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es) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (''i.e.'', virtual museum
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s) are not included.
For individual topics, see list of science museums
Below is the list of science museums all over the world. See Science museum for definitions.
Europe
Austria
* Ars Electronica Center, Linz
* Haus der Musik (House of Music), Vienna
* Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Natural History Museum), Vienna ...
, list of natural history museums, list of transport museums, and articles on art galleries, print rooms, national museum
A national museum is a museum maintained and funded by a national government. In many countries it denotes a museum run by the central government, while other museums are run by regional or local governments. In other countries a much greater numb ...
s and art museums in general.
According to the ''Museums of the World'', there are about 55,000 museums in 202 countries.
Åland Maritime Museum
The Åland Maritime Museum ( sv, Ålands sjöfartsmuseum) is a museum in Mariehamn in Åland, Finland. It is located in the western part of the town on the sea on Hamngatan, about at the other end of Storagatan. Along with Ålands Museum, it is t ...
* Åland Museum
The Cultural History Museum of Åland and Åland Islands Art Museum are two museums under the same roof in Mariehamn in Åland (Finland). The building houses even other collections and staff of Ålands Museum, which was formerly the name of the Cul ...
* Kastelholm Castle
* Pommern (ship)
''Pommern'', formerly ''Mneme'' (1903–1908), is an iron-hulled sailing ship. It is a four-masted barque that was built in 1903 at the J. Reid & Co shipyard in Glasgow, Scotland.
''Pommern'' (German for Pomerania) is one of the Flying P-Lin ...
Antigua and Barbuda
Antigua and Barbuda (, ) is a sovereign country in the West Indies. It lies at the juncture of the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean in the Leeward Islands part of the Lesser Antilles, at 17°N latitude. The country consists of two maj ...
Aruba
Aruba ( , , ), officially the Country of Aruba ( nl, Land Aruba; pap, Pais Aruba) is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands physically located in the mid-south of the Caribbean Sea, about north of the Venezuela peninsula of ...
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous List of islands of Australia, sma ...
Beit Al Quran
Beit Al Qur'an ( ar, بيت القرآن, meaning: the House of Qur'an) is a multi-purpose complex dedicated to the Islamic arts and is located in Hoora, Bahrain. Established in 1990, the complex is most famous for its Islamic museum, which ha ...
Ambergris Museum
Ambergris Museum is a Mesoamerican archaeology museum in Belize. It houses ancient Mayan civilization artifacts.
The Ambergris Museum opened in February 1998 in San Pedro Town, Belize. It covers the history of Ambergris Caye
Ambergris Caye ( ; ...
* Belmopan Museum
*Bliss Institute
The Bliss Institute is a theatre, museum, and National Arts Council in the cultural centre of Belize City. It is named after Baron Bliss.
The original construction started in 1953 and finished one year later. The architectural design was done in ...
* Image Factory Art Foundation and Gallery
*Maritime Museum (Belize) The Maritime Museum is a museum in Belize City, Belize. The museum is located at the North Front St, Marine Terminal at Swing Bridge
A swing bridge (or swing span bridge) is a movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertic ...
* Museum of Belize
Bermuda Maritime Museum
The National Museum of Bermuda, previously the Bermuda Maritime Museum from its opening in 1974 until 2009 (legislatively formalised in 2013), explores the maritime and island history of Bermuda. The maritime museum is located within the grounds ...
* Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art
Bolivia
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Brunei Museum
The Brunei Museum ( ms, Muzium Brunei) is the national museum of Brunei. It is located in Kota Batu in the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The museum has exhibits of Islamic art, historical period of the 16th century and archaeology and ethnograph ...
*Malay Technology Museum
The Malay Technology Museum ( ms, Muzium Teknologi Melayu) is a museum in Kota Batu, a historical area in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was opened in 1988 and contains exhibits on the traditional technologies used by the indigenous people of ...
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...
Cambodian Cultural Village
Cambodian Cultural Village ( km, ភូមិវប្បធម៌កម្ពុជា; CCV) was a theme park and cultural museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. It was located on road no. 6, from the airport, from the town and from the famous Angkor ...
* Cambodian Landmine Museum
* Choeung Ek
* National Museum of Cambodia
* Silver Pagoda, Phnom Penh
* Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (; es, Canarias, ), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, in Macaronesia. At their closest point to the African mainland, they are west of Morocc ...
