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Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo |
Mexico |
Mexico City |
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University – contemporary... art
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The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (University Museum of Contemporary Art) abbreviated MUAC at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University of Mexico) abbreviated UNAM was opened in 2008.
The MUAC houses the largest public collection of contemporary art in Mexico. It includes works by visual artists, sound art, audiovisual, kinetic and performative activities created mainly in Mexico after 1952 - the year UNAM was inaugurated.
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National Museum of the American Indian |
USA |
Washington |
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National – memorial,... anthropology
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The National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) was established in 1989 as part of the Smithsonian Institution. It includes: NMAI at the National Mall in Washington, the George Gustav Heye Center (GGHC) in New York, the Cultural Resources Center (CRC) in Suitland, Maryland.
The museum is dedicated to the culture of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, especially North American Indians.
The collection includes over 800,000 objects, archives and media, as well as over 125,000 photos.
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Otago Museum |
New Zealand |
Dunedin |
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Natural history,... ethnography, science and technology
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The Otago Museum opened to the public in 1868.
The museum presents, among others: Maori artifacts, moa eggs, a collection of spiders and arachnids, Japanese armor, sharp weapons from India, ancient coins, Islamic ceramics, There are over 1.5 million objects from all over the world.
The museum has an interactive science center divided into two parts, one deals with physics and technology and the other covers the Tropical Forest with live flora and fauna, including hundreds of butterflies.
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Skansen |
Sweden |
Stockholm |
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Open-air museum
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The Skansen, founded in 1891, is one of the oldest and largest open-air museums in the world. On an area of 30 hectares, there are 150, in the vast majority, original, historic buildings which are a replica of a typical 19th-century city. In their houses, craftsmen dressed in traditional period costumes demonstrate their pre-industrial craftsmanship.
Part of the open-air museum is a zoo where you can see wild animals living in Scandinavia and domestic animals.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi |
United Arab Emirates |
Abu Dhabi |
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National - art
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Louvre Abu Dhabi, opened in 2017, presents art from prehistory to the present day in chronological order, including works by Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, René Magritte and others.
The museum covers an area of approximately 24,000 square meters.
© Department of Culture and Tourism Abu Dhabi Photo by Hufton+Crow
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Zhejiang Museum of Natural History |
China |
Hangzhou |
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Natural history
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The Zhejiang Museum of Natural History (ZMNH) has been operating since 1984.
It has branches in Hangzhou and Anji.
ZMNH has nearly 200,000 specimens in its collection (of which 50,000 are at exhibitions). which record the course of life on earth, present the history of man and nature. Permanent exhibitions are: Lobby, The Life Story of the Earth, Bioworld, Green Zhejiang, Land of Wild, Health and Education.
ZMNH covers nearly 33,000 square meters of space.
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Frauenkirche Dresden |
Germany |
Dresden |
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Temple
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Frauenkirche Dresden - Evangelical-Lutheran Church built in the years 1726–1743 in the baroque style. Destroyed during World War II in 1945, rebuilt in 1993–2005. „Brücken bauen - Versöhnung leben - Glauben stärken" - the motto of the rebuilt Frauenkirche Dresden.
It is the second largest sandstone building in the world. Total height 91.23 meters, length 50.02 meters, width 41.96 meters.
The Frauenkirche Dresden has an exhibition space in its basement. The exhibition consists of three parts:
- authentic exhibits (history of the destruction of the church)
- photographs and sketches (reconstruction process)
- computer (names of supporters)
Rechte Stiftung Frauenkirche Dresden
Foto Oliver Killig
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Mont Saint-Michel |
France |
Mont-Saint-Michel |
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Temple, monument
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Mont Saint-Michel rocky tidal island with church-abbey and "Merveille" (a monastery built between 1211-1228 in the Gothic style). The origins of the monastery date back to the 8th century. The entire medieval building is surrounded by fortifications from the 13th and 15th centuries.
Mont Saint-Michel area 97 ha, highest point above sea level 92 meters.
Mont Saint-Michel has been a monument since 1874. There are three museums in it.
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California Academy of Sciences |
USA |
San Francisco |
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Natural history,... research institution
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The California Academy of Sciences traces its history from 1853.
The museum is accompanied by a planetarium, rainforest and aquarium - coral reef, tides and marsh habitats. The museum holds 46 million specimens. The exhibitions show, among others, the skeleton of Tyrannosaurus Rex, the albino American alligator, the albino reticulated python, and the Foucault pendulum.
The main building covers an area of 37,000 square meters.
© California Academy of Sciences
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Zona Arqueológica de Palenque |
Mexico |
Palenque |
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Archaeological park
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The oldest ruins of the Mayan city-state known today as Palenque date back to the 5th century BC. A city-state after the fall in the 9th century AD the jungle overgrown. The Spaniards first found themselves in Palenque in 1567, and in 1773 the exploration of the ruins began.
The most important buildings are Temple of the Inscriptions, Temples of the Cross group, Palace.
Among other things, the jade mask of King K'inich Janab Pakal and the mask of the Red Queen were found in the Palenque tombs.
By 2005, an area of approximately 2.5 square kilometers had been exposed from the jungle. It is estimated that it is not even 2% of the area occupied by the city-state, and over a thousand objects are still covered by the jungle.
Currently, Palenque is part of the Zona Arqueológica de Palenque (INAH) and the Parque Nacional Palenque. The Palenque houses the Museo de Sitio de Palenque 'Alberto Ruz Lhuillier' and the Museo del Textil Lak Puj Kul.
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21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art |
Japan |
Kanazawa |
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Contemporary art
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The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art opened in 2004.
The collection focuses on works created since 1980. The collection includes works by, among others: Gerhard Richter, James Turrell, Atsuko Tanaka, Anne Wilson, Leandro Erlich, Olafur Eliasson.
Museum area 17,069 square meters.
Photo: ISHIKAWA Koji
Courtesy: 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
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Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil |
Brazil |
Belo Horizonte |
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Art
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Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil Belo Horizonte (CCBB BH) was opened in 2013.
It has, among others, 6 exhibition rooms, an educational program room, a multimedia room, and a cultural goods warehouse.
It has an area of 12,000 square meters.
Foto Vagner Costa
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Leeum Samsung Museum of Art |
South Korea |
Seoul |
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Art
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Leeum Samsung Museum of Art opened in 2004.
Leeum is divided into:
- Museum 1 - traditional Korean art - ceramics, including porcelain and stoneware, landscapes and folk paintings, manuscripts, swords, jewelry. Museum 1 covers an area of 2,300 square meters and a total area of 9,800 square meters.
- Museum 2 - contemporary Korean and international art - works e.g. Salvador Dalí, Joseph Beuys, Jesús Rafael Soto, Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Isamu Noguchi, Yves Klein, Jeans Arp, Bae Young-whan, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Frank Gehry, Koo Bon-woong. Museum 2 covers an area of 1,800 square meters and a total area of 5,200 square meters.
- Child Education & Culture Center covers an area of 4,000 square meters and a total area of 13,300 square meters.
- Sculpture Garden – e.g. Maman by Louise Bourgeois.
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National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Algiers |
Algeria |
Algiers |
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Modern and contemporary... art and design
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The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Algiers (MaMa) was opened in 2007.
MaMa collects works of art in the field of painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, video, new media, industrial design from 1905 to the present day.
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National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti" |
Romania |
Bucharest |
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Ethnographic open-air... museum
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National Museum of the Village "Dimitrie Gusti" (Muzeul National al Satului "Dimitrie Gusti") founded in 1936.
On the premises of the museum there are farms, peasant houses, craft workshops, Orthodox churches, a chapel, an inn with interior furnishings such as furniture, ceramics, fabrics, tools. Most of the buildings are 17th to 20th century originals from all over Romania.
The permanent exhibition includes 123 separate complexes, which include 363 architectural monuments and over 50,000 artifacts.
The exhibition area is approximately 12.5 ha.
