National Museum in Washington D.C

History
The museum, like the United States National Museum known, opened its doors to the public on 17 March 1910 to provide the growing Smithsonian Institution with more space for collections and research. [2] The building, which was not fully completed until 1911, was designed by Hornblower & Marshall. [3] The building, designed in neoclassical style, was the first on the north side of the National Mall built along Constitution Avenue, as part of the 1901 McMillan Commission plan. In 2000, Kenneth E. Behring donated $ 80,000,000, the museum and in 1997 donated $ 20,000,000 to modernize it. 
In addition to exhibits, the museum has large collections of reference and research institutions. In the online collections collections.nmnh.si.edu
In 2005, the "Butterfly of Peace" was first jewel in the USA [5] In 2008, displayed an exhibition of 5,000 square feet (460 m2) dedicated to soil and its life-sustaining properties. Opened 
  

Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals 
 
The National Gem and Mineral Collection is one of the most important collections of its kind in the world. The collection includes some of the most famous pieces of gems and minerals, including the Hope Diamond and the Star Sapphire of Asia, one of the largest sapphires in the world. Currently there are over 15,000 individual pieces of jewelry in the collection, as well as minerals and 350 000 300 000 samples of rock and ore specimens. [7] In addition, houses the Smithsonian's National Gem and Mineral] Collection about 35,000 meteorites known as one of the largest collections of its kind in the world [7th To see the museum as the National Mall, the old post office building in the distance, visible
The collection is in the Janet Annenberg Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, one of the many galleries in the Museum of Natural History displayed. Some of the major donors Washington Roebling, the man, the Brooklyn Bridge, which gave 16,000 copies of the collection built, Frederick A. Canfield, the 9000 showed copies of the collection, and Dr. Isaac Lea, who donated the basis of the collection of the Museum in 1312 Gems and minerals.  


Hall of Human Origins 
 
The David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins opens on 17 March 2010, on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the museum. The hall is for David H. Koch, $ 15,000,000, which contributed $ 20,700,000 exhibition.
The hall is dedicated to the discovery and understanding of human origins, "and takes 15,000 square feet (1,400 m2) of exhibition space. The samples include 75 replica skulls, an interactive human family tree that six million years of evolution follows, and a change of the World gallery, which focuses on issues surrounding climate change and humans' impact on the world. The exhibition is downplaying the importance has been criticized by human-induced global warming, in exchange for the money by Koch [8]. Koch Industries, a private company in the industry of petroleum and other fossil fuels and chemicals is an important contributor to the climate change disinformation
The exhibition also features a complementary website humanorigins.si.edu, the diaries and offers podcasts directly from related research areas. The exhibition was designed by Reich + Petch Design International. 

Dinosaur / Hall of Paleobiology 
 
The museum has over 570,000 cataloged reptiles from around the world. The National Collection of Amphibians and Reptiles has 300% over the last 40 years (190,000 records sample in 1970 to over 570,000 records sample in 2008). [11] The Hall of Dinosaurs has fossilized skeletons, casting models, including Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops before off with the "Triceratops exhibit the first accurate dinosaur skeleton displays in virtual movement, achieved through the use of scanning and digital technology."  The collection consists of 46 "full and important specimens" of the dinosaurs.  The website has a virtual tour of the collection. 
 
Hall of Mammals 
 
The Hall of Reich + Petch Behring mammals by design is an award-winning gallery. The design is innovative and inviting. The mammal specimens are as works of modern art in strikingly presented low environmental. Visitors discover mammal evolutionary adaptations to very different contexts, and finally discover that they are also mammals.
The museum houses the largest collection of vertebrate specimens in the world, almost twice as large as the next largest mammal collections, including historically important collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. [16] The collection was of C. Hart Merriam, and directed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (later the Department of the Interior), which expanded in the 1890s-1930s.

 Insect Zoo
 
The Insect O. Orkin Insect Zoo features live and exhibits about insects and entomologists. Different habitats have been created, the kinds of insects that live in different environments and how they adapted to a freshwater pond, house, mangrove swamp, showing desert and rain forest. The zoo is sponsored by Orkin, a pest control company.  


