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Visiting Trinidad’s National Museum and Art Gallery
Trinidad and Tobago’s National Museum and Art Gallery is not very big, reflecting the country’s small size, but it is housed in a handsome 19th-century two-story building. The art gallery is probably better than the national museum, which is a bit sparse. In case you are wondering, Trinidad and Tobago is a two-island nation in […]
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Visiting the Royal Ontario Museum
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) might not be up there in terms of global name recognition, but it is Toronto’s and perhaps Canada’s best history and cultural museum. While it’s named after the province in which Toronto is located, the ROM houses a vast collection spanning the globe from Canada to Europe, Africa and Asia. […]
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Vatican Museums photo roundup
The Vatican Museums feature so much great artwork that I had to devote a second post to them. See my first post about the Vatican Museums if you haven’t seen it already. Gallery of Geographic Maps One of the beautiful giant 16th century maps of Italy in the map gallery Sphinx with an eerily realistic […]
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Visiting the Vatican Museums
When it comes to the Vatican, I have to confess that I almost didn’t want to go. Rome was already really fascinating with so much to see. Luckily, I decided to spend my final day in Rome at the Vatican otherwise I would have missed out on one of the best museum experiences in my […]
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Taiwan
Taiwan travel
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Visiting the National Museum of Taiwan History
As a young island country, Taiwan actually has a complex history of 400 years that includes Dutch colonization, Qing Dynasty rule, Japanese colonization, and a brutal martial law era. Taiwan went through a lot before it became today’s thriving democracy. All this is covered in the National Museum of Taiwan History, located not in the […]
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Enjoying great art and science in Milan
As much as Milan is famous for fashion and football, the northern Italian city is also a place of art, history, great buildings and museums. I visited Milan’s best art gallery, the Brera Art Gallery (Pinocoteca di Brera), and the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci, Italy’s largest science museum and devoted to the great painter and scientist […]
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Visiting the Louvre
One of the world’s best museums, the Louvre is one of Paris’ and France’s most famous attractions. It’s also incredibly huge which I only realized when I visited it; in fact it is the world’s largest art museum. As a former palace originally built in the 12th century, the Louvre is also strikingly beautiful with […]
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