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The Huntington |
USA |
San Marino |
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Library, art museum,... botanical gardens
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The Huntington - Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens founded in 1919, open to the public in 1928.
The library has approximately 11 million items from the 11th to 21st centuries.
The museum focuses on 18th and 19th century British painting and design (e.g. Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, William Morris) and American art from the 17th to 20th centuries (e.g. Mary Cassatt, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg).
The gardens cover 49 ha and show plants from all over the world.
Photo: The Huntington Library Exhibition Hall exterior
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National Museum of Colombia |
Colombia |
Bogotá |
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National - art,... history, archeology, ethnography
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The National Museum of Colombia (Museo Nacional de Colombia) founded in 1823 is one of the oldest in the Americas.
The art collection includes works by Colombian artists such as Andrés de Santa María, Santiago Martínez Delgado, Gustavo Arcila Uribe, Fernando Botero as well as Latin American and European art. The museum's collection includes a treasury of pre-Columbian goldsmiths, a coat of one of the wives of the Inca emperor Atahualpa, a banner used by Francisco Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, a crown of gold, diamonds and pearls given to Simón Bolívar in Cuzco in 1825.
The museum has a collection of over 20,000 artifacts, of which about 2,500 are presented at exhibitions.
An area of 3,000 square meters.
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Château de Fontainebleau |
France |
Fontainebleau |
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Historic house
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The Palace of Fontainebleau is one of the largest French royal castles. The beginnings of the castle date back to the 12th century, rebuilt many times since the 16th century. The dominant styles are the late French Renaissance and the French version of Northern Mannerism.
The School of Fontainebleau (École de Fontainebleau) was active in the arrangement and furnishing of the palace in the years ca. 1530 - ca. 1610.
Total area of 45,000 square meters spread over 11 levels. Total rooms 1500.
Main interiors:
- Gallery of Francis I
- Ballroom
- Chapel of the Trinity
- Stairway of the King
- Queen's bedroom
- Boudoir of Marie-Antoinette
- Throne Room of Napoleon
- Gallery of Diana
- Apartments of Napoleon
- Theatre
- Chinese Museum
Main courtyards (all courtyards cover 28,000 square meters):
- Court of the White Horse
- Oval Court
- Court of the Fountain
The parks and gardens of Fontainebleau include:
- Garden of Diana
- English garden
- Pine Garden Cave
- Fountain de Bliaud
- Parterre and canal
- Carp pond
The entire park complex covers 130 hectares.
The palace became a national museum in 1927.
More than 300,000 works in collections.
The Museum of Napoleon I was established in the palace in 1986.
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Anne Frank House |
Netherlands |
Amsterdam |
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Biographical
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Anne Frank House opened in 1960.
Anne Frank House is a museum dedicated to Anne Frank, a young German-Dutch girl of Jewish origin, the author of a diary first published in Dutch in 1947, translated into over 70 languages, who hid with her family and four friends at the back of a 17th-century building in Amsterdam against the Nazi persecution during World War II. The museum displays memorabilia related to the life of Anne Frank and her hideout, and organizes exhibitions on various forms of discrimination and persecution.
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Stonehenge |
United Kingdom |
Wiltshire |
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Monument
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Stonehenge is a prehistoric structure consisting of a circle of standing stones surrounded by embankments. Built from 3100 BC to 2000 BC. Stonehenge was probably associated with the cult of the Moon and the Sun, and could also have been a cemetery from the very beginning.
The present appearance of the monument is the result of renovation and reconstruction works carried out in the 20th century.
Partner museums:
- Salisbury Museum (history and archeology of southern Wiltshire from prehistory to the present day)
- Wiltshire Museum in Devizes (Stonehenge-era gold exhibitions).
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Kyiv Pechersk Lavra |
Ukraine |
Kyiv |
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Temple - monastery
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The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra one of the oldest Orthodox monasteries in Eastern Europe.
The first monastery was built in a natural cave near the Dnieper River in 1051. The first above-ground church, the Church of the Dormition, was constructed in the mid-11th century. Byzantine architects supervised its design, blending local Slavic styles with Byzantine influences.
In the 17th century, the monastery underwent significant transformation during the reign of the Cossack Hetmanate. Lavish Baroque architecture replaced many medieval structures.
The complex has over 100 architectural structures, including Orthodox churches, chapels, bell towers and caves. The main ones include:
- Dormition Cathedral
- Great Bell Tower (height 96.5 meters)
- Gate Church of the Trinity
- Far Caves ("Dalshe Pechery")
- Near Caves ("Blizhnye Pechery")
- Museum of Historical Treasures of Ukraine
- Museum of Books and Printing
- Fortress Walls and Towers
The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra occupies a vast area of approximately 28 hectares.
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Garage Museum |
Russia |
Moscow |
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Art
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The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in short The Garage Museum was founded in 2008.
The museum focuses mainly on Russian modern and contemporary art from the 1950s to the present day, but is also interested in the most important phenomena of European and world art and culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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National Gallery Prague |
Czech |
Prague |
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National - art
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The National Gallery Prague (Národní galerie Praha, NGP) was established in 1796 by a group of Czech aristocrats and intellectuals who formed the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts. This makes it one of the oldest public art institutions in Europe. The gallery officially opened to the public in 1796.
The National Gallery Prague houses a vast and diverse collection of artworks spanning different periods, styles, and regions. Its collections include:
1. Old Masters (Medieval to Baroque Art)
- Gothic Art from Bohemia and Central Europe (14th–16th centuries)
- Renaissance and Baroque paintings, including works by Titian, Tintoretto, Rubens, Rembrandt, and El Greco
- Notable pieces from Czech and European masters like Hans von Aachen and Petr Brandl
2. 19th-Century Art (Neoclassicism to Romanticism)
- Works by Czech painters such as Josef Mánes, Antonín Mánes, and Václav Brožík
- European artists, including Francisco Goya and Eugène Delacroix
3. Modern and Contemporary Art (20th & 21st Century)
- Czech Cubism, featuring Bohumil Kubišta and Emil Filla
- Abstract and avant-garde movements, including works by František Kupka
- Surrealism, with artists like Toyen and Jindřich Štyrský
- International modernists, including Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
4. Asian and Non-European Art
- Chinese and Japanese art, including calligraphy, ceramics, and Buddhist sculptures
- Indian and Islamic art collections
5. Contemporary Installations and Exhibitions
- Rotating exhibits featuring contemporary Czech and international artists
The National Gallery Prague's collections are displayed across multiple buildings, including the Trade Fair Palace, Schwarzenberg Palace, Sternberg Palace, the Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia, Salm Palace, Kinský Palace, and the Wallenstein Riding School. Each venue specializes in different periods and styles of art.
The National Gallery Prague boasts an extensive collection of over 400,000 artworks, making it the largest art repository in the Czech Republic.
The National Gallery Prague encompasses multiple historic buildings, collectively offering an exhibition space of approximately 33,000 square meters.
National Gallery Prague, Veletrzni palac, photo Tomas Slavik
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Blenheim Palace |
United Kingdom |
Woodstock |
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Historic house
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Blenheim Palace was built between 1705 and 1722 in the English Baroque style. It is the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough. It combines the functions of a family home, a mausoleum and a national monument.
Blenheim Palace has 187 rooms that cover an area of 28,000 square meters. Blenheim Palace is home to The Palace State Rooms, Sir Winston Churchill Exhibition, among others. The Blenheim Art Foundation (BAF) is located at Blenheim Palace, organizing exhibitions of contemporary art.
Blenheim Palace is surrounded by formal gardens and landscaped parkland covering over 800 hectares in total.
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Riverside Museum |
United Kingdom |
Glasgow |
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Transportation
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The Riverside Museum was opened in 2011.
It has 3000 objects in its collection, including the South African Railways Class 15F 4-8-2 No. 3007 steam locomotive. A Tall Ship is moored next to the museum.
