美国自然景观简介.ppt

美国自然景观简介 Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States, and one of the three largest in the world, with the most significant art collections. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattans Museum Mile, is by area one of the worlds largest art galleries. There is also a much smaller second location at The Cloisters in Upper Manhattan that features medieval art. Arms and armor, Middle Ages main hall The Mets Department of Arms and Armor is one of the museums most popular collections. The distinctive parade of armored figures on horseback installed in the first-floor Arms and Armor gallery is one of the most recognizable images of the museum. The departments focus on outstanding craftsmanship and decoration, including pieces intended solely for display, means that the collection is strongest in late medieval European pieces and Japanese pieces from the 5th through the 19th centuries. Times SquareThe Crossroads of the World Times Square is a major commercial intersection and a neighborhood in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, at the junction of Broadway (now converted into a pedestrian plaza) and Seventh Avenue and stretching from West 42nd to West 47th Streets. Times Square – iconified as The Crossroads of the World,The Center of the Universe, and the The Great White Way– is the brightly illuminated hub of the Broadway Theater District,one of the worlds busiest pedestrian intersections, and a major center of the worlds entertainment industry.Times Square is the worlds most visited tourist attraction, hosting over 39 million visitors annually. Approximately 300,000 people pass through Times Square daily. Formerly Longacre Square, Times Square was renamed in April 1904 after The New York Times moved its headquarters to the newly erected T