Ocean Hall
 
The Sant Ocean Hall was opened on 27 September 2008, and is the largest renovation of the museum since it opened in 1910. The hall includes 674 marine specimens and models from the more than 80 million copies in the Museum's collection as a whole, creates the largest in the world. The hall is named for Roger Sant family, which donated $ 15,000,000 to endow the new hall and other related programs.
The Hall consists of 23,000 square feet (2,100 m2) of exhibition space and offers a replica of a 45-foot (14 m) long North Atlantic Right Whale, a 1,500-gallon aquarium, a 24-foot (7.3 meter) female giant squid, an adult coelacanth, and a Basilosaurus
The museum also offers the Smithsonian Ocean Portal, a complementary website oceanportal.si.edu updated regularly, the original contents of the museum research and collections provides and Sant Ocean Hall as well as content from more than 20 collaborating organizations, including the expected ARKive, Census of Marine Life, Consortium for Ocean Leadership, Encyclopedia of Life, IUCN, Monterey Bay Aquarium, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, National Geographic, NOAA, New England Aquarium, Ocean Conservancy, Oceana, Pew Charitable Trusts, SeaWeb, Save Our Seas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, World Heritage Marine Programme.  


African Voices
 
This hall and associated site "examines the diversity, dynamism, and global influence of African peoples and cultures over time in the areas of family, work, community and natural environment." [19] [Edit] Butterflies + Plants: Partners in Evolution
With a Live Butterfly Pavilion allows visitors to the many ways in which butterflies and other animals have diversified further developed, adapted and, together with its partners on the plant tens of millions of years. " The exhibition was seen by Reich + Petch designed.  

Western Cultures Hall 
 
"This hall explores a few examples from different cultures in the western world including northern Iraq, ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome and the recent discovery of the Iceman, a Copper Age mummy found in an Italian glacier." 

 
Gallery Korea 
 
The Korea Gallery is a special display case for Korean traditions to celebrate and to examine its unique influence and complex role in the world today.
The exhibition brings the continuity of the past by highlighting permanent features of Korean culture, the influence and resonance today. The exhibition makes use of the Smithsonian collection, and a ceramic-rich contect of photographs, devotional objects and traditional Korean carpentry to communicate and connect to both the local community and Korea an international audience. speaking traditional art forms such as ceramics and calligraphy with mythological figures, language, large feature photos and illustrations, a fascinating range of common historical memories that connect Koreans at home and abroad.
Personal stories of modern Korean, as I said, in her own voice, provide a context for some of the many problems that face to discuss the divided country today. Korea's incredible transformation of 'The Hermit Kingdom "is traced back to a world power through its impact on the arts, business and popular culture. The exhibition was designed by Reich + Petch.
 
Osteology: Hall of Bones 

This exhibition shows a "large number of vertebrate skeletons grouped by their evolutionary relationships."   

Temporary Exhibitions Discovering Rastafari! 
 
2nd November 2007 - November 2010

    To be explored with artifacts, rare photos and memorabilia of the origins and religious practices of the movement in Jamaica, this exhibition takes viewers beyond the popular Jamaican music known as reggae to the deeper roots of the Rastafari culture. video footage to speak with first-person testimony from male and female Rastafari of different ages, nationalities, race and class backgrounds and Rastafari of unity and the spread of the movement in the Caribbean and beyond over the past three decades

Dig It! The Secrets of the Soil
19th July 2008, 3 January 2010 The world of fungi, bacteria, worms and other organisms, this exhibition draws connections between soils and everyday life[In Bone] Written edit: Forensic Files of the 17th Century Chesapeake
7th February 2009 - 6 February 2011

    This exhibition explores the history of the 17th Century by bone biographies, including those of the colonists staggers on the edge of survival in Jamestown, Virginia, and the rich and established individuals of the St. Mary's City, Maryland. 
 
