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ARoS Aarhus Museum of Modern Art is a national museum with international ambitions. One of the largest museums in Northern Europe (1o stories and over 7,000 square meters of exhibition space) – and the only one with a rainbow on top of it. ARoS houses three to four large internationally-oriented exhibitions annually, a workshop for junior visitors, on-site shop, cafe, and restaurant, and an array of works from 1770 to today.

Siam Square is the hip, popular shopping and entertainment district in Chiang Mai. Large shopping malls including the MBK Center, activities including movie theaters, sports clubs, and museums, and an array of restaurants entertain its daily visitors. There is also a language school.

The RISD Museum acquires, preserves, presents, and interprets works of art and design representing diverse cultures from ancient times to the present. The RISD Museum—southeastern New England’s only comprehensive art museum—was established in Providence in 1877, alongside the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Museum’s collection of about 100,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art and design from all over the world, from ancient times to the latest in contemporary art. The Museum also offers a wide array of educational and public programs, serving more than 100,000 visitors each year.

Antietam National Battlefield is located in western Maryland, 10 miles south of Hagerstown in Washington County. The best place to start your visit is at the park visitor center. We have brochures, museum exhibits, a film, a museum store, and park rangers and volunteers on duty to help you get oriented. The battlefield is approximately 3,000 acres that you can explore in your car or by walking.

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind; it also expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Known for its grand architecture and strict discipline, this was the world’s first true “penitentiary,” a prison designed to inspire penitence, or true regret, in the hearts of convicts. Its vaulted, sky-lit cells once held many of America’s most notorious criminals, including bank robber “Slick Willie” Sutton and Al Capone. Eastern State Penitentiary is open every day, 10 am to 5 pm. Admission includes “The Voices of Eastern State” Audio Tours, guided tours, Hands-On History interactive experiences, and a critically acclaimed series of artist installations.

Covering half a city block of indoor and outdoor space, Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens glisten with creativity and urban renaissance. Artist Isaiah Zagar began tiling South Street in the 1960’s and never stopped, eventually building a mosaic garden out of ceramic shards, broken mirrors, bicycle spokes, and vivid splashes of dyed cement. The tiled passages of the Magic Garden weave over and under ground, and perhaps more than anything through the mind of a dedicated and obsessed artist.

The Liberty Bell is an iconic symbol of American independence, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Formerly placed in the steeple of the Pennsylvania State House (now renamed Independence Hall), the bell today is located in the Liberty Bell Center in Independence National Historical Park. The bell was commissioned from the London firm of Lester and Pack (today the Whitechapel Bell Foundry) in 1752, and was cast with the lettering “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof,” a Biblical reference from the Book of Leviticus (25:10). The bell first cracked when rung after its arrival in Philadelphia, and was twice recast by local workmen John Pass and John Stow, whose last names appear on the bell. In its early years, the Liberty Bell was used to summon lawmakers to legislative sessions and to alert citizens to public meetings and proclamations.No immediate announcement was made of the Second Continental Congress’s vote for independence, and thus the bell could not have rung on July 4, 1776, at least not for any reason related to that vote. Bells were rung to mark the reading of the Declaration of Independence on July 8, 1776, and while there is no contemporary account of the Liberty Bell ringing, most historians believe it was one of the bells rung. After American independence was secured, it fell into relative obscurity for some years. In the 1830s, the bell was adopted as a symbol by abolitionist societies, who dubbed it the “Liberty Bell.”

The Powel House is a historic house museum located at 244 South 3rd Street, between Willings Alley and Spruce Street, in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built in 1765 in the Georgian style, and embellished by second owner Samuel Powel (1738 – 1793), it has been called “the finest Georgian row house in the city.” As with other houses of this type, the exterior facade was, but the interior was elaborately appointed.HistoryThe elegant brick city house was built for Charles Stedman, a merchant and shipmaster. Before he had the chance to live in it, Stedman fell into financial trouble – eventually winding up in debtors’ prison. The house was purchased for £3,150 on August 2, 1769 by Samuel Powel, who would become the last mayor of Philadelphia under British rule and the city’s first mayor following independence. A Quaker who converted to Anglicanism, he supported the American Revolution and was dubbed the “Patriot Mayor.”The building is attributed to architect/builder Robert Smith. Powel and his wife Elizabeth (née Willing) lavishly redecorated, creating some of the most ornate interiors in the Colonies. The Rococo plastered ceilings are attributed to James Clow, and the architectural woodwork is attributed to carvers Hercules Courtnay and Martin Jugiez.

The Panathenaic Stadium in Athens is the site of the first modern Olympic games. Admission to the stadium also gets visitors into the Olympic museum, with memorabilia, posters and torches from 1896 to the present, as well as an audio tour of the stadium itself. Go early to job around the track!