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Minneapolis Institute of Art |
USA |
Minneapolis |
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Art
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The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) was founded in 1883.
More than 90,000 works of art represent 20,000 years of world history.
Mia's collection includes art from the Americas, Asia (ceramics, bronzes, jade), Africa and Oceania. Painting (paintings by e.g. El Greco, Rembrandt, Henri Matisse, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin), sculpture, graphics, drawing, decorative art, contemporary art, photography and new media.
About 5 percent of the total collection is on permanent exhibitions.
Mia is the owner of Purcell-Cutts House.
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National Museum of Ireland |
Ireland |
Dublin |
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Archeology, natural... history, history, decorative arts, country life
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The National Museum of Ireland (NMI) was established in 1877 as a state museum.
The exhibits collected in the museum come from prehistoric times to the present day, including: gold products from the Bronze and Iron Ages, early medieval Celtic metalwork (e.g. the Derrynaflan treasure), items from the Viking and Middle Ages, well-preserved marsh bodies and the Ralaghan Man, extinct mammals, contemporary design.
NMI has four branches.
The entire collection includes almost 4,000,000 items.
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The Broad |
USA |
Los Angeles |
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Contemporary art
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The Broad opened to the public in 2015.
The Broad collection includes contemporary art from the 1950s to the present day. The entire collection includes over 2,000 works, including by: Jeff Koons, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Yayoi Kusama, Ragnar Kjartansson, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg. The Broad has the largest Cindy Sherman collection in the world.
The Broad building has an area of 11,150 square meters, of which 4,645 square meters is an exhibition space.
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National Maritime Museum |
South Korea |
Busan |
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Maritime
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National Maritime Museum opened in 2012.
The exhibitions focus on all aspects of marine and ocean life, from sea creatures to the history of the maritime industry based on 5,000 years of maritime culture. In the museum, you can see, among others, a replica of the Ship of Joseon Envoy.
Over 12,000 artefacts are presented at the exhibitions.
The museum covers an area of 45,444 square meters, including a total floor area of 25,870 square meters.
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Louvre-Lens |
France |
Lens |
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Louvre-Lens opened in 2012.
It is a satellite of Louvre, it has no collections of its own. It presents objects from the Louvre collection on loan in the medium to long term. The objects on loan represent all the Louvre collections and are renewed regularly. Louvre-Lens organizes temporary exhibitions of national or international importance.
Louvre-Lens has three exhibition spaces: Grande Galerie, Glass Pavilion and the Temporary Exhibition Gallery.
The museum covers 28,000 square meters.
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Altes Museum |
Germany |
Berlin |
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The Altes Museum opened to the public in 1830.
It is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin belonging to Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Currently, the Altes Museum houses the Antikensammlung (Collection of Classical Antiquities) and part of the Münzkabinett.
The Antikensammlung is composed of the art of the Greeks (10th - 1st century BC), Etruscans and Romans. In addition to stone carvings and ceramics, you can see here products made of gold and precious stones.
The Münzkabinett presents over 1,300 coins (7th century BC - 3rd century AD).
Altes Museum
Am Lustgarten, Museumsinsel Berlin, Berlin-Mitte
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / David von Becker
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Pergamonmuseum |
Germany |
Berlin |
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Pergamonmuseum opened to the public in 1930.
It is part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin belonging to Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
The exhibition is divided into Antiquities Collection, Museum of the Ancient Near East, Museum of Islamic Art. The Pergamonmuseum collects monuments of ancient architecture, e.g. the Pergamon Altar, the Ishtar Gate.
Pergamonmuseum
Am Kupfergraben, Museumsinsel Berlin, Berlin-Mitte
© Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Maximilian Meisse
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Palácio Nacional de Mafra |
Portugal |
Mafra |
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Historic house
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The Palácio Nacional de Mafra (National Palace of Mafra) consists of a palace, basilica, convent (which includes a library), Cerco Garden and hunting park (Tapada). Built in the years 1717-1755 in the baroque and neoclassical styles. The entire complex covers 37,790 square meters with approximately 1,200 rooms.
As a museum, it officially opened to the public in 1911. Currently, the National Museum of Music is being moved to the palace complex.
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Real Alcázar de Sevilla |
Spain |
Seville |
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Historic house
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The Royal Alcázar of Seville (Real Alcázar de Sevilla) began to be built in the 10th century under the rule of the Moors. In 913, Abd ar-Rahman III of the Umayyad dynasty built a fortress. In the 12th century, the Almohads built, among others, Al-Muwarak Palace and gardens, which became the basis for later expansions. After the reconquest of Seville in 1248 by Ferdinand III of Castile, the alcázar became the seat of the Castilian kings. In the 14th century, King Peter I the Cruel commissioned the expansion of the palace in the Mudéjar style, which combines Christian and Moorish elements. During this period, among others, Palace of Peter I and Patio de las Doncellas (Courtyard of the Virgin). From the 16th to 18th centuries, new Renaissance and Baroque elements were added, such as the Galeria de Grutescos and the Palace of Charles V. The Royal Alcázar of Seville currently still serves as the royal residence during the visits of Spanish monarchs to Seville.
The Royal Alcázar of Seville has in its collections, among others, ceramics (Andalusian azulejos), a collection of Flemish tapestries from the 16th and 17th centuries, paintings (portraits of monarchs and historical scenes), and artifacts from excavations in the alcázar.
The total area of the Royal Alcázar of Seville is approximately 9 hectares, of which the gardens occupy approximately 6 hectares.
The gardens of the Royal Alcázar of Seville are designed in various styles, from Moorish to Renaissance and English.
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State Museum of History of Uzbekistan |
Uzbekistan |
Tashkent |
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National - archeology,... history, numismatics, ethnography
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The origins of the State Museum of History of Uzbekistan date back to 1876.
The core of the museum's collection are archaeological monuments and a collection of gold and silver coins. The artifacts come from Uzbekistan and Central Asia. The museum has, among others, an alabaster bas-relief of Buddha with Monks from Fayaz Tepe, Termez, 2nd century AD.
The museum has collected over 300,000 exhibits.
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National Museum of Denmark |
Denmark |
Copenhagen |
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National - history,... archeology, anthropology
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The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet) founded in 1807.
It has collections from all over the world from the earliest times to the present day. In the museum from the area of Denmark you can see, among others: the Trundholm sun chariot from the Nordic Bronze Age, the Veksø helmets (a pair of ceremonial helmets with horns from the Bronze Age), runic stones.
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Berardo Collection Museum |
Portugal |
Lisbon |
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The Berardo Collection Museum established in 2007, collects modern and contemporary art. Among the more than 1,000 works of art exhibited at the permanent and temporary exhibitions, you can see the works of Pablo Picasso. Salvador Dalí, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Francis Bacon, Alexander Calder and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva.
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China Aviation Museum |
China |
Beijing |
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The China Aviation Museum was established in 1989.
The China Aviation Museum in Beijing hosts one of the world’s most extensive aviation collections, curated across three major exhibition areas: the Cavern Exhibition Hall, the Integrated (Masterpiece) Hall, and the Open‑Air Exhibition Area. The museum boasts over 200–300 aircraft, plus a vast array of missiles, radars, engines, artifacts, and archival items.
1. Cavern Exhibition Hall
- Set in a former underground bunker carved into Datangshan Mountain (~586 m long).
- Features a historical display of aviation development from early flight to modern jets.
- Highlights include early Chinese prototypes like the Feng Ru II, Beijing‑1, and Soviet-era types (e.g. La‑9, La‑11, Tu‑2, Yak‑17) alongside models from global aviation.
2. Integrated Hall
- A two-floor building showcasing aviation milestones and key figures from the PLA Air Force.
- Displays include historic fighter planes and tribute installations to military aviation heroes.
3. Open‑Air Exhibition Area
- Outdoor display spanning around 40,000 m², showcasing civilian and military aircraft, air defense systems, and radar installations.