Cape Verde
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* Cape Verde Kite Museum
*Museu da Tabanka
The Museu da Tabanca is a museum in the town Chã de Tanque in the western part of the island of Santiago in Cape Verde. It is dedicated to local culture, including tabanka music. The museum was first opened in 2000 in Assomada, the seat of the mu ...
Cayman Islands
The Cayman Islands () is a self-governing British Overseas Territory—the largest by population in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the ...
*Bodden Town Mission House, Grand Cayman
The Mission House is a historic house located in Bodden Town, Grand Cayman. The house rose to prominence in the 1800s and became known as the "Mission House" because of early missionaries, teachers and families who lived there while establishi ...
* Cayman Islands National Museum
*Old Savannah School House
The Old Savannah School House is a historic one-room schoolhouse in Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands. Initially opened in 1940, it is operated nowadays as a museum by the National Trust for the Cayman Islands.
Construction
The building is supported ...
Chad
Chad (; ar, تشاد , ; french: Tchad, ), officially the Republic of Chad, '; ) is a landlocked country at the crossroads of North and Central Africa. It is bordered by Libya to the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic ...
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...
Comoros
The Comoros,, ' officially the Union of the Comoros,; ar, الاتحاد القمري ' is an independent country made up of three islands in southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. It ...
Costa Rica
Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...
Curaçao
Curaçao ( ; ; pap, Kòrsou, ), officially the Country of Curaçao ( nl, Land Curaçao; pap, Pais Kòrsou), is a Lesser Antilles island country in the southern Caribbean Sea and the Dutch Caribbean region, about north of the Venezuela coast ...
Northern Cyprus
Northern Cyprus ( tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs), officially the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC; tr, Kuzey Kıbrıs Türk Cumhuriyeti, ''KKTC''), is a ''de facto'' state that comprises the northeastern portion of the Geography of Cyprus, isl ...
*Kyrenia Castle
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* Kyrenia ship
Dominica
Dominica ( or ; Kalinago: ; french: Dominique; Dominican Creole French: ), officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of the island. It is geographically ...
*The Dominica Museum
The Dominica Museum is the national museum of Dominica, an island nation in the Caribbean Lesser Antilles. It is located in the capital, Roseau, on a quay in front of the Old Market of Roseau, which was the centre for slave trading during colonia ...
*Alcázar de Colón
The Alcázar de Colón, or Columbus Alcazar is the first fortified European palace built in the Americas. It is located in the Dominican Republic's colonial area of Santo Domingo city, and forms part of the Ciudad Colonial UNESCO's World Heritage ...
* Columbus Lighthouse
*Fortaleza San Felipe
The Fortaleza San Felipe is a historic Spanish fortress located in the north of Dominican Republic in the province of Puerto Plata. It is also known as ''El Morro'' de San Felipe and was used to protect the City of Puerto Plata from pirates an ...
*Fortaleza San Luis
Fortaleza San Luis is located near the Yaque del Norte River in southwest Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic. The Fort was the location of several battles during the War of Restoration. Fortaleza San Luis has also served as a Municip ...
*Museo Bellapart
The Museo Bellapart is a private art museum in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Its collection includes artwork from the mid-19th century to the 1960s.
*Museo de las Casas Reales
The Museo de las Casas Reales (English: ''Museum of the Royal Houses'') is one of the important cultural monuments built during the colonial era in Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic. It is located in the Colonial district of Santo Domingo.
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El Salvador
El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
Eswatini (Swaziland)
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
*Ezulwini Handicrafts Centre Ezulwini Handicrafts Centre is a handicrafts centre of notable regional significance located in the Ezulwini Valley in northwestern Eswatini, off the MR3 road
The MR3 road, also known as the Matsapha–Mbabane–Ngwenya road or Road No. MR3, is a ...
*Indingilizi Gallery
Indingilizi Gallery is an art gallery in Mbabane, Eswatini, established in 1982. Most of Eswatini's top artists have had their work showcased here. The gallery showcases a range of Swazi art including sculptures, paintings, batiks, mohair, ethnic ...
