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O Museu do Índio (The Museum of the Indigenous Populations) is a cultural and scientific agency of the Fundação Nacional dos Povos Indígenas (National Foundation of Indigenous Populations) or FUNAI. It was created by Darcy Ribeiro, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1953. As the only official institution in Brazil...
The Odesa Archaeological Museum is one of the oldest archaeological museums in Ukraine. It was founded in 1825; the current museum building was completed in 1883 according to a design by Polish architect Feliks Gąsiorowski. Since 1997, the Odesa Archaeological Museum has functioned not only as a museum but also...
The National Museum of Damascus (الْمَتْحَفُ الْوَطَنِيُّ بِدِمَشْقَ) is a museum in the heart of Damascus, Syria. As the country’s national museum as well as its largest, this museum covers the entire range of Syrian history over a span of over 11 millennia. It displays various important artifacts, relics and...
In 2003, Her Majesty Queen Sirikit The Queen Mother requested permission to use a then-vacant building on the grounds of the Grand Palace to house a new museum of textiles. The Ratsadakorn-bhibhathana Building was graciously granted for this purpose by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great. The establishment of...
The Vietnam National Museum of History is a public service unit under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, which is at the forefront of the system of Vietnam’s history-society museums. The Museum has the function of researching, excavating, collecting, storing, inventorying, preserving, displaying, introducing, and promoting the value of...
Egypt’s Capitals Museum (ECM) is located in the City of Arts and Culture in the New Administrative Capital. The museum is designed to shed light on the most important Egyptian capitals, starting from Memphis; the first capital in the Pharaonic era, to the New Administrative Capital. This is done by...
Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ (informally Universidad San Francisco, or simply USFQ) is a liberal-arts, private university located in Quito, Ecuador. It was the first totally private self-financed university in Ecuador and the first liberal-arts institution in the Andean region. (Wikipedia). It is now one of the top three...
Since its establishment in 1984, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation (BOCCF) has developed a wealth of activities, in keeping with the objectives originally delineated for the Cultural Foundation by the Bank of Cyprus. The Foundation’s main strategic aims are to encourage the research and study of Cypriot civilisation in...
Tianjin Museum is the largest museum in Tianjin, China, exhibiting a range of cultural and historical relics significant to Tianjin. The unique architectural style of the museum, whose appearance resembles that of a swan spreading its wings, has meant that it is quickly becoming one of the city’ iconic buildings. It is...
The Privy Council of Bhutan is based in Thimpu, the capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is responsible for: all matters pertaining to the privileges and conduct of the King and the royal family; rendering advice to the King on matters concerning the Throne and the royal family; all...
Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum was built based on the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, which was historically known as Lishan Garden and is the largest imperial tomb in China. In February, 2009, the local bureau of cultural heritage declared the establishment of the Museum. The site area retains the...
The Nubian Museum (officially the International Museum of Nubia) is an archaeological museum located in Aswan, Upper Egypt. The Nubian Museum was opened in 1997, with its distinctive architectural design clad in local sandstone and pink granite, reflecting traditional local Nubian architecture. The museum has three floors, exhibiting thousands of artefacts that shed light on...