National Gallery: The National Gallery collects a lots of artworks in the classical period, which are all basic on oil painting. From all of these artworks, I can see their uniform style and contents. Characters on the picture of each artworks are realistic, and mature perspectives ability of artists can be shown from this gallery.
Collection style: The classical period, oil painting,
Musee d’Orsay Paris: This museum has a clear and distinct areas of different collections. Likes the sculptures areas, oil painting area, etc. And this museum through wallpaper colors to categorize the painting pictures.If color of artworks are cold, the wallpapers would be dark blue, if color of artworks are warm, the wallpapers would be red.
Collection style: color, materials.
Getty Museum-This categorizes artworks in periods, color and contents. Such as the contents of Christ, character portraits,published year, materials, and so on. In other words, all of them have connections, the contents and material both affected by history development.
Collection style: color, materials,contents,publish years.
Guggenheim Bilbao-The main collections of this museum are modern artworks. In this museum, each artworks are placed in a blank space . The contents of these artworks are attraction, weird and grotesque.
Collection style: style, materials,
The British Museum-As a large and famous museum, there are lots of collections in the British Museum. In order to categorize them, the museum through regions (continents such as Africa, Asia, Europe, America, Oceania), history lines( BC ), contents(different countries such as Greece, China,Japan, Italy etc.)to divided them into different groups.
Collection style: continents, coutry, timelines.
Pompidou – Miro-As a personal gallery, it doesn’t have too much collections. However, it still through the theme of artworks to do the category.
Collection styles: color, theme
Sir John Soane Museum- Same with ‘Pompidou – Miro’, there are no much collections in this museum. But it still categorizes its collections. It divided into 2 parts: model and Sepulchral Chamber.
Collection style: materials.