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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...
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National Museum of Taiwan History, Tainan

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...
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Louvre, Paris, France

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...
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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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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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