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| x Louvre |
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Art gallery | 1793 | Rue de Rivoli |
The Musée du Louvre or officially the Grand Louvre — in English, the Louvre Museum or Great Louvre, or simply the Louvre — is the largest national museum of France, the most visited museum in the world, and a historic monument. It is a central...
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| x Michael C. Carlos Museum | 571 South Kilgo Circle |
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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Music museum | 2000 |
The Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame (abbreviation rendered with a pipe as EMP|SFM) is a museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction located in Seattle, Washington....
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| x Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao |
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Modern Art Museum | Abandoibarra Et. 2 |
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry, built by Ferrovial and located in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain. It is in the community of Euskera, Spain. It is built...
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| x Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |
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Art gallery | 1071 5th Avenue |
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opened its doors on October 21, 1959 and 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...
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| x Milwaukee Art Museum |
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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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1753 | Great Russell Street |
The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than seven 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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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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1968 | Centennial Drive and Grizzly Peak Boulevard |
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 |
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1914-16 E. Main St. |
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 |
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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Art gallery | 200 Larkin Street |
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 | 1884 | Downing Street |
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. The museum is located on the...
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| x Rock and Roll Hall of Fame |
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Rock music |
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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Modern Art Museum | 111 South Michigan Avenue |
The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is an encyclopedic fine art museum located in Chicago, Illinois's Grant Park. The Art Institute has one of the world's most notable collections of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art in its permanent...
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| x Franklin Institute |
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Science museum |
The Franklin Institute (named after the noted American scientist and statesman Benjamin Franklin) is a museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and one of the oldest and premier centers of science education and development in the United States. The...
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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 on 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 gallery |
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, known colloquially as The Met, 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...
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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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Maritime museum | 1799 |
The Peabody Essex Museum, originally the Peabody Museum of Salem and the Essex Institute, 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...
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| x California Palace of the Legion of Honor |
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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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| x American Museum of Natural History |
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1869 | Central Park West at 79th Street |
Since its founding in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History has been dedicated to a joint mission of science and public education. AMNH continues to provide a unique platform for communicating the results of current research to the public. ...
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| x Natural History Museum |
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Natural history museum | Cromwell Road |
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London (the others are the Science Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum). Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road. The museum is a non-departmental...
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| x Judah L. Magnes Museum | Jewish museum | 1962 |
The Judah L. Magnes Museum is a Jewish museum in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1962 and named not for its founders, Seymour and Rebecca Fromer, but for Judah L. Magnes, an Oakland native who became a Jewish activist. Judah Magnes was a co...
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| x San Francisco Museum of Modern Art |
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Modern Art Museum | 1935 | 151 Third Street |
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art museum in San Francisco, California.
It opened in 1935 under director Grace L. McCann Morley as the San Francisco Museum of Art, the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to...
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| x Whitney Museum of American Art |
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Art gallery | 1931 |
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection...
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| x Porthcurno Telegraph Museum |
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The Porthcurno Telegraph Museum is a museum located in the small coastal village of Porthcurno Cornwall, UK. Porthcurno was the point at which many submarine telegraph cables — transatlantic and to other locations — came ashore.
At the outbreak of...
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| x Historic Richmond Town |
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Historic Richmond Town is an open-air live museum located in the Richmond, neighborhood in Staten Island, New York City, in the United States. It is located near the geographical center of the island, at the junction of Richmond Road and Arthur Kill...
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| x Kremlin Armoury |
The Kremlin Armoury (Russian: Оружейная палата) is one of the oldest museums of Moscow, established in 1808 and located in the Moscow Kremlin (map).
The Kremlin Armoury originated as the royal arsenal in 1508. Until the transfer of the court to St...
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| x Overloon War Museum |
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The National War and Resistance Museum of the Netherlands (Dutch: Nationaal Oorlogs- en Verzetsmuseum) is located at Overloon, municipality Boxmeer.
The museum is located on the site of the Battle of Overloon, a World War II tank and infantry battle...
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| x Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam |
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Natural history museum |
The Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam is a natural history museum at Museumpark in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
The museum is located in the Villa Dijkzigt, dating from 1852 and extended in 1995 with a modern glazed pavilion which was designed by the...
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| x The Museum of Russian Art | Art gallery |
The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA) is a museum in Minneapolis, Minnesota that houses a collection of Russian art from the 20th century, especially Soviet art.
TMORA took up residence in the thoroughly remodeled former Mayflower Church in South...
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| x Salvador Dalí Museum |
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Art gallery |
The Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, houses the largest collection outside Europe of the works of the artist Salvador Dalí and is located on the campus of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg in downtown St....
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| x JEATH War Museum |
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The JEATH War Museum is one of two war museums in Thailand about the Death Railway built from 1942 to 1943 by Allied POWs under the direction of the Japanese. The museum was founded in 1977 by the chief abbot of Wat Chaichumpol Venerable Phra...
