The memorial ship Panzerkreuzer Aurora, which played an important role in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is now a museum moored in St. Petersburg. The cruiser Aurora was built between 1897 and 1900 by the "New Admiralty" in St. Petersburg and joined Russia's Baltic fleet in 1903. In... |
Vizcaya is a National Historic Landmark. It is also a museum owned by Miami-Dade County and accredited by the American Association of Museums. Built by agricultural industrialist James Deering in 1916, Vizcaya Museum & Gardens features a Main House, ten acres of formal gardens, and a rockland ha... |
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is a museum of modern and contemporary art, which features permanent and visiting exhibits of works by Spanish and international artists. Designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in the city of Bilbao, Spain is clad with reflective titaniu... |
City of Arts and Sciences is situated in Valencia, Spain. It is an entertainment based architectural and cultural complex. It is situated at the end of the old riverbed Turia. This beauty in mortar is designed by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela. The City of Art and Sciences was inaugurated on A... |
The Rijksmuseum is the largest and most important museum in the Netherlands with a collection of more than 1 million objects. The Rijksmuseum, which in English means – The State Museum, exists for more that two hundred years and today belongs to the most breathtaking museums in the world. The exhi... |
National Rail Museum is the focus of Rail Heritage of India. Formally inaugurated on the Ist of February. 1977, this is one-of-its-kind museum in Asia. Sprawling over 11 acres, it comprises an indoor gallary devoted to the display of various exhibits, models, records, photographs, coat of arms, docu... |
Muang Boran just outside Bangkok, is an outdoor museum in Samut Prakan covering 96 hectares or 240 acres with scaled models or replicas of ancient city ruins and historical monuments from various parts of Thailand. It was built by the patronage of Lek Viriyaphant. There are 116 scaled models or repl... |
A splendid architectural structure in white marble, modelled on the Taj Mahal, was built in memory of Queen Victoria, between 1906 and 1921 and was formally inaugurated by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VIII of England. Set in beautiful garden grounds, the Victoria Memorial houses... |
The House of Wonders or Palace of Wonders (Beit-al-Ajaib) is a landmark building in Stone Town, Zanzibar. It is the largest and tallest building of Stone Town. Beit el-Ajib currently houses the Museum of History & Culture of Zanzibar & the Swahili Coast. The Palace was built in 1883 for Barg... |
The Winter Palace was the main residence of the Russian Tsars. Magnificently located on the bank of the Neva River, this Baroque-style palace is perhaps St. Petersburg’s most impressive attraction. The Winter Palace, together with four more buildings arranged side by side along the river embankmen... |
Visit the famous VOC ship named ‘Amsterdam’. The original Amsterdam sailed up the North Sea in 1749. In a raging storm the rudder snapped. The master decided to beach the brand-new ship on the south coast of England. Thus he hoped to save the people on board, the cargo and the vessel.
But the E... |
Telus World of Science or more commonly called Science World, is one of Vancouver's well known architectural designs and is an exciting destination of scientific delights. It is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. It is located at the en... |
Sitting proudly at the heart of Plaza de Mayo in the area of Buenos Aires known as “Centro” is La Casa Rosada. Translated to English, La Casa Rosada literally means “The Pink House.” And, while the translation does not lie about the color of the building, this “casa” is a little more tha... |
The British Museum is a museum in London dedicated to human history and culture. Its permanent collection, numbering some eight million works, is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence and originates from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its... |
The Swiss Transport Museum or Verkehrshaus der Schweiz, in Lucerne, is a museum, opened in July 1959 and exhibiting all forms of transport (including locomotives, automobiles, ships, and aircraft) as well as communications. More than 3000 objects displayed in an area exceeding 20,000 m² are witness... |