- Noteworthy exhibits:
• Mao Zedong’s personal Ilyushin Il‑14 VIP transport—visible both inside and out.
• Historic aircraft: C‑46, Li‑2, Trident, Y‑7, Airbus A310‑200, and more.
• Weaponry exhibits: surface‑to‑air missiles (e.g., Chinese HQ‑2), anti‑aircraft guns, bombs, parachutes, cameras.
Additional Highlights
- Global selection of over 200 military aircraft from countries like the U.S., Soviet Union, Japan, and the Czech Republic.
- Unique machines: early models like the Mosquito bomber, P‑51 Mustang, P‑61 Black Widow, MiG‑15/17/23, Shenyang J series, and rare drones like the Lockheed D‑21.
- Also houses aircraft engines (both piston and jet), avionics equipment, flight gear, engine cut‑aways, and scientific exhibits including wind tunnels and educational materials.
- Over 2,468 missiles/radars, 10,000 aviation relics, 20,000+ technical documents, and over 1,000 international gifts.
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Mevlana Museum |
Turkiye |
Konya |
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Mausoleum
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Mevlana Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna; original lodge of Mevlevi whirling dervishes. The museum was opened in 1927.
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Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris |
France |
Paris |
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A benchmark institution for modern and contemporary art
This is one of Europe’s greatest art museums. Located on Chaillot Hill in a building whose architecture is emblematic of the Art Deco period, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris is ideally suited to close-up study of the works on display. Its exhibitions and collections, which contain over 15,000 works in all, cover a period stretching from 1900 to the present day. The Musée d’Art Moderne was designed for the Paris International Exhibition in 1937 and is housed in the Tokyo Palace’s east wing.
Officially inaugurated in July 1961, the origins of its collection date back to the early years of the 20th century, the result of a long series of initiatives taken by the City of Paris and such acts of generosity as Doctor Girardin’s bequest in 1953, which was the real deciding factor behind the decision to open the Museum, and the historic donations by Mathilde Amos in 1955 and Germaine Henry–Robert Thomas in 1976.
Since the end of the Second World War, the Museum has acted as a trendsetter on behalf of a great many movements and artists: its programming is distinguished by its dynamism, originality and scientific rigour. Curiosity and the eye’s mobility ensure that the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris remains an institution sensitive to the evolution of society, its concerns and its crises.
Major artists in the history of art
The MAM’s collections contain a total of 15,256 works by 2,322 artists and present the main artistic trends from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day, illustrated by major artists in the history of art, including Picasso, Dufy, Modigliani, Derain, Picabia, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Suzanne Valadon, Christian Boltanski, Annette Messager, Philippe Parreno, Peter Doig, Elaine Sturtevant, Nina Childress, Danh Vo, Sheila Hicks and Judit Reigl. The Museum also possesses a number of rare and truly remarkable in situ works, including the first two versions of Matisse’s La Danse (The Dance), created in 1932 and 1931-1933, and Raoul Dufy’s La Fée électricité (The Electricity Fairy), a monumental work covering 600 square metres!
Marked by major monographic exhibitions devoted to such artists as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Sonia Delaunay, Andy Warhol, Bernard Buffet, Sarah Moon, Victor Brauner and Hans Hartung, the Museum’s programming is guided by the need to create a balance between exhibitions sure to be a success with the public, historical retrospectives focusing on internationally acclaimed artists, and exhibitions devoted to artists and artistic trends still little known in France.
The institution also provides unexpected reinterpretations of art history, taking an innovative and very well documented approach, with such exhibitions as “Deadline” (2009), “L’Art en guerre” (Art at War – 2012), and “outsiders” projects highlighting such figures as Robert Crumb, Carol Rama, Henry Darger and Paula Modersohn-Becker, and the aesthetic ties and bonds of friendship between three artists in “Derain, Balthus and Giacometti” (2018), and the married couple Anni and Josef Albers. By taking an unconventional but critical look at contemporary visual creation in the 20th and 21st centuries, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris has confirmed its role as a “trailblazer”.
Key figures
13,500 m2 of museum surface area
600 m2 Raoul Dufy’s La Fée électricité (The Electricity Fairy), one of the largest paintings in the world
600,000 visitors on average every year
+ 400 works exhibited free of charge
+ 15,000 works in the collections
© : Louise Allavoine
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Museo Egizio |
Italy |
Turin |
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Museo Egizio opened in 1824.
The Museo Egizio collects exhibits related to ancient Egypt. It has over 30,000 exhibits in its collection. In the museum, you can see monumental sculpture, including the statues of Ramses II and Seti II and the entire Temple of Ellesyia. A special place in the museum's collection is the collection of papyri containing a topographic map considered to be the oldest map in the world.
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Ashmolean Museum |
United Kingdom |
Oxford |
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Ashmolean Museum opened in 1683. The world's first university museum.
The museum's collection includes one of the most important collections of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, paintings by William Turner, John Constable, Claude Lorraine and Pablo Picasso. The archeology department boasts a collection of Greek and Minoan pottery (the largest outside Crete), artifacts from ancient Egypt and Sudan. An important place is occupied by the collections of majolica ceramics and English silverware.
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Denver Art Museum |
USA |
Denver |
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Art
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The origins of the museum date back to 1893, and since 1922 the museum has been operating under the name Denver Art Museum (DAM).
Collections:
- Architecture and Design
- Arts of Africa
- Arts of Asia
- Arts of Oceania
- Arts of the Ancient Americas
- European and American Art before 1900
- Indigenous Arts of North America
- Latin American Art
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Photography
- Textile Arts and Fashion
- Western American Art
The Buildings:
- Lanny & Sharon Martin Building (19.509 square meters)
- Frederic C. Hamilton Building (13.563 square meters)
- Bannock Administration Building (4.645 square meters)
DAM has over 70,000 works of art.
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King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture |
Saudi Arabia |
Dhahran |
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Art, history, natural... history, ecology
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The King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture (Ithra) opened to the public in 2018.
Ithra is Saudi Aramco's flagship corporate social responsibility initiative and the largest cultural contribution in Saudi Arabia. Ithra includes a library, knowledge tower, idea lab, cinema, theater, Great Hall, energy exhibit, museum and children's museum.
The museum part includes four galleries:
- modern art
- art and history of Saudi Arabia
- Islamic art
- natural history and ecology
Ithra's collections include, among others, a folio from the Blue Quran and fragments from the Holy Quran from around 750 AD.
Ithra covers an area of over 80,000 square meters.
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Palazzo Reale di Milano |
Italy |
Milan |
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Modern and contemporary... art
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Palazzo Reale di Milano (the Royal Palace of Milan) with medieval origins, renovated many times. In the years 1773-1778 restored in the Neo-Classical style, then the most famous interior of the Hall of the Caryatids (46 by 17 meters) was arranged, destroyed in 1943 during World War II.
In 1980, repair projects for the interior of the palace began in order to create a "Palace Museum", which, however, did not come into being. Currently, the Municipality of Milan organizes loud international exhibitions of modern and contemporary art in the palace. The Museum of the Duomo of Milan has been operating in the wing of the palace since 2013.
The palace covers an area of 7,000 square meters.
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Finnish National Gallery |
Finland |
Helsinki |
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National - art
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The history of the Finnish National Gallery (Suomen Kansallisgalleria) begins in 1846. In 2014 it was reorganized and included:
- Ateneum Art Museum, its collection covers the period from the 18th century to modernism, permanent exhibitions present international and Finnish art, the collection includes nearly 30,000 works of art.
- Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, has approximately 8,800 works of art in its collection.
- Sinebrychoff Art Museum, specializes in old European art from the 14th century to the 1850s, the collections include approximately 6,500 works of art.
- Finnish State Art Commission.