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
* Fiji Museum
French Polynesia
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*Paul Gauguin Cultural Center
The Paul Gauguin Cultural Center (french: Le Centre Culturel Paul Gauguin) was finished in 2003, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the death of Paul Gauguin, in Atuona, on Hiva Oa, in the Marquesas Islands ( French Polynesia).
Atuona was P ...
*Paul Gauguin Museum (Tahiti)
The Paul Gauguin Museum (french: Musée Paul Gauguin) is a Japanese-styled art museum dedicated to the life and works of Paul Gauguin in Tahiti, French Polynesia. The Museum is closed for renovations - but the sister museum in Hiva Oa is open.
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*Musée de Tahiti et des Îles
The Musée de Tahiti et des Îles ("Museum of Tahiti and the Islands"), Tahitian Te Fare Manaha ("the Museum"), is the national museum of French Polynesia, located in Puna'auia, Tahiti.
History
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*Robert Wan Pearl Museum The Robert Wan Pearl Museum is the world's only museum dedicated to pearls. It is in Papeete, Tahiti
Tahiti (; Tahitian ; ; previously also known as Otaheite) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Poly ...
Gambia
The Gambia,, ff, Gammbi, ar, غامبيا officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa. It is the smallest country within mainland AfricaHoare, Ben. (2002) ''The Kingfisher A-Z Encyclopedia'', Kingfisher Publicatio ...
Gibraltar
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*Gibraltar Museum
The Gibraltar National Museum is a national museum of the history, culture and natural history of Gibraltar located within the city centre of the British overseas territory of Gibraltar. Founded in 1930 by the then Governor of Gibraltar, Genera ...
Greenland National Museum
The Greenland National Museum ( kl, Nunatta Katersugaasivia Allagaateqarfialu) is located in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. It was one of the first museums established in Greenland, inaugurated in the mid-1960s. The museum has many artefacts rela ...
*Nuuk Art Museum
Nuuk Art Museum ( da, Nuuk Kunstmuseum) is a national museum in Greenland, located in Nuuk, the capital.Nuuk Art Museum
* Qaqortoq Museum
*Sisimiut Museum
Sisimiut Museum ( Greenlandic: Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat) is a museum in Sisimiut, Greenland. Located in a historical building near the harbour, specialises in Greenlandic trade, industry and shipping, with artifacts based on ten years of archaeo ...
*Upernavik Museum Upernavik Museum is a museum in Upernavik, a town in northwestern Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic ...
Guadeloupe
Guadeloupe (; ; gcf, label=Antillean Creole, Gwadloup, ) is an archipelago and overseas department and region of France in the Caribbean. It consists of six inhabited islands—Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Désirade, and the ...
*Fort Napoléon des Saintes
Fort Napoléon (in French: ''Fort Napoléon des Saintes'') is a fortification, located on Terre-de-Haut Island, in the Îles des Saintes, Guadeloupe. Property of the Departmental Council of Guadeloupe, it has been classified as a historical mon ...
* National Museum of the Dulce Nombre de Maria
* Pacific War Museum
*War in the Pacific National Historical Park
The War in the Pacific National Historical Park is a multi-unit protected area in the United States territory of Guam, which was established in 1978 in honor of those who participated in the Pacific Theater of World War II. Uniquely among the Na ...
Guatemala
Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...
Guernsey
Guernsey (; Guernésiais: ''Guernési''; french: Guernesey) is an island in the English Channel off the coast of Normandy that is part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a British Crown Dependency.
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*Artparks Sculpture Park
The ArtParkS Sculpture Park sculpture trail is located in Saint Martin's, Guernsey, Channel Islands, in the grounds of the historic Sausmarez Manor.
It shows up to 200 mostly contemporary sculptures every year by approximately 70-80 artists fr ...
*Castle Cornet
Castle Cornet is a large island castle in Guernsey, and former tidal island, also known as Cornet Rock or Castle Rock. Its importance was as a defence not only of the island, but of the roadstead. In 1859 it became part of one of the breakwaters ...
*Fort Grey
Fort Grey, colloquially known as the "cup and saucer", is a Martello tower located on a tidal rock in Rocquaine Bay in Saint Peter, Guernsey on the west coast of the island.
Château de Rocquaine
The French name of the rock is the ''Château ...
