Italy

The Medici's offices turned into Europe's first modern art gallery, bequeathed to Tuscany by Anna Maria Luisa in 1743. Botticelli'...

Founded by Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo as Florence's academy of fine arts, today visited for Michelangelo's David, moved here from ...

Cardinal Scipione Borghese's villa in its gardens, a museum of Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and painting. Bernini's Apollo an...

The world's oldest public museums, opened to the people of Rome in 1734 from the papal collections on Michelangelo's Campidoglio s...

Venice's premier art museum, in the former Scuola della Carita and convent complex beside the Grand Canal in Dorsoduro. Venetian p...

The richest repository of Greco-Roman antiquities, holding the Farnese collection: the Hercules, the Bull, and gem cabinets. Fresc...

The oldest Egyptian museum in the world after Cairo, built on the 1824 purchase of the Drovetti collection. The Turin King List, t...