Ateneum in the sun. Photo: Ville Malja
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Ephesus ancient city |
Turkiye |
Ephesus |
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Archaeological site
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Ephesus city founded in the 10th century BC. It flourished in ancient Greece and Rome. After which it was destroyed several times and finally abandoned in the 15th century AD. There are ruins in Ephesus, including:
- Temple of Artemis completed around 550 BC, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
- a theater built in the 3rd century BC with approximately 25,000 seats
- Celsus Library commissioned in AD 110 with approximately 12,000 scrolls
- Temple of Hadrian from the 2nd century AD
- a complex of terraced houses with frescoes from the 1st - 4th centuries AD
Ephesus covers an area of 662.62 hectares.
Finds from ancient Ephesus are exhibited in:
- Ephesus Archaeological Museum in Selçuk
- Ephesus Museum in Selçuk
- İstanbul Archeology Museums
- Ephesus Museum, Vienna
- British Museum
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection |
Italy |
Venice |
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Art
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Peggy Guggenheim purchased the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in 1949. It then served as her home and gradually transformed into a venue for her art collection. Peggy began opening her palazzo and her collection to the public from 1951, offering viewings during the spring, summer, and early autumn months.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection formally came to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1976, when Peggy donated the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni and her collection to the Foundation. After Peggy’s death in 1979, the Foundation assumed full care and administration, and in 1980 the museum reopened under its management, with year-round public access.
Here’s a glimpse inside the Peggy Guggenheim Collection:
1. Peggy Guggenheim’s Original Collection
This is the heart of the museum, showcasing the works Peggy herself gathered between 1938 and 1946 across Europe and the U.S. Key movements represented include Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Futurism—with iconic pieces from artists such as Picasso, Braque, Duchamp, Ernst, Magritte, Miró, Dalí, Brâncuși, Kandinsky, Klee, Mondrian, Giacometti, Calder, and Pollock. Peggy Guggenheim’s personal collection comprises approximately 326 paintings and sculptures.
2. Gianni Mattioli Collection (on long-term loan)
This collection includes 26 Italian Futurist masterpieces, featuring works by Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo, Severini, Balla, Depero, Rosai, Sironi, and Soffici, along with examples of metaphysical painting by Carrà and Sironi, and early works by Morandi and Modigliani.
3. Hannelore B. and Rudolph B. Schulhof Collection
Integrated in 2012, this collection brings over 80 post-1945 works into the museum’s holdings, featuring prominent European and American artists such as Rothko, Twombly, Kelly, Dubuffet, Warhol, Johns, Diebenkorn, Martin, and more.
4. Nasher Sculpture Garden
An enchanting outdoor space adjacent to the Palazzo, this garden displays sculptures by Marini, Arp, Giacometti, Moore, Duchamp-Villon, Mirko, Takis, Gilardi, as well as contributions from the Nasher Collection.
Total works (all collections combined): approximately 432 pieces.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection spans approximately 4,000 square meters.
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam |
Netherlands |
Amsterdam |
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Modern and contemporary... art and design
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The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam was opened in 1895.
The collection covers art from the end of the 19th century to the 21st century. Contains works by artists such as Claude Monet, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Johan Jongkind, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Theo van Doesburg, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Marc Chagall, Henri Matisse, Henry Van de Velde, Henry Moore, Ossip Zadkine, Kurt Schwitters, László Moholy-Nagy, Man Ray, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, Nam June Paik, Lucio Fontana, Gilbert & George.
The collection volume is 90,000 items.
Exhibition area of 8,000 square meters.
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, het historische gebouw en de nieuwbouw. Foto: John Lewis Marshall
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Liaoning Provincial Museum |
China |
Shenyang |
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Art, history, ethnography
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Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) was established in 1949 as the Northeast Museum.
The museum presents, among others:
- jade from the Ming and Qing dynasties
- porcelain from the Ming and Qing dynasties
- ancient Chinese steles
- ancient Chinese bronze mirrors
- Chinese currencies
- Chinese Buddhist statues
- Liao dynasty pottery
- seals of Chinese dynasties
- the history of Liaoning from approximately 280,000 years ago to 1840
- Manchu folklore
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Art Gallery of New South Wales |
Australia |
Sydney |
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Art
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Opened in 1874, the Art Gallery of New South Wales presents Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, Australian, Asian, Pacific and European.
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National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan |
Kazakhstan |
Astana |
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National – art,... natural history, archeology, ethnography, history, military
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The National Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasynyń Ulttyq mýzeıі) opened in 2014. It is one of the largest museums in Central Asia.
The museum presents the history and culture of Kazakhstan from prehistoric times to the present day. Permanent exhibitions include:
- Central entrance - Atrium
- Hall of Astana
- Hall of History
- Hall of Ancient and Medieval History
- Hall of Gold 1
- Hall of Gold 2
- Hall of Kazakhstan Independence
- Ethnography hall
- Hall of Modern Art 1
- Hall of Modern Art 2
The symbol of Kazakhstan stored in the museum is the so-called "Golden Man" - these are the remains of an ancient ruler - a warrior in golden robes discovered near Almaty.
The number of museum objects is about 220,000.
The museum complex has an area of 74,000 square meters, of which the exhibition halls occupy 14,000 square meters.
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National Museum of Indonesia |
Indonesia |
Jakarta |
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Archeology, anthropology,... ethnography, art
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The National Museum of Indonesia (MusNas) dates back to 1778.
Museum collections of archeology, ceramics, ethnography, numismatics cover almost the entire history of Indonesia. Particularly noteworthy are the collection of stone statues from the classical Hindu-Buddhist period of ancient Java and Sumatra and the collection of Chinese ceramics dating from the Han (2nd century BC) to Qing times (18th century).
MusNas stores nearly 200,000 artifacts in its collection.
MusNas covers an area of 26,500 square meters.
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Canadian War Museum |
Canada |
Ottawa |
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National - military,... history, memorial, art
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The origins of the Canadian War Museum date back to 1880, but was formally established in 1942.
It functions as both a museum of Canadian military history and a memorial site. It is designed to emphasize the human experience of war. For the public it offers: Canadian Experience galleries, LeBreton Gallery, Memorial Hall, Regeneration Hall, Royal Canadian Legion Hall of Honor.
Its collections include, among others: weapons, rare vehicles, uniforms, medals, art, documents, maps, sound and visual recordings, e.g. Mercedes-Benz car that belonged to Adolf Hitler, Chieftain and Mk III Valentine tanks, CF-101 Voodoo fighter. The entire collection includes over 3 million artifacts.
The museum building covers an area of 440,000 square meters.
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National Gallery of Australia |
Australia |
Canberra |
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National - art
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National Gallery of Australia (NGA) founded in 1967, opened to the public in 1982.
Some NGA collections:
- Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art (the largest in the world)
- Australian art (non-Indigenous), works by e.g. Sidney Nolan, Grace Cossington Smith, Margaret Preston, Arthur Boyd, Tom Roberts, Frederick McCubbin
- Western art, works by e.g. Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, David Hockney
- Pacific art
- Asian art
- Sculpture garden, works by e.g. Auguste Rodin, Henry Moore
The NGA has over 155,000 works of art.
The NGA building has 23,000 square meters of floor space.
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Salzburg Burgen & Schlösser Betriebsführung |
Austria |
Salzburg |
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Historic house
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Salzburg Burgen & Schlösser Betriebsführung (SBSB) - the Salzburger Burgen & Schlösser Management is a company-like institution of the Office of the Salzburg Provincial Government. SBSB started its operations in 1993. It consists of:
- Fortress Hohensalzburg, one of the largest existing castles in Europe from the 11th century, consisting of fifty buildings with a total area of 33,000 square meters; it houses: Prince's Chambers & Magic Theater, Armory, Panorama Tour, Castle Museum (a branch of Salzburg Museum), Rainer Regimental Museum, Puppet Museum.
- Hohenwerfen Castle; it houses the following exhibitions: The Legend of Jackl - Wizards and Witches in Salzburg, Exhibition of the film "Where Eagles Dare".
- Mauterndorf Castle; it houses the Lungau Country Museum
- Salzburg "Residence" Palace
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Bozar |
Belgium |
Brussels |
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Art
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The Center for Fine Arts, opened in 1928, has been using the name BOZAR since 2002.
