![The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, Willem van Haecht (1593-1637), 1628.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-galerie-von-cornelis-van-der-geest-willem-van-haecht-300x225.jpg)
The museum, a global model of success
Due to the new lockdown of the museums, Hibou Pèlerin has been forced to take a compulsory break. He is using this time to read some new publications on cultural history. A brand new world history of the museum by Krzysztof Pomian has him riveted.
![The Louvre is the most visited museum in the world, with more than 10 million visitors a year.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/mona_lisa_louvre-300x154.jpg)
Roots in Renaissance Rome
![Michelangelo’s design for the Capitoline Hill, where the Capitoline Museums are now located. Engraving by Étienne Dupérac, 1568.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/xiii_2_05pp-300x206.jpg)
![The Capitoline Wolf (lat. Lupa Capitolina), a bronze sculpture, probably dating from the Middle Ages.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/die-kapitolinische-woelfin-300x225.jpg)
![Pope Julius II, painted by Raphael, 1511.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/papst_julius_ii-221x300.jpg)
![The armoury of the National Museum around 1900. The largest room in the Museum was designed as the ‘nation’s hall of fame’.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/waffenhalle-landesmuseum-gbe-136980_lm-80908-300x222.jpg)
The magnetism of the museum
![Ole Worm (1588-1654), physician and professor of natural philosophy in Copenhagen, used his collection to teach students.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/ole-worm-300x234.jpg)
From the treasure chamber to the museum
![Paolo Giovio’s museo in a 17th-century painting by an unknown artist.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/museo-von-paolo-giovio-300x222.jpg)
The museum – opening the doors to past and future
![Rendezvous at the Uffizi, painted by Odoardo Borranti, 1878.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/rendezvous-in-den-uffizien-247x300.jpg)
Place of emotions and discourses
![Montagu House, where the British Museum first opened its doors to the public in 1759.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/montagu-house-1759-225x300.jpg)
![The staircase at Montagu House. Stuffed animals, paintings and sculptures are on display.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/treppenhaus-des-montagu-house-225x300.jpg)
Krzysztof Pomian, Le Musée, une histoire mondiale – Vol. 1: Du trésor au musée
![Book cover Le musée, une histoire mondiale.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/pomian-300x300.jpg)
687 pages, abundantly illustrated, Gallimard, Paris 2020.
The work has so far only been published in French.
Interview with Krzysztof Pomian on his new work (in french). YouTube