We explore and share insights into the world’s best Museums, Art Galleries, and Historical sites worldwide as Virtual Tours.
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The “Joy of Museums” or “JOM” publishing platforms explore and share insights on Art, Artifacts, and History via Virtual Tours.
There are over 60,000 museums and historic sites worldwide, and we aim to share the very best of these.
Currently, we cover nearly 500 Museums, Art Galleries, and Historic Sites. We curate over 2,000 articles on Art, Artifacts, and Historic Sites, with additions every week, if not every day.
Interest in Museums, Art Galleries, Historic Sites, Art, Artists, Historical Artifacts, and discoveries reflects the economic, intellectual, and social health of a community and an individual.
JOM Foundation Pty Ltd is the owner of the various “Joy of Museums” publishing platforms.
Why “Joy of Museums”?
There are as many reasons to consider following our “Joy of Museums” publishing platforms. There are as many reasons as there are museums.
- Discover a new Story
- Discover essential stories about life, death, and passion.
- Explore our History
- Explore the evidence behind the momentous historical event.
- Discover Secrets
- Discover the secrets behind the historical forces of change.
- Increase your Understanding
- Reflect on significant historical milestones and how to interpret them.
- Discover a new Hero
- Learn about the heroes in your culture.
- Get Creative
- Diversity your viewpoint and gain a different interpretation.
- Get Inspired
- Discover new ideas and improve your perspective.
- Take Time Out
- Escape to a world-famous art gallery, museum, or historic site for self-reflection.
- Make new Friends
- Become friends with a Museum, its Masterpieces, and its Historical Artifacts and meet people with similar interests.
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- You can read “Joy of Museums” anywhere, on most electronic devices, PC, Tablet. iPad or Smartphone.
Our Purpose
Our purpose is to explore and share the very best of Museums, Art Galleries, and Historic Sites worldwide.
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Quotes about Museums
Quotes about Museums express famous people’s truth based on their experience and feelings. Quotes about Museums are famous because most people can relate to them somehow and on some level.
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“A museum is a place where one should lose one’s head.”
– Renzo Piano
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“The primary purpose of the Museum is to help people enjoy, understand, and use the visual arts of our time.”
– Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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“Give me a museum, and I’ll fill it.”
– Pablo Picasso
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“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.”
– Audrey Hepburn
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“The only way to understand painting is to go and look at it. And if out of a million visitors, there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.”
– Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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“Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. They are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to wherever they lead you…and the world should begin to change for you.”
– Jerry Saltz, Art Critic
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“The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.”
– Mikhail Gorbachev
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“Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless, it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel the action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my fingertips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.”
– Helen Keller (The first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree.)
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“An art book is a museum without walls.”
– Andre Malraux
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“Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.”
– Hans Haacke
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“A country that has few museums is both materially poor and spiritually poor … Museums, like theatres and libraries, are a means to freedom.”
Wendy Beckett
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“The modern world thinks of art as very important: something close to the meaning of life.”
– Alain de Botton
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“View of Vessenots Near Auvers” by Vincent van Gogh “View of Vessenots Near Auvers” by Vincent van Gogh depicts the landscape of ‘Les Vessenots,’ on the outskirts of Auvers. Van Gogh shows a village of country cottages with thatched roofs placed just below a raised horizon in the backgro... 69 2 View on Facebookhttps://joyofmuseums.com/artists-index/grant-wood/sentimental-ballad-by-grant-wood/
“Sentimental Ballad” by Grant Wood “Sentimental Ballad” by Grant Wood, depicts a group of singing men in a bar and represents a scene from a firm created in 1940 called “The Long Voyage Home,” directed by John Ford. The painting was commissioned by the film producer for the marketing o.... 20 View on Facebookhttps://joyofmuseums.com/museums/europe/netherlands-museums/amsterdam-museums/van-gogh-museum/the-yellow-house-by-vincent-van-gogh/
“The Yellow House” by Vincent van Gogh “The Yellow House” by Vincent van Gogh depicts the building and surrounds where Van Gogh rented four rooms in May 1888. Van Gogh rented two large rooms on the ground floor, one which served as his workshop and the other as the kitchen. He also occupi..... 63 1 View on Facebookhttps://joyofmuseums.com/artists-index/camille-pissarro/pont-boieldieu-in-rouen-by-camille-pissarro/
The Pont Boieldieu by Camille Pissarro The “Pont Boieldieu in Rouen” by Camille Pissarro is a series of paintings of the Pont Boïeldieu and the quays surround by industrial traffic. Our tour includes: “The Pont Boieldieu at Sunset” – by Camille Pissarro – Birmingham Museum and Art Galle... 32 View on Facebookhttps://joyofmuseums.com/museums/united-states-of-america/washington-d-c/national-air-and-space-museum/
National Air and Space Museum – Virtual Tour The National Air and Space Museum displays the most extensive collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world. It was established in 1946 and opened its main building in 1976. The museum contains historical objects such as the Apollo 11 mo..... 13 1 View on Facebook What’s a Curator?
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“Museums, like theatres and libraries, are a means to freedom.”
– Wendy Beckett
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