It includes exhibition and conference rooms, a cinema and a concert hall. In total, it covers an area of 33,000 square meters.
BOZAR organizes up to 10 exhibitions per year.
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Hubei Provincial Museum |
China |
Wuhan |
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Archeology
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Hubei Provincial Museum was founded in 1953.
The most valuable museum exhibits include artifacts from the tombs of the Marquis Yi of the Zeng state (including the Goujian sword and bronze bell set), Chu, Han, Liangzhuangwang and Yingjingwang, as well as fossils of human skulls from Yunxian Prefecture.
The collection consists of over 230,000 objects.
The total area of the museum is 50,000 square meters.
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Munchmuseet |
Norway |
Oslo |
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Munchmuseet (MUNCH) opened in 1963.
MUNCH is devoted to the life and work of the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863–1944).
MUNCH has nearly 1,200 paintings in its collection, which is more than half of the artist's entire painting output. MUNCH is in possession of the entire graphic heritage, in the number of 18,322 graphics with 842 different motifs. The Collection is completed by 7,050 drawings and sketches and 14 sculptures. It is one of the world's largest single artist collections. In addition, the collection includes original Munch photographs, printing plates and lithographic stones, handwritten texts and letters, as well as personal items.
In total, the collection includes over 42,000 museum objects.
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Museum of Fine Arts |
Hungary |
Budapest |
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Art
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The Museum of Fine Arts opened to the public in 1906.
The collection is divided into 6 sections: ancient Egypt, ancient Greece and Rome, painting (13th-18th century), sculpture (from the Middle Ages to the 17th century), drawings and prints, art after 1800.
The collection includes works by, among others, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Giorgione, Titian, Leonardo da Vinci, Tintoretto, Dürer, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rubens, Frans Hals, El Greco, Velázquez, Goya, Eugène Delacroix, Jean-Baptiste -Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Rodin and Constantin Meunier.
The number of works of art in the museum exceeds 120,000.
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Jewish Museum Berlin |
Germany |
Berlin |
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The Jewish Museum Berlin was opened in 2001.
It is the largest Jewish museum in Europe.
The museum presents the history of Jews in Germany from the Middle Ages to the present day from a Jewish point of view.
The permanent exhibition "Jewish life in Germany: the past and the present", opened in 2020, covering an area of over 3,500 square meters, has more than 1,000 objects, of which over 70% comes from the museum's own collection.
The museum's collection is divided into four areas: ceremonial and applied arts, fine arts, photography and everyday culture.
© Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Foto: Jens Ziehe
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National Museum of Marine Science and Technology |
Chinese Taipei |
Keelung |
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National - maritime
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The National Museum of Marine Science and Technology (NMMST) officially opened to the public in 2014.
NMMST's interests focus on marine science, technology, ecology, and culture.
The parts of the Museum Complex are the Main Exhibition Building, Ocean Theater, Regional Exploration Building, Research and Collection Center, Chaojing Intelligent Ocean (iOcean).
NMMST is part of a larger entity called Marine Education and Tourist Park.
It covers an area of over 500,000 square meters.
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M+ |
China |
Hong Kong |
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Art
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M+ opened in 2021 (https://www.museumworldranking.net/news/m-celebrates-its-opening-ahead-of-its-public-launch,114). M+ is part of the West Kowloon Cultural District.
M+ showcases a pre-eminent collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century visual culture within an Asian context, encompassing the disciplines of visual art, design and architecture, and moving image from Hong Kong, Greater China, Asia, and beyond. The collection spans from 1895 to current.
The M+ Collection and M+ Sigg Collection include 8,219 works as of September 2022.
The 65,000-square-metre museum building comprises 17,000 square metres of exhibition space across thirty-three galleries.
M+, Hong Kong
Photo: Iwan Baan
© Herzog & de Meuron
Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron
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Humboldt Forum |
Germany |
Berlin |
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Ethnography, art,... history
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The Humboldt Forum, open to the public in 2021, is located in the Berlin Palace on the Museum Island.
The Humboldt Forum houses the non-European collections of Berlin's state museums. The Humboldt Forum consists of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz with the Ethnologisches Museum and the Museum für Asiatische Kunst der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, the Stadtmuseum Berlin together with Kulturprojekte Berlin, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss.
Photo © SHF/Alexander Schippel
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Museu Nacional da Imprensa, Jornais e Artes Gráficas |
Portugal |
Porto |
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Media, technology,... art
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Museu Nacional da Imprensa, Jornais e Artes Gráficas (MNI, National Museum of the Press, Newspapers and Graphic Arts) founded in 1997.
MNI presents the historical processes of typesetting, printing and binding. The MNI has the International Cartoons Gallery.
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Salar Jung Museum |
India |
Hyderabad |
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The Salar Jung Museum (SJM) was inaugurated in 1951.
SJM has artifacts from all over the world (33 countries) since the 2nd century BC until the beginning of the 20th century AD. These include the jade daggers of Jahangir and Shah Jahan, miniature paintings belonging to the Mughal and Rajasthani schools, probably the largest collection of "Bidri ware" in the world, the sculpture "Veiled Rebecca" by Giovanni Maria Benzoni, samurai swords, personal collection of the Salar Jung family, collection of the Koran, collection of clocks.
In 1961, SJM was declared a national museum.
The entire collection includes approximately 1.1 million artifacts.
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Museo Nacional de Arte |
Mexico |
Mexico City |
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Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL) was founded in 1982 and is a branch of the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes (INBA).
The MUNAL collection presenting the history of Mexican art from the mid-16th century to the mid-20th century. The collection includes works by José María Velasco, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, José Clemente Orozco and David Alfaro Siqueiros, among others.
The permanent collection includes over 3,000 works and covers an exhibition area of 3,500 square meters.
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National Museum of Finland |
Finland |
Helsinki |
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The National Museum of Finland (Suomen kansallismuseo) opened to the public in 1916.
Permanent exhibitions: Prehistory, Otherland (history from the 11th to the beginning of the 20th century), Story of Finland (the independence era), Playtime (practical opportunity to experience things and study history).
The entire collection includes approximately 3.5 million exhibits.
The exhibition area is over 3,100 square meters.
Photo is taken by: Omar El Mrabt
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Royal British Columbia Museum |
Canada |
Victoria |
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Natural history,... provincial history, archives
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The Royal British Columbia Museum (Royal BC Museum, RBCM) was founded in 1886. The museum merged with the British Columbia Provincial Archives in 2003.
RBCM collects First Nations artifacts, exhibits on BC history over the past 200 years, and natural history objects.
All RBCM collections count over 7 million objects.
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National Archaeological Museum |
Greece |
Athens |
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The National Archaeological Museum was founded in 1829.
The entire collections are divided into:
- collection of prehistoric antiques (Neolithic, Cycladic and Mycenaean)
- collection of ancient Greek sculptures (7th century BC - 5th century AD)
- vase and minerals collection (11th century BC - Roman era)
- metallurgical works collection
- collection of Egyptian and Eastern Antiquities (5000 BC - Roman era)
The National Archaeological Museum has in its collection, among others, the golden Mask of Agamemnon and the bronze statue of Zeus or Poseidon.
The collection consists of over 11,000 exhibits.
The museum covers an area of 8,000 square meters.
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Zaanse Schans |
Netherlands |
Zaandam |
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Open-air and living... history
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Zaanse Schans is a former residential and industrial district filled with many historic wooden windmills, houses, warehouses, shops and workshops.
