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This type is used for a categorisation of a museum based on the primary focus of collections held and curated by the museum. Due to the variety of collections held by various museums, Type of Museum can vary from the broad "Culture", "Art", "Archaeology" to more obscure and specific examples, e.g....
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| x Science museum |
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National Air and Space Museum |
A science museum or a science centre is a museum devoted primarily to science. Older science museums tended to concentrate on static displays of objects related to natural history, paleontology, geology, industry and industrial machinery, etc....
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| Science Museum of Minnesota | |||
| Carnegie Science Center | |||
| Centre des Science de Montreal | |||
| Museum of Science and Industry | |||
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| x Art museum |
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Vatican Museums | |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | |||
| Saint Louis Art Museum | |||
| Haus der Kunst | |||
| Pinacoteca Ambrosiana | |||
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| x Natural history museum | Lower Saxony State Museum | ||
| x Aerospace museum | German Museum of Technology | ||
| PAF Museum, Karachi | |||
| Polish Aviation Museum | |||
| Israel National Museum of Science, Technology, and Space | |||
| Modern Transportation Museum | |||
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| x Military / war museum | Canadian War Museum | ||
| x Transport museum | |||
| x Archaeology museum | |||
| x Modern Art Museum |
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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna | |
| Bologna Museum of Modern Art | |||
| Fondation Maeght | |||
| Stedelijk Museum | |||
| Pinakothek der Moderne | |||
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| x Museum ship |
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A museum ship, or sometimes memorial ship, is a ship that has been preserved and converted into a museum open to the public, for educational or memorial purposes. Some are also used for training and recruitment purposes, a use found mostly with the...
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| x Decorative art museum | Rijksmuseum | ||
| x Railroad museum | |||
| x Maritime museum |
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Peabody Essex Museum |
A maritime museum (sometimes nautical museum) is a museum specializing in the display of objects relating to ships and travel on large bodies of water. A subcategory of maritime museums are naval museums, which focus on navies and the military use...
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| Maritime, Fluvial and Harbour Museum of Rouen | |||
| Hudson River Maritime Museum | |||
| Dutch Navy Museum | |||
| San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum | |||
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| x National museum | Museo Nazionale del Cinema | ||
| Hungarian National Museum | |||
| x Biographical museum | Mwalimu Nyerere Museum Centre | ||
| Tribhuvan Museum | |||
| x Open air museum |
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Beamish Museum |
An open air museum is a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of-doors. The first open air museums were established in Scandinavia towards the end of the nineteenth century, and the concept soon spread throughout Europe and North...
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| Skansen | |||
| Sainte-Marie among the Hurons | |||
| Ault Park | |||
| Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village | |||
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| x University museum | Ashmolean Museum |
A university museum is a museum or collection run by a university, typically founded to aid teaching and research within the university. The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford in England is an early example, originally housed in the...
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| Pitt Rivers Museum | |||
| Oxford University Museum of Natural History | |||
| Museum of the History of Science, Oxford | |||
| Bate Collection | |||
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| x Automobile museum | Gilmore Car Museum | ||
| x Children's museum |
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Exploration Station |
Children's museums are institutions that provide exhibits and programs to stimulate informal learning experiences for children. In contrast with traditional museums that typically have a hands-off policy regarding exhibits, children's museums...
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| The Children's Museum of Indianapolis | |||
| Wonder Works | |||
| Boston Children's Museum | |||
| Children's Museum of Los Angeles | |||
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| x Medical museum | Dittrick Museum of Medical History | ||
| x Sports museum | Canadian Ski Museum | ||
| x Jewish museum | Judah L. Magnes Museum | ||
| Lesko Synagogue | |||
| Lillian & Albert Small Jewish Museum | |||
| Eretz Israel Museum | |||
| Issac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum | |||
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| x Prison museum | |||
| x Music museum | Experience Music Project | ||
| x Religious museum | Pope John Paul II Cultural Center | ||
| x Holocaust museum | Yad Vashem | ||
| x Architecture museum | Fallingwater | ||
| The Octagon House | |||
| x Aviation museum | Canada Aviation Museum | ||
| Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center | |||
| x Historic house museum | Wilson Castle |
A historic house museum is a house that has been transformed into a museum. Historic furnishings may be displayed in a way that reflects their original placement and usage in a home. Historic house museums are held to a variety of standards,...
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| John Strong DAR Mansion Museum | |||
| Decatur House | |||
| Mary McLeod Bethune Council House National Historic Site | |||
| Frederick Douglass National Historic Site | |||
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| x History museum | Museum of Sydney | ||
| Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal | |||
| Northern Ostrobothnia museum | |||
| Leelanau Historical Society and Museum | |||
| The Boston Museum Project | |||
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| x Natural history museum | Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology | ||
| Geological Museum | |||
| The Niagara Falls Museum | |||
| South Australian Museum | |||
| Natural History Museum of Basel | |||
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| x Art |
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum |
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture,...
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| Norman Rockwell Museum | |||
| Coronado Museum of History and Art | |||
| Foundling Museum | |||
| Frick Collection | |||
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| x Art gallery |
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Corcoran Gallery of Art |
An art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Museum can be public or private but what distinguishes a Museum is the ownership of a collection. Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however,...
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| National Gallery of Art | |||
| Phillips Collection | |||
| National Portrait Gallery | |||
| Smithsonian American Art Museum | |||
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| x Culture |
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The Contemporary Jewish Museum |
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical...
