The document provides information about several major museums around the world, including their origins, collections, and areas of focus. It discusses the Smithsonian Institution, establishing the US's role in research and education. It also mentions the collections of the Hermitage Museum in Russia and the British Museum in London, noting some of their extensive holdings from across history and around the world.

1. Helping people
understand and
appreciate the natural
world
The history of
civilizations
The record of
humanity's artistic,
scientific, and
technological
achievements

3. • A major center for research
and education
• 16 museums, the National
Zoo, and several prominent
research centers
• 1846
• The bequest of James
Smithson
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4. • 140 million items
• Masterpieces of modern
sculpture
• The world's oldest fossil
• The original compass used
by the Lewis and Clark
expedition to the
American West

5. The Hermitage
• Catherine the Great purchased
a collection of 255 paintings
from Berlin
• Over 2.7 million exhibits
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6. • A neoclassical 19th-century
building reconstructed from
the Baroque Winter Palace
(1754 - 1762)
• Museum complex: the
Winter Palace, the Small
Hermitage, the Old
Hermitage and the New
Hermitage

7. • The department of primitive
culture (1931)
450,000 items - from the early
Stone Age to the Formation
of the Russian state
• The department of
antiquities - from Ancient
Greece and Rome, Roman
sculptural portraits

8. • The numismatic department
1,100,000 items
Italian Renaissance medals by
Antonio Pisano, Benvenuto
Cellin
• The department of the history
of Russian culture (1941)
from palaces, mansions, private
collections and small museums

9. • A museum of human
history and culture in
London
• 7 million objects Learn More
• Illustrating and
documenting the story of
human culture from its
beginning to the present

10. • Established in 1753
• Based on the collections of
Sir Hans Sloane (collection of
curiosities)
• An encyclopedia of nature Museum, Video
and of art

11. • Department of Ancient
Egypt and Sudan
Egyptian antiquities
• Department of Greek and
Roman Antiquities
Antiquities from the Classical
world (from 3200BC to the
4th c AD)

12. • Department of Prehistory and
Europe
the art and archaeology of
Europe
the history of Britain under
Roman occupation
• Department of Conservation
and Scientific Research (1920)
ceramics & glass; metals; organic
material; stone, wall paintings
and mosaics