Vatican Museums, Vatican City, Rome, Italy

    This startling group was founded by Pope Julius II in the 6th century. The Roman Catholic Church's Vatican collection is one of the largest and most glamorous in the world. More than 500 years old, The Vatican Museums are some of the oldest in the world, with paintings from Raphael and da Vinci on display. It is also home to the Gallery of Maps, one of the only galleries featuring pictorial maps dating as far back as the 1500s.

                                                                             

                                                                              

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

    The largest art museum in the United States with among the most significant art collections. It is just off the southeast side of Central Park on Manhattans Museum Mile. Another part of the museum is in the upper part of Manhattan; it primarily has medieval works on display for guests to see. American businessmen, thinkers, artists and financiers opened the museum to the American public and its foreign visitors in the year 1870. Now the museum is a prized gem of the country.