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| x Louvre |
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Location | Art gallery | 1793 |
The Louvre Museum (French: Musée du Louvre), located in Paris, is the world's most visited art museum, a historic monument, and a national museum of France. It is a central landmark, located on the Right Bank of the Seine in the 1st arrondissement ...
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| x Michael C. Carlos Museum | Building |
The Michael C. Carlos Museum is administered by Emory University on its campus in DeKalb County near Atlanta, Georgia.
The Carlos Museum has the largest collections in the Southeast United States of objects from ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Near...
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| x Experience Music Project |
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Structure | Music history |
The Experience Music Project (EMP) and Science Fiction Museum (SFM) and Hall of Fame is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington. It was founded by Paul Allen, the co...
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| x Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao |
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Structure | Art gallery |
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a modern and contemporary art museum designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is built alongside the Nervion River, which runs through...
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| x Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
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Structure | Modern art |
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which opened on October 21, 1959, is one of the best-known museums in New York City and one of the 20th century's most important architectural landmarks. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the museum––which is often...
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| x Milwaukee Art Museum |
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Structure | Art gallery | 1888 |
The Milwaukee Art Museum (MAM) is located on Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Starting around 1872, multiple organizations were founded in order to bring an art gallery to Milwaukee, as the city was still a growing port town with little or no...
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| x British Museum |
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Structure | 1753 |
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London, England. Its collections, which number more than 7 million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents,...
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| x University of Michigan Museum of Art |
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Location | Art gallery | 1946 |
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, or UMMA, as it is known locally, resides in the Alumni Memorial Hall of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Built as a war memorial in 1909 for the university's fallen alumni from the Civil...
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| x Lawrence Hall of Science |
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Location | 1968 |
The Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) is a public science center featuring hands-on exhibits and activities. Located in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley campus, LHS is also a resource center for preschool through high school...
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| x Maritime Museum of San Diego |
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The Maritime Museum of San Diego, established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States. Located in the San Diego Bay, the centerpiece of the museum's collection is the Star of India, an 1863 iron...
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| x Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum |
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The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, located on Amity St. in Baltimore, Maryland, is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s. Now open as a museum, the small unassuming structure is a typical row home, and also houses the...
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| x Edgar Allan Poe Museum | Structure |
The Edgar Allan Poe Museum is a museum located in Richmond, Virginia, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe never lived in the building, it serves to commemorate his time living in Richmond. The museum holds one of the world's...
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| x Australian National Maritime Museum |
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Maritime museum | Maritime museum |
The Australian National Maritime Museum, a maritime museum operated as a statutory authority of the Australian Government, is located at Darling Harbour, Sydney, New South Wales.
The ANMM's main exhibits are housed in a building that has galleries...
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| x Asian Art Museum of San Francisco |
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Structure | Art gallery |
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is a museum in San Francisco, California, United States. It has one of the most comprehensive collections of Asian art in the world.
Until recently housed at the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park, the Asian...
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| x University of Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | Structure | 1884 |
The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge houses the University's collections of local antiquities, together with archaeological and ethnographic artefacts from around the world.
Founded in 1884 as the University's...
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| x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum located on the shores of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other...
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| x Art Institute of Chicago |
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The Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's premier fine art museums. Located adjacent to Chicago, Illinois's Loop and Grant Park, the Museum is especially known for its extensive collection of Impressionist and American art. It also boasts an...
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| x Franklin Institute |
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Founded in honor of Benjamin Franklin, The Franklin Institute is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the United States. The Franklin Institute itself comprises...
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| x Institute of Contemporary Arts |
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The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre in The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch. It contains...
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| x Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Art owner | Art gallery |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile in New York City, USA. It has a permanent collection containing more than two million works of art, divided into nineteen...
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| x Peabody Museum |
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The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is among the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world. It was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel...
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| x Peabody Essex Museum |
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Structure | Maritime museum | 1799 |
The Peabody Essex Museum, originally the Peabody Museum of Salem, in Salem, Massachusetts is the oldest continuously operating museum in the United States, and holds one of the major collections of Asian art in the US; its total holdings include...
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| x California Palace of the Legion of Honor |
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Art owner | Art gallery | 1924 |
The California Palace of the Legion of Honor (often abbreviated to simply Legion of Honor by locals) is a fine art museum in San Francisco, California. The name is used both for the museum collection and for the building in which it is housed.
The...
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