Category Archives: Museums

6 Strange Museums in Canada

Vancouver Police Museum The museum houses a collection of approximately 20,000 objects. This includes archival documents, photographs, publications, confiscated firearms and other weapons, counterfeit currency, and a various other artifacts and memorabilia, of which an estimated 40% is on display. … Continue reading

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Nariwa Museum, Okayama prefecture

Nariwa, in Okayama prefecture, in western Japan, is a financially prosperous place whose wealth comes from the copper mining industry. Culturally, also, it is rich because it is the site of many traditional houses, called fukiya, buildings whose facades are … Continue reading

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Falmouth National Maritime Museum, Cornwall

Beside the waters of Falmouth dock, one of the best natural harbours in Northern Europe, the angled, austere, English oak-clad walls of the National Maritime Museum heavily reference the form of the boat sheds that once made up the economy … Continue reading

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Goteborg Museum of World Culture, Sweden

In the Museum of World Culture, in Goteborg, the diversity of world cultures is brought to life through the medium of ever-changing exhibitions, and by an avoidance of any permanent displays. Together, the building and the exhibition programs create a … Continue reading

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Bregenz Kunsthaus, Austria

The Kunsthaus in southern Austria is an ethereally beautiful and technically masterful art gallery that offers visitors, admirers, and passersby an opportunity to indulge in the very essence of Swiss minimalist design. Winner of the Mies van der Rohe prize … Continue reading

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