Museums

As the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur features the National Museum, the country’s main history museum. However, its best museum is the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia. Despite its name, the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia features a large...

Hong Kong is a tiny city-state that is more well known for finance and business than history. But the fact is Hong Kong, as an urban settlement, has a history of over 150 years, while villages in its rural New Territories have been around for over...

Bangkok is visited by millions of tourists every year, but museums are probably not at the top of the list. However, Thailand is an old country with a lot of history and culture, which is reflected by the Bangkok National Museum, the country’s...

Beijing’s Capital Museum is in a large gray, unattractive building that doesn’t give much indication about the historical treasures and fantastic displays inside. It’s a museum about Beijing’s history, but with more interactivity...

Berlin is ideal for museum enthusiasts like myself because of its multitude of museums. It even has a Museum Island, a cluster of museums on the northern half of an island in the Spree River, right in the middle of the city. Museum Island consists...

South Koreans are known to be proud of their history and culture, and their national history museum demonstrates this quite well. The National Museum of Korea is a massive, imposing building that contrasts with a pleasant artificial lake in front....

Seoul is a great city to visit for many reasons, one of them being that it has several impressive museums like the National Museum of Korea history museum and the War Memorial of Korea. The War Memorial of Korea is the most impressive military...