The Archeological Museum in Zagreb
The Archeological Museum in Zagreb was founded in 1846. It is located in the historical Vranyczany-Hafner Palace.
Museum’s collections and departments > The ancient and valuable items held by the Museum are systematically organized into several collections. The Prehistoric, Classical Greek and Roman, and Mediaeval Collections follow the usual chronological system of all European Museum departments. [...]
Every dog has his day at Madame Tussauds
The folks behind Madame Tussauds New York Wax Museum are creative, to say the least.
In addition to Lassie, the first-ever animal to be immortalized in wax, is the new Bullseye, the recognizable logo dog for Target department stores. The bull terrier that has Target Corporation’s bullseye logo painted around its left eye was on [...]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art Museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.
Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City’s Central [...]
Florence’s Archaeological Museum
Florence’s Archaeological Museum showcases ancient artefacts.
A rare collection of Greek, Roman and Etruscan finds are on public display, following renovation work at Florence’s National Archaeological Museum. Over 500 precious artefacts, previously kept in storage, are now housed on the second floor of the Museum, located through 17 rooms.
The Archaeological Museum is one of Florence’s hidden gems, [...]
Germany’s Museum of Modern Literature
Friedrich Nietzsche’s death mask and Franz Kafka’s manuscript of “The Trial” are among more than 1,300 exhibits featured at the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, in the native town of German writer Friedrich Schiller in southwest Germany.
The Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach displays contemporary and 20th century literature in an exhibition area of 1,000 [...]
National Taiwan Museum: a synthesis of art and architecture
Among the many historic buildings in Taipei, a magnificent white edifice on Siangyang Road stands out for its majestic architecture and intricate interiors, which is also the first and only Museum established by the Japanese during their colonial rule.
Established way back in 1908, to commemorate the inauguration of North-South Railway on the site of [...]
In Stockholm visit the ABBA Museum
Legendary Swedish mega-group ABBA are being honoured in the world’s first Museum devoted to the Scandinavian pop stars in Stockholm.
ABBA the Museum is a modern Museum filled with ABBA’s music, original clothes, history, images, instruments and much more that captures the group’s heyday in the 70s and 80s according to the Museum organisers. It is also an interactive experience where [...]
When in Berlin visit the Bode Museum
One of Berlin’s great Museums, The Bode Museum, from the age of the Kaisers, full of Byzantine, Medieval and Renaissance sculptures is one of the five monumental treasure-houses on the German capital’s Museums Island.
The Bode, originally known as the Kaiser Friedrich Museum and re-named in 1956 after founding curator Wilhelm von Bode, occupies the tip of the [...]
The Hungarian Red Pepper Museum
The Museum has been in operation at its present place [6 Szent István út] since 1991. Prior to that, documents and tools connected to the history of red peper [paprika] planting were kept in the Mill Building of the Piac Square.
The Museum presents the history of red pepper ever since its crossing through the ocean. [...]
America’s Mustard Museum spreads joy
Hold the mustard with the curator of America’s only Museum dedicated to the pungent condiment.
Just before dawn on October 28, 1986, Barry Levenson stood in the middle of the condiment aisle at a 24-hour supermarket in Madison, Wisconsin, disconsolate over the loss his beloved Red Sox had suffered hours earlier to the New York Mets [...]
