Art, Theaters and Museums

The Siemensstadt Housing Estate (Großsiedlung Siemensstadt) is a nonprofit residential community in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district. It is one… Read the rest

The Grand Palais is an exhibition hall and museum complex located at the Champs-Élysées. Construction of the Grand Palais began in 1897 following the… Read the rest

British built submarine Lembit weighing 600 tones is the centrepiece of the new museum. Built in 1936 for the Estonian navy, Lembit served in the Worl… Read the rest

The Scrovegni Chapel contains a fresco cycle by Giotto, completed about 1305 and considered to be an important masterpiece of Italian and European art… Read the rest

The name of the Allard Pierson Museum derives from the first professor of classical archaeology at the University of Amsterdam, Allard Pierson (1831–1… Read the rest

In 1418 the Opera del Duomo announced a public competition for the construction of the dome with a handsome prize of 200 gold florins—and a shot at et… Read the rest

Whistler’s original, Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room (1876), was the dining room of the London home of shipping magnate Frederick Leyland.… Read the rest

.The theatre’s origins date back to 1756, when Empress Elizabeth issued a decree to found the Russian Theatre for the Presentation of Tragedies… Read the rest

Like its more famous rivals, however, it took some time for the Mikhailovsky to find its true role. Built 1831-1833 by Alexander Brullov, the building… Read the rest

<p>Built 1834-1839, the building originally housed the St. Petersburg Assembly of the Nobility, an organization of local administration that, af… Read the rest