The National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa houses the fossilized remains of early hominids including those of Lucy, one of the oldest and most complete fossils of an early human ever found. The four floors of the museum are also home to a large selection of artistic treasures ranging from the 14th to the 20th centuries, items from Ethiopian royal history, and other artifacts like secular arts and crafts, tools, and utensils.

The Ethnological Museum in Addis Ababa is set in the former palace of Emperor Haile Selassie. Before even entering the museum, visitors are confronted with a concrete spiral staircase outside that leads to nowhere, a symbol of Italian Fascist rule in Ethiopia with a triumphant lion atop symbolizing the end of the Italian reign. Inside the museum on the first floor are handicrafts including pottery, jewelry, wood carvings, and other artifacts. The second floor boasts religious folk art, hand crosses, scrolls, icons, and traditional instruments. Visitors can also experience the different chambers of Haile Selassie’s palace while visiting the museum.

Mount Entoto is the highest peak overlooking Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Atop the mount sit the Entoto Maryam Church, Menelik II Museum, and the first palace of Menelik II. Entoto Maryam Church is painted in the colors of the Ethiopian flag, and was built by Emperor Menelik II and Empress Taitu as a tribute to the Virgin Mary. Note that visitors may not be granted entry inside of the church. The Menelik II museum houses the personal belongings of the Emperor Menelik II and Empress Taitu, including clothing, crowns, accessories and jewelry, as well as furniture, artifacts, and photographs. Photography is not permitted inside of the museum. Menelik II’s first palace also sits atop Mount Entoto. Made of simple materials such as mud and wood, the humble but stately first palace was built to overlook the city of Addis Ababa for a better view to fend off enemies.

The Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania houses ancient, modern and contemporary art, and is host to traveling exhibitions year round. The museum also boasts a bar and cafe on-site, as well as live music events, and private event spaces. MONA is known for having controversial works on display.

With 107 halls full of pharaonic antiquities, The Egyptian Museum is a must-see for visitors to Cairo. The funeral mask of King Tutankhamun, New Kingdom royal mummies, and 160,000 other artifacts covering 5,000 years of Egypt’s past are housed here. Photography is not permitted inside the museum, and camera must be checked at the building entrance. Museum labels are in Arabic and English.

Taipei Hakka Cultural Park is an artistic environment that continues to build a more efficient way of preserving its environment so the community can live a simple, but more conscientious, life. Festivals and other events take place here, too.

Yad Vashem is the leading Holocaust memorial and works to safeguard the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations.

The Anne Frank House, located in Amsterdam, is a non-profit organization that aims to administer the Anne Frank House museum and to spread the message of Anne Frank’s life and ideals. The Anne Frank House is an independent organization with no affiliations to any political party or ideological movement. Full details about ticket prices and museum hours throughout the seasons can be found at www.annefrank.org.

The City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia is a major cultural leisure complex promoted by the Generalitat Valenciana, which has become an international point of reference both for its architecture by Santiago Calatrava, and for their ability to teach, entertain and excite through its content. The complex consists of six iconic buildings among which include the Hemisfèric (IMAX cinema digita 3D), the Museu de les Ciències Princep Felipe (interactive museum where science and technology are understood in an interactive mode), the Oceanogràfic (the largest aquarium in Europe), the Umbracle (outdoor exhibition area more garden), the agora (multidisciplinary space) and the Palau de les arts (Opera and Performing arts).

The Hungarian National Museum in Budapest is filled with over three million artifacts and works of art, and is the national museum for the history, art and archaeology of Hungary.

