Beautiful Erawan Museum

Already during the construction, the building attracted people who came to worship. Thus it fulfilled Khun Lek Viriyapant's wish to preserve sacred objects for the country. Although both Khun Lek and Khun Pagpean died before the construction was completed, their heirs continued their wish to create a place where ceremonies and festivales of Thai traditions might be held, and that would also serve as a museum to keep the memory of Khun Lek Viriyapant's life and work alive for future generations. [Source]

Dali Museum's Spiral Staircase

This museum houses the world's most comprehensive collection of works by the renowned Spanish surrealist. In addition to housing six of the artist's masterworks, it includes oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and more than 1,000 graphics, plus posters, photos, sculptures, objets d'art, and a 5,000-volume library on Dalí and surrealism. There are free docent-led tours. [Source]

Amazing City Museum

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City Museum is a museum, consisting largely of repurposed architectural and industrial objects, housed in the former International Shoe building in the Washington Avenue Loft District of St. Louis, Missouri. City Museum was founded by artist Bob Cassilly, who remained the museum's artistic director until his death, and his then-wife Gail Cassilly. The museum's building was once an International Shoe Company factory and warehouse but was mostly vacant when the Cassillys bought it in 1983. Construction began in January 1995 and the building opened to the public on October 25, 1997. The museum has since expanded, adding new exhibits such as MonstroCity in 2002, Enchanted Caves and Shoe Shaft in 2003, and World Aquarium in 2004. [Wiki]

The Vatican Museum

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. They were visited by 4,310,083 people in the year 2007. The Vatican Museums broke attendance records in 2011 with just over 5 million people. [Source]

Egyptian Museum

The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or Museum of Cairo, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. [Source]

The Hermitage Museum

Originally, the only building housing the collection was the 'Small Hermitage'. Today, the Hermitage Museum encompasses many buildings on the Palace Embankment and its neighbourhoods. Apart from the Small Hermitage, the museum now also includes the 'Old Hermitage' (also called 'Large Hermitage'), the 'New Hermitage', the 'Hermitage Theatre', and the 'Winter Palace', the former main residence of the Russian tsars. In recent years, the Hermitage has expanded to the General Staff Building on the Palace Square in front of the Winter Palace, and the Menshikov Palace. [Source]

The Metropolitan Museum

Commonly known as The Met, it contains more than 2 million works of art from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Lace up your most comfortable shoes and start exploring a world of endless art and culture. [Source]

The Uffizi Gallery

You won't find more big-shot names of Italian art stuck in one place at the same time. Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Giotto, Titian, Michelangelo, Raphael we can go on and on mentioning iconic names that might ring a bell. The list is impressive, but even more is the artwork found within the Uffizi walls. [Source]

National Gallery of Canada

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The National Gallery of Canada, located in the capital city Ottawa, Ontario, is one of Canada's premier art galleries. The Gallery was first formed in 1880 by Canada's Governor General John Douglas Sutherland Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, and, in 1882, moved into its first home on Parliament Hill in the same building as the Supreme Court. [Wiki]

London Transport Museum

Located in the Covent Garden, it is a museum which preserves all aspects of the transport heritage of London. It has another location in Acton, but it is the London Transport Museum Depot, where a lot of the stuff is kept in stores, but tourists are allowed to visit. [Source]

National Museum of Natural History

Another vital cog in the Smithsonian complex in the nation’s capital, the National Museum of Natural History has over 125 million natural science specimens and cultural artifacts. The size of 18 football fields, the museum has phenomenal dinosaur exhibits, rare gemstones and over 400,000 anthropological photographs. [Source]

National Air and Space Museum

 

Part of the preeminent Smithsonian Institution, the National Air and Space Museum has the best collection of historic air and spacecraft in the world. As a foremost center for planetary science, aviation technology and space exploration, the museum is peerless. [Source]

California Academy of Sciences

Since 1853 the California Academy of Sciences has been a paramount center for knowledge and discovery. A recent move into a spectacular location in beautiful Golden Gate Park showcases the formative facility to a brand new generation. [Source]

Field Museum, Chicago

With an original mission to house biological and anthropological collections for the World’s Expo in 1893, the superlative Field Museum has since expanded to include more than 20 million specimens. The facility also features a library with over a quarter of a million volumes. [Source]

Museum of Science, Boston

The popular Museum of Science in Boston is one of the best in the country, with IMAX and 3-D digital cinema, planetarium and full-motion simulator. All in all, over 1.6 million people visit the museum’s 400 plus exhibits every year. [Source]

Adler Planetarium

The Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum was the first to be built in North America. The National Historic Landmark has two giant planetarium theaters and has undergone several recent additions of note. [Source]

Pacific Science Center

The Pacific Science Center in Seattle is one of the most popular museums in the Emerald City. Permanent collections include the Tropical Butterfly House, Puget Sound Model and Saltwater Tidepool, Science Playground and Insect Village. [Source]

Dalí Museum

The museum's signature architectural detail is a wave of glass paneling that undulates around the building -- a striking feature that was designed by architect Yann Weymouth, who had a hand in creating the glass pyramid at the Louvre in Paris. [Source]

Assut de l'Or Bridge, Spain

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The Assut de l'Or Bridge is a suspension bridge, designed by Valencian architect and civil engineer Santiago Calatrava, and fully completed in December 2008. The bridge is located in central Valencia, Spain, in its City of Arts and Sciences complex, which also includes a science museum ,a marine park, and an opera house. [Wiki]

Simone Handbag Museum

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The Simone Handbag Museum in Seoul, South Korea is a museum dedicated to handbags. 300 bags are on display at the museum, dating from 1550 to the present day. The museum is housed in a 10 storey building called Bagstage. The museum is divided into two halves, Twentieth Century and Contemporary, and Historic (1500-1900). The museum opened on July 19, 2012 in Seoul's Gangnam District, in a building resembling a handbag. The collection was established by Kenny Park, CEO of Simone Handbags, and was assembled and curated by Judith Clark, Professor of Fashion and Museology at the London College of Fashion. [Wiki]