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There are a huge number of museums in the world. Each country has its own museum, which has collected the most unique, original exhibits. Tourists love to visit museums as they can get to know the culture, traditions, and history of the country better through museums. But how to choose exactly the institution that would be interesting for you to visit? We have collected many interesting facts about this or that museum in the world to make it easier for you to choose the place you want to visit first of all:

  • The world’s oldest public museum is the Capitoline Museum in Rome, founded by Pope Sixtus IV in 1471 when he donated some of the antique sculptures from his collection to the Roman people;
  • The first nationalized museum in Russia was the Tretyakov Gallery. In 1918-1920. special decrees were issued on the nationalization of the collections of S. I. Shchukin, I. A. Morozov, the house of L. N. Tolstoy in Moscow, and others;
  • One of the most famous museums in the world is the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, to go around it all, and without stopping, it will take 12.5 hours;
  • There is a unique museum in Amsterdam – “Museum-Body”. It looks like a model of a person, 35 meters high, and accurately imitates the human body. The museum is equipped with very accurate imitations of all processes of the human body. The specialty of the museum is that in addition to the visual effect, visitors also receive sound and charming additions that allow them to create a completely real picture of the life of the human body;
  • In 1961, the New York Museum of Modern Art exhibited a painting by Henri Matisse “The Boat”. Only after 40 days did someone notice that the painting was hanging upside down;
  • The Louvre Museum in Paris receives 8.5 million visitors annually, making it the most visited museum in the world. The three most visited are also the British Museum (5.8 million visitors a year) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (5.2 million visitors a year);
  • The British Museum collection contains at least 8 million objects and covers two million years of human history;
  • The highest museum, Casa de la Moneda, is the Mint and National Museum in Potosi, Bolivia, at 4,100 meters above sea level;
  • The world’s smallest museum “Baublys” is located in … a hollow of an old oak tree in the Lithuanian village of Bietai. The museum has officially existed since 1812;
  • The first Art Museum of Garbage (“MU-MU”) in Russia was opened in the Kaluga Region. The exposition of the museum presents works made from household waste found in landfills. Things that have served their time in the hands of skilled craftsmen acquire a second cheerful and sometimes useful life, turn into real art objects;
  • The Snowflake Museum is a small and charming institution dedicated exclusively to snowflakes. Built in the form of a European castle, it is located on the island of Hokkaido in Japan. In this museum you can see a lot of photographs of a wide variety of snowflakes and learn how snowflakes appear and take their shape, as well as how they are grown;
  • There is a childhood museum in London (UK);
  • there is a Children’s Museum in Baden (Switzerland). Its exposition tells children … about children – why they are curious, why they play games, why they don’t want to learn the multiplication table;
  • In the Tamper Art Museum (Finland) there is the Valley of the Mimu-trolls with this five-story Moomin house, where the beloved heroes of the writer Tove Janson settled;
  • Several unusual museums have been created for children in Moscow: the Bratnino-Pinocchio Museum, the Soyuz Cartoon Film Studio Museum, the Zabavushka Museum of the Folk Toy, the Doll House, the Museum of Unique Dolls, the Baron Munchausen Museum;
  • In Italy, there is the Museum of Tin Soldiers, the Museum of Puppets.

The most unusual museums

  1. In London, at Leeds Castle, there is the Dog Collars Museum.
  2. There is a Museum of Bad Art in Massachusetts, USA.
  3. In the German city of Küritz, there is a Museum of Lies.
  4. In the city of Independence (USA) there is a hair museum, all exhibits of which, and these are 2500 different items – wreaths, jewelry, accessories, are made of human hair.
  5. In the small town of Roswell in the United States, the International UFO Museum is open.
  6. Hollywood is home to the Guinness Book of Records Museum. His collection is divided into sections “Human World”, “Animal World”, “Planet Earth”, “Devices and Mechanisms”, “Sports” and “Entertainment”.
  7. There is a Museum of Unusual Things in Chicago.
  8. There is a Museum of Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Xi’an (China).
  9. There is a Barbed Wire Museum in La Crosse (USA).
  10. There is a Harry Potter Museum in London (UK).
  11. There is the James Bond Museum in Keswick (UK).
  12. In Wattens (Austria) there is the Swarovski Crystal Museum. (Swarovski Kristallwelten). The Crystal Museum has 16 rooms where you can see a crystal in all imaginable and inconceivable variations, including the smallest and largest crystals included in the Guinness Book of Records.

It is in museums that mankind keeps its treasures, the age of which sometimes exceeds the age of mankind itself by millions of years. And it’s good that our ancestors once thought of exposing exhibitions in one place, thereby introducing other people to new knowledge.