THE MOST FAMOUS MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD

Helping people understand and appreciate the natural worldThe history of civilizationsThe record of humanity's artistic, scientific, and technological achievements

• SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION• THE HERMITAGE• THE BRITISH MUSEUM

Smithsonian Institution

• A major center for research and education

• 16 museums, the National Zoo, and several prominent research centers

• 1846 • The bequest of James

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• 140 million items• Masterpieces of modern

sculpture• The world's oldest fossil• The original compass used

by the Lewis and Clark expedition to the American West

Smithsonian Institution

The Hermitage1764

• Catherine the Great purchased a collection of 255 paintings from Berlin

• Over 2.7 million exhibits

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• A neoclassical 19th-century building reconstructed from the Baroque Winter Palace (1754 - 1762)

• Museum complex: the Winter Palace, the Small Hermitage, the Old Hermitage and the New Hermitage

The Hermitage1764

Departments• The department of primitive

culture (1931)450,000 items - from the early

Stone Age to the Formation of the Russian state

• The department of antiquities - from Ancient Greece and Rome, Roman sculptural portraits

• The numismatic department1,100,000 itemsItalian Renaissance medals by

Antonio Pisano, Benvenuto Cellin

• The department of the history of Russian culture (1941)

from palaces, mansions, private collections and small museums

Departments

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

• A museum of human history and culture in London

• 7 million objects• Illustrating and

documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present

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• Established in 1753• Based on the collections of

Sir Hans Sloane (collection of curiosities)

• An encyclopedia of nature and of art

THE BRITISH MUSEUM

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Departments

• Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan

Egyptian antiquities• Department of Greek and

Roman Antiquities Antiquities from the Classical

world (from 3200BC to the 4th c AD)

• Department of Prehistory and Europe

the art and archaeology of Europe

the history of Britain under Roman occupation

• Department of Conservation and Scientific Research (1920)

ceramics & glass; metals; organic material; stone, wall paintings and mosaics

Departments

• CAPACITY TO REFLECT CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

• TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT CULTURAL AND NATURAL HERITAGE