The Best Museums of the World

Below are the museums who made in the list of what was considered the best based on their size, fame and type of priceless arts and antiquities they safeguard for you to see and insure the future generations can see also.

Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo, Japan

Established in 1872, this is the oldest museum in Japan. It houses the famous Japanese art and weaponry as well as the large collection of Greco-Buddhist art.

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Louvre
Paris, France

It is the most visited museum in the world. Its exhibits includes ancient egyptian artifacts, classical Greek and Roman art and medieval Europe. It houses a lot of painting including the very famous Mona Lisa of Leonardo da Vinci

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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Billbao, Spain

The museum is constructed as a twisting titanium clad which made the museum an art itself. It draws a lot of attention when it was finished contstructed in the 1990's. The museum exhibits the works of both local and international artists.

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Vatican Museums
Vatican City, Rome

Most famous for its spiral staircase, the museum has also Raphael Rooms and of the course the very famous Sistine Chapel. Exquisitely designed by Michael Angelo and was believed to be his crowning achievements in painting.

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Uffizi Gallery
Florence, Italy

This is one of the oldest museums in the world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi which was constructed to be used as offices by the Florentine Migistrates in 16th Century. The museum contains a wide collection of Renaissance art wroks

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Hermitage Museum
St. Petersburg, Russia

Founded in 1764 by the Catherine the Great, this museum has a massive collection of art and culture of more than 3 million items collected around the globe. It has priceless works of Rembrandt, Da Vinci, and Michael Angelo.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, USA

The gothic style building was opened in 1972 housing more than 2 million collections of human history aroound the world

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National Palace Museum
Taipei, Taiwan

This museum has the largest collection of ancient Chinesse artifacts in the world. The museum gives you a flash back of Chinesse history and impressive engineering and innovation of which some where used today like the compass, medicine and gun powder.

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Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands

This is the most pretigious museum for Dutch Golden Age. It has wide collections of paintings from famous painters like Vermeer and Rembrand.

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Museo Nacional de Antropologia
Mexico City, Mexico

This museum contains archaelogical artifacts from the pre-Columbian heritage of Mexico. The museum has exhibits like giant stone heads e Olmec Civilization and the famous Stone of the Sun.

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Prado Museum
Madrid, Spain

This musuem feature the best collections of European art from 12th Century to early 19th Century. The famous work of Velazquez are being shown here as well as the works of some Italian masters.

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Museum of Modern Art
Manhattan, USA

Considered as the most influencial of modern art in the world, this museum houses some of the works of Picasso, and the very famous Van Gogh's Starry Night. The museum is designed like a maze of glass windows that allows viewing in many angles.

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British Museum
London, England

Established in 1973, it has a wide collection numbering to more than 7 million objests, detailing human's history. It has the famous Rosetta stone and has a lot of mummies next to Egypt.

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Egyptian Museum
Cairo, Egypt

The home to at least 120,000 Egyptian relics and antiques. This museum has the famous tomb of Tutankhamen and 27 other mummies of Pharaohs. It has also a vast collection of heiroglyphs, papyrus and coins used in ancient Egypt.

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Most Famous Festivals in the World

Want to go to places where the good times literally go? This list is just right for you. It doesn't happen everyday though but one thing's for sure, you'll have fun. Below is the list of the most famous festivals celebrated around the world. Don't be left out.... Check them out.

Burning Man
Nevada, USA

Held in the middle of the Nevada dessert, the flat plains become a wide place for exhibit of out of the box art and other mayhem like concerts and mind wrecking activities. The festival culminates with the burning of a massive, builiding sized effigy. No worries were to stay, it's close to Vegas where there are a lot of hotels and celebration happens everyday.

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Oktoberfest
Munich, Germany

Not for the kids and the kids at heart. This fest is for beer drinkers. Well suited for people who are cholesterol carefree. This festival doesn't actually happen in Ocotober only. It starts end of September and ends at the first week of October. There are also live bands and parades but who cares when you're drunk?

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Mardi Gras
New Orleans, USA

Happens in the famous Bourbon Street were beads are thrown over the people gathering below, drinking and trying to get out of their old self. The Mardi Gras has also parades and events for people to enjoy located around New Orleans. I've seen a video of this once where the police loses control and the people resulted to chaos and tried to steal things from sorrounding stores. My of my... This is supposed to be a religious event.

