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	Daria Kamila Przybyla BellaOnline's Art History Editor

St. Petersburg Museum Exhibits
Catherine the Great made St. Petersburg, Russia, home to two of the world’s most fascinating museums. The Mining Museum exhibits truly escalate rock collecting to stellar heights and the Hermitage Museum contains all the treasures amassed during Catherine’s reign plus those added in recent years.

The British Museum in London, England [offsite link]
Home to approximately 7 million science and art treasures, the collections of The British Museum span two million years of human history

The Louvre Museum in Paris, France [offsite link]
Originally a medieval fortress, and established in 1793 as a museum by the French Republic, the Louvre contains great works of art from the birth of ancient civilization to the XIXth century

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City [offsite link]
Founded in 1870, The Met is now home to 6500 works of art, spanning 5000 years of world history

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago [offsite link]
The MCA Collection contains over 6,000 objects, representing artistic trends from 1945 to the present in a variety of media including painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, film, installations, and artists´ books

The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC [offsite link]
Established in 1937, this gallery is home to major works in painting, sculpture, decorative arts, and works on paper from the Middle Ages to the present

The National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC [offsite link]
The museum explores African artistic expression from ancient to contemporary times and includes ceramics, textiles, furniture, masks and musical instruments as well as the arts of painting, printmaking and sculpture

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