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The Best Of Manhattan’s
Art Galleries
What’s the main idea of this passage?
What kind of book is it from perhaps?The passage introduces ___________________________________.
It’s perhaps from ___________________.
some best art galleries of Manhattan
A tourist guide book
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5
The Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
street
avenue
Match the numbers on the map with the museums.
Henry Clay Frick The Frick Collection
Guggenheim Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
1. Museum of Modern Art has the greatest
collection of art in the United States.
2. Metropolitan Museum of Art introduces
you to ancient ways of living.
3. The admission price of Museum of Modern
Art is very cheap and it is often crowded.
4. Metropolitan Museum of Art covers more
than 5000 years of civilization from many
parts of the world including China.
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F
T
_________________________________Metropolitan Museum of Art
______________not cheap/expensive
True or False?
Read the passage and complete the chart.
name address Which centuries?
What countries?
America
Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Avenue(near 75th St.)
53th St. (between 5th and 6th Avenues)
Contemporary(mainly art by living artists)
late 19th century to the 21st century
Western countries
From ancient to modern times
Guggenheim Museum
Western countries
The Frick Collection
Western countries
Modern (from late 19th century onwards)
pre-twentieth century
5th and Madison Avenues
5th Avenue & 88th Street
5th Avenue & 82nd Street
Metropolitan Museum of Art
all over the world
1.Many art lovers would rather visit this small art gallery than any other in New York.
2.This museum owns5,000 superb modern paintings, sculptures and drawings.
3.The reputation of this museum lies in the variety of its art collection.
4.It is amazing that so many great works of art from the late 19th century to the 21st century are housed in the same museum.
5.The Whitney holds an excellent collection of contemporary American painting and sculpture.
How to introduce a museum