Builders: the hidden life of the ants

30th May 2009 - 10th October 2009 This exhibition features large-format photographs of ants in their daily business, a cast of a subterranean ant city, and a live ant colony
The museum has an IMAX theater for movies and the Discovery Room, a family-and student-friendly hands-on activities room on the first floor.
In the lower level there is a bird show with all migratory birds and domestic birds in

Museum of Modern Art in NewYORK

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenue. It was very important for the development and collection of modern art, and is often identified as the most influential Museum of Modern Art in the world. [1] The museum's collection offers a unique overview of modern and contemporary art [2], including works of architecture and design, drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated books and artists books, film and electronic media.
keep MoMA Library and the Archive over 300,000 books, artist books and magazines, as well as individual files on more than 70,000 artists. The archives contain primary sources on the history of modern and contemporary art. It also houses an award-winning fine dining restaurant, The Modern, from Alsace-born chef Gabriel Kreuther run.

History
The idea for the Museum of Modern Art in 1928 primarily by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (wife of John D. Rockefeller Jr.) and two of her friends,] Lillie P. Bliss and Mary Quinn Sullivan. [4 It has been variously known as developed "The ladies", "the daring ladies" and "the adamantine ladies". It opens up a modest rented quarters for the new museum, and it to the public on 7th November 1929, nine days after the Wall Street Crash. Abby A. Conger Goodyear had, the former President of the Trustees of the Albright Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, are invited to become President of the new museum. Abby became treasurer. At the time it was to show America's premier museum, which is exclusively devoted to modern art, and the first of its kind in Manhattan on European modernism. [5]
Goodyear enlisted Paul J. Sachs and Frank Crowninshield to join him as a founding member Board of Trustees. Sachs, deputy director and curator of prints and drawings in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, was called in those days as a collector of curators. Goodyear asked him to propose a director and Sachs, to recommend to Alfred H. Barr Jr., a promising young protege. Under the guidance of Barr, the museum's holdings quickly expanded from an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing. His first successful exhibition loans in November 1929, with paintings by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat and [6].
First in six rooms of galleries and offices on the twelfth floor of the Heckscher Building in Manhattan, [7] on the corner of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street housed the museum moved into three more temporary locations within the next ten years. Abby Mann was strongly opposed to the museum (as well as modern art to themselves) and refused money for the venture, which had obtained releases from other sources, and led to the frequent shifts of location. However, he did finally land for the current site of the museum, and other gifts over time, becoming in fact one of the biggest benefactors [8].The entrance to the Museum of Modern Art
During this time, she headed for many more exhibitions of renowned artists such as Vincent van Gogh exhibition Lone on 4 November 1935. Containing an unparalleled sixty-six oils and fifty drawings from the Netherlands, and poignant excerpts from the artist's letters, it was a great popular success and was a forerunner of the hold van Gogh has now stand at the contemporary imagination. " [9]
The museum gained international prominence with the highly successful and now famous Picasso retrospective of 1939-40 resulted in conjunction with the Art Institute of Chicago. presented in its series of activities, they represent a significant reinterpretation of Picasso for future art scholars and historians. That was all by Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, and the exhibition as Picasso revered masterminded follow the greatest artist of the time, setting the model for all of the museum retrospectives, which should [10].
selected as the Abby Rockefeller's son Nelson by the Board of Trustees, was his flamboyant president in 1939, has become the age of thirty, he was the instigator and prime sponsor of public relations, acquisitions and subsequent expansion into new headquarters on 53rd Street. His brother, David Rockefeller, entered the museum board of trustees, in 1948, and took over the presidency took when Nelson position as governor of New York in 1958.
David later entered the renowned architect Philip Johnson to redesign the Museum garden and name it in honor of his mother, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. He and the Rockefeller family have maintained a generally close relationship with the museum over its history, since the Rockefeller Brothers Fund financing institution 1947th Both David Rockefeller, Jr. and Sharon Percy Rockefeller (wife of Senator Jay Rockefeller) currently sit on the Board of Trustees.
In 1937, MoMA had shifted to offices and basement galleries in the Time & Life Building in Rockefeller Center. Its permanent and current home, now renovated and decorated in the "International Style" of the modernist architects Philip Goodwin and Edward Durell Stone, opened to the public on 10 May 1939, accompanied by an illustrious company of 6,000 people, and with an opening address on radio from the White House by President Franklin D. Roosevelt [11].