The Vatican Museums originated as a group of sculptures collected by Pope Julius II (1503-1513) and placed in what today is the “Cortile Ottagono” within the museum complex. The popes were among the first sovereigns who opened the art collections of their palaces to the public thus promoting knowledge of art history and culture. As seen today, the Vatican Museums are a complex of different pontifical museums and galleries that began under the patronage of the popes Clement XIV (1769-1774) and Pius VI (1775-1799). In fact, the Pio-Clementine Museum was named after these two popes, who set up this first major curatorial section. Later, Pius VII (1800-1823) considerably expanded the collections of Classical Antiquities, to which he added the Chiaromonti Museum and the “Braccio Nuovo” gallery. He also enriched the Epigraphic Collection, which was conserved in the Lapidary Gallery. Gregory XVI (1831-1846) founded the Etruscan Museum (1837) with archaeological finds discovered during excavations carried out from 1828 onwards in southern Etruria. Later, he established the Egyptian Museum (1839), which houses ancient artifacts from explorations in Egypt, together with other pieces already conserved in the Vatican and in the Museo Capitolino, and the Lateran Profane Museum (1844), with statues, bas-relief sculptures and mosaics of the Roman era, which could not be adequately placed in the Vatican Palace. The Lateran Profane Museum was expanded in 1854 under Pius IX (1846-1878) with the addition of the Pio Christian Museum. This museum is comprised of ancient sculptures (especially sarcophagi) and inscriptions with ancient Christian content. In 1910, under the pontificate of Saint Pius X (1903-1914), the Hebrew Lapidary was established. This section of the museum contains 137 inscriptions from ancient Hebrew cemeteries in Rome mostly from via Portuense and donated by the Marquisate Pellegrini-Quarantotti. These last collections (Gregorian Profane Museum, Pio Christian Museum and the Hebrew Lapidary) were transferred, under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII (1958-1963), from the Lateran Palace to their present building within the Vatican and inaugurated in 1970. The Museums also include the Gallery of Tapestries, a collection of various 15th and 17th century tapestries; the Gallery of Maps, decorated under the pontificate of Gregory XIII (1572-1585) and restored by Urban VIII (1623-1644); the Sobieski Room and the Room of the Immaculate Conception; the Raphael Stanze and the Loggia, which were decorated by order of Julius II and Leo X (1513-1521); the Chapel of Nicholas V (1447-1455), painted by Fra Angelico; the Sistine Chapel, which takes the name of its founder, Pope Sixtus IV; the Borgia Apartment, where Pope Alexander VI lived until his death (1492-1503); the Vatican Pinacoteca, created under Pius XI (1922-1932) in a special building near the new entrance to the Museums; the Missionary-Ethnological Museum which was founded by Pius XI in 1926, arranged on the upper floors of the Lateran Palace and later transferred, under Pope John XXIII, to the Vatican where it has been opened again to the public in the same building which housed the former Lateran collections. In 1973 the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Religious Art was added and inaugurated by Pope Paul VI (1963-1978) in the Borgia Apartment. The Vatican Historical Museum, founded in 1973 and transferred in 1987 to the Papal Apartment in the Lateran Palace, houses a series of papal portraits along with objects of the past Pontifical Military Corps and of the Pontifical Chapel and Family and historic ceremonial objects no longer in use. The Carriage and Automobile Museum is a section of the Vatican Historical Museum. In the year 2000, the Vatican Museums opened a new large entrance that provides visitor information and other services; on display are many new artworks, two of which were specially created for this grand entrance hall.

Dedicated to the worship of every god (Pan-every Theon-divinity), the Pantheon was built by the Emperor Hadrian between 118 and 125 A.D. over the ruins of another temple dating back to 27 A.D. Statesman and General Marcus Agrippa was responsible for the construction of the original church, to whom a dedicatory inscription is clearly visible over today’s magnificent portico. In 609, it was converted into a Christian Church by Pope Boniface IV and consecrated to Santa Maria of the Martyrs. Turned into a memorial chapel for the kingsof Italy in 1870, the tombs of Vittorio Emanuele II, Umberto I and Margherita of Savoy are to be found here together with that of the celebrated Renaissance Artist Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, who is more often referred to as simply Raphael. The Pantheon is free to visit, and though heavy lines will form throughout the day for admittance, they move quickly.

Who doesn’t like chocolate? On top of being a delicious treat, chocolate has a fascinating story and is surrounded by infinite surprising facts. At ChocoMuseo we offer you a range of activities varying with how much time you have and how deep you would like to dive into chocolate knowledge. Learn how to make your own chocolate treats in our chocolate workshops, every day at 11:30am, 2:30pm and 5:30pm! Be sure to ask to use soy milk as an alternative to make your chocolates vegan. Visit our website for more details on the workshops and more.

The Denver Museum of Nature & Science is the Rocky Mountain region‰Ûªs leading resource for informal science education. As an education-based organization, we believe in the importance of open exchange and learning. In order to maintain a family friendly and respectful environment, we do moderate comments made on our social media networks. While most comments will remain posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderating decisions are subjective. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. We are dedicated to providing our visitors with a quality experience ‰ÛÒ whether it be online or at the Museum. We will address all constructive criticisms quickly and efficiently as long as they are not abusive, offensive, inappropriate, profane (including expletives and letters followed by dashes) or illegal.

The Children’s Museum of Denver is where children and their grown-ups learn by DOING! With one-of-a-kind interactive exhibits, daily programs and year-round special events, there is always something to create, explore, discover and learn! The Children’s Museum of Denver is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and an SCFD Tier II member.

The Denver Art Museum is recognized internationally for its educational programs and unique manner of interacting with visitors. Experience world-class art in one of Denver’s must-see landmarks.