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Apartheid Museum – The rise and fall of apartheid in Johannesburg
The part of the Gold Reef City complex, was opened in November 2001. The museum illustrating apartheid and the 20th century history of South Africa. The Pillars of the Constitution is the first exhibit. Located in the courtyard, it includes one pillar for each of the seven values that are enshrined tin the South African Constitution: democracy, […]
Cueva de las Manos – The Cave of Hands in Santa Cruz
The images of hands are negative painted. Most of the hands are left hands, which suggests that painters held the spray pipe with their right hand or they put the back of their right hand to the wall and held the spray pipe with their left hand. Besides these there are also depictions of human beings, felines […]
El Museo del Oro – The Museum of Gold in Bogotá
The museum displays a selection of pre-Columbian gold and other metal alloys, such as Tumbaga, and contains the largest collection of gold artifacts in the world. The museum has a collection of pottery, stone, shell, wood and textile objects, these items, made of a– to indigenous cultures – sacred metal, testify to the life and thought of […]
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles
The museum set to open on December 2020, will be the nation’s first large-scale museum entirely dedicated to the art, science, craft, business, and history of film. The exhibits will provide an immersive experience for visitors to explore the cultural and creative contributions that Hollywood and the film industry have made around the world. The Museum will […]
Grammy Awards – The interactive Grammy Museum in Los Angeles
The Museum is an interactive, educational museum devoted to the history and winners of the Grammy Awards. In addition to the original in downtown Los Angeles, there is also in Cleveland, Mississippi and a Grammy Museum at Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee. The Grammy Museum Experience opened in autumn 2017 at the Prudential Center in […]
The Greenland National Museum in Nuuk
One of the first museums established in Greenland, inaugurated on August 23rd 1966. It is based in a warehouse which was built in 1936. The museum has many artefacts related to archaeology, history, art, and handicrafts and also has information about ruins, buildings etc. The museum also houses a display on social change in the 1950s and […]
The Linzi Football Museum in Zibo
Cuju an ancient Chinese football game, is the very earliest form of football. It is a competitive game that involves kicking a ball through an opening into a net. The use of hands is not allowed. Invented in the Han dynasty, it is recognized by FIFA as the earliest form of football for which there is evidence, […]