In 1998, the Zaans Museum was opened, which currently has over 32,000 items in its collection. The museums open in Zaanse Schans are:
Zaans Museum and Verkade Experience
Albert Heijn Museum Shop
Bakery Museum de Gecroonde Duyvekater
The Zaanse Time Museum
Jisper House
Honig Breethuis
Windmill Museum
The windmills that can be visited in Zaanse Schans are:
De Huisman
De Kat
De Gekroonde Poelenburg
De Zoeker
Het Jonge Schaap
De Bonte Hen
De Os
Het Klaverblad
De Bleeke Dood
De Ooievaar
Mini-mills on the Schans
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Natural History Museum Vienna |
Austria |
Vienna |
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Natural history
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The Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, NHM) opened to the public in 1889.
The entire collection consists of about 30 million objects. Of which over 100,000 objects are on display in 39 rooms with an area of 8,460 square meters.
The collection includes, among others:
- the Venus of Willendorf, about 29,500 years old
- a sea mermaid that became extinct more than 200 years ago
- dinosaur skeletons such as diplodocus, allosaurus and iguanodon
- complete skeletons of large mammals, such as Deinotherium (hoe tusker)
- the largest and oldest meteorite collection in the world, with the Martian meteorite "Tissint"
© NHM Vienna, Kurt Kracher
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FC Barcelona Museum |
Spain |
Barcelona |
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FC Barcelona Museum opened in 1984.
You can get acquainted with the history of the club thanks to the audiovisual touch screen. The sports art collection includes works by Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró and Antoni Tàpies. In the museum, we will also see the club's trophies and memorabilia, including those related to Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi.
Entrance to the museum is combined with visiting the Camp Nou stadium. There is also a fan shop on the premises of the museum.
The museum covers 3,550 square meters.
Photo: FC Barcelona/Autor: Sara Gordon
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ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum |
Denmark |
Aarhus |
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ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum was founded in 1859.
It has a collection of artworks ranging from the early 19th century to the present with works by artists such as Grayson Perry, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joana Vasconcelos, Bill Viola, Olafur Eliasson, Paul McCarthy, Shirin Neshat, Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon.
It has an area of 20,700 square meters.
Foto Anders Trærup
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Albertina |
Austria |
Vienna |
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Albertina established in 1805.
Its collections include about 65,000 drawings and about 1 million graphics and photographs, including works by Dürer, Rembrandt, Rafael, Schiele, Cézanne, Picasso, Matisse, Klimt, and Kokoschka. Albertina Modern has been open to the public since 2020, bringing together over 60,000 works by 5,000 artists.
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Auckland War Memorial Museum |
New Zealand |
Auckland |
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Memorial, history,... natural history
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The origins of the Auckland War Memorial Museum date back to 1852.
Part of the museum is the War Memorial and the surrounding Court of Honor dedicated to those who died in World War I and II.
The museum has collected 1.5 million natural specimens from the fields of palaeontology, botany, entomology, geology, terrestrial vertebrates and marine biology.
The museum houses a large collections on the history of New Zealand, the Māori culture and the cultures of the Pacific region. The collections include three complete wooden buildings, including the Hotunui, a traditional Māori meeting house from 1878 from the Thames region, and the war canoe (waka) Te Toki a Tapiri from 1830.
The Museum maintains the legacy of Edmund Hillary, the first man to reach the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
The area of the museum is 16,000 square meters.
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Natural History Museum Berlin |
Germany |
Berlin |
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Natural history
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The Natural History Museum - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science (Museum für Naturkunde [MfN] - Leibniz Institut für Evolutions und Biodiversitätsforschung) dates back to 1810.
MfN is one of the world's most important research institutions in the field of biological and geoscientific evolution and biodiversity.
MfN has in its collections, inter alia, the largest mounted dinosaur in the world (a Giraffatitan skeleton) and the largest piece of amber in the world.
MfN stores over 30 million objects in the field of zoology, palaeontology, geology and mineralogy, of which 0.02% is exhibited.
The exhibition area is 4,400 square meters.
Dinosaur Hall in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, visible, among others, a fragment of a Giraffatitan brancai skeleton. Photo: Thomas Rosenthal
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National Gallery of Ireland |
Ireland |
Dublin |
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The National Gallery of Ireland opened to the public in 1864.
It has collections of European and Irish art in its collection. It includes the works of, among others Titian, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Velázquez, Rubens, van Dyck, Reynolds, Delacroix, Monet, Picasso, Jack Butler Yeats.
The entire collection comprises approximately 14,000 works of art, including approximately 2,500 oil paintings, 5,000 prints and 5,000 drawings.
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Stockholm Palace |
Sweden |
Stockholm |
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Historic house
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The Stockholm Palace (Stockholms slott) is the official residence of the Swedish kings. Built in the years 1697 - 1771 in the baroque style, a large part of the interior is in the Rococo style. 230 meters long, 125 meters wide (with side wings). There are 1430 rooms in total. In addition to the Royal Apartments, the palace houses, among others, the Hall of State, the Royal Chapel, the Treasury with the Regalia of Sweden, the Royal Armory (Livrustkammaren) - over 30,000 artifacts, Gustav III's Museum of Antiquities, and the Museum Three Crowns (Museum Tre Kronor) - the Tre Kronor Palace, built in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, on the site of which the present Stockholm Palace stands, burned down in 1697.
Photo: Kungl. Hovstaternas organisation
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Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum |
Chinese Taipei |
Taibao |
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National - Asian... art
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The Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum (NPMSB) opened in 2015.
NPMSB presents the art of Southeast Asia, East Asia and South Asia at permanent exhibitions. The presented artifacts were transferred from the National Palace Museum, Taipei (Northern Branch).
NPMSB covers an area of 70 hectares, of which 20 hectares is occupied by the main building.
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Ayala Museum |
Philippines |
Makati |
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History, art, archeology,... ethnography
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The Ayala Museum, established in 1967, is run by the Ayala Foundation Inc.
The most important collections include archaeological, ethnographic, historical, fine arts, numismatics, and ecclesiastical exhibits. The Ayala Museum has, among others, 60 dioramas depicting the history of the Philippines from cavemen to the present day and a collection of over 1,000 gold objects from the 10th to 13th centuries.
The Filipinas Heritage Library operates at the museum.
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Swiss Museum of Transport |
Switzerland |
Lucerne |
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Transportation
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The Swiss Museum of Transport (Verkehrshaus der Schweiz) was opened in 1959.
The museum presents the development of traffic and mobility by road, rail (including cableways), water and air, as well as space expeditions, telecommunications and tourism. An additional offer is the planetarium, Swiss Chocolate Adventure, Filmtheatre, Media World, and Hans Erni Museum.
There are about 2,000 historic vehicles in the museum's collection. In addition, the museum has over 4,000 other exhibits related to the history of transport and over 15,000 documents related to this topic.
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Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa |
Spain |
Barcelona |
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Science
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The Museo de la Ciencia CosmoCaixa, opened under its current name in 2004, is owned by the Fundación "la Caixa".
The main permanent exhibitions are "Sala Universo" with "Lab Math", "El Muro Geológico" with "Restos y Rastros", "Bosque Inundado", "Base Antártica". The museum also has a digital planetarium.
The exhibition and educational area covers more than 30,000 square meters.
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art |
Denmark |
Humlebæk |
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Modern and contemporary... art and design
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Louisiana Museum of Modern Art opened in 1958.
Louisiana has been collecting international art from 1945 to the present. It is mainly painting and sculpture (sculpture garden), but also design and photography. Its collections include works by artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Asger Jorn, Alexander Calder, Yayoi Kusama, Pablo Picasso, Jean Arp, Yves Klein, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Cindy Sherman.
The collection includes over 4,000 works.
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National Portrait Gallery |
Australia |
Canberra |
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Art
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The National Portrait Gallery has been operating as an unassisted institution since 1998.
The national collection of portraits includes about 3,000 photographs, paintings, sculptures, drawings and multimedia.
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Eye Filmmuseum |
Netherlands |
Amsterdam |
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Film
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The Eye Filmmuseum was established in 2010, its origins date back to 1946.
The Eye Filmmuseum has 2 exhibition halls (one of them covers an area of 1,200 square meters), a film archive and four cinemas.
