Museums, collections as visitor attractions, and museum history. Institutions and visitor collections; specific artworks and archaeological methods retain their subject categories.
Test your knowledge with these top questions!
Whose private collection founded the British Museum in 1753?
Parliament bought Sloane's 71,000 objects after his death and opened the museum to the public in 1759.
Which architect designed the Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C.?
Renwick was in his twenties when chosen, and he later designed St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
Which empress founded the Hermitage Museum in 1764?
Catherine began the collection by buying over 200 paintings from a Berlin merchant.
Which inscribed slab at the British Museum helped decode Egyptian hieroglyphs?
The decree appears in three scripts, so scholars matched Greek to hieroglyphs and cracked the code.
Whose tomb rests in a small chapel room inside the Smithsonian Castle?
Smithson was a British scientist who never visited America; his remains were moved to the Castle in 1904.
Which architect designed the British Museum's glass-roofed Great Court?
The glass canopy turned the museum courtyard into one of Europe's largest covered public squares.
Which Russian city houses the Hermitage Museum?
The museum occupies the Winter Palace, the former imperial residence on the Neva River.
Which star-studded annual fundraiser takes place at the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
The Met Gala raises money for the museum's Costume Institute and opens its spring fashion exhibition.
Sculptures from which ancient Greek temple fill the British Museum's Duveen Gallery?
Lord Elgin removed the marble carvings from Athens in the early 1800s, and Greece still requests their return.
Which Metropolitan Museum of Art branch displays medieval art in Fort Tryon Park?
The Cloisters combines pieces of European abbeys into a building overlooking the Hudson River.