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!
Which palace forms the main building of the Hermitage Museum?
The green-and-white Winter Palace served as the official home of Russian emperors for over 150 years.
Which Russian city houses the Hermitage Museum?
The museum occupies the Winter Palace, the former imperial residence on the Neva River.
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.
The Smithsonian Castle in Washington, D.C. gets its red color from what building stone?
Workers quarried the red stone at Seneca Creek in Maryland and shipped it down the Potomac to the Mall.
Which ancient Egyptian temple was rebuilt inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art?
Egypt gave the Temple of Dendur to the United States, and the Met rebuilt it in a glass-walled hall.
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.
Smithsonian founder James Smithson never did what before his bequest built the Smithsonian Castle?
His will left his fortune to the United States to found an establishment for the increase of knowledge.
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.