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| x Willowbrook Museum Village |
19th Century Willowbrook Village is a U.S. museum on approximately 10 acres (4.0 ha) with 34 buildings including two historic houses covering 3.5 acres (1.4 ha) of the property. The museum is located in the town of Newfield, Maine. It is open 10 a.m...
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| x National Museum of Mali |
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The National Museum of Mali (French: Musée national du Mali) is an archeological and anthropological museum located in Bamako, the capital of Mali. It presents permanent and temporary exhibits on the prehistory of Mali, as well as the musical...
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| x Orlando Science Center |
The Orlando Science Center (OSC) is a private not-for-profit corporation, organized under the laws of the State of Florida, USA, and located in Orlando. Its purposes are to provide experience-based opportunities for learning about science and...
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| x Pavillon de Flore |
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The Pavillon de Flore is a section of the Palais du Louvre in Paris, France. Its construction began in 1595, during the reign of Henry IV, and has had numerous renovations since. The structure stands along the south face of the Louvre Museum, near...
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| x Ault Park | History museum |
Ault Park is a park on the St. Lawrence River in the Township of South Stormont, near Long Sault, Ontario, Canada.
Originally on Sheek's Island, the park was built on family property donated to the Township of Cornwall by Levi Addison Ault.
Sheek's...
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| x Qantas Founders Outback Museum |
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The Qantas Founders Outback Museum is a transport museum at Longreach, Queensland, Australia. The museum is home to a decommissioned Qantas Boeing 747-200, which can be observed by people. It also holds the airline's first jet, a Boeing 707-138.
The...
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| x Yale University Art Gallery |
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The Yale University Art Gallery houses a significant and encyclopedic collection of art in several buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the Gallery possesses especially...
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| x Watson Museum |
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The Watson Museum in Rajkot, India is a museum of human history and culture. Its collections precious objects of colonial period of India and History of Rajkot. It is amongst the largest and most comprehensive museum in State of Gujarat. Watson...
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| x Chrysler Museum of Art |
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Art gallery | 1933 | 245 West Olney Road |
The Chrysler Museum of Art is an art museum in the Ghent district of Norfolk, Virginia. The museum was originally founded in 1933 as the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. In 1971, automotive heir, Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (whose wife, Jean Outland...
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| x Prudence Crandall House |
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Prudence Crandall House, also known as Elisha Payne House, is a historic house in Canterbury, Connecticut. It was the home of Prudence Crandall, the abolitionist and educator, and is now home to the Prudence Crandall Museum. The building was...
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| x Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway |
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The Wiscasset, Waterville and Farmington Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge railway which operated from Wiscasset, Maine to Albion and Winslow, Maine. It was operated as a for-profit company from 1895 until 1933. The line became defunct and was...
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| x British Optical Association |
The British Optical Association (BOA) was founded in 1895 as the first professional body for ophthalmic opticians (optometrists) in the world. It ran the first professional examinations in optics and provided the Secretariat for a number of other...
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| x Museum De Cruquius |
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The Museum De Cruquius (or Cruquiusmuseum) occupies the old Cruquius steam pumping station in Cruquius, The Netherlands. It derives its name from Nicolaas Kruik (1678–1754), a Dutch land-surveyor and one of many promotors of a plan to pump the...
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| x Old Sturbridge Village |
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Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) is a living museum located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, in the United States, which re-creates life in rural New England during the 1790s through 1830s (the Romantic Period). It is the largest living museum in New...
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| x Musée du quai Branly |
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The Musée du quai Branly, known in English as the Quai Branly Museum, nicknamed MQB, is a museum in Paris, France that features indigenous art, cultures and civilizations from Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum is located at 37,...
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| x Hallingdal Museum |
Hallingdal Museum is a museum in Nesbyen within the Nes municipality, Norway.
The museum has a number of subsidiary sites: Dagali Museum, Gol Bygdetun, Hemsedal Bygdetun, Hol Bygdemuseum and Ål Bygdamuseum. The museum has a further subsidiary,...
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| x Lady Lever Art Gallery |
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Art gallery |
The Lady Lever Art Gallery was founded in 1922 by Sunlight Soap magnate, William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, and dedicated to the memory of his wife.
Set in the attractive garden village of Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, also created by...
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| x Vintage Aero Flying Museum |
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Vintage Aero Flying Museum (VAFM), formally LaFayette Escadrille Flying Museum, is Colorado's international aviation museum at Platte Valley Airpark, 4 miles north-west of Hudson, Colorado and 40 miles north-east of Denver, Colorado.
Mr. Andy Park,...
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| x Baltimore Civil War Museum |
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The Baltimore Civil War Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, is a unique building with a curved roof supported by an arched truss was originally the President Street Station built in 1849–50 by the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore...
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| x Blanton Museum of Art |
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The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art is the art museum and research center of the University of Texas at Austin under the College of Fine Arts. The museum is one of the largest university art museums in the United States, housing some 18,000 works from...
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| x East Slovak Museum |
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History museum |
The East Slovak Museum (Slovak: Východoslovenské múzeum) in Košice, Slovakia, is one of the oldest Slovak museums; it was founded in 1872.
