History

Louis XIV's sun king palace, transformed into a museum dedicated to the glories of France in 1837 by Louis Philippe. The Hall of M...

Founded while the First World War still raged, to record the effort and sacrifice of the empire. Its Lambeth building, a former Be...

Built around the warship Vasa, which sank 1,300 meters into its maiden voyage in Stockholm harbor in 1628 and was raised in 1961, ...

Denmark's central museum of cultural history in the 18th century Prince's Palace. The Sun Chariot of Trundholm, Golden Horns of Ga...

The canal house where Anne Frank and seven others hid from 1942 to 1944, preserved with the secret bookcase entrance. Her diary, r...

Russia's national history museum in a red-brick pseudo-Russian fairy tale building on Red Square, between the Kremlin wall and St ...

The Smithsonian's keeper of the nation's memory. The Star-Spangled Banner flag that flew over Fort McHenry in 1814, first ladies' ...

Shrine, museum, and archive in one, conceived by war historian Charles Bean as a place of quiet commemoration. The Hall of Memory ...

The Ottoman sultans' court for 400 years, turned into a museum by the Republic. The treasury holds the Topkapi Dagger and the 86-c...

India's largest museum, begun with artifacts shown at the Royal Academy in 1947. The Dancing Girl and Harappan civilization galler...

The Smithsonian museum opened on the National Mall in 2016, a century after Black Civil War veterans first proposed a national mem...

America's national memorial to the Holocaust opened beside the National Mall in 1993. Visitors receive an identification card tell...

Israel's official memorial to the victims of the Holocaust, established by law in 1953 on the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem. M...

Opened in 1955 in Kenzo Tange's Peace Memorial Park, near the hypocenter of the atomic bomb dropped on 6 August 1945. Exhibits inc...

Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, the national museum, opened on Wellington's waterfront in 1998, merging the former nation...