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Chicago Cultural Center. The city of Chicago, Illinois, has many cultural institutions and museums, large and small.Major cultural institutions include: the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Architecture Foundation, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Goodman Theater, Joffrey Ballet, Central Public Harold Washington Library, and the Chicago Cultural Center, all in the Loop;
The Bavarian National Museum (German: Bayerisches Nationalmuseum) in Munich is one of the most important museums of decorative arts in Europe and one of the largest art museums in Germany. [ citation needed ] Since the beginning the collection has been divided into two main groups: the art historical collection and the folklore collection.
This list of museums in Illinois contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public ...
Matthias Weniger, who is a curator at the Munich museum and oversees its restitution efforts, has made it his mission to return as many of the silver objects as possible to the descendants of the ...
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts: Taichung Taiwan: 13,600 (146,000) [56] 1988 National Gallery Prague (Veletržní) Prague Czech Republic: 13,500 (145,000) [57] 1796 Milwaukee Art Museum: Milwaukee United States: 13,900 (150,000) [58] 1888 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts: Richmond United States: 13,200 (142,100) [59] 1934 Bavarian National ...
European Open-air Museums Archived 2016-11-01 at the Wayback Machine An extensive list of Open-air museums in Europe. America's Outdoor History Museums; Photos from Museum of Folk Architecture and Life Archived 2017-12-22 at the Wayback Machine; Museum websites. Open Air Museum Bokrijk Leading open-air museum of Belgium, Flanders.
Founded in Chicago in 1959, it seeks to preserve and promote German and German American culture. [2] The center contains the DANK museum, Scharpenberg art gallery, a library (Koegel Bibliothek), facilities for social gatherings, and offers German language classes. [3] It is a member organization of the Chicago Cultural Alliance.
Franz Anton Bustelli (12 April 1723 – 18 April 1763) was a Swiss-born German modeller for the Bavarian Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory from 1754 to his death in 1763. He is widely regarded as the finest modeller of porcelain in the Rococo style: "if the art of European porcelain finds its most perfect expression in the rococo style, so the ...