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  Image 1The Tower of Faces at theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
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  Image 2Iron bed intorture room atTuol Sleng Genocide Museum,Phnom Penh
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  Image 3Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library,Yale
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  Image 4TheGalerie des Glaces of thePalace of Versailles
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  Image 5An early 18th-century GermanSchrank with a traditional display ofcorals, from theNaturkundemuseum, Berlin
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  Image 6The Dinosaur Hall of theNaturkundemuseum, Berlin, showing the skeleton ofGiraffatitan brancai, among the largest mounted skeletons in the world
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  Image 7Storage gallery of theLarco Museum,Lima, Peru, a museum ofpre-Columbian art
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  Image 8Display cases inAltena Castle
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  Image 9Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, anarchaeology andanthropology museum
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  Image 10The Great Hall of theNational Gallery of Victoria, Australia, has the world's largeststained-glass ceiling, designed byLeonard French.
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  Image 11Exhibit inIndonesia Museum,Jakarta, displaying the traditional costumes ofIndonesian ethnic groups
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  Image 12The Industrial Gallery, housed in the original part of theBirmingham Museum and Art Gallery, designed byYeoville Thomason and opened in 1885
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  Image 13Panoramic view of the library of theGuimet Museum, Paris, anart museum specialising inAsian art
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  Image 14Antique cuckoo clocks displayed atCuckooland Museum,Tabley, an example of a specialised museum
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  Image 15Old Dutch display case in Branderszaal Lange Haven 97,Schiedam
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  Image 16The South Hall of theSteven F. Udvar-Hazy Center,Chantilly, Virginia, an aerospace museum, showing theEnola Gay bomber and other aeroplanes
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  Image 17A museum in Verkhniye Mandrogi,Leningrad Oblast, specialising invodka
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  Image 18The queen's chamber of thePetit Trianon,Versailles, the former residence ofMarie Antoinette
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  Image 19Floating Heads by Sophie Cave (2006), installed in the East Court of theKelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow
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  Image 20Triangular prism-shaped display cases in theRed Dot Design Museum,Essen
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  Image 21TheEgyptian Museum,Cairo, showing some of its collection ofancient Egyptian antiquities
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  Image 22Entrance hall of theVienna Technical Museum, one of the largesttechnology museums in Europe

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  Image 1Museo de la Arquitectura Ponceña, anarchitecture museum inPonce,Puerto Rico, that focuses on thePonce Creole architectural style
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  Image 2Small cloister of the charterhouse ofSanta Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri, built on the site of theBaths of Diocletian; part of theNational Roman Museum of Rome
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  Image 3Now closed, theCalifornia Aerospace Museum, designed byFrank Gehry, formerly displayed aLockheed F-104 Starfighter
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  Image 4TheMuseum Island, Berlin
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  Image 5A maritime museum located in the village ofBolungarvík, 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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  Image 6TheDeutsches Museum, Munich, one of the world's largestscience andtechnology museums
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  Image 7TheBritish Museum, London
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  Image 8TheMatenadaran,Yerevan, Armenia, has an extensive collection ofArmenian manuscripts.
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  Image 9TheNational Gallery of Australia,Canberra
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  Image 10ThePalazzo VecchioUffizi Gallery,Florence, the most-visited museum in Italy
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  Image 11TheDalí Theatre and Museum, commemoratingSalvador Dalí in his home town ofFigueres,Catalonia, has a geodesic dome and is decorated with giant eggs.
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  Image 12TheCambodian National Museum,Phnom Penh, showing its vernacular architectural style
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  Image 13Exhibitions Pavilion and Rotunda of theGetty Center, Los Angeles, anart museum
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  Image 14TheLouvre, Paris, showing the glass-and-metalPyramid, designed byI. M. Pei to act as the museum's main entrance, and completed in 1989
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  Image 15Shanghai Museum, a museum of ancientChinese art, was rebuilt in 1996 to a design inspired by theding, an ancient bronze cooking vessel.
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  Image 16Aerial view ofYad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel'sHolocaust memorial; the museum, designed byMoshe Safdie, opened in 2005 and tells the personal stories of ninety Holocaust victims and survivors
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  Image 17Paifang or arched entrance of the Northern Branch of theNational Palace Museum, Taiwan, whose collection covers 8,000 years of the history ofChinese art
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  Image 18National Museum,Szczecin, Poland
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  Image 19Indonesia Museum, inTaman Mini Indonesia Indah, an ethnology museum exemplifyingBalinese architecture
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  Image 20Entrance toAuschwitz I, part of theAuschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, aHolocaust museum on the site of the formerNazi concentration camps
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  Image 21TheState Historical Museum, Moscow
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  Image 22TheGuggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain, a modernart museum designed byFrank Gehry and completed in 1997
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  Image 23TheNational Art Center, Tokyo, designed byKisho Kurokawa, is an "empty museum", lacking its own collection, which hosts temporary exhibitions from other organisations.
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  Image 24ThePalacio de Bellas Artes,Mexico City, has a permanent collection of murals and hosts anarchitecture museum.
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  Image 25São Paulo Museum of Art,São Paulo, a 1968 concrete-and-glass structure designed byLina Bo Bardi, considered a landmark of the city and a major example of modern Brazilian architecture
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  Image 26The Lower Castle ofAmbras Castle,Innsbruck, one of the earliest buildings constructed specifically for use as a museum; it remains a museum displaying its original collections
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  Image 27The Peristylia hall inNational Museum of Indonesia,Jakarta, the largest museum in Indonesia and one of that country's oldest
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  Image 28TheMuseo del Prado, Madrid, established in 1785

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