National museums National museums The 24 Hour Museum is the United Kingdom's National Virtual Museum. The 24 Hour Museum is a comprehensive guide to all the UK's museums and galleries. It aims to inspire people to explore the UK’s museums and galleries, both online and in the ‘real’ world. The site offers a unique mix of dynamic content including; daily arts news, exhibition reviews and in-depth online trails, as well as housing a comprehensive, fully searchable, database of over 3,000 cultural institutions and collections. In addition the daily news stories are available as an RSS newsfeed. ...more on Wikipedia about "24 Hour Museum"
Founded in the 1920s, the Afghan National Museum is a place for storage and appreciation of old Afghan items of interest. It is a two-story building located in the historic city of Kabul, Afghanistan. Its collection was once one of the finest in Central Asia with 100,000 items dated back several millennia, but the museum was ransacked during the rule of the Taliban. In 2003, the international community invested US$350,000 to fix the building. It was re-inaugurated on September 29, 2004 by interim president Hamid Karzai, housing 2,500 artifacts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Afghan National Museum"
The Alte Pinakothek (Old Pinakothek) is an art museum situated in the Kunstareal in Munich, Germany. It is one of the oldest and finest galleries in the world. The name (old Pinakothek) aludes to the time period covered by the art — the Neue Pinakothek covers 19th century art and the recently opened Pinakothek der Moderne exhibits modern art, all galleries are part of Munich's " Kunstareal" (the "art area"). ...more on Wikipedia about "Alte Pinakothek"
The Amicican National Music Museum is a music oriented museum in Vermillion, South Dakota, USA. It was founded in 1973 on the campus of the University of South Dakota, as the National Music Museum & Center for Study of the History of Musical Instruments. ...more on Wikipedia about "America's National Music Museum"
The Arab American National Museum, located in Dearborn, Michigan, is the first of its kind and opened May 5 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arab American National Museum"
The Australian National Maritime Museum is a national maritime museum operated as an independent authority of the Government of Australia, and is at Darling Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales. ...more on Wikipedia about "Australian National Maritime Museum"
Since 1988 a rich collection of Bahrain's ancient archaeological artifacts have been on display at the purpose-built Bahrain National Museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bahrain National Museum"
The Bangladesh National Museum, originally established on 20 March 1913, albeit under onother name, and formally inaugurated on 7 August 1913, was accorded the status of the national museum of Bangladesh on 17 November 1983. It is located Shahbag, Dhaka. The museum is well organized and displays have been housed in several departments like department of ethnography and decorative art, department of history and classical art, department of natural history, and department of contemporary and world civilization. The museum also has a conservation laboratory. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bangladesh National Museum"
The Bavarian National Museum in Munich is one of the most important cultural history museums in Europe. The building, erected in the style of historianism, is one of the most original and significant museum buildings of its time. It replaced an older building which houses today the State Museum of Ethnology. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bavarian National Museum"
The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum is a museum in Bristol, United Kingdom which explores the history of the British Empire and the impact that British colonial rule had on the rest of the world. The museum opened in 2002 in Bristol's historic old railway station, designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Empire and Commonwealth Museum"
The British Museum in London is the United Kingdom's – and one of the world's – largest and most important museums of human history and culture. The oldest museum in the world, it was established in 1753 and was based largely on the collections of the physician and scientist Sir Hans Sloane. The museum first opened to the public on January 15, 1759 in Montagu House in Bloomsbury, on the site of the current museum building. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Museum"
The Canada Science and Technology Museum (French: Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada) is located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on St. Laurent Boulevard, to the south of the Queensway. It is linked with Science North in Greater Sudbury, Ontario. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canada Science and Technology Museum"
The Canadian Museum of Civilization is the most-widely visited museum in Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Museum of Civilization"
Ottawa, Canada's Canadian Museum of Nature is housed in the Victoria Memorial Museum Building, built in former farm fields in 1905. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian Museum of Nature"
The Canadian War Museum, located in Ottawa, Ontario, is a Canadian museum that honours Canada's veterans and commemorates the wars and conflicts in which Canada has taken part. The museum is part of the Museum of Civilization Corporation, which also runs the Canadian Museum of Civilization, the Canadian Children's museum and the Canadian Postal Museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canadian War Museum"
The Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum is the only museum in the United States dedicated to contemporary design and design history. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum"
The Deutsches Museum is one of the world's largest museums of technology and science. It is based in Munich. There are about 1.3 million visitors each year. ...more on Wikipedia about "Deutsches Museum"
The Glyptothek is a museum in Munich, Germany, which was commissioned by the Bavarian King Ludwig I to house his collection of Greek and Roman sculptures (hence Glypto-, from the Greek root glyphein, to carve). It was designed by Leo von Klenze in the Neoclassical style, and built from 1816 to 1830. ...more on Wikipedia about "Glyptothek"
The Gyeongju National Museum is a museum in Gyeongju, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. Its holdings are largely devoted to relics of the Silla kingdom, of which Gyeongju was the capital. It was founded by private citizens in 1915, and was taken over by the then-Japanese government in 1926. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gyeongju National Museum"
The original location of the Imperial War Museum was the Crystal Palace, located atop Sydenham Hill. The Museum was founded there in 1917 to commemorate those who had died in World War I. When that building burned down November 30, 1936, a new location had to be found, and a building in Lambeth was settled on. That building, designed by Sydney Smirke, had originally been a psychiatric hospital, Bethlem Royal Hospital, located in St. George's Fields. It faces onto Lambeth Road. ...more on Wikipedia about "Imperial War Museum"
The Indian Museum was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at Serampore (originally called Frederischnagore) near Kolkata (Calcutta), India, in 1814. It is a multi-disciplinary institution of national standing and is one of oldest museums in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indian Museum" Made by www.shortopedia.com.
The Israel Museum in Jerusalem, was founded in 1965 as Israel's national museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "Israel Museum"
The National Maritime Museum in Haifa, Israel was founded in 1953. It is based on the private collection of its founder and first director, Aryeh Ben- Eli. ...more on Wikipedia about "Israeli National Maritime Museum"
The has opened on October 16, 2005 in Dazaifu near Fukuoka. A striking wood and glass building in the hills, it hosts important collections of Japanese artifacts, related to the history of Kyushu. It is the most recent of the national museums of Japan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kyushu National Museum"
The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre, pronounced in French) in Paris, France, is one of the largest and most famous museums in the world. The building, a former royal palace, lies in the centre of Paris, between the Seine river and the Rue de Rivoli. Its central courtyard, now occupied by the Louvre glass pyramid, lies in the axis of the Champs-Élysées, and thus forms the nucleus from which the Axe historique springs. Part of the royal Palace of the Louvre was first opened to the public as a museum on November 8, 1793, during the French Revolution. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louvre"
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