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.

The oldest art museum Down Under isn’t the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra, but an amazing museum in Melbourne, Victoria. The National Gallery of Victoria was founded in 1861. This was right in the middle of the Victoria Gold Rush and just a decade after the state became an independent colony in 1851. Melbourne …

A public arts institution known as the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco comprises two amazing museums in the city. One of these is called the de Young Museum and is located in one of the most amazing urban parks in the United States, the Golden Gate Park. The Legion of Honor is the other …

If you want to enjoy art in Madrid then you are lucky. The 3 most popular museums in Spain’s capital city are located within walking distance from each other. The so-called “Golden Triangle of Art” is situated just west of the Buen Retiro, a large public park in the heart of Madrid that was once …

The Whitney Museum or “Whitney Museum of American Art,” commonly known as “The Whitney,” is one of the most popular museums in New York City. It was named in honor of the museum’s founder Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), an American artist and art collector. She started her collection in 1905 and became an important patron …

If you want to enjoy a great day admiring fine art in North West England, you won’t find a better place to go than this amazing museum in Liverpool. The Walker Art Gallery started rather humble in 1819 when the Liverpool Royal Institution purchased 37 paintings from banker and art collector William Roscoe (1753-1831). It …

If you plan to discover famous artworks in Amsterdam, then a popular square in the Amsterdam South district of the city is the place to go. Museum Square is where you can find the Stedelijk Museum, dedicated to modern art, and the Rijksmuseum, the national museum of the Netherlands with an incredible collection of paintings. …

When a father and son amassed a great collection of fine art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the son decided to construct a building to house it. That’s the story of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in a nutshell. Father William Thompson Walters (1819–1894) moved to France in the early 1860s …

German art collector Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) was one of the first to recognize the incredible talent of famous Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. When she started acquiring paintings by van Gogh, it initiated the collection of one of the greatest museums in the Netherlands. The Kröller-Müller Museum was established within the borders of the Hoge …

Just northwest of downtown Washington D.C., in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of the city, you can find a museum that houses an amazing collection of paintings. The Phillips Collection was established by art collector and art critic Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), along with his wife Marjorie Acker Phillips (1894-1985). Duncan was an important patron of the …

The Baltimore Museum of Art (MBA) is one of the greatest museums in the United States for a number of reasons. It houses an incredible collection of paintings by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso and a significant number of Impressionist paintings. With a collection size of over 95,000 objects, these are far from being the …