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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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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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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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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. In order to make its vast holdings more accessible to the nation, Taiwan opened a southern branch of the NPM in […]
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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, right in the middle of the city. Museum Island consists of five museums, each […]
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