*Fort Hommet 10.5 cm Coastal Defence Gun Casement Bunker
The Fort Hommet 10.5 cm coastal defence gun casemate bunker is a fully restored gun casemate that was part of ''Fortress Guernsey'' constructed by the forces of Nazi Germany between 1940 and 1945.
Location
The bunker is in Castel on the n ...
*Sausmarez Manor
Sausmarez Manor is a historic house in Saint Martin, Guernsey.
The original manor house
The first mention of the Sausmarez family in Guernsey is at the consecration of the Vale church in 1117 attended by Guillaume de Sausmarez, followed by ...
Guinea
Guinea ( ),, fuf, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫, italic=no, Gine, wo, Gine, nqo, ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫, bm, Gine officially the Republic of Guinea (french: République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa. It borders the Atlantic Ocean to the we ...
*Sandervalia National Museum
The Sandervalia National Museum (french: Musée national de Sandervalia) is the national museum of Guinea, situated in the capital, Conakry.
Most of the rooms are empty, but it contains a limited display of traditional objects from different re ...
* Kissidougou Ethnology Museum
Guyana
Guyana ( or ), officially the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, is a country on the northern mainland of South America. Guyana is an indigenous word which means "Land of Many Waters". The capital city is Georgetown. Guyana is bordered by the ...
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. The republic of Honduras is bordered to the west by Guatemala, to the southwest by El Salvador, to the southeast by Nicaragua, to the south by the Pacific Oce ...
Kurdish Textile Museum
The Kurdish Textile and Cultural Museum is a museum devoted to textiles produced in Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi Kurdistan or Southern Kurdistan ( ku, باشووری کوردستان, Başûrê Kurdistanê) refers to the Kurdish-populated part of ...
*Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum
Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public museum. It dates to circa 530 BCE. The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. It was in the state of Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Gov ...
* Mosul Museum
*National Museum of Iraq
The Iraq Museum ( ar, المتحف العراقي) is the national museum of Iraq, located in Baghdad. It is sometimes informally called the National Museum of Iraq, a recent phenomenon influenced by other nations' naming of their national museum ...
*Tikrit Museum
The Tikrit Museum is a museum located in Tikrit, Iraq. It was damaged during 2003 Iraq War
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on ...
Jurby Transport Museum
The Jurby Transport Museum ( gv, Thie Tashtee Arraghey Yurby) is a transport museum in Jurby on the Isle of Man occupying a former aircraft hangar.
The museum is operated by a group of volunteers who are members of the Manx Transport Trust. Entr ...
*Leece Museum
The Leece Museum is a museum in Peel, Isle of Man
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*Manx Aviation and Military Museum
The Manx Aviation and Military Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of aviation and the military on the Isle of Man. The museum is open at the weekends throughout the year and every day from late May to the end of September. Visits at ...
*Old House of Keys
The Old House of Keys ( gv, Shenn-thie y Chiare as Feed) is the former meeting place of the House of Keys, the lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man's parliament. It is located across the street from Castle Rushen in Castletown, the former ca ...
*Port Erin Railway Museum
The Isle of Man Railway Museum in the village of Port Erin in the Isle of Man is a small museum of the history of the Isle of Man Railway from its founding in 1873 to the present, including the now-closed lines that served Peel, Ramsey and Fo ...
Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire, officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital is Yamoussoukro, in the centre of the country, while its largest city and economic centre is ...
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
The Children's Museum Jordan
The Children's Museum Jordan (Arabic: متحف الاطفال - الأردن) is a children's museum in Amman, Jordan. It is part of Al Hussein Public Parks.
History
The museum was launched by Queen Rania Al Abdullah in 2007. It is a member of ...
*Jordan Archaeological Museum
The Jordan Archaeological Museum is located in the Citadel of Amman, Jordan. Built in 1951, it presents artifacts from archaeological sites in Jordan, dating from prehistoric times to the 15th century. The collections are arranged in chronologica ...
*Prophet Mohammad Museum
The Prophet Muhammad Museum ( ar, متحف النبي محمد) is a museum about Muhammad in Amman, Jordan. The museum was opened on 15 May 2012 at the King Hussein Mosque in Al Hussein Public Parks in Amman, with King Abdullah II of Jordan offi ...
