It's Time for Some Culture Trivia Quiz

Answer: Museo del Prado, Madrid

Established in 1819, the Prado is the National Gallery of Spain and houses one of the greatest collections of European art from the 12th to the 19th Century. Attracting around 2.75 million visitors annually makes it the world's 11th most visited art gallery. Although only about 1,300 of the collection's 7,600 paintings are on display at any one time, it still take a whole day to hurry around and just see the highlights.
The collection includes the most important works by many of the Spanish masters such as Goya and Velázquez, and a bronze statue of the latter dominates the main entrance to the museum. The 'Goya Gate' and a statue of that artist provides entry to the museum from the north.
Other 'must see' items on display here include "The Knight with His Hand on His Breast" by El Greco, Titian's "The Fall of Man", the unusual "Agnus Dei" by Francisco Zurbarán, "Las Meninas" by Velázquez and Goya's May 1808 paintings.
The photograph shows the exterior of the main wing of the museum building.

Answer: State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg

Founded by Catherine the Great in 1764 and open to the public since 1854, the collection at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg comprises more than three million items including the world's largest collection of paintings. The museum is housed in six historic buildings, the most famous of which is the former royal residence, the Winter Palace. The Classical Antiques (including the Egyptian Collection) takes up the ground floor of two whole buildings -- a highlight is the 1843 jasper Kolyvan Vase, standing over eight feet tall and weighing 42,000 pounds.

The Knight's Hall contains a spectacular collection of weapons and armour from the 15th-17th Centuries. The Italian Renaissance collection includes works by Raphael, da Vinci, Veronese, Tintoretto and Titian, whilst the Spanish section displays Velázquez, Goya, El Greco and Murillo. Dutch, German, Swiss, British and French artists are featured elsewhere too.

Answer: Tate Modern, London

Housed in the former Bankside Power Station on the south bank of the River Thames in London, Tate Modern opened in 2000. The collection includes British art since the beginning of the 20th Century in addition to international modern and contemporary art.
The museum houses annual 'temporary exhibitions' in the Turbine Hall through the winter months -- recent featured artists have included Tino Sehgal from Germany, British visual artist Tacita Dean, Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei and Polish sculptor Miros³aw Ba³ka.
Highlights of the permanent collection include Picasso's Blue Period "Seated Nude", "A Young Lady's Adventure" by Paul Klee, Robert Delaunay's "Endless Rhythm", "The Guitar" by Georges Braque and "The Sunblind" by Juan Gris.

Answer: Vincent van Gogh

The Vincent van Gogh Museum is located in Museum Square in South Amsterdam near to the Rijksmuseum (The Dutch National Museum). With more than 400 drawings and 200 paintings (as well as 700 letters), it houses the world's largest collection of works by the eccentric Dutch post-Impressionist. With around 1.4 million visitors annually, it is the most visited museum in The Netherlands and ranks thirtieth worldwide.
Of the alternatives, the Musée Picasso is located at the Hôtel Salé in Paris. The Fundació Joan Miró is in Barcelona, Spain. The Rembrandt House Museum is also in Amsterdam.

Answer: Slovakia

Founded in 1991 by the artist's family and the Slovak Ministry of Culture, it was originally called "The Warhol Family Museum of Modern Art", but the name was amended in 1996. It is located in Medzilaborce, a town of only 6,500 people in northeastern Slovakia, close to the border with Poland. More than 160 works by the icon of pop art can be seen here, most of them silkscreens and drawings. Works by other members of Warhol's family are also on display here, notably his brother Paul Warhola and Paul's son, James.

There is also plenty of Warhol memorabilia to be seen, much of it relating to his parents' Slovakian family -- although he was born in the U.S., his name at birth was Andrej Varhola, Jr, and Andy Warhol was the Anglicization.

Answer: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

The Galleria degli Uffizi (The Uffizi Gallery) in Florence is so popular that waiting times can be as high as five hours at the height of the season. The word "uffizi" means 'offices', which was the intended use of the buildings when they were built between 1560 and 1581. The photograph shows the narrow internal courtyard between the two wings of the museum. The screen at the far end looks out over the Arno River.
What began as the personal art collection of the Medici family was first opened to the public in 1765. The collection also includes masterpieces from the likes of Rembrandt, Velazquez, Raphael, Caravaggio, Lippi and many more.

Answer: Australia

The National Gallery of Australia is located in the Parkes district of central Canberra. The building was designed by Australian architect Colin Madigan as a result of winning a competition (similar to the one held for the right to design the Sydney Opera House).

The collection includes Australian Art, both Aboriginal and traditional European style, traditional Eastern Art from Asia, Western Art (mostly modern) and Pacific Art from the various island countries surrounding Australia. Lovers of the European masters will not be disappointed with their visit here, though -- there are works by Cezanne, Monet and Matisse as well as the more modern artists such as Picasso, Pollock, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Hockney and Freud. There are also photographic and crafts sections as well as a Sculpture Garden (with "Hill Arches" by Henry Moore one of the highlights).

Answer: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Often called simply "The Guggenheim", the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is housed in one of the 20th Century's most important architectural landmarks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The collection itself includes old masters such as Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro and Vincent van Gogh as well as many early modernists such as Piet Mondrian, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani(such as his 1917 "Nude") and more than 30 items by Pablo Picasso.

A wide range of expressionist and surrealist works can also be found here, with paintings by the likes of Paul Klee (his 1922 "Red Balloon" for example), Marcel Duchamp, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock and Joan Miró.

Answer: Vienna, Austria

The Museum of Art History (also sometimes called the Museum of Fine Arts) stands opposite the Naturhistorisches Museum (Museum of Natural History) in the heart of the Austrian capital of Vienna. Both established at the end of the 19th Century by Emperor Franz Joseph I of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire, the two building are virtual mirror images of each other.
The museum was originally established to house and display the impressive collection of art built up by the Habsburg family. Notable works in the gallery include Albrecht Dürer's "Adoration of the Trinity", Tintoretto's "Susanna and the Elders", Raphael's "Madonna of the Meadow", "David with the Head of Goliath" by Caravaggio and "Infanta Margarita Teresa in a Blue Dress" by Velázquez. The aforementioned collection of works by Bruegel include one of his best-known pieces such as @Children's Games", "Gloomy Day" and "Tower of Babel".
Besides the paintings, the museum also houses a large collection of Egyptian, Greek and Roman antiquities, a sculpture and decorative arts collection, and a wide selection of coins and books.

Answer: "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso

More than 9.7 million visitors annually come to The Louvre to see a collection consisting of more than 35,000 objects from pre-history to the present day. Louis XIV moved his household to Versailles in 1682, leaving the Louvre (located on the Right Bank of the Seine) as home to the royal art collection, but it was not until the French Revolution a century later (in 1793) that the building became the peoples' gallery.
'Must-see' items are the "Venus de Milo", a 6'8" tall marble statue of Aphrodite dating to the between 130 and 100 BC that arrived here under Louis XVIII in 1821, and "La Gioconda" (better known as "Mona Lisa"), painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506, which arrived at The Louvre under Francis I in 1797. Other highlights include Dutch Baroque master Jan Vermeer's 1670 painting "The Lacemaker", Caravaggio's "The Fortune Teller", "Liberty Leading the People" by Delacroix, "Charles I at the Hunt" by Anthony van Dyck and Michelangelo's 1513-16 sculpture "Rebellious Slave".
Pablo Picasso's most famous work, the 1937 oil on canvas "Guernica", can be seen at the Museo Reina Sofia, the modern art museum in Madrid, Spain.