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Art museums
YGK These Art Museums
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Paris museum housed in a former royal residence featuring an I. M. Pei glass pyramid entrance | Musée du Louvre |
| The museum housing the Winged Victory of Samothrace, Venus de Milo, and Mona Lisa | Louvre |
| The Madrid museum, completed in 1819, universally regarded as having the best collection of Spanish paintings | Museo del Prado |
| The museum housing Las Meninas by Velázquez and The Garden of Earthly Delights by Bosch | Prado |
| The Florence gallery originally designed as offices for Florentine magistrates under Cosimo de’ Medici | Uffizi Gallery |
| The museum housing Botticelli's The Birth of Venus and Titian's Venus of Urbino | Uffizi Gallery |
| The national museum of The Netherlands, housed in a Gothic Revival building in Amsterdam | Rijksmuseum |
| The museum housing Rembrandt’s Night Watch and Vermeer’s The Milkmaid | Rijksmuseum |
| The museum founded in St. Petersburg in 1764 by Catherine the Great, housed in the Winter Palace | Hermitage |
| The museum that awards the highly publicized Turner Prize for British artists | Tate (or Tate Britain/Modern) |
| The London museum housing Lichtenstein’s Whaam! and many works by J. M. W. Turner | Tate |
| The museum on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed spiral building | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
| The "Met" museum on Fifth Avenue whose collection includes El Greco’s View of Toledo and Sargent’s Madame X | The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Manhattan museum associated with the Rockefeller family since its founding in 1929 | Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) |
| The museum housing Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon | MoMA |
| The Chicago museum whose entrance features two lion statues and was built for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition | The Art Institute of Chicago |
| The museum housing Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte and Hopper’s Nighthawks | The Art Institute of Chicago |
| The Guggenheim branch famous more for its Frank Gehry-designed building than its collection | Guggenheim Museum Bilbao |
| The London gallery housing a synoptic collection of pre-1900 paintings, including Constable’s The Haywain | The National Gallery |
| The museum housing works like Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, Caravaggio’s Supper at Emmaus, and Van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Wedding | The National Gallery (London) |