Te Umanibong
Te Umanibong (also Te Umwanibong) or the Kiribati Cultural Museum, or Kiribati Museum and Cultural Centre, is a museum in Bikenibeu on the atoll of Tarawa in Kiribati. It displays artefacts and other items of cultural and historic significance.
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Burana Tower
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*Manas Ordo
Manas Ordo ( Kyrgyz and Russian: Манас Ордо, ) is a modern historical park (with a museum) built around Manas's Kümböz ( ky, Манастын күмбөзү, ; russian: Кумбез Манаса), a Karakhanid-era mausoleum most lik ...
Laos
Laos (, ''Lāo'' )), officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic ( Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ, French: République démocratique populaire lao), is a socialist ...
Latvia
Latvia ( or ; lv, Latvija ; ltg, Latveja; liv, Leţmō), officially the Republic of Latvia ( lv, Latvijas Republika, links=no, ltg, Latvejas Republika, links=no, liv, Leţmō Vabāmō, links=no), is a country in the Baltic region of ...
Lesotho
Lesotho ( ), officially the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a country landlocked country, landlocked as an Enclave and exclave, enclave in South Africa. It is situated in the Maloti Mountains and contains the Thabana Ntlenyana, highest mountains in Sou ...
* Morija Museum & Archives
Liberia
Liberia (), officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast. It is bordered by Sierra Leone to Liberia–Sierra Leone border, its northwest, Guinea to its north, Ivory Coast to its east, and the Atlantic Ocean ...
*Liberian National Museum
The National Museum of Liberia is a national museum in Monrovia, Liberia. Initially housed in the First Executive Mansion on Ashmun Street of the city which is now used as a library, it was established by an Act of the National Legislature in 1958 ...
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
National museum (Maldives)
Established on the National Day of the Maldives, the first National Museum of the country was opened on 11 November 1952, by the Prime Minister at the time, Mohamed Amin Didi.
Overview
With the purpose of preserving history and instilling pat ...
Malta Postal Museum
The Malta Postal Museum ( mt, Mużew tal-Posta ta' Malta) is a postal museum in Valletta, Malta. It is run by the postal operator MaltaPost, and it was inaugurated on 17 June 2016. The museum is housed in a restored 20th-century townhouse in the c ...
* National Museum of Archaeology
* National Museum of Fine Arts
*Palazzo Falson
Palazzo Falson, formerly known as Palazzo Cumbo-Navarra, Casa dei Castelletti, and the Norman House, is a medieval townhouse in Mdina, Malta. It was purposely built as a family residence by the Maltese nobility, and it is named after the Falson ...
*Saint James Cavalier
Saint James Cavalier ( mt, Kavallier ta' San Ġakbu) is a 16th-century cavalier in Valletta, Malta, which was built by the Order of St John. It overlooks St James' Bastion, a large obtuse-angled bastion forming part of the Valletta Land Front. S ...
*Wignacourt Museum Wignacourt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
House of Vignacourt
*Adrien de Wignacourt (1618–1697), Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller from 1690 to 1697
*Alof de Wignacourt (1547–1622), Grand Master of the Knights Ho ...
Mauritania
Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...
Monaco Top Cars Collection
The Exhibition of HSH The Prince of Monaco's Car Collection is an automobile museum in the La Condamine district of Monaco.
The cars were the personal collection of Prince Rainier III of Monaco (1923–2005), and assembled over a thirty-year perio ...
* Monaco Naval Museum
*Musée National de Monaco
The New National Museum of Monaco (french: Nouveau Musée National de Monaco) often abbreviated to NMNM, is a museum of contemporary visual art in Monaco. The museum is situated in two locations, the Villa Sauber and the Villa Paloma. The venues di ...
* Museum of Old Monaco
* Museum of the Chapel of Visitation
*Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology
The Museum of Prehistoric Anthropology is located within the Jardin Exotique de Monaco. It was opened in 1902 and contains a collection of fossils and other excavated artifacts relating to the prehistory of Monaco and areas nearby.
See also
* List ...
*Museum of Stamps and Coins
The Museum of Stamps and Coins is located in the Fontvieille section of Monaco. It tells the postal history of the principality, and contains a display of Monegasque money dating to 1640.
An elite philatelic club, the Club de Monte-Carlo, was ...
