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Top 10 Museums in Sweden
Raised intact in 1961 after 333 years on the seabed, the 1628 warship Vasa is now Scandinavia's most-visited museum.
The Pergamonmuseum: A Deep Dive
One frieze, 113 metres of marble, gods locked in battle with giants. Inside the Berlin museum that rebuilt antiquity brick by brick.
Top 10 Museums in Belgium
It took eleven years and doubled the floor space. The KMSKA reopened in 2022 holding the world's largest James Ensor collection.
Top 10 Museums in India
Salar Jung III amassed over a million objects on his own. Meet that collection and nine more, including the Dancing Girl of Mohenjo-daro.
Read more →Best Museum Sleepovers
Wine, a three-course meal, and dinosaurs at midnight. The grown-up sleepover at London's Natural History Museum, plus the best for kids.
Read more →The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Deep Dive
An entire Roman-era Egyptian temple, gifted by Egypt in 1965, sits inside the Met. Two million objects, 5,000 years, one strategy to see it.
Read more →Top 10 Museums in South Korea
Botta, Nouvel, and Koolhaas each designed a building for the Leeum. Three architects, one collection, and nine more Korean must-sees.
Read more →Best Science and Technology Museums
Stephenson's Rocket, an Apollo command module, and Babbage's Difference Engine under one free roof. Where to find them and nine rivals.
Read more →The Architect-Led Museum Since Bilbao
Gehry's titanium-skinned Guggenheim pulled in a million visitors its first year and an estimated 4 billion euros over two decades. Cities have chased that ever since.
Read more →Museum Lighting Explained
Just 50 lux for a watercolour, and zero tolerance for ultraviolet. Why the light around a painting is a slow life-or-death calculation.
Read more →Best Asian Art Museums in Europe
Europe's largest Asian collection sits on a Paris square, anchored by Pelliot's haul from the Dunhuang caves. Plus nine more worth the trip.
Read more →Top 10 Museums in Poland
Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine, Matejko's vast Battle of Grunwald, and POLIN's thousand-year story across eight galleries.
Read more →The Victoria and Albert Museum: A Deep Dive
Profits from the 1851 Great Exhibition built it. Now 2.27 million objects span textiles, fashion, glass, and four centuries of British design.
Read more →The Smithsonian: A Deep Dive
An English chemist who never set foot in America left 104,000 pounds to found it. Nineteen museums later, here is how to navigate the Smithsonian.
Read more →Best Design Museums
Over 7,000 chairs fill Gehry's building on the Vitra campus near Basel. The definitive furniture archive, plus nine more design landmarks.
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