminals.
The Louvre is a citadel of European art, the most popular and majestic place in Paris, always full of tourists. So complete that it is sometimes impossible to see the paintings themselves. The Louvre was originally built as the residence of the king, so everything in it breathes splendor. There are currently only three routes available for virtual tours of the museum: Egyptian exhibits, a tour of the former moat that surrounded the building, and the Apollo Gallery. But the routes are constantly updated, keep an eye on the website.
It was here that the residence of the king moved from the Louvre; this complex is a work of art in itself. Since the end of the 17th century, Versailles served as a model for the ceremonial country residences of European monarchs and aristocracy, and it is also included in the list of world cultural heritage UNESCO. Not stored in the palace famous paintings, but there are unique frescoes on the ceilings, and the interior of the castle itself, with its huge corridors and spacious halls, will make anyone gasp.
One of largest museums world and the main historical and archaeological museum of the United Kingdom. It contains exhibits from all over the world: China, India, Africa, Oceania, South America. In addition, of course, the history of Britain itself is told. The length of the museum is four kilometers. The British Museum is also a national library, the collections of which number about seven million volumes of printed publications.
The gallery was founded by a merchant who owned one of the largest collections of domestic fine arts. There is probably not a child in Moscow who would not go on an excursion to the old red building on Lavrushinsky Lane. But if you still don’t have the time or opportunity to visit the museum, walk around it virtually: the tour is incredibly detailed.
A museum in Washington that you can't miss: it's huge both outside and inside. In terms of the set of exhibits, the museum resembles our Darwin Museum, but the exhibition is much more impressive. Such a collection of butterflies and sea reptiles preserved in alcohol (giant squid, for example) cannot be found anywhere else in the world. The museum’s section with huge dinosaurs and other fossils has also been closed for three years, but you can still walk through these halls online!
Under the capacious sign “Vatican Museums” hides a whole galaxy exhibition halls and galleries. The most venerable exhibitions are five centuries old. During this time, museum curators managed to collect a stunning collection of sculpture, paintings, manuscripts, household items and religious art. And museums began with just one statue. Online you can walk through St. Peter's Basilica, the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, the Basilica of St. Paul outside the city walls, the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore and, as a bonus, walk through the Sistine Chapel.
The museum complex includes six buildings, but online you can only walk through one, the main one. It contains an impressive Greek hall with a statue of Apollo, replicas of the tombstones of the Borgia brothers and artifacts from the excavation of Troy. The Egyptian hall with a copy of the sarcophagi of the pharaohs looks especially mysterious.
Without a doubt, the largest palace in St. Petersburg, which incorporates not so much painting and sculpture as history itself: the Hermitage has been the royal residence since the time of Peter I. The museum is huge, in places you can even get lost inside, but, as in the Louvre, size does not always mean space. There are so many visitors to the Hermitage that you have to stand in a long line before entering, and it’s not always possible to get to the necessary exhibits. IN virtual tour no one will bother you. There is also an overview of selected collections and exhibits on the museum’s website.
Space is a mysterious and alluring space, which the Planetarium introduces visitors to in an interesting and beautiful way. The museum is located on four floors and consists of several exhibition options: the Urania Museum, the Lunarium, the small and large Star Halls. By the way, the Star Halls deserve special attention: they show on huge screens educational programs, which will be of interest to both children and adults. Unfortunately, you can’t watch them online, but you can walk through the halls of the museums and even go to a cafe!
You can also check out the website at your leisure. Google: ArtProject. It contains millions of exhibits from thousands of museums: Google was the first to start digitizing exhibits. And there you can walk to many places. Here, for example, St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Louvre (French: Musée du Louvre) - one of the largest and most popular art museum world (9,260,000 visitors in 2014, third in the world in terms of area: 160,106 square meters, of which 58,470 are exhibitions). The museum is located in the center of Paris, on the right bank of the Seine, on Rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement of the capital. The museum building is an ancient royal palace (Palais du Louvre). The equestrian statue of Louis XIV marks the beginning of the so-called historical axis of Paris. The Louvre is one of the oldest museums with a rich history of collecting artistic and historical relics of France, dating back to the Capetian dynasty to the present day. Everything was collected in the Louvre; this museum can be called universal. His collections cover vast geographical and temporal spaces: from Western Europe to Iran through Greece, Egypt and the Middle East; from antiquity to 1848. European art modern period time - from 1848 to the present day - is presented at the Musee d'Orsay and the Center Georges Pompidou, and the Asian one is exhibited at the Guimet Museum. The art of Africa, America and Oceania is exhibited at the Quai Branly Museum.
