Musee Rodin and other Europe Local Custom Tips

This category of tips is dedicated to my top 10 favorite museums of Europe... Starting off the list, the Musee Rodin, located in the seventh arrondisement of Paris, which showcases the works of famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin. After you've seen the "big three" museums in Paris, don't miss this impressive single artist collection, which includes such masterworks as "The Thinker" and "The Kiss" (pictured here).

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Local Customs: National Archeological Museum

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

The National Archeological Museum of Athens has one of the world's greatest collections of classical sculpture, and is very pleasantly designed. The most infamous works on display are the treasures unearthed by Heinrich Schliemann at Mycenae, which includes the so-called "Death Mask of Agamemnon"... Pictured here, my favorite work from the museum, an exquisite sculpture of "Antinous".

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Local Customs: Le Musee d'Art moderne

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

Le Musee d'Art moderne, in Brussels, Belgium, has one of the absolute best collections of late 18th, 19th and 20th century masterworks in all of Europe. They have huge collections on Belgian Surrealist masters Rene Magritte and Paul Delvaux as well as two of the greatest Jacques-Louis David canvases ever, "Mars Disarmed by Venus", and "The Death of Marat" (shown here)...

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Local Customs: The Vatican Museum

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

The Vatican Museum really surprised me because in the ultimate bastion of Catholicism I was expecting something more focused on Christian art. Au contraire, the museum has an excellent Egyptian collection as well as many huge rooms filled with pagan artworks from ancient Greece and Rome. They also had an illustrious collection of large scale maps of the ancient world. The museum is most famous for the Sistine Chapel of Michaelangelo, but my favorite work on display is "The School of Athens" by Raphael, shown here...

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Local Customs: The Louvre

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

The Louvre in Paris is certainly the world's most famous art museum, and definitely worth multiple visits. It houses many of the world's most famous art treasures of which you all know, but my favorite parts of the Louvre would have to be the large room containing the finest works of Delacroix and David, as well as the huge Rubens room. Pictured here, the "Winged Victory of Samothrace", taken from one of my favorite islands in the world, Samothraki, Greece...

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Local Customs: Uffizi Gallery

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

Far and away the best museum in Florence must be the Uffizi Gallery. This is precisely because it includes the greatest "profane" works of Sandro Botticelli such as "The Birth of Venus" and "Primavera" (shown here). Also included are masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Durer, Tiepolo, as well as Cranach's very sensuous "Adam and Eve"...

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Local Customs: Peggy Guggenheim Museum

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

Probably the most stunning housing for a museum in all of Europe, the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice is actually a sumptuous palazzo overlooking the Grand Canal. The palazzo was once the home of Peggy Guggenheim and displays her own magnificent collection of 20th century art by such masters as Picasso, Kandinsky, Brancusi, Arp, Dali, Ernst, Matta, Schwitters and Tanguy. My favorite piece from the museum would have to be Victor Brauner's "The Surrealist", pictured here...

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Local Customs: Le Centre Pompidou

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004

Le Centre Pompidou, sometimes referred to as Beaubourg (which is actually the square where it's located) is where the French museum of modern art is housed in Paris. It's the giant building that looks like a a bunch of scaffolding. Inside, you'll find one of the best collections of 20th century European art in the world. Two of my favorites here are the room dedicated to French writer Andre Breton's bizarre collection of found objects, and a great sculpture by Max Erntst called "Capricorn" (shown here)...

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Local Customs: Collection de l'Art Brut

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on Jan 10, 2004

Located in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Collection de l'Art Brut is a very unique collection of paintings, sculptures and other unusual items created by persons with mental disorders, as well as eccentric recluses... There are numerous artists represented from around the world, such as Dutch recluse Willem Van Genk and American eccentric Henry Darger whose stunning "Realms of the Unreal" series takes up the entire top floor (detail shown here)...

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Local Customs: Teatre-Museu Dali

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Written by Guantanamera

on Jan 10, 2004