Category Archives: Folk Culture

Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana, Russia

The Yasnaya Polyana (Russian: Я́сная Поля́на) is a writer’s house museum, the former home of the writer Leo Tolstoy. Yasnaya Polyana estate is located in the very center of Middle Russia, with its quiet but strikingly moving nature, and is likewise modest, but beautiful and noble in its simplicity. The…

Museum-estate of Leo Tolstoy Yasnaya Polyana, Russia

Melbourne Museum, Carlton, Australia

Museum Victoria is the largest public museums organisation in Australia. It cares for Victoria’s scientific and cultural collections and provides visitor access, activities and events at four venues: Melbourne Museum including IMAX, Immigration Museum, Scienceworks and the Royal Exhibition Building. Museums Victoria is an organisation which operates three major state-owned…

Melbourne Museum, Carlton, Australia

Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, Gyōda-shi, Japan

The Saitama Prefectural Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds (埼玉県立さきたま史跡の博物館) is a museum in Gyōda, Saitama, Japan. The building is inside of Sakitama Kofun Park. The Saitama Prefectural Sakitama Historic Site Museum (Saitama Commuter Sakitama Shikibu Tsukuba Tsukuba) has maintained the Saitama Tumulus Group (national historic site) consisting of…

Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds, Gyōda-shi, Japan

Museum of Silhak, Namyangju-si, South Korea

The Museum of Silhak (실학박물관) is an Eco-Museum dedicated to establishing Gyeonggi-do’s identity by collecting Silhak-related materials, exhibitions, and experience programs on late Joseon’s philosophy on reform and self-reflection. As an educational course, the Cham-Silhak Class is a program designed for students and scheduled to fit the five- school day…

Museum of Silhak, Namyangju-si, South Korea

Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Massachusetts, United States

The Museum of Russian Icons is a non-profit art museum located in Clinton, Massachusetts, in the United States. The collection includes more than 700 Russian icons and related artifacts, making it one of the largest private collections of Russian icons outside of Russia and the largest in North America. The…

Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton, Massachusetts, United States

Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell, Norwich, United Kingdom

The Museum of Norwich (until 2014 called The Bridewell Museum), in Bridewell Alley, was closed in 2010 for a major refurbishment of the building and overhaul of the displays, and re-opened in July 2012. There are several galleries and groups of displays. These include “Life in Norwich: Our City 1900–1945”;…

Museum of Norwich at the Bridewell, Norwich, United Kingdom

Museum of Natural History of Venice, Italy

Museum of Natural History of Venice (Italian: Museo di Storia Naturale di Venezia) is a museum of natural history housed in Fondaco dei Turchi, located on the Grand Canal, Venice, Italy. Its collections relate mainly to the natural history of the Venetian lagoon that surrounds the city. Today it is…

Museum of Natural History of Venice, Italy

Museum of Innocence, Turkey

The Museum of Innocence (Turkish: Masumiyet Müzesi) is a novel by Orhan Pamuk, Nobel-laureate Turkish novelist published on August 29, 2008. The book, set in Istanbul between 1975 and 1984, is an account of the love story between the wealthy businessman Kemal and a poorer distant relative of his, Füsun.…

Museum of Innocence, Turkey

Museum of Ethnic Cultures, Minzu University of China

The Museum of Ethnic Cultures (Chinese: 中央民族大学民族博物馆) , founded in 1951, covers a building area of 4800 m2 with the exhibition area of 1800 m2. It is a museum of ethnology specializing in preservation, display and study of ethnic cultural relics of 56 ethnic groups in China. Preserved in it…

Museum of Ethnic Cultures, Minzu University of China

Museum of Ethnic Costumes, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China

Ethnic Costume Museum of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (Chinese: 北京服装学院 BIFT), established with the approval of Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage, is the first museum specializing in ethnic costumes in China. The Museum is also a cultural research institute integrating collection, display, research, and teaching. As the top…

Museum of Ethnic Costumes, Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, China

Museum of African American History, Boston & Nantucket, United States

The Museum of African American History in Boston and Nantucket is the largest institution of its kind in New England and is dedicated to sharing the rich legacy of African American accomplishments. For nearly five decades, the Museum’s education programs, exhibits and events have interpreted the economic, literary, educational, political,…

Museum of African American History, Boston & Nantucket, United States

Museum Nasional Indonesia

The National Museum of Indonesia is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as Elephant Building (Indonesian: Gedung Gajah) after the elephant statue in its forecourt. Its broad collections cover all of…

Museum Nasional Indonesia

Museum A.P Chekhov, Melikhovo, Russia

The house-museum of A.P. Chekhov (Russian: Дом-музей А.П. Чехова ), also know as the department of the State Literary Museum (Otdel Gosudarstvennogo Literaturnogo Muzeya). Melikhovo is a writer’s house museum in the former country estate of the Russian playwright and writer Anton Chekhov. Chekhov lived in the estate from March…

Museum A.P Chekhov, Melikhovo, Russia

Pallarols Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Juan Carlos Pallarols is an internationally renowned Argentine silversmith. He has made pieces of great aesthetic, technical and historical value, such as the Bastones de Mando of several Argentine presidents, official gifts commissioned by different leaders, and special works for companies and organizations and even papal chalices. From 1750 in…

Pallarols Museum, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche Faenza, Italy

The International Museum of Ceramics in Faenza (Italian: Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche Faenza MIC) is one of the most important museums of ceramic art in the world, and is located in Faenza. The MIC Foundation was founded in 1908 and represents one of the greatest Museums devoted to ceramics in…

Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche Faenza, Italy

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