Museums

Southern Branch of National Palace Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan

Visiting the Southern Branch of Taiwan’s National Palace Museum

Taiwan’s most famous museum is the National Palace Museum (NPM), which houses over a thousand years’ worth of Chinese imperial treasures. Located in Taiwan’s capital Taipei, the NPM only features Chinese exhibits*, not Taiwanese....
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British Museum

Visiting the British Museum

The British Museum is a grand British institution, being one of the world’s finest museums and home to countless great artifacts and works of arts since the mid-18th century. It is also the best museum I’ve ever been to. Whenever I visit...
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Lanyang Museum, Yilan, Taiwan

Visiting Taiwan’s Lanyang Museum

When it comes to museums, Taiwan doesn’t seem to have any famous ones other than the National Palace Museum, which showcases imperial Chinese treasures brought across from China by Chiang Kai-shek in the mid-1940s. But in reality, Taiwan has...
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Neues Museum, Berline

Visiting Berlin’s Museum Island, Neues Museum

I really like visiting museums, especially those that focus on history, anthropology and archaeology. Berlin is ideal for museum lovers like myself because of Museum Island, a cluster of museums on the northern half of an island in the Spree River,...
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Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

Asia’s top history museums

Asia is a continent with thousands of years of history, with several of the oldest civilizations in the world. So it is not surprising that there are some great history museums in the region. While most people know about the Louvre, the British...
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Beijing

Visiting Beijing’s National Museum of China

The National Museum of China is the country’s main history museum, located right in the center of Beijing. Given China’s significant history that spans over 3,000 years and over 8 major dynasties, it takes a massive museum to cover all...
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National Museum of Colombo

Visiting Sri Lanka’s National Museum of Colombo

Sri Lanka is a small island country that is probably one of the world’s best travel destinations. One reason is that this small country has over 2,000 years of recorded history and is rich in culture and ancient architecture. In the capital of...
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