Joan Ortega

Joan Ortega is a museum nerd in every sense of the word. She has visited dozens of museums in the United States and her dream came true in 2018. This was the year that she was able to travel to Paris and visit the Louvre Museum and the Musée d’Orsay, 2 museums that were on top of her bucket list. She loves to share her extensive knowledge and experience about museums on Art Facts.

When it comes to art museums in Spain, nothing beats the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid. Perhaps a lesser-known museum is the “Museu de Belles Arts de València” or “Museum Of Fine Arts Of Valencia,” the most important museum in Spain’s third-largest city. Founded in 1913, its collection comprises over 2,000 artworks, most …

Ghent is a city in Belgium that is often referred to as the Manhatten of the Middle Ages. That’s because it’s home to some of the most stunning landmarks built during this period in architectural history. It’s also in Ghent that you can find the Ghent Altarpiece, the incredible masterpiece by the van Eyck brothers …

The region of modern-day Belgium hasn’t just produced some of the most famous artists in history, it’s also home to museums with incredible fine art collections. Most major museums in Belgium can be found in the major cities, Brussels, Antwerp, and Ghent, to name just a few. You can find artworks there ranging from the …

One of the oldest museums in Poland has a history that goes back to the personal collection of fine arts of a Polish princess in the late 18th century. This collection was initially housed in Pulawy, a city in the eastern part of the country, but was moved to Kraków following the Franco-Prussian War in …

The capital city of Belgium is home to a mountain of art. Well, not literally, but the location where you can find the most famous museums is known as the “Mont des Arts” or “Kunstberg.” This translates from French and Dutch respectively (Brussels is bi-lingual) to “Art Mountain” and it can be described as one …

One of the 2 royal palaces in Naples known as the Palazzo di Capodimonte was constructed in the 18th century in the northern part of the city. It served as the Summer residence of the Bourbon rulers and was initially intended to be nothing more than a hunting lodge. When the instigator, King Charles VII …

Do you want to earn $10 million? Then all you need to do is provide the tip that leads to the discovery of 13 paintings that were stolen from a famous museum in Boston in 1990. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum made world news when criminals ran off with several masterpieces in a crime that …

Many of the most famous artists in history have museums dedicated to them. This is also the case with this renowned Dutch Golden Age Painter. Frans Hals (1582-1666) was born in Antwerp but lived and worked nearly his entire life in Haarlem, a city in what was then the Dutch Republic. He is best known …

When you travel to Rome, you don’t really have to visit museums. After all, Walking around in this city is the equivalent of walking inside a huge open-air museum. You can also admire fine works of art everywhere. Inside beautiful churches, sculptures that decorate Rome’s fountains, and even obelisks in the city squares. Better yet, …

Many of the most famous museums in Spain are located in Madrid, but this city in the northern part of the country can definitely hold a candle to it. The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum or “Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao” is overshadowed by the Guggenheim Museum in the largest city in the Basque country …