WAltonaer Museum is an art museum in the suburb of Altona in Hamburg, Germany. The museum association was established in 1863, when Altona was still part of Denmark. The museum has a collection of over 300 000 objects connected to the cultural history of Northern Germany.
WAquinnah Cultural Center (ACC) is a non-profit museum and education center, based in Aquinnah, Massachusetts, dedicated to preserving and promoting Aquinnah Wampanoag history, culture and contributions on Martha’s Vineyard.
WThe August-Macke-Haus or August Macke House is a museum in Bonn, Germany, opened in 1991, dedicated to the expressionist painter August Macke. It is located in Macke's former home, where he lived from 1911 to 1914. The museum displays reconstructed interiors and in addition houses temporary exhibitions, usually focusing on Expressionism.
WThe David Hasselhoff Museum is a museum dedicated to the American actor, singer, producer and businessman David Hasselhoff. It is located in the basement of the Circus Hostel in Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It pays homage to 'arguably Germany's most famous non-German'
WA farm museum, or museum farm, is a museum based on a historical farm and its buildings, presenting agricultural history. Often the farm is still a working farm, for demonstration and educational purposes.
WFinland's Motorcycle Museum is a museum located in Lahti, Finland. It is the only museum in Finland specializing on motorcycles. Especially the museum has on display restored world-famous motorcycles, national racebikes and mopeds. The motorcycle museum's collection includes over 100 motorcycles and historical items related to motorcycling. It also has yearly changing themes. Finland's Motorcycle Museum was founded and is being owned by a local entrepreneur Riku Routo.
WA folk museum is a museum that deals with folk culture and heritage. Such museums cover local life in rural communities. A folk museum typically displays historical objects that were used as part of the people's everyday lives. Examples of such objects include clothes and tools. Many folk museums are also open-air museums and some cover rural history.
WA furniture museum is a museum with exhibits relating to the history and art of furnitures.
WAn imaginarium refers to a place devoted to the imagination. There are various types of imaginaria, centers largely devoted to stimulating and cultivating the imagination, towards scientific, artistic, commercial, recreational, or spiritual ends.
WA lapidarium is a place where stone monuments and fragments of archaeological interest are exhibited.
WA local museum or local history museum is a museum that covers local history. Its collection normally includes objects with a local connection of some sort. Such museums are often small in nature and have a low budget for their running costs. Entry costs are normally low as well.
WMartha's Vineyard Museum, originally named the "Dukes County Historical Society," is a historical and cultural museum located in Vineyard Haven and founded in 1922.
WThe Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum is a literature museum in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is dedicated to Seichō Matsumoto, who spent the first half of his life in Kitakyusyu. The museum is located next to Kokura Castle.
WThe Mercader Palace Museum in Cornellà de Llobregat contains more than 3,000 objects from the museum of the Count of Bell-lloc and is an example of the lifestyle and cultural and artistic tastes of an aristocratic family of the 19th century. It is located in the Palau Mercader, built in the 19th century by Josep Domínguez Valls, in an eclectic style. It was opened on 23 April 1995 and belongs to the Barcelona Provincial Council Local Museum Network.
WThe Musée Maillol de Banyuls-sur-Mer is a private museum at the farm of the sculptor Aristide Maillol where he spent the last years of his life. The farm, "La Métairie", is situated in the Roume valley 4 km from the city center of Banyuls-sur-Mer in the Pyrénées-Orientales. The museum is operated by the Fondation Dina Vierny, which also operates the Musée Maillol in Paris.
WThe Museo archeologico e d'arte della Maremma is an archaeological and art museum in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.
WThe Museo Collezione Gianfranco Luzzetti is an art museum in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.
WThe Museo di storia naturale della Maremma is a natural history museum in Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy.
WThe Museum of the History of Religion is a museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
WAn online exhibition, also referred to as a virtual exhibition, online gallery, cyber-exhibition, is an exhibition whose venue is cyberspace.
WA palace museum refers a number of museums that are housed in former royal palaces.The Palace Museum, housed in the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. The National Palace Museum, formerly housed in the Forbidden City, now sits in Taipei, Taiwan and houses part of its former collection. The National Palace Museum of Korea located in Seoul, South Korea, is the repository of that country's royal heritage. The Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul The Red Fort Archaeological Museum in Delhi, India, was also known as Palace Museum during the British rule. The Malacca Sultanate Palace Museum is an example of a palace that was reconstructed to function as a museum.