A neo-Renaissance building was erected in the early 20th century. It was the first building in the town...
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| x Chad National Museum |
The Chad National Museum (Musee National N'Djamena) is the national museum of Chad. It is located in the capital city of N'Djamena at near Avenue Felix Eboue, with a mailing address of BP 638, Fort Archambault. The museum was established on October...
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| x Malda Museum |
Malda Museum is an archaeological museum under the West Bengal Directorate of Archaeology, situated on the Bandh Road of Malda Town.
The museum took off initially as a collection of historic artifacts found within the district within the premises of...
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| x Kayah State Cultural Museum |
The Kayah State Cultural Museum is a museum that display bronze drums used in wedding and funeral occasions, stone beads, household utensils, traditional looms, traditional dresses, silverware, weapons,paintings and musical instruments of the Kayah...
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| x Sports Legends at Camden Yards |
Sports Legends at Camden Yards is a non-profit sports museum in Baltimore, Maryland, owned and operated by the Babe Ruth Birthplace & Museum. It opened on May 14, 2005, with the daughter of celebrated baseball player Babe Ruth in attendance. The 22...
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| x Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum |
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The Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad Museum is located in Portland, Maine, United States. The museum was founded in 1993 and contains a collection of rolling stock and artifacts from the 2 ft (610 mm) gauge narrow gauge railroads that ran in the state of...
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| x Railroaders Memorial Museum |
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The Railroaders Memorial Museum (RMM) is a railroad museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The museum is dedicated to revealing, interpreting, commemorating and celebrating the significant contributions of railroaders and their families to American life...
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| x Fort Calgary |
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Fort Calgary was established in 1875 as Fort Brisebois by the North-West Mounted Police, located at the confluence of the Bow and Elbow rivers in what is now Calgary, Alberta.
The construction of the fort was initiated on April 10, 1875 by a federal...
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| x Hexham Old Gaol |
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History museum |
The Hexham Old Gaol (Pronounced jail) is in the town of Hexham, Northumberland, England. It is reputed to be the oldest purpose-built prison in England.
The gaol was built under the order of William Melton, the Archbishop of York, in 1330–33. It...
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| x Nothe Fort |
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Nothe Fort is a fort in Weymouth, Dorset, England. The fort is situated on the shore beside the northern breakwater of the ex-military Portland Harbour, and at the mouth of civilian Weymouth Harbour. The fort was built in 1872 to protect Portland's...
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| x Arts Club of Chicago |
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Arts Club of Chicago is a private club located in the Near North Side community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, a block east of the Magnificent Mile, that exhibits international contemporary art. It was founded in 1916,...
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| x Science Museum of Minnesota |
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Natural history museum | 1907 | 120 West Kellogg Blvd |
The Science Museum of Minnesota is an American museum focused on topics in technology, natural history, physical science and mathematics education. Founded in 1907 and located in Saint Paul, Minnesota, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit institution is staffed...
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| x The African American Museum in Cleveland |
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African American Museum formerly the Afro-American Cultural & Historical Society Museum in Cleveland, Ohio was founded in 1953 by Icabod Flewellen. The Museum is housed in a 100-year-old Carnegie Library building. The Museum works to educate young...
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| x Agropolis | History museum |
Agropolis-Museum is a museum describing the global story of people, food and agriculture. It is located in Montpellier, France.
Agropolis presents the history of early food gathering, as well as mini-exhibits of many of the world's fruits,...
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| x Kars Museum |
The Kars Museum was opened in 1963 in the Kumbet Mosque of Kars, Turkey.
The structure was first built as an Armenian church (The Holy Apostles Church) under the Armenian Bagratuni Dynasty by Abbas II in 930–937 A.D. In 1579, it was converted to a...
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| x Museo storia naturale di Pisa | Natural history museum |
Museo storia naturale di Pisa is an Italian natural history museum at Pisa. It is part of the University of Pisa.
In 1596, Grand Duke Ferdinand I of Tuscany established the Museum of Natural History of the University of Pisa, transferring specimens...
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| x Musee D'Histoire | Natural history museum |
The Marseille History Museum (Musée d'Histoire de Marseille) is the local historical and archaeological museum of Marseille in France. It was opened in 1983, the first town historical museum in France, to display the major archaeological finds...
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| x Kyoto National Museum |
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The Kyoto National Museum (京都国立博物館, Kyōto Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) is one of the three formerly imperially-mandated art museums in Japan. The museum is located in Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto. The collections of the Kyoto National Museum focus on pre...
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| x Louisville Science Center |
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The Louisville Science Center, previously known as the Louisville Museum of Natural History & Science, is Kentucky's largest hands-on science museum. Located in Louisville, Kentucky's "Museum Row" in the West Main District of downtown, the museum...
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| x Somerset Rural Life Museum |
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The Somerset Rural Life Museum is situated in Glastonbury, Somerset, UK. It is a museum of the social and agricultural history of Somerset, housed in buildings surrounding a 14th century barn once belonging to Glastonbury Abbey.
