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Guide Tour of the Place-Vendôme district, Paris, France

The Quartier of Place-Vendôme is the 4th administrative district of Paris, located in the 1st arrondissement. This district takes its name from Place Vendôme. The district is order and beauty, luxury, calm and pleasure, full of prestigious jewelers, restaurants, cafes, bars, and many traders. The square is made up of…

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Pergamon Museum, Berlin, Germany

The Pergamon Museum (German: Pergamonmuseum) is situated on the Museum Island in Berlin. The building was designed by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann and was constructed over a period of twenty years, from 1910 to 1930. The Pergamon Museum houses monumental buildings such as the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate…

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Travel guide of Ventura, California, United States

Ventura, officially San Buenaventura, is a city on the Central Coast of California and the county seat of Ventura County. Just an hour’s drive from Los Angeles, located along the scenic southernmost part of half-hidden California’s Central Coast. Year-round daytime temperatures average 70F. Day or night, Ventura has a casual…

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Gateway To Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art

Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces visitors to the main forms, concepts, and meanings of Himalayan art represented in our collection. A large multimedia map orients the visitors and highlights cultural regions of a diverse Himalayan cultural sphere that includes parts of present day India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. Visitors…

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Traffic and transportation of Lyon, France

Due to its geographical location, Lyon is the point of convergence for many road infrastructures, and the obligatory point of passage for railway lines to the south of Europe. Traditionally connected to Paris and Marseille, the city of Lyon is now tending to strengthen its connections to the east, in…

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Prehistory and Ancient History, National Museum of Korea

The Prehistory and Ancient History section displays artifacts that represent some of the earliest evidence of Korean civilization and culture, from stone tools of the Paleolithic age to gold jewelry of the Silla Kingdom and stone monoliths of the Balhae era, with each room documenting those aspects that uniquely define…

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Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, United Kingdom

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England. It forms part of a World Heritage Site. It is the cathedral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, currently Justin Welby, leader of the Church of England and symbolic leader of the worldwide Anglican…

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Paranoiac-critical method

The paranoiac-critical method is a surrealist technique developed by Salvador Dalí in the early 1930s. He employed it in the production of paintings and other artworks, especially those that involved optical illusions and other multiple images. The technique consists of the artist invoking a paranoid state (fear that the self…

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International Museum of Children’s Art, Oslo, Norway

The International Museum of Children´s Art (Det internasjonale barnekunstmuseet) in Oslo, Norway is a pioneer institution, being the world´s first full scale Museum of Child Art. Today, the museum´s art collection contains art works by children and young from more than 180 countries. The Museum was established in 1986 by…

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Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, United States

The Dixon Gallery and Gardens is an art museum within 17 acres of gardens, established in 1976, and located at 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1976 by Hugo and Margaret Dixon, the Dixon Gallery and Gardens is a fine art museum and public garden distinguished by…

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Sustainable agriculture

Sustainable agriculture is farming in sustainable ways based on an understanding of ecosystem services, the study of relationships between organisms and their environment. Sustainable agriculture defined as “an integrated system of plant and animal production practices having a site-specific application that will last over the long term”, for example to…

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