Showing posts with the label Museum

Musée des Plans-Reliefs

Jan 9, 2024

In the Hôtel des Invalides in the 7th arrondissement of Paris, France, is a museum dedicated to detailed military models of important towns ...

Ennigaldi-Nanna: The World’s First Museum Curator Was a Woman

Sep 7, 2023

In 1925, when British archeologist Leonard Woolley and his team were excavating at Ur, in the modern-day Dhi Qar Governorate of Iraq, they d...

Micrarium: The Museum of Microscopic Animals

Jul 23, 2021

It is said that more than 95 percent of animal species are smaller than your thumb, yet the vast majority of the creatures that are displaye...

The Space Museum Inside a Church

Oct 13, 2020

About 80 km outside of Kyiv, in the small Ukrainian town of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, there is a large complex of museums dedicated to preser...

The Ruins of Washburn A Mill, Minneapolis

Dec 30, 2019

The tasteful ruins on the banks of the Mississippi River from which rises the Minneapolis’ Mill City Museum serves as a reminder to the site...