WPlanet Word is a language arts museum that opened in Washington, D.C., in October 2020. The museum is described as "The museum where language comes to life" and features exhibits dedicated to topics such as the history of the English Language, how children learn words, and how music and advertising use words. It is located in Franklin Square at the historic Franklin School.
WA private museum is a collection, usually on a very limited topic and operated by individual enthusiasts, collectors, clubs or companies.
WThe Sarmiento House is a National Historic Monument in the northern suburb of Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was the former residence from 1855 until his death in 1888 of Domingo Sarmiento, the 7th President of Argentina. It was declared a National Historic Monument in 1966 and is now a museum.
WA shark tunnel is an underwater tunnel that passes through an aquarium, typically with sharks and related aquatic life. They are usually made of thick acrylic glass.
WThe Shepparton Art Museum is an art Museum in Shepparton, Victoria, Australia. It holds one of Australia's most significant collections of Australian ceramics. It is host to the Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award (SMFACA) and the Indigenous Ceramic Art Award.
WSKELETONS: Museum of Osteology is or was a museum attraction located in Orlando, Florida and Central Florida's largest natural history museum. Opened in May 2015, this is one of the two skeleton museums in the United States of America; the second being the Museum of Osteology. It closed in 2020, but it will reopen in the future. Both museums are owned by Skulls Unlimited International, Inc. SKELETONS: Museum of Osteology features over 500 real animal skeletons within 40 exhibits.
WThe Museum of Soviet occupation in Kyiv, Ukraine, is devoted to portraying the crimes of the Soviet regime in Ukraine from 1917 to 1991. It was established in November 2001 by the Vasyl Stus branch of Memorial Society as an exhibition "Not to be forgotten: The Chronicle of Communist inquisition." Between 2001 and 2007, the exposition grew into a full-fledged museum. On May 30, 2007, it received its current name.
WThe State Museum of Modern Western Art was a museum in Moscow. It originated in the merger of the 1st and 2nd Museums of Modern Western Painting in 1923. It was based on the collection of paintings assembled by Sergei Schukin and Ivan Morozov. It was shut down on 6 March 1948 by Stalin and its works split between the Hermitage Museum and the Pushkin Museum.
WThe Svalbard Museum is a museum in Longyearbyen, the largest town in the Svalbard archipelago. The museum displays artifacts from the history of Svalbard since its settlement, and exhibits of local plants and animals. Its exhibitions describe the factors that support human activity in Svalbard, showing the close relationship between nature and human cultural history on the islands. "Life in Light and Ice" is the museum's core exhibit. It describes the history of the archipelago, from the first whalers to the present society based on mining, research, and tourism.
WThe Cannabis Museum is a museum in Seattle, Washington state, United States. It displays historical packaging from prior to the U.S. prohibition of cannabis, and photography. The museum is inside a cannabis store in the city's SODO neighborhood.
WThe Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world. The resource was founded by Jonathan Bowen in 1994, originally at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory in the United Kingdom, It has been supported by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and Museophile Limited. as part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee and later managed by Arthur Secret. The main VLmp site moved to London South Bank University in the early 2000s and is now hosted as a wiki on Wikia.
WVisible storage is a method of maximising public access to museum and art collections that would otherwise be hidden from public view. Many museums and galleries have over 90% of their collections in storage at any one time and the technique has been widely adopted recently by institutions ranging from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, to London's Victoria & Albert Museum as well as in many smaller collections.
WWar Eagles Air Museum is an aerospace and automotive museum with several exhibits. It is located at Doña Ana County International Jetport in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
WThe Women's Museum: An Institute for the Future was a museum located inside Fair Park in Dallas, Texas]. On October 5, 2011, the museum announced it would close on October 31, 2011 due to lack of funds.
WYork's Chocolate Story is a visitor attraction and chocolate museum on King's Square, in York. Opened in March 2012, it shows the history of chocolate making in York, including the Rowntree's factory which opened in 1890, owned since 1988 by Nestlé.