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The Museum of the Deception (The Museum of Hoaxes) was founded in 1997 with the aim of promoting awareness with regard to the deception and fraud. Since the historic in antiquity, until the most recent, including, of course, the deception or fraud made by Internet. The web site of the museum is quite good and can be found a great material. There is a section that contains the jokes classic day of the innocent (in the United States, the April 28) and a gallery of creatures invented that includes creatures that seem brought in some strange mythology.
Some cases:
The trees of spaguetti. A joke of the day of the innocent in 1957 made by the British television BBC. A commercial three minutes that showed a Swiss family who cultivated their own spaghetti in the courtyard of his house. As it had a small shortage of spaghetti in England, the joke hit so that people called by piles at the BBC. They wanted to know how they could grow this rich spaghetti at his home.
The woman who pariah bunnies. In England, during the reign of George I, in 1726 came a woman called Mary Toft said giving birth to bunnies dead. Quickly became a national feeling after some doctors sent by the same king say that was true. But when a doctor renowned of the kingdom was commissioned to examine your vagina, confessed: she simply, when no one saw, put bunnies dead in her vagina. What I wanted was fame and a pension of king. A year later, gave birth to a child human. Read the rest of this entry »

Florence, the capital of the region known as Tuscany, is world-famous for being the place where nearly the Renaissance saw their first advances. That’s why is known for being a city quite artistic, she left figures as Miguel Angel, Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, Dante, Boccaccio, among many others, returning to the city World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982.
As it is too obvious, with so many important artists of the history from only a region, it is impossible that lack the museums that are why we highlight some of them because of the importance of their collections.
In Florence are museums such as the National Museum of San Marcos, located within a Dominican convent, created by order of the Medici, where you can find large paintings by masters such as Fra Angelico. Without a doubt this is the museum most visited the city.
Now we know the Museum Horne, regarded as the Florentine house of the renaissance and dates from the year 1916. This museum is poses on the Palace Corsi and home to a large private collection of ancient art. To reach it must turn toward the Street Benci.
We cannot fail to mention to the Museum Bargello, that is the national museum since the year 1865, and roosts on an ancient building dating from 1255. Here we will find a series of sculptures impressive with works by Michelangelo Buonarotti, and Donatello by mentioning some of the great masters.
World-famous is the Uffizi museum, better known as the Uffizi Gallery that poses on the Plazuela degli Uffizi Gallery. It is a museum of painting and sculpture designed by the family Medici. Read the rest of this entry »

If we encourage practice cultural tourism in Spain, we must visit the Museums in Madrid. Among the most important of the Iberian capital are on the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid, located at Calle Serrano 13. Here we will find archaeological treasures worthy of admire dome the Lady of asset. Worth mentioning that this museum founded in the year 1867, has dozens of rooms where we can stroll through a trip at the time. It also you will enjoy knowing that the museum has an area of Ancient Egypt deserves to be appreciated.

Another of the museums in Madrid most important is the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia or MNCARS, which is dedicated to promoting knowledge in the city through samples of contemporary art of the twentieth century.

Among the museums in Madrid also stresses the Museum of America, located in the Avenue Catholic Kings 6, and which dates from the year 1941. In this building Viceregal style find fabulous collections of art that helps us to know more art own of the new continent. Read the rest of this entry »

Europe is a continent that dazzles us with their centuries of art and culture and is therefore not random that in this cradle of great masters of the painting and sculpture by mentioning some branches of art, Posen several of the museums highlights of the world. Among them, we can mention the Louvre Museum or Musée du Louvre in Paris, France, regarded as one of the most important and most famous of the world. In this museum will be the most beautiful pieces of art impressionist. Among their parts more prominent found the Mona Lisa or the Gioconda of Leonardo Da Vinci, the Virgin of the Chancellor Rolin of Jan van Eyck, The Life of Maria de’ Medici Rubens, The encajera of Vermeer, The Freedom guiding the people of Delacroix, The coronation of Napoleon of Jacques-Louis David, the hellenistic sculpture of Venus de Milo and the Code of Hammurabi, although the Pyramid of the Louvre Museum to be posa outside of the museum is itself considered as a masterpiece of the avant-garde architecture because it is built in glass. Read the rest of this entry »

Among the art museums in the world are on the Museum of Modern Art in New York, better known as MOMA, where you can find collections of contemporary art of great masters such as Van Gogh, Picasso, Dali, Pollock and Warhol to mention a few.

Another of the art museums in the world is the British Museum in London or British Museum, regarded as the most emblematic of England and is that in its interior preserves fabulous antiques from various parts of the planet. You know that this museum was inaugurated in the year 1753 and since then receives thousands of tourists daily.

In Austria are on the Museum of Art History of Vienna or Kunsthistorisches Museum, which roosts in a palace, called Ringstra. Did you know that this is one of the museums pioneers in this genre? Yes, his creation was by order of an emperor. Read the rest of this entry »