Tag: museums

Picture of the Day: Up and Down the Spiral

 

UP AND DOWN THE SPIRAL

 

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Shown here is the famous double spiral staircase at the Vatican Museums in Viale Vaticano in Rome, inside the Vatican City. The stairs were designed by architect and engineer Giuseppe Momo in 1932 and commissioned by Pope Pius XI.

The Vatican Museums are among the greatest museums in the world, displaying works from the immense collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries including some of the most renowned classical sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. The Vatican Museums broke attendance records in 2011 with just over 5 million people. [Source]

 

 

 

 

Picture of the Day: Entrance to the Natural History Museum in London

 

Entrance to the Red Zone at the Natural History Museum

 

 

 

In this beautiful capture by Elia Locardi, we see the awesome entranceway to the Red Zone at the Natural History Museum in London, England. Locardi is fairly prolific on Google+ with over 569,000 connections. He also runs the wildly popular BlametheMonkey.com, a travel & HDR photography tutorial site.

Established in 1881, the Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London, England (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). The museum is home to life and earth science specimens comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology. The museum is a world-renowned centre of research, specialising in taxonomy, identification and conservation.

Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, the Natural History Museum does not levy an admission charge. [Source]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Picture of the Day: Tyrannosaurus Sex

 

TYRANNOSAURUS SEX

 

Photograph by MARIO MODESTO

 

You thought that was a typo didn’t you? But oh no, the headline is correct and this exhibit is very real. You can see it for yourself at the Jurassic Museum of Asturias in Spain. And in case the skeletons cast in a mating position weren’t explicit enough, there’s a fabulously illustrated image behind the display to really drive it home.