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The Museum of Hoaxes

leastofthesepromotions team — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:55:35 +0000

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.
The cute boy of Craigslist. This is a deception of the internet. In 2001 Dan Baca, 29 years, he noted that the bus stop people he was displaying, and did not know why. After the discovered, a girl had seen and went up your photo to the popular site Craigslist, saying that wanted to see this “cute boy”, which had seen out there, he had been liked and not wise who was. Then there were many messages at the site speculating who might be, if it was gay, whether it was single. The news came up CNN and damaging interviews. But a reporter meticulous called David Cassel made an investigation and found that the first messages on the site were all from the same IP, though with different names. The same Dan Baca, the “cute boy” of the photo, had created the legend.

The National Museum of San Marcos

leastofthesepromotions team — Wed, 04 May 2011 09:10:00 +0000

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.
Now let’s go toward the Museum of the Academy, also known as the Galleria dell’Accademia, where you can find sculptures and paintings of teachers of art as Miguel Angel.
Our route followed by the Museo dell opera del Duomo, museums belonging to the cathedral of the city, where stresses the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, considered as artistic heritage of the city. You know that this museum was inaugurated in the year 1891 and was built by the architect Luigi del Moro.

Museums in madrid

leastofthesepromotions team — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:40:48 +0000

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.

For its part, the Museum Cerralbo roosts in the Palace of Cerralbo, that it was the home of the Marquis de Cerralbo and that today we offers one of the best national collections in the art.

The Museum of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando located in Alcala 13, gives us the opportunity to see a series of sculptures and drawings of the eighteenth century.

For its part, the Romantic Museum located in San Mateo 13 houses a military archive important as well as a series of works of geniuses of the painting. Worth mentioning that the museum dates from the year 1924.
Deserve special mention the Prado Museum and the Museum of Art Thyssen-Bornemisza, regarded as the most famous of the city.

Europe museum : The most famous in the world

leastofthesepromotions team — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:23:00 +0000

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.

In addition, if you animas to know the museum you cannot stop giving a tour of the section of art of Ancient Egypt, as well as the section of Mesopotamia, and the Islamic Art. We also have the opportunity to see actual collections of France as well as works belonging to the time of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. If you are a lover of art you delight paintings of Veronese, Rembrandt, Jose Ribera, Poussin, Rigaud, of Ingres, Cimabue, Giotto, Fra Angelico, Caravaggio, Raphael Sanzio, Titian, Van Dyck, Dürer, of Zurbarán, Murillo and Goya, Donatello and Miguel Angel to mention a few.

Also in Paris are on the Museum d’Orsay where we found a large collection of art of the nineteenth century and the twentieth century of realistic style and impressionistic where are pictures by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edouard Manet, Paul Gauguin and Paul Cézanne to mention a few.

Other museum in Europe extremely important is the National Museum of Prado, which is located in Madrid, Spain; and that is regarded as one of the art galleries highlights not only of Europe but of the world because houses more than 9 thousand pieces. Among his works highlights are paintings by Goya, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, El Greco, Rubens and Velazquez.

We cannot fail to mention the Vatican Museums that as the same name tells us is located in the Vatican and are a large collection of art ecclesiastical where stresses the art gregorian egyptian, the etruscan, the Sistine Chapel (perhaps the most visited and is that it is regarded as one of the treasures pictorial of the world as well know it is a mural of the Final Judgment attributed to Miguel Angel), the Stays of Rafael and others. As news last we have learned that the Vatican Museums will soon walk nightclubs.

Important is to remind the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy where you can find works of the renaissance where highlights works of Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Alberto Dürer, Giovanni Bellini, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Veronese, Rubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, among others.

For its part, the Tate Tilburg located in London is considered as the most important in the country because it is home to 1,500 works of modern art

Art museum

leastofthesepromotions team — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:48:30 +0000

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.

Also worth mentioning the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal, which houses more than 6 thousand pieces dating from the year 2.800 before Christ until our era.

For its part, the Museum of Art Russian of St. Petersburg in Russia, it poses at the Palais Mijáilovski and is regarded as one of the most important museums of the country because it is home to more than 400 thousand artistic works.

If traveled to South America, specifically to the capital of Peru, we will find the Museum of Art of Lima (MALI), located in the Paseo Colon 125, in the Park of the Exhibition, is regarded as one of the most important museums of the country. The opening hours are from 8 to morning until 8 p.m. the working days, and on Sundays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

In Brazil can visit to the Museum of Art in Sao Paulo, which houses one of the art collections in most important in the South American continent.

Barcelona: Land of Museums

leastofthesepromotions team — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:51:13 +0000

Barcelona is one of the major cities of Spain. As a center of great interest to art lovers and desirable tourist destination due to its location on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, Barcelona has a bit of everything for the discerning taste of tourist. If your thing is to learn a little more on each trip you make, you can choose to visit the various museums, all very different issues together.

Among its most prominent museums in Barcelona are the National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC), the Miró Foundation, the Museum of Football Club Barcelona, the Museum Picasso and Picasso Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art MACBA Contemporary Art Museum , the Museum d’Historia de la Ciutat History Museum, Foundation Antoni Tapies Museum, the Maritime Museum or Maritime Museum, the Contemporary History of Catalonia Center or Center for Contemporary History of Catalonia, the Museum de Ciències Naturals or Science Museum Natural, to erotic or Museum de l’Erotica Museum, the Egyptian Museum or Egyptian Museum, the Museum De Ceramica De Barcelona or Barcelona Ceramic Museum to name the most representative.