在一本书中参观世界上最全面、最引人注目的博物馆——从史前时代到现在——有超过1600件艺术品，由28位艺术世界的策展人和历史学家所创造。

收藏了有史以来**的艺术收藏，这个经过修改的重新排版的版本提供了博物馆的经验而没有空间和时间的界限，带着读者环游世界，穿越各个时代。它的房间和画廊展示了大约1600件艺术品，从最初的收藏品中挑选，包括绘画，雕塑，摄影，纺织品，装置，表演，录像，印刷品，陶瓷，手稿，金属制品，和珠宝加工。

Visit the world's most comprehensive and compelling museum in a book – from pre-historic times to the present, – over 1,600 artworks created with the expertise of 28 art world curators and historians.

"Unprecedented, unique, and vast in scope... a visually spectacular survey of world art. Destined to delight, inspire, and educate, as well as to become an invaluable, classic art-reference resource, it is very highly recommended." ―Library Journal

Housing the finest art collection ever assembled, this revised, reformatted edition offers the museum experience without the boundaries of space and time, taking the reader on a tour around the world and through the ages. Its rooms and galleries display some 1,600 artworks, selected from the original collection, including paintings, sculpture, photographs, textiles, installations, performances, videos, prints, ceramics, manuscripts, metalwork, and jewel-work.