Tag: Museum
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Museum of the President's Cultural Centre of Kazakhstan, Astana
(the former) Museum of the President's Cultural Centre of Kazakhstan ( ) [UPDATE 2022: since Nazabayev stepped down as president, and has by now also been...
PLTD Apung 1
stranded power generating ship, Banda Aceh This is the second most important tsunami-related sight in Banda Aceh (after the Tsunami Museum ).
Hoia Forest
The Hoia-Baciu Forest (Romanian: PΔdurea Hoia-Baciu, Hungarian: HΓ³ja erdΕ) is a forest situated to the west of the city of Cluj-Napoca, near the open-air...
Chateau Laroche
ChΓ’teau Laroche, also known as the Loveland Castle, is a museum on the banks of the Little Miami River north of Loveland, Ohio, United States.
Ossario di Custoza
Museum in Italy. Ossario di Custoza is a notable monument site in Sommacampagna, Italy, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Unit 731 Museum
This has to be one of the darkest places on Earth.
Museo del sacrario militare di Redipuglia
Museum in Italy. Museo del sacrario militare di Redipuglia is a notable monument site in Fogliano Redipuglia, Italy, known for its unusual character and...
Erchless Estate
Estate in Oakville, Ontario housing the Oakville Museum.
Belle Vue Zoological Gardens
was a large zoo, amusement park, exhibition hall complex, and speedway stadium in Belle Vue, Manchester, England, that opened in 1836.
Autotron
Former automobile museum in Rosmalen, the Netherlands. Autotron is a notable abandoned site, known for its unusual character and eerie atmosphere.
Alpha
is an unincorporated community in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, United States. Its altitude is 1165 feet (355 m).
El Alamein Italian Military Memorial
The Italian war memorial at El Alamein is an Italian war cemetery, museum, and memorial to the Italian soldiers who fought at the two Battles of El...
Catacombs of Lima
The Catacombs of Lima (Spanish: Catacumbas de Lima) are underground ossuaries in the historic centre of Lima, Peru.
Chiran Kamikaze museum
& shrine The premier memorial space in Japan devoted to those 'special attack groups' known as Kamikaze pilots.
Kanchanaburi, Thailand
A provincial capital city in the western region of Thailand of the same name.
9th Fort
and Monument, Kaunas The top dark site in the area of Kaunas , Lithuania , hands down. In fact it's three sites in one, as it were.
Hoxha pyramid, Tirana, Albania
Hoxha pyramid A rather bizarre building in the middle of Albania 's capital city Tirana .
MaarjamΓ€e memorial complex
There are three distinct points of interest here.
Gori war museum
( if you can read Russian) A small museum in the Georgian town of Gori , which is better known for its large Stalin Museum .
Srebrenica
PotoΔari memorial site The memorial for what is known as the Srebrenica massacre, or even Srebrenica genocide , committed in July 1995 by Bosnian Serbs...
Eichsfeld border land museum
Yet another of Germany 's border museums on the former Iron Curtain division line between the FRG (West) and GDR (East).
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
The central memorial space dedicated to commemorating the A-bombing of Hiroshima .
Germany Embassy
At the end of a quiet street in the Reservoir Road residential area, this building, intended to house the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in...
Buenos Aires
The capital city of Argentina and one of Latin America's mega-metropolises (with some 12 million inhabitants) and main cultural hubs.
Trinity
It was here, in the middle of the desert of the White Sands range in southern New Mexico, USA , that the first ever atomic bomb was detonated β in a test...
Kinaxixe Market
The Kinaxixe Market (1950-1958), demolished in 2008, was a reference of the modern movement in Luanda and the first work designed by Vasco Vieira da Costa...
Fragonard Museum
Paris The Fragonard Museum, or Musee Fragonard, which is part of Paris 's veterinary university Ecole nationale veterinaire d'Alfort (ENVA for short), is...
Fjaerland glacier museum
A modern museum in Norway near Europe's largest mainland glacier, Jostedalsbreen, which is also the museum's main topic.
MΓΌnchner Platz Memorial, Dresden
( for German speakers ) Part of a former courthouse and prison in Dresden , Germany , that was used as an execution site both by the Nazis in the Third...
Grenoble Architecture School
βThe definition of a New Brutalist building derived from Hunstanton and Yale Art Centre, above, must be modified so as to exclude formality as a basic...
Barringer Meteor Crater
This site has to be regarded as the quintessential meteorite crater on Earth.
Stutthof concentration camp
The concentration camp that the Nazis set up at the start of World War II for the Danzig/ Gdansk area, as the first such camp in what is today Poland .
BallinStadt emigration museum
Hamburg A museum chronicling the waves of emigration from Europe to the New World, mostly the USA , as well as migration in general.
Dalhousie Arts Centre
The Dalhousie Arts Centre, at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, contains a number of theatres (including an outdoor rooftop theatre),...
