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A work of contemporary architecture, the building has been hailed as a "signal moment in the architectural culture", because it represents "one of those rare moments when critics, academics, and the general public were all completely united about something", according to architectural critic Paul Goldberger. The museum was the building most frequently named as one of the most important works completed since 1980 in the 2010 World Architecture Survey among architecture experts. (Full article...)
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The Industrial Gallery, housed in the original part of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, designed by Yeoville Thomason and opened in 1885 -
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The Great Hall of thestained-glass ceiling, designed by Leonard French. -
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An early 18th-century German Schrank with a traditional display of corals, from the Naturkundemuseum, Berlin -
The South Hall of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Virginia, an aerospace museum, showing the Enola Gay bomber and other aeroplanes -
The Dinosaur Hall of theNaturkundemuseum, Berlin, showing the skeleton of Giraffatitan brancai, among the largest mounted skeletons in the world -
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Triangular prism-shaped display cases in the Red Dot Design Museum, Essen -
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A museum in Verkhniye Mandrogi, Leningrad Oblast, specialising in vodka -
Exhibit in Indonesia Museum, Jakarta, displaying the traditional costumes of Indonesian ethnic groups -
Entrance hall of the Vienna Technical Museum, one of the largest technology museums in Europe -
The Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. -
Antique cuckoo clocks displayed at Cuckooland Museum, Tabley, an example of a specialised museum -
Floating Heads by Sophie Cave (2006), installed in the East Court of the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
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Did you know...
- ... that squatters in Hamburg briefly occupied the former Erotic Art Museum?
- ... that the Casa Rull in Andorra was said to be occupied by "fat peasants"?
- ... that the International Vinegar Museum houses more than 350 types of vinegar from around the world?
- ... that two railroad boxcars were needed to ship William W. Jefferis's vast mineral collection to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History?
- ... that a pair of sealskin-covered high heels by Inuk designer Nicole Camphaug are held in the Bata Shoe Museum of Toronto?
- ... that a major Asian collection was donated to the Albert Bender while the museum was headed by Adolf Mahr, head of the Dublin Nazichapter?
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Museo de la Arquitectura Ponceña, an architecture museum in Ponce, Puerto Rico, that focuses on the Ponce Creole architectural style -
Now closed, the California Aerospace Museum, designed by Frank Gehry, formerly displayed a Lockheed F-104 Starfighter -
Exhibitions Pavilion and Rotunda of the Getty Center, Los Angeles, an art museum -
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Shanghai Museum, a museum of ancient Chinese art, was rebuilt in 1996 to a design inspired by the ding, an ancient bronze cooking vessel. -
The Peristylia hall in National Museum of Indonesia, Jakarta, the largest museum in Indonesia and one of that country's oldest -
TheMuseo del Prado, Madrid, established in 1785 -
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, a modern art museum designed by Frank Gehry and completed in 1997 -
Indonesia Museum, in Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, an ethnology museum exemplifying Balinese architecture -
National Museum, Szczecin, Poland -
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A maritime museum located in the village of Bolungarvík, Vestfirðir, Iceland, showing a 19th-century fishing base with a typical boat of the period and associated industrial buildings: an example of a very small museum -
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The Dalí Theatre and Museum, commemorating Salvador Dalí in his home town of Figueres, Catalonia, has a geodesic dome and is decorated with giant eggs. -
Paifang or arched entrance of the Northern Branch of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, whose collection covers 8,000 years of the history of Chinese art -
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The Lower Castle of Ambras Castle, Innsbruck, one of the earliest buildings constructed specifically for use as a museum; it remains a museum displaying its original collections -
The National Art Center, Tokyo, designed by Kisho Kurokawa, is an "empty museum", lacking its own collection, which hosts temporary exhibitions from other organisations. -
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The Cambodian National Museum, Phnom Penh, showing its vernacular architectural style -
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Aerial view ofHolocaust memorial; the museum, designed by Moshe Safdie, opened in 2005 and tells the personal stories of ninety Holocaust victims and survivors -
São Paulo Museum of Art, São Paulo, a 1968 concrete-and-glass structure designed by Lina Bo Bardi, considered a landmark of the city and a major example of modern Brazilian architecture -
The Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, has a permanent collection of murals and hosts an architecture museum. -
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A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. (Full article...)
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