In addition to the world’s third-largest collection of Impressionist paintings, the museum has extensive collections of European art dating back as far as the Middle Ages, including works by Rembrandt, Van Gogh, El Greco, Chagall, Picasso and Matisse.
The South African Museum (renovated bit by bit in 2007) gives visitors a chance to experience the history of South Africa close-up. The huge skeleton of a whale and the shark exhibition impress both the young and the old. There are exhibitions about various peoples of South Africa, such as the San Bushmen - complete [...]
Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst created his own Disneyland - Hearst Castle. The palace, built in the 1930s and 40s by one of the most influential men on the West Coast, is located on the outskirts of the coastal village of San Simeon. The magnificent gardens and the rooms crammed with paintings and antiques create [...]
Since 1909, the Museum of Fine Arts has been housed in a Greek-style building designed by architect Guy Lowell. Thanks to the financial power of Bostonians with a penchant for art, an excellent collection has been created which, not just because of the exhibits by outstanding American artists, is considered to be among the world’s [...]