Villa Grimaldi - Parque por la Paz
Villa Grimaldi β Parque por la Paz The site of a former clandestine detention and torture centre under the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile from 1973, and...
Gori, Georgia
A town north-west of Georgia 's capital Tbilisi , and famous as the birthplace of Josef Stalin .
Sorge open-air border museum
Another border museum on the former line of division between Germany East ( GDR ) and West ( FRG ) during the era of the Iron Curtain and the Cold War .
National Museum of Funeral History Houston
National Museum of Funeral History A museum in the north of Houston, Texas, USA , whose descriptive name sufficiently gives away what it is about: funeral...
KlenovΓ‘ Castle
(Czech: Hrad a zΓ‘mek KlenovΓ‘) is a large castle located in southwest Bohemia near the town of Klatovy.
Kobariski muzej
KobariΕ‘ki Muzej A multiple-award-winning museum in Kobarid , Slovenia , about World War One and in particular about the Isonzo Front.
White Rose memorial museum Munich
White Rose memorial DenkStΓ€tte WeiΓe Rose A small memorial museum in Munich dedicated to the "WeiΓe Rose" resistance movement in Nazi Germany during WWII...
Cape Town
The second capital of South Africa (officially the first is Pretoria, but parliament, government and president are partially based in Cape Town too).
Banjica
A small museum in Belgrade commemorating one of Nazi Germany 's concentration camps in the Balkans during the occupation of Serbia in WWII from June 1941.
Monument to the 1973 uprising, Bangkok
A monument to and exhibition about the violent clashes between protesters and government forces in 1973, near the Democracy Monument, where protesters...
Radio Centro
For the construction of this building, a permit was granted in 1947 in accordance with the functions it would perform, due to the ordinances that existed...
Heimaey
Heimaey is the name of the largest and only inhabited island of the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago ("Westman Islands" in English) just off the south coast of...
Los Alamos
Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos Los Alamos is the place where the USA 's very first nuclear weapons were developed in the Manhattan Project .
Groningen Music-Video Pavilion | Peter Eisenman
A few weeks ago, we published one of the five projects that were built for the Event What a Wonderful World!
D-Day sites in Normandy
D-Day museums and memorials in Normandy The β D-Day β landings of Operation Overload, i.e.
Museo Criminologico
(crime museum), Rome An unusual and rather little known specialist museum in central Rome that is about the wider subject of crime and punishment.
Dresden
A city in the south-east of Germany that is in the dark annals of world history primarily as the victim of one of the worst aerial bombing raids in the...
St Vicente de Paul Chapel
This article is part of the Hidden Architecture Series βTentative dβΓpuisementβ , where we explore the practice of an architectural criticism without...
Halifax, Nova Scotia
A harbour town on the east coast of Nova Scotia, Canada , whose maritime heritage includes a couple of particularly dark ones.
Churchill War Rooms
London The underground bunker rooms in Whitehall, London , which served as the secret headquarters for Winston Churchill and his war cabinet from where...
Dallas Holocaust Museum
Another Holocaust Museum in the USA , this one is in Dallas , Texas.
Ho Chi Minh Museum, Hanoi
Ho Chi Minh Museum (but weirdness factor 10!) A museum in Hanoi , Vietnam , about the country's deceased great communist leader.
Behrungen border memorial sites
An ensemble of relics of the former " Iron Curtain " in Germany , i.e.
Seaplane Harbour
museum A modern, award-winning, recent addition to Tallinn 's portfolio of attractions. The Seaplane Harbour Museum is housed in a huge three-domed hangar.
Meguro Parasitological Museum
A small specialist medical museum in Japan 's capital Tokyo β in fact it's said to be the world's only museum dedicated to the singe topic of parasites.
USAF Museum Dayton
USAF Museum with the "Bockscar" A huge museum in Dayton, Ohio, of (mostly) US military aircraft, the star piece of which, from a dark perspective, has to...
Enola Gay
The "Enola Gay" (for the plane alone; for the whole museum) This is the original B-29 bomber plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima β now an...
Norwegian Resistance Museum Oslo
A well-established museum in Oslo about the Norwegian Resistance during the German occupation in WWII .
Kanchanaburi WWII Museum, Thailand
Kanchanaburi World War II Museum (where it is dark β otherwise 1, but weirdness: 10) - A private museum right by the Bridge over the River Kwai in...
Mother Ukraine Monument
Motherland (Ukrainian: ΠΠ°ΡΡΠΊΡΠ²ΡΠΈΠ½Π°-ΠΠ°ΡΠΈ, romanized: Batβkivszchyna-Maty [bΙtΚ²kΚ²iuΜ―ΛΚtΚΙͺnΙ ΛmΙtΙͺ]) is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital...
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins & memorial hall
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church ruins The landmark WWII church ruin in West Berlin , the main tower left in its semi-collapsed state to serve as a...
Das ZΓΌblin-Haus
One has lost the reference to the environmental context by increasing the isolation of the building through symmetries and repetitions.
