Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Известные музеи мира ( 5-7 классы)

public in 1759. There are departments of Medieval Antiquities, Asiatic Antiquities, Prehistoric and Roman- British Antiquities and the Department of Asia. The museum also represents personal collection of Sir Hans Sloane, who was a physician and naturalist. He had a collection which consisted of a library ( books, manuscripts, prints, drawings), herbarium, coins and medals.
The building of the museum has a quadrangular form and was designed in the 19-th century especially for the museum by Sir Kobert Smirke.
The total number of all museum’s items is around seven million.

established in 1852. The museum has galleries for ceramics and glass, gold and silver ware, sculpture, textiles, dress, furniture, as well as drawings, paintings, photographs. There are also figures of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert as well as busts and figures of British artists whose works are represented at the museum.
At the museum’s main entrance there is a 9-meter high chandelier made of glass. It welcomes its visitors and opens 145 galleries which hold over four million items.

The Met») was established in 1872 and is called the treasury of human civilization. Now it consists of nineteen departments. The museum’s collection contains more than two million works of art from all parts of the world, from ancient to modern times, and represents major artistic movements. The Drawings and Prints Department contains drawings by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrant.
The popular centerpiece of the Egyptian Art Department is the Temple of Dendur- the large sandstone temple.
In 1910 the Met became the first museum to display the paintings of Matisse.

The museum contains the following permanent collections: the Prehistoric Collection, the Collection of Sculpture, Pottery and Minor Art Collection, the Collection of Bronzes, the Collection of Egyptian Art.
The Prehistoric Collection contains different figures of men, women, laymen, athletes, deities, gods and are dated as early as 5,000 B.C. There are also vases, golden cups, bottles to store aroma oils, ear- rings, necklaces, portrait masks and decorations for chariots.
Many scenes are devoted to Heracles and his 12 deeds, and Greek gods: Zeus, Poseidon, Hermes, Aphrodite and others.

museum was founded to gather artifacts from numerous archeological sites. At present the museum holds over 120, 000 objects which are in permanent display. The Egyptian Museum tells about the life style of the Egyptians: their beliefs about the immortality of a human soul, military and economic activities, administrative system, art styles, the battles for the throne of Egypt.
There are sculptures, monuments, papyruses, statues, furniture, architectural decorations, written documents and other items of ancient treasures.
The museum displays pharaonic eras of all historic periods. There are all in all thirty – one dynasties.

automobile history. It was opened in 1989. The basis for the museum was the collection of Bill Harrah, the famous collector from Nevada. There are some legendary cars, race cars, special coupes, convertibles, cabriolets, minivans, pickup trucks. The exhibitions also tell about many advances which were achieved: dual- engine, multi- valve engine, four- wheel breaks, transmissions and throttle control.
The building of the museum covers about one thousand square feet and contains more than two hundred cars from 1892 to present.

Brussels, Belgium. The founder, Tom Hughes, for many years closely studied the history o potato. Later he moved to the USA and opened his museum here. At the museum 12 different exhibits are held. Interactive films are shown regularly. They are about the history of potato and about many interesting facts. There are also exhibits that show the best potato cookery.
There are many different varieties of the potato ( over five thousand!). Potato can be of different shape and color.
Nowadays potato scientists from research centers from different countries are involved in the process of collecting for the museum.