The museum collection covers the entire history of both Dutch and foreign film, from late 19th century silent films to contemporary productions, with a total of over 46,000 films. The collection also includes approximately 1,500 cinema projectors, 41,500 film posters, 500,000 photos, scripts, soundtracks and filmmakers' paper archives. The collection size is over 820,000 objects.
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Jakarta History Museum |
Indonesia |
Jakarta |
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History
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The Jakarta History Museum (Museum Sejarah Jakarta or Museum Fatahillah or Batavia Museum) was inaugurated in 1974.
The museum presents the history of the development of the city of Jakarta from prehistory to the present day. Its collections include, for example, objects related to the history of the Dutch East-India Company (VOC), Japanese ceramics from the 17th century, Batavia furniture, 17th-19th century, which is a combination of European, Chinese, Indian and Indonesian styles.
The collection includes nearly 25,000 artifacts.
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Red Dot Design Museum Singapore |
Singapore |
Singapore |
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Design
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The Red Dot Design Museum Singapore was founded in 2005.
The Boutique Museum presents innovative product designs that have won the international Red Dot Design Award.
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Cleveland Museum of Art |
USA |
Cleveland |
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Art
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The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) opened to the public in 1916.
The CMA collections include art collections from all eras and from all parts of the world. The collections of Asian and Ancient Egyptian art stand out.
In its collection, CMA has works by, among others, Sandro Botticelli, Caravaggio, El Greco, Peter Paul Rubens, Francisco de Goya, William Turner, Arnold Böcklin, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Auguste Rodin, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Salvador Dalí, George Bellows, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock,
CMA's collection includes over 61,000 works of art.
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Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park |
USA |
Grand Rapids |
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Sculpture park,... botanical gardens
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Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, opened in 1995, covers an area of 64 hectares.
There is a 30-hectare sculpture park with almost 300 cannons of Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Alexander Calder, Louise Bourgeois, Richard Serra. Ai Weiwei, Beverly Pepper, Jaume Plensa, Magdalena Abakanowicz and others.
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Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli |
Italy |
Naples |
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Archeology
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The Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli (MANN, National Archeological Museum of Naples) opened in 1816.
Main collections:
- Farnese collection, e.g. marbles the Farnese Hercules, the Farnese Bull, jewel collection,
- Ancient Roman artifacts from nearby Pompeii, Stabiae and Herculaneum, e.g. mosaics and the Secret Room,
- collection from the time of ancient Egypt.
The exhibition area is 12,650 square meters.
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Inner Mongolia Museum |
China |
Hohhot |
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Regional - natural... history, history, archeology
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The Inner Mongolia Museum opened in 1957.
The museum has an extensive collection of fossils, dinosaur remains, feathered dinosaurs and a complete woolly rhinoceros skeleton. One of the exhibitions dedicated to the history and traditions of the nomadic Mongols is devoted to the life of Genghis Khan, who in the 13th century united different Mongol tribes and founded one of the largest land empires. In the museum, you can also see the golden crown in the form of an eagle from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC).
The collection includes over 150,000 exhibits.
The museum covers an area of more than 50,000 square meters.
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Muzium Negara |
Malaysia |
Kuala Lumpur |
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National – history,... ethnology, natural history, art, numismatics
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Muzium Negara (National Museum) opened in 1963.
The exhibitions focus on the history of Malaysia, Islamic art, traditional crafts, fauna and flora of the Malay Peninsula.
The museum covers over 4,170 square meters.
In 1974, a wooden palace called Istana Satu from 1884 was moved and restored to the museum grounds.
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Osaka Castle |
Japan |
Osaka |
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History
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Osaka Castle was built at the end of the 16th century, made of wood, on two embankments of earth and hewn stones, surrounded by a moat. It was destroyed and rebuilt many times, currently it is a concrete reconstruction of the 17th-century Osaka Castle. There are 13 buildings in the castle, the main of which is a five-story tower.
The castle covers an area of over 6 hectares and is surrounded by 106 hectares of an open park.
Currently, a historical museum called Osaka Castle Museum operates inside the castle.
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art |
USA |
Bentonville (Arkansas) |
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American art
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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in 2011.
The founding donor of the museum is the Walton Family Foundation.
The museum's permanent collection covers American art from the colonial era to the present day. The collection includes paintings by Charles Willson Peale, Asher Durand, Thomas Eakins, Gilbert Stuart, Mary Cassatt, Benjamin West, Norman Rockwell, Agnes Pelton, John Singer Sargent, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Mark Rothko, Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper and sculptures by Vanessa German, Roxy Paine, James Turrell.
The museum buildings, covering an area of 20,200 square meters, are located in the almost 50-hectare park of the museum.
In 2014, the museum acquired and reconstructed the Bachman–Wilson House by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
In downtown Bentonville, a satellite multidisciplinary contemporary art space dubbed The Momentary opened in 2020.
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya |
India |
Mumbai |
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History, art, archeology,... natural history
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Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS) opened to the public in 1922.
The museum houses over 50,000 artifacts from India, China, Japan and Europe.
The museum documents the history of India from prehistoric times to the present day. The museum houses artifacts of the Indus Valley civilization and other relics from ancient India from the times of the Gupta, Maury, Chalukyas and Rashtrakuta; paintings of the major Indian schools of Mughal, Rajasthani, Pahari and Deccani; manuscripts from all over the last millennium; arts and crafts of ivory, jade, silver and gold.
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Apartheid Museum |
South Africa |
Johannesburg |
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Apartheid, history
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Apartheid Museum opened in 2001.
The museum illustrates the rise and fall of apartheid and the history of South Africa in the 20th century.
The area where the Pillars of the Constitution, Journeys and 21 exhibition halls are located covers an area of 7 hectares.
The exhibitions feature film materials, photographs and artifacts supplemented with texts, including those related to Nelson Mandela.
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State Museum of the History of St Petersburg |
Russia |
St Petersburg |
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The State Museum of the History of St Petersburg was founded in 1938.
It consists of:
Peter and Paul Fortress,
Shlisselburg Fortress Oreshek,
Rumyantsev Mansion,
Alexander Blok Museum,
Sergey Kirov Museum,
St Petersburg Avant-garde Museum (Mikhail Matyushin's House),
Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad,
Museum of Printing.
The museum has approximately 1.5 million documents, photographs, architectural drawings and plans of St. Petersburg from the 18th century to the present day.
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La Plata Museum |
Argentina |
La Plata |
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University – natural... history, anthropology
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La Plata Museum (Museo de La Plata) opened to the public in 1888.
The museum is divided into five sections: anthropological, botanical, geological, palaeontological and zoological, which at permanent exhibitions form a single whole depicting the evolution of nature, from the creation of the universe and our planet to the origin of man and its culture.
La Plata Museum has, among other things, a collection of large mammal fossils from the third and fourth period of the Cenozoic era, pre-Columbian ceramics, objects from the excavations in the Aksha complex (Egypt, near the 1st cataract, 13th century BC).
All collections amount to nearly 4 million objects.
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Musei Capitolini |
Italy |
Rome |
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The Musei Capitolini (Capitoline Museums) opened to the public in 1734. The Musei Capitolini are among the oldest museums in the world. The history of the museums dates back to 1471, when Pope Sixtus IV gave the people of Rome a collection of ancient bronzes and located them on the Capitoline Hill. Since then, the collection has been enriched with many ancient statues, works of medieval and Renaissance art, jewelry and coins.
The Musei Capitolini are located in Palazzo Senatorio, Palazzo dei Conservatori, Palazzo Nuovo, Palazzo Caffarelli, Galleria di congiunzione, Centrale Montemartini.
Some of the biggest attractions are the sculptures:
- Capitoline Wolf (5th century BC)
- Cupid and Psyche (3rd century BC)
- Dying Gaul (1st-2nd century AD)
- Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius (c. 175 AD)
- Bernini's Medusa (c. 1638-1648)
The Musei Capitolini has 12,977 square meters of exhibition space.
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