What are some of the most impressive art collections in the world

Two extraordinary private collections that I know of have been turned into remarkable museums.
One is the collection of Calouste Gulbenkian, an Armenian broker who made just a little bit of money from every single barrel of oil that Saudi Arabia ever sold for a very long time. And he collected everything of beauty at a level of excellence that is extraordinary. When WWII broke out, he decided that Lisbon, Portugal was a nice, safe place to sit out the war.
He is now dead, and his collection of: Japanese enamels, silver of all kinds, cars, Lalique, paintings and sculpture from many ages, art, Judaica, illustrated manuscripts, tapestries, Egyptian artifacts, and innumerable other spectacular other objets d’art are now there. They are in a long, low building called the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. It’s not large, not pretentious. But it’s really something. Go if you ever get a chance.
Here is one tiny area and you can kind of glimpse the variety of items…
The second collection once was the private Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, begun by a wealthy European Baron in the 1920s who gathered the bulk of the collection by buying from American millionaires suffering from the imposition of the inheritance tax. He got many Old Masters back to Europe as well as acquiring some great American paintings.
His family continued the collecting tradition, and have placed what is now over 1600 works in a museum near the Prado in Madrid, (Museo Thyssen). There are remarkable trecento and quatrocento masterpieces, works by artists suck as Bronzino, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Duccio, Hals, all the Europeans of note, Baroque and Rococo, plus excellent Americans and art from Impressionism clear into moderns like Francis Bacon. It is a remarkable collection selected by loving eyes and hearts. Again, if you get to Madrid, do not miss it.
 For Amazing Judaica art please look on the given website:
http://tehilazion.com/
http://mashaart.net/

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