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| x Kansas Aviation Museum |
Kansas Aviation Museum is located in Wichita, Kansas at 3350 George Washington Blvd. It is known for exhibiting aircraft made by the Boeing Company, which has a large presence in Wichita. It features the Boeing B-29 Superfortress(Doc), B-47...
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| x Georgetown Loop |
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The Georgetown Loop Railroad is a narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Clear Creek County, Colorado in the United States.
The railroad operates summer tourist trains between the communities of Georgetown and Silver Plume, a distance of 2 miles ...
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| x Canada Science and Technology Museum |
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Science museum |
The Canada Science and Technology Museum (French: Musée des sciences et de la technologie du Canada) is located in Ottawa, Ontario, on St. Laurent Boulevard, to the south of the Queensway (Highway 417).
The National Museum of Science and Technology...
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| x Yanks Air Museum |
The Yanks Air Museum is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to exhibiting, preserving and restoring American aircraft and artifacts.
The Chino facility of Yanks Air Museum houses the largest private collection of American WWII fighters...
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| x Eldred World War II Museum |
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The Eldred World War II Museum is located in Eldred, Pennsylvania, 80 miles south of Buffalo, New York and 175 miles north east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Established in May 1996, the museum has continually expanded from one room to three stories....
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| x Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal |
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History museum |
The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a passenger railroad station in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. After the decline of railroad travel, most of the building was...
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| x Museum of Evolution Warsaw |
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Natural history museum |
The Museum of Evolution Warsaw (In Polish: Muzeum Ewolucji) is the display area of the natural history museum in Warsaw, Poland. It is the public front of the Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii or Zoology Museum and the Instytut Paleobiologii or...
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| x University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology |
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Archaeology |
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, commonly called The University Museum, is an archaeology and anthropology museum that is part of the University of Pennsylvania in University City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
An...
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| x Canadian War Museum |
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Military / war museum | 1 Vimy Place |
The Canadian War Museum (CWM) (Musée canadien de la guerre (MCG)) is Canada’s national museum of military history. Located in Ottawa, Ontario, the museum focuses on military conflicts that occurred on Canadian soil, involved Canadian forces, or had...
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| x National Museum of Ethnology |
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Ethnology |
The National Museum of Ethnology (Dutch: Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde or RMV) is a museum about ethnology in the Netherlands is located in the university city of Leiden.
The institution which was at first called the "Museum Japonicum". It was the...
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| x Southern Actor |
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The Southern Actor is a former whale catcher, currently a museum ship based in Sandefjord, Norway and owned by Sandefjord Museum. It was built in 1950 for the whaling company Christian Salvesen Ltd, Leith, Scotland. Many of Salvesen's employees were...
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| x Milestones Museum |
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Milestones Museum is a museum located in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK. It is made up of a network of streets that have been recreated on those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire.
It was opened on 01 December 2000 by HRH Duke of Edinburgh as a...
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| x Geological Museum |
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Natural history museum |
The Geological Museum of Budapest is the main museum on geology in Hungary. It is located at the Stefánia utca in the western part of Pest.
The building was originally the home of the Hungarian Geological Society, which was established in 1869. The...
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| x Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde |
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The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde is the Danish national museum for ships, seafaring and boatbuilding in the prehistoric and medieval period.
Around the year 1070, five Viking ships were deliberately sunk at Skuldelev in Roskilde Fjord in order to...
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| x Luxor Museum |
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History museum |
Luxor Museum is located in the Egyptian city of Luxor (ancient Thebes). It stands on the corniche, overlooking the west bank of the River Nile, in the central part of the city.
Inaugurated in 1975, the museum is housed in a small, purpose-built...
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| x National Historical Museum of Brazil |
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History museum |
The National Historical Museum of Brazil (Portuguese: Museu Histórico Nacional), was created in 1922, and possesses over 287,000 items, among of which the largest numismatic collection of Latin America. The architectonic complex that houses the...
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| x Grohmann Museum |
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Art gallery |
The Grohmann Museum, at Milwaukee School of Engineering, is home to the world's most comprehensive art collection dedicated to the evolution of human work. The museum opened on October 27, 2007 and is located at 1000 N. Broadway, Milwaukee,...
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| x Pietrarsa railway museum |
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The Pietrarsa railway museum is situated in San Giorgio a Cremano of which the former village of Pietrarsa forms a part. It lies south of Naples in southern Italy just to the side of the Naples–Portici railway line, the first one in Italy. It is...
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| x Am Tunnel |
Am Tunnel is a contemporary art gallery, situated in a tunnel in Luxembourg City, in southern Luxembourg. The gallery is located in part of the underground casemates of the city's ancient fortress, under the Bourbon plateau, in the northern part of...
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| x Otto-Lilienthal-Museum |
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Aerospace museum |
The Otto-Lilienthal-Museum in Anklam (Germany) is a museum about the "glider king" Otto Lilienthal, the flight pioneer, as well as a pioneer in technical, social and cultural projects.
The town of Anklam is Lilienthal’s birth place. Various objects...
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