In 1977, the International Council of Museums established May 18 as the “International Museum Day”. Since its establishment, museums have been interpreted with new themes every year, bringing them back to the spotlight and attracting more people to study and appreciate them. On the 46th Museum Day in 2022, the theme of “The Power of Museums” will be announced to the world: museums, treasure houses of history and civilization, have great potential and ability to influence the world.
The International Association of Museums clearly stipulates that zoos and botanical gardens, aquariums, nature reserves, planetariums, libraries, etc. can all be included in the category of museums. Therefore, various museums are as numerous as stars and their categories are extremely wide. Taking into account factors such as history, collections, and openness, the Western media collectively named the Louvre Museum in France, the British Museum in the United Kingdom, the State Hermitage Museum in Russia (Winter Palace), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States as the four major museums in the world.
Louvre, France
The Louvre Museum ranks first among the four major museums in the world. The collections on display are mainly works of art. The world-famous collections include the “Mona Lisa” oil painting, the broken arm of Venus, and the Statue of Victory.
The Italian-style pilasters, eaves, and carvings of the Louvre Museum have witnessed the history of Paris, France, for more than 800 years.
Louvre Museum interior and collections
The interior of the Louvre is quite beautiful. The glass pyramid in front of the museum provides natural light for the underground space; the Middle Eastern porcelains collected here are beautiful, with plant patterns, geometric figures and Arabic ornaments giving it a strong exotic style. As far as the eye can see, the white walls, carvings and statues in the museum make the corridors and corridors in the museum full of sacredness. Among them, the sculpture “Psyche Awakened by the Kiss of Eros” is exquisitely carved and impressive; The spiral staircase is completely white, and it is really beautiful.
The British Museum
The British Museum, officially established in 1753, has a collection of 8 million cultural relics and treasures from all over the world. It is not only the most magnificent comprehensive museum in the world, but also the first museum open to the public.
British Museum of Natural History
The British Museum of Natural History, formerly a branch of the British Museum, was separated from the main museum in 1881 due to its rich collection, and became an independent museum in 1963. When you walk into the hall of the museum and look up, you will see a giant blue whale hanging from the dome of the hall. Skeleton, very shocking.
British Museum interior and collections
The atrium of the British Museum, originally built in the form of a garden, the central rotunda was set up as a library; the Nereidus monument in the Mausoleum of Santhos in the British Museum, an ancient Greek temple built in BC 390 years old, is an extremely precious cultural
Winter Palace
Russian State Hermitage Museum, the Winter Palace. When we pass through the yellow arches, step into the Palace Square in St. Petersburg, and then go around the Alexander Column, we will reach the Winter Palace. The yellow arch is called the Arc de Triomphe of the General Staff, and there is a statue of Victory.
Hermitage interior and collections
There are huge paintings on the top of the oil painting hall of the Russian State Hermitage Museum. From the ceiling to the columns, from the four walls to the furniture, they are all gilded and carved, which are extremely luxurious. The Raphael Corridor is known as the most beautiful corridor in the Winter Palace. 52 paintings with different themes are painted on the 13 arcades, each of which is copied from the Roman Church of the Vatican in 1700. The statues in the collection have vivid facial expressions and fine carvings on clothes, which are exquisite and extraordinary.
Metropolitan meseum
In the center of the hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the United States is a large step leading to the European painting exhibition area. Walking up the steps, the Italian painter Tiepolo’s “The Triumph of Marius” comes into view.
The Egyptian pavilion of the museum contains collections ranging from noble tombs, temples, and stone tablets to small reliefs, musical instruments, and jewelry. Each collection shows the world the cultural brilliance of Egypt, one of the four ancient civilizations, which has survived in the vast history.
Four major museums are like beacons in the museum world
When people get close, they find
Across tens of thousands of miles of territory
Thousands of years of history
All concentrated in the building
The masterpieces of the world’s major civilization systems are no longer thin pictures and texts
as if within reach
The power of museums is exactly that
make people understand the past
Expand the future and keep changing the world
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