Royal Palace
At the heart of the Louvre is a castle-fortress - the Great Tower of the Louvre - erected by King Philip Augustus in 1190. One of the main purposes of the castle was to monitor the lower reaches of the Seine, one of the traditional routes of invasion and raids of the Viking Age. In 1317, after the transfer of Templar property to the Order of Malta, the royal treasury was transferred to the Louvre. Charles V turns the castle into a royal residence. The obsolete Great Tower of the Louvre was destroyed by order of Francis I in 1528, and in 1546 the transformation of the fortress into a magnificent royal residence began. These works were carried out by Pierre Lescaut and continued during the reigns of Henry II and Charles IX. Two new wings were added to the building. In 1594, Henry IV decides to connect the Louvre with the Tuileries Palace, built at the request of Catherine de Medici. The square courtyard of the palace was created by the architects Lemercier, and then Louis Levo during the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, enlarging the palace fourfold. The design and decoration of the palace was then supervised by such artists as Poussin, Romanelli and Lebrun. In 1667-1670 The architect Claude Perrault built the Louvre Colonnade on the eastern façade of the palace, facing the Louvre Square. In 1682, work was abruptly stopped when Louis XIV chose Versailles as his new royal residence. Since the 18th century, there has been a growing number of proposals to turn the Louvre building into a museum. The project was born during the reign of Louis XV and ended with the French Revolution. After the revolution, work at the Louvre was continued by Napoleon I. His architects Percier and Fontaine began the construction of the northern wing along the Rue de Rivoli. This wing was completed in 1852 under Napoleon III, and the Louvre was completed. After the fire and destruction of the Tuileries during the siege of the Paris Commune in May 1871, the Louvre acquired modern look. IN…
- The Louvre was originally conceived as a fortification tower. The first buildings were carried out by King Philip Augustus back in the 12th century. The amazing finds of these medieval buildings were discovered only during the reconstruction of the Louvre in the 20th century. It is from the medieval part that our excursion will begin. You will see the helmet of Charles VI, the Hall of Saint Louis, ancient wells and secret signs left by the builders.
- Next we will move to that part of the Louvre that was rebuilt during the Renaissance, we will visit the halls that, in addition to amazing stories, contain rare collections of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture. You will see the Venus de Milo, Hermaphrodite, the Three Graces, the huntress Diana and many others.
- Next, our path will follow to the Apollo Gallery - one of the most impressive halls storing luxury items: imperial crowns, cups from precious metals and stones.
- We will also visit rooms with works of painting by great masters - Cimabue, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, David, Delacroix, Ingres. You will see the legendary Mona Lisa and St. John.
- Our tour will end in the modern wing, which until recently was occupied by the Ministry of Finance, and now houses a collection of furniture and tableware from Napoleon III.
During the tour you will hear many amazing stories: for example, about the secret of Leonardo da Vinci and the nightmares of his childhood, about the mysterious disappearance of Mona Lisa, about the terrible illness of Charles VI, about the oddities of Botticelli and the ambitions of Napoleon III. You will be able to solve the mystery of the painting that can hear, and see the secret signs on the canvases of the Flemish masters. You will also learn a lot about the life of Marie de Medici, thanks to the paintings of Rubens, and learn to read secret meaning his works.
My excursion, unlike most similar offers, takes 3 hours, during which you will have time to see much more than if you visited on your own. And even more so, you are not in danger of getting lost or going astray.
Organizational details
- The price of the excursion does not include the price of a ticket to the museum - 15 euros. Children under 18 years of age enter the Louvre free of charge.
- The tour starts near equestrian statue Louis XIV (opposite the entrance - Pyramid of the Louvre).
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Book a tour on any of the available days on the calendar
- This is a private tour in Russian, the guide will conduct it for you and your company.
- Start of the excursion Statue of Louis XIV on horseback in front of the Pyramid of the Louvre. We will send you the exact meeting point and contact details of the guide immediately after booking.
- On the site you pay 20% of the cost, and the rest of the money goes to the guide on the spot. You can
Description of the excursion
The Louvre is the most big museum in the world, its collection numbers more than four hundred thousand exhibits, visitors can see only part of it, the rest of the art objects are in storage. It is impossible to learn everything about the Louvre in one visit, but sightseeing tour will give general idea about this amazing treasury and will introduce you to the most significant works art stored in the museum. First of all, these are the three main masterpieces of the Louvre, which traditionally include the Mona Lisa, the Nike of Samothrace and the Venus de Milo. After the tour, you will have the opportunity to wander around the halls of the museum on your own. On your next visit, you will be able to pre-select the halls, artists, and sculptors you would like to see.