*Napoleon Museum (Monaco)
The Napoleon Museum in Monte Carlo, Monaco was a museum of artifacts which once belonged to the French Emperor Napoleon I.
Location and exhibits
The museum, which was attached to the Prince of Monaco's palace, contained a collection assembled by ...
* New National Museum of Monaco
*Oceanographic Museum
The Oceanographic Museum (''Musée océanographique'') is a museum of marine sciences in Monaco-Ville, Monaco.
This building is part of the Institut océanographique, which is committed to sharing its knowledge of the oceans.
History
The ...
Museum of Local History in Ulcinj
Museum of Local History in Ulcinj or simply Museum of Ulcinj ( sq, Muzeu i Ulqinit) is a local museum located in Kalaja, part of Ulcinj, Montenegro.
Through exhibits from the archaeological, ethnographic and artistic collection, in the Museum of ...
Myanmar
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New Caledonia
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Badd Giacaman Museum The al-Bad Museum for Olive Oil Production ( ar, متحف البد), also known as Badd Jackaman Museum ( ar, متحف بد جقمان, also known as the al-Bad Museum for Olive Oil Production) is located in the center of Bethlehem, Palestine, near ...
*Baituna al-Talhami Museum
Baituna al-Talhami Museum ( ar, متحف بيتنا التلحمي), also known as Bethlehem Folklore Museum or The Museum of Traditional and Popular Art, is a museum located in Bethlehem, Palestine, on Star Street, slightly off Pope Paul VI Stre ...
*Gaza Museum of Archaeology
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The Philippines
The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no),
* bik, Republika kan Filipinas
* ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas
* cbk, República de Filipinas
* hil, Republ ...
Pitcairn Islands
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* Pitcairn Island Museum
Qatar Museums
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* Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
* National Museum of Qatar
*Sheikh Faisal Bin Qassim Al Thani Museum
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Loc ...
The Al Thani Collection
Rwanda
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*Kandt House Museum of Natural History The Kandt House Museum, formerly known as the Natural History Museum, is located in what is now the city of Kigali, Nyarugenge District, westbound. This location was chosen as the colonial capital in Rwanda of Germany in 1907 by a German resident ( ...
*Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre
The Kigali Genocide Memorial commemorates the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The remains of over 250,000 people are interred there.
There is a visitor centre for students and others wishing to understand the events leading up to the genocide that occurr ...
*National Museum of Rwanda
The Ethnographic Museum ( rw, Inzu ndangamurage), formerly the National Museum of Rwanda (french: Musée national du Rwanda, rw, Ingoro y'Umurage w'u Rwanda), is a national museum in Rwanda. It is located in Butare. It is owned by Institute of ...
* Rwesero Art Museum
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
*People's Liberation Army Museum
The Museum of the Sahrawi people's Liberation Army ( ar, متحف جیش التحریر الشعبي; es, Museo del Ejército de Liberación Popular) is located in the Sahrawi refugee camps, in the southwest of Algeria. This museum is dedicated ...
Saint Helena
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* Longwood House
*Museum of Saint Helena
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São Tomé and Príncipe
São Tomé and Príncipe (; pt, São Tomé e Príncipe (); English: " Saint Thomas and Prince"), officially the Democratic Republic of São Tomé and Príncipe ( pt, República Democrática de São Tomé e Príncipe), is a Portuguese-speaking i ...
*São Sebastião Museum
São Sebastião Museum is a museum, housed in a 16th-century fortress in the city of São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe. It lies in the northeastern part of the city centre, at the southeastern end of Ana Chaves Bay. It contains religious art ...
*Hejaz Railway Museum
The Hejaz Railway Museum (Arabic: متحف سكة الحجاز) in Medina is a railway museum that was opened in 2006. It is on the grounds of the restored historic Ottoman railway station at Medina, locally called استسيون "Istasyōn" (), ...
*Humane Heritage Museum Humane Heritage Museum is located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The museum displays many historical pieces from different ancient periods. Such pieces include, cutlery, outfits and weapons. Moreover, a great amount of manuscripts and books can be found. ...
* Jeddah Regional Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography
* Mada'in Saleh
*Masmak fort
The Masmak Fort ( ar, translit=Qaṣr al-Maṣmak, قصر المصمك), also called the Masmak Fortress or Masmak Palace, is a clay and mudbrick fort in ad-Dirah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Built in 1865 for prince 'Abdurrahman ibn Sulaiman AlDabaan ...
