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By: David P, Nico, Rubén

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By: David P, Nico, Rubén

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VOCABULARY Weapons: armas Avenue: avenida Foundated: fundadado Foundation: fundación

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MUSEUM MILE Museum mile is the name for a section of the

fifth Avenue in Manhattan (New York). There are 9 museums in this section of the

fifth Avenue but we are only going to talk about three of them.

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METRPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART It was open in 1872. In total it has more than 2 million paintings,

sculptures, Egyptian art, Islamic art, weapons…

The director of the museum is Thomas P. Campbell

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GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM It´s one of the first museums created by the

foundation Solomon R. Guggenheim. It´s the most famous museum of this foundation. It was founded in 1937. The architect was Frank Loyd Wright.

Solomon Guggenheim had an important collection of modern art and he decided to make a museum.

John Chamberlain´s exhibition

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MUSEUM OF MODERN ART It was open on 7th September 1929 It is one of the best modern art museums. The director is Glenn D. Lowry There are paintings of P. Picasso, Mark

Chagall, Andy Warhol…

Diego Rivera´s exhibition

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