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Best Art Museums in Canada to Visit
Canada is a country rich with culture and art. Its various museums display a wide variety of spectacular art pieces, sculptures, glassworks and more. Art binds people across nations and the artistic expressions of Canada are no less. Canada boasts of great museums for the art lovers.
Started in 1880, National Gallery of Canada is a great place to start your discovery of Canadian art. This museum holds many beautiful collections of historic as well as contemporary art pieces which give its visitors a more unique sense of the true identity and beauty of Canada. It’s located in Ottawa and is one of the best art museums in Canada. The Glenbow Museum in Calgary follows close behind with its museums, library and rich archives which all together create a beautiful ‘Western Canadian’ experience for its visitors. It has over a million artefacts and boasts to be one of the largest art museums in Canada. It has a lot of variety in its exhibits and not just showcases the art pieces which define Canada but also displays some beautiful art pieces from around the globe.
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Best Art Museums In New York
New York City is known for its nightlife, theaters and other cultural forms. Chief among them is its museums. There are four that you must visit if you are ever in the area.
1. The first one on the list has to be the Guggenheim. This is a museum housed inside a work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright spent years designing its beautiful spirals. The Guggenheim Museum is the home of many permanent collections. There are also a large number traveling art collections that grace those halls each year. This was not the first building that held the name of philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and an advisor named Hilba Rebay. It was once housed in a building on East 54th Street that was an automobile showroom. It was called the museum of Non-Objective Painting.
2. The Metropolitan Museum of Art has over 2million art works from all over the world. The museum is so large it would take years to traverse each inch of it. Over five million people a year grace its halls. It is the most visited museum in New York and that is because it is simply magnificent. It is the biggest museum in the west at 1.6mil square feet. You can find almost everything in this museum from all cultures.
3. The Museum of Modern Art is the every first museum of its kind. Contemporary art has a home in New York and this is it. The building was made possible by the Rockefeller’s and houses a variety of galleries. The top floor is reserved for the exhibits that are just passing through while the second and third floors hold all of the permanent collections. There are even to theatres that are used for the film and media programs.
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