*Nasseef House
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His ...
* National Museum of Saudi Arabia
*Royal Saudi Air Force Museum
The Royal Saudi Air Force Museum (or Saqr Al Jazeera Aviation Museum; ar, متحف صقر الجزيرة للطيران) is located on the East Ring Road of Riyadh between exits 10 and 11. A Lockheed L-1011 Tristar formerly operated by Saudia ...
* Shadda Palace
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
* South Georgia Museum
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
Sudan
Sudan ( or ; ar, السودان, as-Sūdān, officially the Republic of the Sudan ( ar, جمهورية السودان, link=no, Jumhūriyyat as-Sūdān), is a country in Northeast Africa. It shares borders with the Central African Republic t ...
Suriname
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Sweden
Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments
The Gurminj Museum of Musical Instruments (russian: Музей музыкальных инструментов имени Гурминджа Завкибекова; tg, Осорхонаи асбобҳои мусиқии ба номи Гурмин ...
*Historical Museum of Sughd
The Historical Museum of Sughd ( tg, Осорхонаи таърихии вилояти Суғд) is a regional history museum in Khujand, the second-largest city in Tajikistan and the capital of the country's northernmost province, Sughd. The mu ...
*Tajikistan National Museum
The National Museum of Tajikistan (russian: Национальный музей Таджикистана; tg, Осорхонаи миллии Тоҷикистон, Osorkhonai Millii Tojikiston) is a museum in Dushanbe, the capital city of Tajikist ...
Ashgabat National Museum of History The Ashgabat National Museum of History is a history museum in Ashgabat, the capital city of Turkmenistan. It contains over 500,000 exhibits particularly archaeological and ethnographical finds throughout the country including rare works of ancient ...
*The main museum of Turkmenistan
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*Turkmen Carpet Museum
The Turkmen Carpet Museum or the National Carpet Museum is a national museum, situated on 5 Gorogly Street in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan.
The museum opened on 24 October 1994. It has the largest collection of Turkmen carpets of any museum.
It has a ...
* Turkmen Museum of Fine Arts
*Amir Timur Museum
The Amir Timur Museum is located in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan. It opened in 1996, and is dedicated to the Turco-Mongol warlord Amir Timur (Tamerlane).
Origin
After Uzbekistan became independent in 1991, much attention was given to th ...
*Bukhara State Architectural Art Museum-Preserve The Bukhara State Architectural Art Museum-Preserve is a museum in Bukhara, Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекистан), officially the Republic of Uzbekistan ( uz, Ozbekiston Respublikasi, italic ...
*Nukus Museum of Art
The Nukus Museum of Art, or more properly the State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Karakalpakstan named after I.V. Savitsky ( kaa, I.V.Savitskiy atındaǵı Qaraqalpaqstan mámleketlik kórkem-óner múzeyi, uz, I.V.Savitskiy nomidagi Qoraqal ...
*Ulugh Beg Observatory
The Ulugh Beg Observatory is an observatory in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Built in the 1420s by the Timurid astronomer Ulugh Beg. Islamic astronomers who worked at the observatory include Al-Kashi, Ali Qushji, and Ulugh Beg himself. The observatory ...
*State Museum of History of Uzbekistan
The State Museum of History of Uzbekistan ( Uzbek: ''Oʻzbekiston tarixi davlat muzeyi''; russian: Государственный музей истории Узбекистана), previously known as the National Museum of Turkestan, was founded i ...
National Museum of Vanuatu
The National Museum of Vanuatu ( bi, Nasonal Miusium blong Vanuatu) is located in the Vanuatu Cultural Centre (VCC) in Port Vila, Vanuatu. It specializes in exhibits relating to the culture and history of this group of islands in the South Pacifi ...
*Vanuatu Cultural Centre
The Vanuatu Cultural Centre (in Bislama ''Vanuatu Kaljoral Senta'' or "VKS"; in French ''Centre Culturel du Vanuatu''), founded in 1955, is the national cultural institution of Vanuatu. It is located in the capital Port Vila.
From 1995 to 2006, ...
See also
* List of buildings and structures * Lists of tourist attractions * Virtual Library museums pagesReferences
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