It was used as a...
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| x Virginia Museum of Transportation |
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The Virginia Museum of Transportation is a museum devoted to the topic of transportation located in Downtown Roanoke, Virginia, U.S.A..
The Virginia Museum of Transportation began its life in 1963 as the Roanoke Transportation Museum located in...
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| x Landis Valley Museum |
Landis Valley Museum is a nationally significant living history museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. It collects, conserves, exhibits, and interprets Pennsylvania German material, culture, history and heritage from 1740 through 1940.
As living...
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| x Ål Bygdamuseum |
Ål Bygdamuseum, a small museum on the farm Leksvol in Ål municipality. The museum is a subsidiary of Hallingdal Museum. It includes 30 old buildings, including the house from Leksvol farm which dates from about 1600, a mountain farm (støl) with a...
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| x Jewish Museum London | Jewish museum | 129-131 Albert Street |
The Jewish Museum is a museum of Jewish life and art, in the London Borough of Camden, on the northern fringes of central London, England. It was founded in 1932, in the Jewish communal headquarters in Bloomsbury, and in 1995 moved to its current...
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| x Finnish Museum of Natural History |
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Natural history museum |
The Finnish Museum of Natural History (Finnish: Luonnontieteellinen keskusmuseo), established in 1988, is a research institution under the University of Helsinki in Finland. It is responsible for the national botanical, zoological, geological and...
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| x Royal Ontario Museum |
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History museum | 100 Queen’s Park |
The Royal Ontario Museum, commonly known as the ROM, is located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's largest museum of world culture and natural history. The ROM is the fifth largest museum in North America, containing more than six million...
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| x Peale Museum |
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The Peale Museum, also known as the Municipal Museum of Baltimore, was a museum of paintings and natural history, located in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. It occupied the first building in the Western Hemisphere to be designed and built as a museum. The...
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| x Fanling Environmental Resource Centre |
Fanling Environmental Resource Centre (Chinese: 粉嶺環境資源中心 or 環保天地) is a resource center under the management of Environmental Protection Department. It is located on 2/F., Government Accommodations, Grand Regentville, 9 Wo Mun Street, Luen Wo Hui,...
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| x Dahesh Museum |
The Dahesh Museum of Art is the only museum in the United States devoted to the collection and exhibition of European academic art of the 19th and 20th century. The collection originated with Lebanese writer, humanist, and philosopher Saleem Moussa...
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| x Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum |
The Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum is a nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to: preserving America's fly fishing heritage; teaching its future generations of fly fishers; and protecting its fly fishing environment. The museum is...
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| x Fernbank Museum of Natural History |
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Fernbank Museum of Natural History, in Atlanta, Georgia, presents exhibitions and programming about natural history that is meant to entertain as well as educate the public. Its mission is to encourage a greater appreciation of the planet and its...
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| x Statue Park |
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Szoborpark or Statue Park is a park in Budapest's XXII district, with a gathering of monumental Soviet-era statues. These include statues of Lenin, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, as well as local Hungarian Communist leaders such as Béla Kun. The...
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| x St Fagans National History Museum |
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St Fagans National History Museum (Welsh: Sain Ffagan Amgueddfa Werin Cymru), commonly referred to as St Fagans after the village it is located in, is an open-air museum in Cardiff chronicling the historical lifestyle, culture and architecture of...
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| x Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec |
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History museum |
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (French for "National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec") is a museum in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada gathering approximately 25,000 works essentially produced in Quebec, or by Quebec artists, some of which...
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| x Arizona Railway Museum |
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The Arizona Railway Museum (reporting mark AZMX) is a railroad museum located in Chandler, Arizona.
It was founded and incorporated as a non-profit organization in 1983. It is dedicated to the railroads of Arizona and the Southwestern United States....
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| x Netherlands Architecture Institute |
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The Netherlands Architercture Institute (NAi) is a Dutch architecture institute that consists of two museums in Rotterdam and Maastricht. The NAi owns one of the world’s largest architectural collections and publishes its own books. The NAi museum...
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| x Montshire Museum of Science | Science museum |
The Montshire Museum of Science is a small, hands-on, self-guided science museum located in Norwich, Vermont, in the United States. It has roughly 150,000 visitors annually. The museum, including the building and nature trails, is located on over...
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| x East Troy Electric Railroad Museum |
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The East Troy Electric Railroad Museum is a railroad museum located in East Troy, Wisconsin.
In addition to static displays, the museum operates a heritage railroad. Several vintage trolley cars that once ran on the city and suburban lines of...
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| x Tennessee Central Railway Museum |
The Tennessee Central Railway Museum (TCRM, reporting mark TCRX) is a railroad museum located in Nashville, Tennessee.
It is a small non-profit facility which is preserving the heritage of rail transport in Tennessee and the central South. The...
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| x Alta Museum |
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The Alta Museum is located in Alta in northern Norway within the Arctic Circle. Its northern Norway's most-visited summer museum, with more than 1,000 visitors each day. It presents exhibitions on local culture and historic industries including the...
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