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.

One of the greatest museums of fine art in the world is housed in an incredible building in Vienna, the capital of Austria in Central Europe. Although the amazing collection of paintings and sculptures is the main attraction of the museum, the amazing architecture of the building it’s housed in is an attraction by itself. …

With a collection size of over 300,000 works of art and an average yearly visitor count of over 1.5 million people, the Art Institute of Chicago in Downtown Chicago can be classified as one of the greatest museums in the United States and even the world. Founded as the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts in …

When a man named Cardinal Scipione Borghese (1577-1633) started collecting fine works of art to decorate his “Villa Borghese,” he most probably didn’t have an idea that his opulent residence would become one of the most popular museums in Rome called the “Galleria Borghese” today. He was the secretary of Pope Paul V, a function …

If you enjoy fine art and you plan to visit Washington D.C., then the National Gallery of Art should be on top of your bucket list. In this museum in the U.S. national capital, you can find some of the most amazing paintings ever produced by the greatest masters in history. The museum is located …

If you happen to visit Amsterdam and you enjoy admiring fine art, then you should visit Amsterdam South because here you can find several popular museums. Museum Square is lined with many Museums, including the Rijksmuseum and the Van Gogh Museum, two of the most popular museums in the Netherlands with well over 2 million …

Could there be a better place to admire some of the most famous Renaissance paintings in the world than the birthplace of the Renaissance itself? The Uffizi Gallery is one of the largest art museums in the world and one of the oldest as well. It officially opened its doors in the year 1765 but …

What better place to learn about the history of the Netherlands and to enjoy some of the finest artworks created by Dutch artists than the national museum of the country, right? Let’s take a closer look at some of the most interesting facts about the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam so you can learn all about this …

The national art gallery of Scotland was originally referred to as the National Galleries of Scotland and is currently called the Scottish National Gallery. It’s located on an elevated area known as “The Mound” in the historical heart of Scotland’s capital, Edinburgh. The collection is housed in a Neoclassical building that was designed by one …

If you’re interested in some of the finest works of art of the most renowned Realism, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist artists, then there’s one place you simply have to visit, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. The museum is housed in one of the most extraordinary train stations in the world that was completed in the late …

Just like many other famous museums in the world, the Vatican Museums started rather humbly. The beginnings can be traced back to the purchase of just one sculpture called “Laocoön and His Sons.” This ancient sculpture was excavated in the year 1506, a time when Pope Julius II employed some of the most famous Renaissance …