Here is my ain "top 12 museums" in the occidental world:
1- The Louvre in Paris is arguably the world's record notable Museum, next to a marvellous random collection of antiquities and European painting, with -of course- Leonardo's Gioconda
2- The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is arguably America's greatest repository. Its striking display is especially knock-down in American picture and Egyptian Antiquities.
3- The British Museum is England's top museum -and one of the superfine in the world- of Ancient Arts and antiquities, next to an without equal hotchpotch of Art from Ancient Egypt to the Middle Ages.
4- The Vatican Museums houses the brobdingnagian and brilliant Art cluster of the Catholic Church, with every of the utmost essential building complex of Art of the History, specified as the Sistine Chapel or Raphael's The School of Athens
5- The Hermitage Museum is the maximum defining Museum in Russia and also the largest Art collection in the worldwide. More than 3,000,000 cardinal of artworks, from the seed age to the post-impressionism
6- The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna houses an of the essence hotchpotch of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, and an tremendous group of European fine art.
7- The National Gallery of London houses one of the world's top-quality aggregation of European painting, from the 13th to the advance 20th time period.
8- The Museum of current Art (MOMA) houses the world's top-grade group of current and period Art, featuring masterworks as Picasso's Demoiselles d'Avignon or van Gogh's Starry time period.
9- The Museé d'Orsay in Paris is in need doubt the cream of the crop depository of impressionist and 19th period French picture in the international. Features masterworks from Monet, van Gogh, Renoir, Degas...
10- The Cairo Museum is by far the supreme all-embracing group of Egyptian Art in the worldwide. Its most notable artworks are the objects from the Tomb of Tutankhamun, revealed in 1922.
11- El Museo del Prado is Spain's utmost far-reaching museum, featuring the leaders hotchpotch of Spanish painting in the planetary. Unfortunately, its website is not so rank.
12- The Uffizi in Florence is the furthermost serious clutter of Italian Renaissance fine art. In this terrific website you can works specified as Botticelli's Venus or Giotto's Ognisanti Madonna.