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| Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History | |||
| Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities | |||
| National Museum of the American Indian | |||
| Smithsonian Institution | |||
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| x Journalism |
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Newseum |
Journalism is the craft of conveying news, descriptive material and comment via media including newspapers, magazines, radio, television, mobile phone and the internet. Journalists—be they writers, editors or photographers; broadcast presenters or...
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| x Contemporary art gallery |
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BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art |
A contemporary art gallery is a location where contemporary art is shown. The term "art gallery" is commonly used to mean art museum (especially in British English), the rooms displaying art in any museum, or in the original sense, of any large or...
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| Kunst im Tunnel | |||
| x Cinema museum | Museo Nazionale del Cinema | ||
| x Ancient Egypt museum | Museo Egizio | ||
| Egyptian Museum | |||
| Egyptian Museum of Berlin | |||
| x Asian art |
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Ferenc Hopp Museum of Eastern Asiatic Arts |
Asian art can refer to art amongst many cultures in Asia.
Many modern Asian artists seek to blend ancient Asian themes with contemporary artistic styles. Contemporary Chinese artist Kong Bai Ji, who is one example of this trend, has long been...
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| Seattle Asian Art Museum | |||
| Museum of East Asian Art | |||
| The Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art | |||
| Museum of Asian art of Corfu | |||
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| x Natural history |
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Gyeonggi Provincial Museum |
Natural history is the scientific research of plants or animals, leaning more towards the observational than experimental methods of study, and encompasses more research that is published in magazines than in academic journals. Grouped among the...
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| Utah Museum of Natural History | |||
| California Academy of Sciences | |||
| National Museum of Natural History | |||
| High Desert Museum | |||
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| x Archaeology |
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Gyeonggi Provincial Museum |
Archaeology (sometimes written archæology) or archeology (from Greek ἀρχαιολογία, archaiologia – ἀρχαῖος, arkhaīos, "ancient"; and -λογία, -logiā, "-logy") is the science that studies human cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and...
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| University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology | |||
| Ashmolean Museum | |||
| Pitt Rivers Museum | |||
| Museu Nacional | |||
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| x Ethnology |
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Slovene Ethnographic Museum |
Ethnology (from the Greek ἔθνος, ethnos meaning "people, nation, race") is the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the origins, distribution, technology, religion, language, and social structure of the ethnic, racial, and/or national...
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| State Museum of Ethnology | |||
| National Museum of Ethnology | |||
| Vietnam Museum of Ethnology | |||
| Museu Nacional | |||
| x Indian Museum |
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Malki Museum |
The Indian Museum (Bengali: ভারতীয় জাদুঘর) is the largest museum in India and has rare collections of antiques, armour and ornaments, fossils, skeletons, mummies, and Mughal paintings. It was founded by Dr Nathaniel Wallich a Danish botanist at...
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| x Historical museum | Barstow Route 66 Mother Road Museum | ||
| Western American Railroad Museum | |||
| Reyes Adobe Museum | |||
| Alhambra Historical Society Museum | |||
| Modoc County Historical Museum | |||
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| x Automotive Museum | Blackhawk Automotive Museum | ||
| x Wildlife museum | The Gridley Historical and Wildlife Museum | ||
| National Museum of Wildlife Art | |||
| x Classical sculpture |
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Glyptothek |
Classical sculpture refers to the forms of sculpture from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome and the Hellenized, and Romanized civilizations under their rule or influence from about 500B.C. to fall of Rome in AD 476. It also refers stylistically to...
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| x Archaeological site |
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Kerameikos |
An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of archaeology and...
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| Parkin Archeological State Park | |||
| Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park | |||
| Moundville Archaeological Site | |||
| x Air museum | Newark Air Museum | ||
| x Anthropology museum | Tropenmuseum | ||
| National Museum of Anthropology and History | |||
| x Ceramics museum | Keramiekmuseum Princessehof | ||
| Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum | |||
| Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum | |||
| x Culture museum | Museum of World Culture | ||
| Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia | |||
| Museum of Cultures, Helsinki | |||
| Museo De La Salle | |||
| Asian Civilisations Museum | |||
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| x National museum | National Museum in Kraków |
A national museum is a museum maintained by a nation.
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| Museum of Anatolian Civilizations | |||
| Chiang Mai National Museum | |||
| Rijksmuseum | |||
| Van Gogh Museum | |||
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| x Architecture |
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Soane Museum |
For a topical guide to this subject, see Outline of architecture.
Architecture (Latin „architectura“, from the Greek „arkitekton“, ὰρχιτεκτονική – arkhitektonike, from ὰρχι chief or leader and Τεκτονική builder or carpenter) is the art and science...
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| Ultra Architecture Museum | |||
| x Musical instruments museum | The National Museum of Musical Instruments | ||
| x Presidential library |
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John F. Kennedy Library |
In the United States, the Presidential library system is a nationwide network of 13 libraries administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). These are not libraries in...
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| George Bush Presidential Library | |||
| Ronald Reagan Presidential Library | |||
| William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park | |||
| Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace | |||
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| x Music memorabilia | Museo Teatrale alla Scala | ||
| x Naval museum | St. Petersburg Bourse | ||
| USS Montpelier Museum | |||
| x Photography Museum | Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography | ||
| x Agriculture Museum | Canada Agriculture Museum | ||
| x Ancient Art Museum |
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Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica | |
| Turin City Museum of Ancient Art | |||
| Staatliche Antikensammlungen | |||
| National Palace Museum | |||
| National Museum of Ancient Art | |||
