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Colossal Granite Statue of Amenhotep III

Colossal Granite Statue of Amenhotep III This enormous red granite statue of Amenhotep III depicts the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III, wearing...
12:14 9 June 2019

Avanton Gold Cone

Avanton Gold Cone The Avanton Gold Cone is a late Bronze Age European artifact belonging to the group of only four Golden Hats discovered thus far. It...
7:31 9 June 2019

Gravestone for Theophile

Gravestone for Theophile This Gravestone for Theophile was found on the Piraeus Necropolis in Athens in 1805. These gravestones are also called a fune...
2:22 9 June 2019

Moschophoros

The Calf Bearer Moschophoros Moschophoros, which is Greek for the calf-bearer, is an ancient Greek statue from 560 BC. He stands with his left foot a...
22:56 8 June 2019

Musée Marmottan Monet

Musée Marmottan Monet Virtual Tour Musée Marmottan Monet houses over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet. Th...
11:32 8 June 2019

Pella

Pella Pella was an ancient city in Central Macedonia, Greece, which was the historical capital of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and the birthpl...
10:57 7 June 2019

“Nude on a Blue Cushion” by Amedeo Modigliani (National Gallery of Art, DC)

Nude on a Blue Cushion by Amedeo Modigliani Nude on a Blue Cushion by Amedeo Modigliani is one of the dozens of nudes created by Modigliani in a ...
0:30 7 June 2019

Gonzaga Cameo

Gonzaga Cameo The Gonzaga Cameo is a Hellenistic engraved gem dating from the 3rd century BC. The two profiles form a couple who at various times have...
12:24 6 June 2019

“Le Chahut” by Georges Seurat

Le Chahut by Georges Seurat Le Chahut by Georges Seurat representing the Can-Can dance at the Moulin Rouge in the artists pointillist technique. The C...
10:00 6 June 2019

Canterbury Museum, Christchurch

Canterbury Museum, Christchurch The Canterbury Museum is located in Christchurch, New Zealand, in the citys Cultural Precinct. The museum has an exten...
0:10 6 June 2019

Standard of Ur

Standard of Ur The Standard of Ur is a mosaic of shells, red limestone and lapis lazuli inlaid over a hollow wooden box. It was discovered in the 1920...
11:24 5 June 2019

“The Taking of Christ” by Caravaggio

The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio The Taking of Christ by Caravaggio depicts the arrest of Jesus just as Judas kisses Jesus to identify him for the s...
11:07 5 June 2019

Queensland Museum and Science Center

Queensland Museum and Science Center The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland. It has been documenting, discovering, preserving, and sh...
9:52 5 June 2019

Greek Museums and Historic Sites

Museums and Historic Sites in Greece Greece is the cradle of Western civilization, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic ...
9:51 5 June 2019

Musée d’Orsay

Musée dOrsay is housed in a magnificent train station building, which is a historic site constructed for the 1900 World Fair.
6:49 5 June 2019

Sican Funerary Mask

Sican Funerary Mask Peru This Sican Funerary Mask once adorned the body of a deceased ruler on Perus north coast. This mask was made of an alloy...
12:57 4 June 2019

El Greco

A Virtual Tour of El Greco Doménikos Theotokópoulos, widely known as El Greco, Spanish for The Greek, was a painter, sculptor, and architect of the Sp...
13:01 3 June 2019

“Self-Portrait as a Painter” by Vincent van Gogh

"Self-Portrait as a Painter" by Vincent van Gogh is one of the dozens of self-portraits, Van Gogh made, and they were an essential part of t...
11:43 2 June 2019

Tu Do

Tu Do Vietnamese Refugee Boat The Tu Do is a wooden fishing boat which was made in Vietnam in 1976, and it is historic because it was used as a Vietn...
7:38 2 June 2019

Spring by Édouard Manet

Spring by Édouard Manet Spring by Édouard Manet depicts the Parisian actress Jeanne DeMarsy in a floral dress with parasol and bonnet against a backgr...
2:10 2 June 2019

Clovis Weapons and Tools

Clovis Weapons and Tools These Clovis Weapons and Tools are ancient tools that are over 10,000 years old. The Clovis culture was based initially aroun...
11:58 1 June 2019

Driehaus Museum

Driehaus Museum The Richard H. Driehaus Museum in Chicago, Illinois, is housed within the historic Samuel M. Nickerson House, the 1883 residence of a ...
3:11 1 June 2019

“The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame” by Maximilien Luce

The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame by Maximilien Luce The Quai Saint-Michel and Notre-Dame by Maximilien Luce was created using the technique of sep...
1:41 1 June 2019

Megamouth Shark

Megamouth Shark The Megamouth Shark is a species of deepwater shark first discovery in 1976. It is rarely seen by humans and is the smallest filter-fe...
1:29 1 June 2019

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and focuses ...
7:39 31 May 2019

Male Torso of the Hermes Richelieu Type

Male Torso of the Hermes Richelieu Type This Male Torso is thought to belong to the Hermes Richelieu type because of its similarity to a statue of Her...
5:10 31 May 2019

Australian War Memorial

Australian War Memorial  Virtual Tour The Australian War Memorial is Australias national memorial and museums to the members of its armed forces ...
4:07 31 May 2019

National Museum of Singapore

National Museum of Singapore Virtual Tour The National Museum of Singapore is the oldest museum in Singapore, and it started as a section of a librar...
11:39 30 May 2019

7 Sky Paintings by Tom Thomson

Round Lake, Mud Bay by Tom Thomson 7 Sky Landscapes by Tom Thomson Tom Thomson was a Canadian artist whose works consist almost entirely of landscapes...
9:13 30 May 2019

National Museum of China

National Museum of China Virtual Tour The National Museum of China is on the eastern side of Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and is one of t...
4:56 30 May 2019