Gisozi Genocide Memorial Centre, Kigali, Rwanda
Kigali Genocide Memorial The main memorial centre for the Rwandan genocide .
Blood Road Museum
A small museum about the construction of a vital road in northern Norway during the occupation of the country by Nazi Germany .
Palazzo di Brera
Palazzo Brera or Palazzo di Brera is a monumental palace in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It was a Jesuit college for two hundred years.
Glienicke Bridge & Museum
Glienicke Bridge & Museum A small bridge with a big history, located right on the border between (West) Berlin and Potsdam .
DMZ, Vietnam
DMZ, Central Vietnam An area in Central Vietnam which used to be the "demilitarized zone" (DMZ) between North and South Vietnam.
Chicago
The third-largest city in the USA , (after New York and L.A. ) and one of its most spectacular as far as skyline (skyscrapers!) and location are concerned.
Slavutych Museum
( ) ---------------------------- UPDATE 2 March 2022: due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, this site will be out of tourism reach for some time to come.
New York City
The "Big Apple", the biggest city, though not the capital city of the USA (that's Washington D.C.
Oradour-sur-Glane
A former village in France which in WWII was virtually wiped out on 10 June 1944 when SS -soldiers (of the "Das Reich" unit) massacred nearly the entire...
Technopark
With the justification of creating not an ordinary office building, but a new range of workplaces serving both production and research, the Zurich...
Ornithological Museum
The Ornithological Museum of Hauts de Bonaguil, built in 1995, received the 1st Midi-Pyrenees 2001 architecture prize for cultural places, and was...
Nanjing Massacre Memorial
The Nanjing massacre (often also referred to as "The rape of Nanking" ) was one of the biggest war crimes committed by Japan during their war against...
Anti-War Museum
A small private museum in Berlin with a big mission: promoting pacifism and β as the name implies β "fighting" against all war.
Bad Sachsa border land museum
A small museum on the theme of the former " Iron Curtain " border between East Germany ( GDR ) and West Germany.
Red Cross Museum Narvik
Red Cross Museum, Narvik A museum in the town of Narvik , in northern Norway , which played a particularly important role in WWII .
Cambodian Landmine Museum
Landmine Museum A small private museum run by an ex-soldier-turned-mine-clearer alongside an NGO/charity near Siem Reap (Angkor), Cambodia .
MΓΆdlareuth border museum
UPDATE: a new museum building at this site has opened on 9 November 2025. I guess I'll have to go on a revisit to check this out at some point.
LiMa IBA Housing
Designed as part of the 1987 International Building Exhibition (IBA) in Berlin, a showcase of exemplary housing designs by architects from around the...
Oakland Museum
The Oakland Museum, although it was the first project by the firm of Kevin Roche, John Dinkeloo, and Associates, remains relatively unknown outside the...
Los Angeles
The largest city in California, and the second largest (after New York ) in the whole of the USA .
Mediterranean Culture Center
The Mediterranean Culture Center was a proposal by Ricardo Bofill to create a public institution that combined research and exhibition.
Museum of Communism Prague
Museum of Communism, Prague A small private museum in Prague about the history and nature of communism in the CSSR and its downfall.
Piata Revolutiei Bucharest
Piata Revolutiei, Bucharest A square in central Bucharest β and the place where some of the most iconic footage of the Romanian revolution of 1989 was...
Cimitero della Certosa
The Certosa di Bologna is a former Carthusian monastery (or charterhouse) in Bologna, northern Italy, which was founded in 1334 and suppressed in 1797.
Artsakh State Museum
lost places : Artsakh State Museum ( formerly ) This was a small museum in Stepanakert , the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh , about local history β including...
Convent and Institute of Beata Vergine Addolorata
The architecture has a very uniform design in plan, laid out on five levels: the first floor, containing the entrance and refectories, from which extend...
Funeral Museum Vienna
Funeral Museum The world's first museum on the subject of funerals β and of course it had to be in Vienna !
Ellis Island
New York An island in the bay that the mouth of the Hudson River forms south of the tip of Manhattan, New York .
Army Museum Paris
Army Museum & Napoleon's tomb One of Europe's premier military museums, which amongst many things has extensive sections about World War One and Two...
OBSCURED BY CLOUDS: Museum of Modern Art
This article is part of Obscured by Clouds, a personal project curated by Biljana JanjuΕ‘eviΔ about architectural heritage of Balkans region, with emphasis...
Kihoku Astronomical Museum
is a notable architectural project in Kanoya, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.
National Museum of Korean Literature
The walk through history of Korean literature will be the backbone of this project. The building runs along a gently sloping path down the hillside.
Sobibor
SobibΓ³r The site in eastern Poland of one of the three death camps of Operation Reinhard in 1942/43, the very deadliest phase of the entire Holocaust .
Military History Museum Dresden
Military History Museum, Dresden - A museum in Dresden that has to be regarded as the boldest military museum ever attempted!