City Palace Udaipur India

City Palace Udaipur in the state of Rajasthan. City palace was built over the period of nearly 400 years being contributed by the several kings of the dynasty, starting by Maharana Udai Singh as the capital of the Sisodia Rajput clan in 1559 after he moved from the Chittor. City Palace, Udaipur is located on the east bank of the lake Pichola and has several palaces built within the complex.

The City Palace, Udaipur was built in vibrant style and it is considered as the largest of its type in the Rajasthan, an amalgamation of Rajasthani and the Mughal architectural styles, and it was built on hill top that gives the bird-eye view of the city and its surroundings including the several historic monuments such as the Lake Palace in the Lake Pichola and Jag Mandir on the other island in lake, Jagdish Temple is also close to the palace, the Moonsoon Palace is on top of an overlooking hillock nearby and Neemach Mata temple.

The main part of the palace now is preserved as a museum that displays the large and the diverse array of the artefacts. Down from the entrance is the arsenal museum exhibiting the large collection of the protective gear, weapons which includes the lethal 2 prolonged sword.

The palace museum is then entered through the Ganesh Deori meaning the door of the Lord Ganesh. This leads to Rajya Angan, royal courtyard that is the very spot where the Maharana Udai singh met the sage who told him to find the city here.

The Manak Mahal or the Ruby Palace has the lovely collection of the glass and the mirror work while the Krishna Vilas displays the rich collection of the miniature paintings. Pearl Palace or the Moti Mahal has the amazing mirror work and Chini Mahal has the ornamental tiles all over in Mahal.

                        
Surya Chopar or the sun square depicts the huge ornamental sun symbolising the sun dynasty to which the Mewar dynasty belongs too. Bari Mahal is the central garden with the view of city. Many beautiful paintings can be seen in the Zenana Mahal or Ladies chamber which directs to the Lakshmi Chowk the alluring white pavillion

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York

Metropolitan Museum of Art is largest Palace Museum in the Western hemisphere. It is collection of more than 2 million items it is not only broad it covers the whole world, by all the antique of past to present but deep, with the holdings so large in number of areas that might be consider museums unto themselves.

In the Metropolitan Museum of Art the European paintings are amazingly impressive. The work on paintings has been done by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Degas, Rodin, Vermeer and the other luminaries.

     

The main attraction of Metropolitan Museum of Art is Adam and Eve,” the well-known engraving by Albrecht Dürer, is only one of the many amazing pieces you will discover at the Met.

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British Museum, London, UK

London is fragmented with the  galleries, museums and historical buildings  and the British Museum is the most famous of the lot with over 5.5 million yearly tourists. British Museum, Opened in 1759, the museum could only establish itself thanks to the personal donations from the Irish physician Hans Sloane, who also lends his name to the Sloane Square.

 There are more than eight million items within the British Museum which is covering Ancient Egypt and Sudan, Greece and Rome and Prehistory and Europe.

 Must-see showcase include the Snettisham Hoard, the Rosetta stone and the Mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl.

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Louvre Museum, Paris, France

The beacon Louvre building is located in Paris’ first arrondissement and it is regarded as the largest museum of its type in the world. It is Located within the 12th century.

 Palais du Louvre, the museum element it was establish in 1793 with just 537 paintings. The Louvre today is recognized by the über modern glass pyramid structures that appeared in the 1989. Today nearly ten millions tourists visit to see the 35,000 different works of art and the 380,000 different objects.

The Collections of museum include the Egyptian antiquities, Etruscan, Greek, and Roman and Decorative arts material. The most famous collection by far is the section of painting, which houses works by the Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio and Eugène Delacroix. The single most famous painting is the enigmatic Mona Lisa portrait.


     

Other famous and popular museums within the Paris includes the the Musée D’Orsay, Grand Palais and the Centre Pompidou.

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National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

The National Palace Museum is an antique museum in Shilin, Taipei, and Republic of China. In the Island nation of the Republic of China, Taiwan, it is one of the national Museums. It has a permanent collection of more than 696,000 pieces of the ancient Chinese artifacts and artwork and makes it one of the largest in the world.

The collection of the artifacts’ and artworks enclose over 10,000 years of the Chinese history from the Neolithic age to late Qing Dynasty. Most of the collection of the museum is of high quality pieces collected by china’s ancient emperors.

The National Palace Museum and the Palace Museum in the Forbidden City in Beijing, People’s Republic of china (PRC) shares same roots.

        

The National Palace Museum was established with the items evacuated from Beijing Palace Museum and today it receives 4.3 million annual visitors. 

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Palace Museum of Beijing, China

Take the time to explore the Palace museums of the world and you will uncover so much more than ‘just’ the paintings’, sculptures and artifacts. You will get into the beating heart of your dream destination and you will know more about the heritage and culture can ever hoped.

The art collection of the Palace Museum is a national museum housed in Forbidden City in Beijing, China, is built upon the imperial collection of the Ming and Qing dynasties. This art collection was expanded in 20th century with the new acquisitions, transfer from the other Museums and the new archaeological discoveries.

The Palace Museum is housed in Forbidden City, the Chinese imperial place from Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the middle of the Beijing, China. For almost five centuries, it served as the home of Emperor and his household and ceremonial and the political centre of Chinese government.

It was built from 1406 to 1420, the complex consists of 980 surviving buildings with the 8,707 bays of rooms and it covers 720,000 square meters. The Palace museum exemplifies traditional Chinese palatial architecture and it has influenced the culture and the architectural developments in the East Asia and elsewhere.

                     

The Forbidden City was declared as a World Heritage Site in the year 1987.  It is listed by UNESCO as the largest collection of the preserved ancient wooden structures in the world.

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