The Louvre building includes three wings - "Richelieu", "Sully" and "Denon".
- It is the Denon building that the lion's share of all visitors to the Louvre strive to get into. And this is not surprising. Here is perhaps the most famous painting in the world - “La Gioconda” by Leonardo da Vinci. You will have the opportunity to look at this masterpiece and form your own opinion. Once upon a time, this painting “stayed” in Moscow, but the museum’s management decided not to take it out anymore, so you can only see the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. In addition, in this wing there is a gallery of Italian, French painting and sculptures.
- The Richelieu wing will attract the attention of those interested in the painting of Northern and Western Europe. Here you can see paintings by Durer, Vermeer and others famous artists. To the Sully Corps lies the path of those who are carried away rich history oldest museum. Through the ground floor you can get to the walls of the fortifications of the old Louvre.
- The armless beauty Venus de Milo (Aphrodite) is also extremely popular. It is located in the same wing as La Gioconda, in the hall of ancient values. And finally, the winged goddess of victory Nike of Samothrace, who is located on the stairs at the entrance to the hall Italian painting. Scientists and archaeologists have long tried to find the head of the sculpture, but so far they have not been able to do so.
The works of the masters will also not go unnoticed. Italian Renaissance, whose works for many years became models for artists of subsequent generations: Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Botticelli, Raphael
The Louvre is the owner of a magnificent collection of sculptures, from antiquity to modern times. The most famous of them include Michelangelo’s famous “slaves” - “The Rebellious Slave” and “The Dying Slave”, as well as the beautiful embodiment of sensuality in marble - “Cupid and Psyche” by Canova. In the most famous of the museum's courtyards, Marly, you can admire the wonderful equestrian statues of Guillaume Coustou.
- A sightseeing tour of the Louvre ends in the halls where the paintings are located French artists: Delacroix, Gericault, David, Ingres. You will learn about the irreconcilable, decades-long struggle between representatives of the academic school, represented by Ingres, and the romantics (Gericault), who opposed the established canons and rules in painting.
How virtual tours of museums are conducted, and why such a service is needed.
Many people would like to regularly visit interesting objects and galleries, but not everyone has enough time and opportunity to do this (especially if we're talking about about museums in another country or city).
Online excursions come to the rescue, allowing you to get acquainted with the exhibits without leaving the place.
Contents:
The essence of the concept
Typically, these are presented on the main website of a museum or gallery, and are technically implemented in the form.
It consists of many panoramas, similar to other similar services. You can “move around” using the arrows on the screen, and thus inspect all the available rooms.
Advice: The design format may vary slightly among different establishments. But, often, it is quite simple, and the control of “movements” quickly becomes intuitive. Usually, there are arrows on the screen that indicate possible directions movement.
They are created by developers on the initiative of the owners. They allow you to get acquainted with exhibitions and collections, and are also able to stimulate the viewer’s interest in an actual visit.
Louvre
You can take a tour of some of the Louvre's rooms by going here. Not all exhibits are presented on the site, and there are no temporary exhibitions or displays. But you can visit the following:
- Egyptian archaeology;
- Medieval Louvre (dedicated to the heritage of the time when the building was the palace of French kings);
- Apollo Gallery.
To view the hall, you need to select the one you are interested in on the page that opens via the link.
Under its description, click on the Launch Virtual Tour button, and in the window that opens, hover over the exhibits and click on them.
Below the main window there is a field with a description and a map on which you can select exhibitions of interest.
In order to take an online tour of the Hermitage, you must follow the link. The application was created on the same engine as , so it is quite convenient and familiar to use.
The window can be expanded to full screen.
The tour starts in the central gallery; in order to “go” to the neighboring ones, click left on the image of the doors.
There is an image of a compass in the lower right corner of the main tour window. With it, you can change the direction of the camera by moving it left and right.
Next to the compass there are buttons with the numbers 0 and 1 - they indicate the floors of the palace museum.
It is in many ways similar to Tretyakovskaya. Works of art belonging to a private collector are also on display here for inspection.
Virtual access is available to almost all premises. On the main page of the site, which opens via the link, there is a diagram of the premises. Select what you want and click on it.
An online panorama of the selected room will open in a new window. You can control camera movements in the standard way - by moving the mouse while holding down the left button.
There is also a menu at the bottom of the screen for controlling movement using buttons.
In the upper right corner of the screen there is a field that, when clicked, opens full list halls available for inspection. You can select the one you are interested in.