Winter Palace

The Winter Palace
      (Russian: Зимний дворец) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, was from 1732 to 1917, the official residence of Russian tsars. Situated between the Palace Embankment built and the Palace Square, adjacent to the site of Peter the Great, the original Winter Palace, the present and the fourth Winter Palace has been changed and almost continuously between the late 1730s and 1837, when it has been difficult due to fire and Damaged rebuilt. [1] The storming of the castle in 1917 became an iconic symbol of the Russian Revolution.
The palace was built on a monumental scale, intended to reflect the power and strength of Imperial Russia. From the palace of the Tsar and autocrat of all Russias of 22.4 million square kilometers (8.6 million square kilometers) (almost a sixth of the landmass of the Earth) and 176.4 million subjects governed. It was by many architects, especially in Bartolomeo Rastrelli, who designed what came to be known as the Elizabethan Baroque, the green-white palace is shaped like an elongated rectangle. The palace has been calculated to 1786 doors, 1945 windows, 1,500 rooms and 117 staircases included. Its main facade is 250 m long and 100 feet (30 m) high. The reconstruction of 1837 left unchanged the outside, but large parts of its interior have been redesigned in a variety of taste and style, what the palace described as inspired "Palace of the 19th century by a model in the Rococo style." [2]
In 1905, the Palace of the scene of the massacre of Bloody Sunday, was elected but at this time the imperial family to live in safe and secluded Alexander in Tsarskoe Selo had, and returned to the Winter Palace for the formal and rare state occasions . After the February Revolution of 1917 was the palace for a short time the headquarters of the Russian Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky. Later that year, the palace was stormed by a detachment of Red Army soldiers and sailors, is a decisive moment in the birth of the Soviet state. On a less glorious note, the month-long looting of the palace of the cellar in these troubled times led to what has been described as "the biggest hangover in history". Today, the restored palace is part of the complex of buildings, in the Hermitage.

Pera Museum in ISTANBUL

The Pera Museum (Turkish: Pera Müzesi), based in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005 by the Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation (namesake Suna Kirac is established, the daughter of the Turkish tycoon Vehbi Koç). The collection is housed in the former Bristol Hotel, built in Tepebasi, 1893 by architect Achille Manoussos.Content

The permanent collection
The museum has three permanent collections - Anatolian weights and measures, Kütahya tiles and pottery, art and orientalist. The Orientalist collection consists of more than three hundred paintings, including works by European artists inspired by the Ottoman Empire from the 17th to the early 19th Century. Outstanding among the Orientalists collection is the work of Osman Hamdi Bey, who by some art historians as the genre only "native Orientalist" was [Quote marked required]; featured is his most famous work, the Turtle Trainer.Other Features
In addition to exhibits, the museum houses a wide range of cultural events, facilities include a multi-purpose exhibition space, an auditorium and an activity room for visitors. The first floor houses both an art shop and cafe, with the auditorium, foyer, and children's center in the basement. 
Future Facilities
The Suna and Inan Kirac Foundation commissioned the architect Frank Gehry for a new cultural complex on the site of today's TRT Tepebasi seat (in the public square outside the Pera Museum and the nearby Hotel Pera Palace is design). [1] The proposed complex would be called the Suna Kıraç Cultural Center (Turkish: Suna Kirac Kültür Merkezi). [1] Construction can begin once the building permit rights from the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and issue to the High Council for Conservation, and TRT personnel and equipment will be transferred to facilities in Istanbul and TRT Ortaköy Harbiye neighborhoods.opening times, costs and address

Museum opening times:

    * Tuesday - Saturday: 10.00 to 19.00
    * Sunday: from 12.00 18.00
    * Closed on Mondays.
Admission: Regular: 7 YTL Group: 5 YTL (10 or more), reduced: 3 YTL (students aged over 12, teachers and visitors from 60 years)

    * Free admission for under 12, handicapped and one accompanying person.
Audio Guide: 2 YTL (YTL 1 for groups)
Address:Mesrutiyet Caddesi No.14134 443 Tepebasi - Beyoglu - Istanbul, Turkey