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International Jazz Festival
Montreal, Canada

LFor 2 weeks every July, Montreal's downtown core is transformed into a hotbed of jazz, with stages dotting many major intersections. The streets a turned into concert halls and bands around the world performed around the huge crowd

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International Film Festival
Cannes, France

Held every May since 1939, this festival is being flocked by thousands. It is being held in Cote d'Azur. There is a competition between films... (more like the Oscar) but the International Film Festival is a city event were people have lot of stuff to enjoy around other than waiting who's winning what.

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South by Soutwest
Austin, USA

Also known as SXSW, this festival began in 1987 to promote local acts but now it is a big festival everyone in Texas is looking forward too because not only local bands and labels perform here but big acts too. Right now Austin helds the record for the city with the most number of music halls because of this.

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Carnivale
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

This festival is held every February or March and it has but one theme, SAMBA!!!. The colors the costumes, the floats are all crazy plus matched with street dances with infectious music that could keep you grovin.

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Love Parade
Germany

Began in 1989 this event is held every August in the Ruhr area of Germany. This festival has been immitated in different countries but still nothing beats the original. This festival turns the street into a massive dance party. Love parade is about carefree Euro style of fun.

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Fringe Festival
Edinburgh, Scotland

Probably the longest festival in this listing because it is being held for 3 weeks. WOW!!!! But why???? it is because more than 200 shows are being held every festival from musical, comedy, opera, dance to acrobatic are being shown. There is just something for everyone. The admission are very cheap also.

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Festival of San Fermin
Pamplona, Spain

Known with its famous "Bull Run".... Yup. The bulls are unleashed to chase down the people in the streets. Men put themselves in a situation where they will have a frantic dash for their lives against the raging bulls. Some for adrenaline rush while oithers are just for plain stupid bragging rights. This festival is being held every July to commemorate the Patron Saint of Pamplona. There are also other events with the traditional folkloric stuff and climaxes with the big run.

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Famous Lost Cities

 Once a city of grandeur and prosperity and some is a hiding place away from colinizers and conquerors but now it is nothing but a ghost town. Empty and shook with silence. Below is the list of the famous lost cities in the ancient world. Relieve history and visit this places to give you a feel on walking on what was once a CITY.

Petra
Jordan

Carved in the mountain walls by the Nabataean Arabs in 6th Century BC, this construction was a thing of wonder. Upon entrance to the city, you will be greeted by a 1 km narrow entrance specially designed to identify and easily secure intruders. Inhabitants slowly abadoned the place during the Roman empire because of the change of trade routes and earthquakes that damaged their water supply

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Chichen Itza
Mexico

This city is built by the Mayan Civilization. Its famous attractions were the pyramids that were temples for the Mayan gods and ball courts for a deadly sport. According to Mayan chronicles, the city was invaded by the Mayapans (another tribe) and that they followed the prophecy of no survivors that results to the lose of inhabitants in the city.

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Derinkuyu Underground City
Turkey

This underground network has 11 floors reaching to a depth of 85m and rooms for up to 50000 people plus livestock. This place was believed to have been a Christian hideout from Roman persecution.

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Machu Picchu
Peru

This city was built by the Inca's in 1400 AD. The buildings are designed in classical Inca Architecture. The city is located in the mountains of Peru at 2400 m above sea level. Conquestadors with small pox infected the inhabitants and wiped out the population

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Angkor
Cambodia

The city has many beautiful structures and temples including the Angkor Wat. The population decline after a successful invasion of invaders from Thailand.

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Pre-Roman Carthage
Tunesia

The home of Hannibal, not the psycho killer but the warrior who is the arch enemy of the Roman empire. The city was burned down during the Punic War.

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Pompeii
Italy

Built by the Romans, this city was the cultural center and vacation destination for Roman high society until the city was destroyed in 79 AD by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius

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Memphis
Egypt

Built by the Egyptians in the mouth of the Nile river, this city was the center for trade, religion and royalty. Multiple foreign invasions including those of Alexander The Great let to its demise

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Teotihuacan
Mexico

Builders of this city is still a mystery. It is still under debate who built it. The city contains the largest pyramids in the precolombian era. The collapse of the city is believed to have been caused by an internal uprising since burns were noticed in the ruins of the elite class

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Mosque City of Bagerhat
Bangladesh

Formerly known as Khalifatabad was founded by a Turkish general. It has 50 Islamic monuments and the 60-Pillar Mosque, constructed with of course 60 pillars and 80 domes. The picture of the mosque is on the right.

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