ART MUSEUMS - NATIVE AMERICAN AND PRE-COLUMBIAN ART
NORTH EUROPE

Musée du Quai Branly, Paris - This new museum (opened in 2006) is France's national museum to African, American, Oceanian and Asian Art

BritishThe British Museum, London - England's greatest museum -and one of the best in the world- of Ancient Arts and antiquities, with an excellent collection of Art from Ancient Egypt to the Middle Ages.

Naprstek Museum, Prague - Part of the Prague National Musuem, it houses an interesting collection of American, Asian and Tribal Art

SOUTH EUROPE

Museo arqueológico (Archaeological Museum), Madrid - The most important collection of Ancient Art in Spain, including the "Dama de Elche", an important Iberian figure of a woman

NORTH AMERICA

National Gallery of CanadaNational Gallery of Canada, Ottawa - Exhibits one of the greatest collections of European paintings in North America, with works by Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Gogh, Picasso and Pollock

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto - Houses a great collection of Canadian Art, as well as a good selection of European paintings, including Rubens and Van Gogh

MetropolitanThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Arguably America's greatest museum. Its spectacular collection is especially strong in American painting and Egyptian Antiquities.

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York - Houses an extensive collection of Art, specially strong in Egyptian antiquities and European paintings

Museum of Fine Arts, BostonThe Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is one of the oldest and most respected Art institutions of North America. It has a sister museum in Japan, the Nagoya Boston Museum of Fine Arts

Philadelphia Museum of ArtPhiladelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia - One of the greatest Museums in North America, with a great collection of European Art. The building appeared in a famous scene in the film "Rocky"

Art Institute of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago houses one of the most outstanding Art collections of the United States, featuring masterpieces such as Seurat's Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Detroit Institute of ArtsDetroit Institute of Arts, Detroit - One of the greatest Museums in North America, with a great collection of European Art, including van Eyck, Rembrandt, Delacroix and a self-portrait by van Gogh

Denver Art Museum, Denver - Focused in American Indian Art, this Museum also exhibits a good collection of contemporary Art, with works by Motherwell and Warhol

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Considered to be the best Museum in Texas, its collections span more than 5,000 years, from the Egyptian Art to the modern paintings

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles - One of the best Art collections in the country, exhibited in a building recently transformated by Renzo Piano

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle - The collections of this Museum have drastically grown in the last decades, and now include contemporary works by Andy Warhol or Richard Serra

SOUTH EUROPE

Museo del Oro (Gold Museum), Bogotá - Houses an impressive collection of Pre-Columbian gold artifacts, claimed to be the richest in the world

Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá - Founded in 1823, the Museum exhibits an important collection of Pre-Columbian antiquities, and a small group of modern works

Museo del Banco Central, Quito - Exhibits a large collection of Pre-Columbian artifacts, including mummies, potteries, sculptures and gold figures

Museo Nacional de Arqueología, Antropología e Historia, Lima - Houses an impressive collection of Pre-Columbian artifacts, including more than 60,000 cermics

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