Tip 1: The largest museums in the world

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Tip 1: The largest museums in the world

Historical and zoological museums of technology andart stores the history of mankind, its culture and creativity. Visiting the world's largest museums will not be enough for one day and even a week will be short enough to appreciate all the splendor of the collected exhibits.

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The Louvre Museum is the largest art museum in the world. Earlier the building of the museum was an ancient castle erected in 1190 by Philip Augustus. His work as a museum he began on November 8, 1793. Its masterpieces from around the world are located on an area of 195 000 sq.m. In the catalog there are more than 400 000 exhibits. The exhibition was divided into seven parts for convenience: applied art, painting, sculpture and graphics, the Department of the Ancient East, the Ancient Egyptian department, the art of Greece and Rome. If you only have one day, visit the main masterpieces, which are led by special indexes.

The Vatican Museum united 1,400 rooms,which host 50,000 objects. In order to bypass the entire exposition, it is necessary to overcome no less, 7 km. Local residents and seasoned tourists recommend starting the inspection from the Egyptian Museum, moving towards the famous Belvedere, then to the Raphael's Stations and the Sistine Chapel - the main local shrine.

The British Museum opened its doors firstto visitors on January 15, 1759. In the world it is known as the Museum of All Civilizations or the Museum of stolen masterpieces. Such names are very justified, since the exhibits exhibited in the museum walls were not always obtained in an honest way. Rosetta stone was selected from the army of Napoleon in Egypt. A similar history of obtaining sculptural friezes of the Parthenon, sculptures of the mausoleum in Halicarnassus and many others.

To fans of natural science exhibits: stuffed animals, the remains of dinosaurs and their modern mock-ups worth going to the National Museum of Science in Tokyo. The spirit captures from the beauty and variety of plants gathered in one place and huge toothy skeletons soaring under the ceiling.

The museum mile in New York has collected the best museumsThe United States, the largest of which is the Metropolitan. Here exhibits are collected from the Paleolithic times to the present day. Particularly admired is the hall, where it is offered to get acquainted with the clothes worn by the inhabitants of the five continents for seven centuries.

The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg -the largest art and cultural-historical museum of the whole world. His appearance is due to the collections of Empress Catherine II. The Imperial Museum was opened to visitors in 1852. Today, the walls of the Hermitage carefully store more than three million works of art. The museum itself is a complex of six majestic buildings led by the Winter Palace.

Tip 2: Are there museums of smells?

People always strive for the impossible - after all,this is what drives progress. For centuries, many perfumers have tried to catch the elusive - tempting, tasty smells: their elusiveness, ephemerality, volatility, conveying feelings of happiness, moments of childhood, the warmth of their own hands, the sinking of the heart from the first love ...

John William Waterhouse. The soul of the rose.

I remember the character of the book "Perfume" by PatrickZyuskind, advanced most of all in the matter of preserving the only attractive odor for all. True, it was worth living for those on whom he experimented, and even himself in the end, but it was worth it, as the hero of Zyuskind believed. It is indeed possible - whether it is possible to conserve the smell so that you can make a whole museum, whose visitors are daily, at any time convenient for them, could come and breathe in the elusive? As practice shows - yes, it is possible. In the world there are many museums in which they learned how to preserve smells for contemporaries and descendants. Of course, most of them are located in France.

Museums of fragrances of France

One of the most visited and beautiful museumsis located in Paris - Fragonard perfumery museum (Musée Fragonard). It was named after the French painter and graphic artist Jean Honore Fragonard (1732-1806), who was born once in the town of Grasse, in the south of France. After all, the world's perfumery capital is not found in Paris, but in this town and, by the way, that is why it was part of the action of Suskind's novel Perfume. The Fragonard Museum is based on the artist's beautiful works, antique furniture, and historical artifacts that once helped create the world's best perfumes: spent copper boilers and glass flasks. The museum-salon is divided into three sections: "Perfumery", where fragrances from all over the world are collected, "Art of Living" - there are home decorations and design items, and "Fragonard Confidentiel", in which you can buy jewelry made of semiprecious stones, as well as jackets and tunics of cotton and silk. In the south of France, on the Cote d'Azur, in the small provencal town of Grasse - the perfumery capital of the world - with numerous perfume factories, there are many small museums in which you can get acquainted with the history of perfumery. It was in Grasse 400 years ago that the first factory of perfumery first appeared not in the laboratory at the pharmacy, but in the first. This was facilitated by the fertile Provencal locality: in the suburbs of the city for centuries narcissus narcissus, jasmine, lavender, mimosa, orange flower, exquisite rose Centiphylia - the prototype of capricious Rose from the "Little Prince" of Exumeri. Perhaps, this rose is the real most valuable creature in the world: brought once from the crusades, its unique flavor it gives only in the Grasse valley and in no other corner of France.

Museums of Oriental Flavors

Well, after the king of smells - the city of Grasse with hismuseums of fragrances, - on the second place on popularity it is possible to put at once several museums which are in Cuba, in Holland, and in Cairo. In Cuba, in Havana, there is a museum with a rich collection of bottles, the contents of which still store the smells of perfumes belonging to the colonizers of the island. In the Dutch Shepherdstadt, the Spice Museum is fragrant, preserving thousands of exotic smells. And Egyptian Cairo is famous, in addition to the pyramids and everything else, also the largest Museum of perfumery of the East. The smells presented there, can not but fascinate the admirers of the most exquisite fragrances.

Smells of Russia

In Russia there are two places where fragrances remainpast and present: the St. Petersburg Museum of Perfumery and the Yekaterinburg Museum of History. There is no specialized Museum of Odors in Yekaterinburg, but despite this, there is a unique exposition in the Museum of History of Yekaterinburg dedicated to the ancient smells that filled the city centuries ago. Specific aromas are stored in special tanks: oven smoke and manure, pine forest and fetid saloprops, corrosive steam smoke and a rattling mixture of "gluttonous" flavors. The St. Petersburg Museum is open not so long ago and it is called upon to preserve for humanity the memory of the vanishing fragrances and the perfumery culture of the past.