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MUSEUMS & EXHIBITIONS
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ENGLAND
WATSON! THE BREW IS AFOOT!
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB
Best collection
of Sherlockiana
and recreation of the rooms at 221B Baker Street
THE
STRATFORD MAN
Literature’s greatest mystery - Did He or Didn’t He?
Museum and display of the Shakespeare birthplace, but does this well trod tourist
sight hide a secret.
STEAM
TRAINSPOTTING IN OXFORDSHIRE
Didcot
Railway Center
Steam rail and locomotive museum for railroading enthusiasts the Didcot centre
is
one
of
England's
most
complete.
UP
RIVER WITHOUT AN OAR
Rowing and Revolution at Henley-on-Thames
England's rowing history on the River Thames
at the museum of rowing and a hotel that has been host to three kings of history.
BLENHEIM
PALACE
Walk a mile in Winston Churchill’s slippers
Grand Baroque palace of 1st Duke of Marlborough, birthplace of
Winston Churchill with collections.
WARWICK
CASTLE
Medieval Ghosts and Love Birds
One of best preserved Medieval Castles in England with armor,
historic displays and activities
for families and history buffs alike.
600
YEARS OF
HOSPITALITY AND HISTORY
The Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick
Half-Timbered medieval home for wounded soldiers and once the center
for Warwickshire trade guilds founded by Richard II
THREE
LONDON MUSEUMS FOR THE PRICE OF FREE
Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory
Nautical family activies and astronomy history at Britain's National Maritime
Museum and the Queen's House.
THE
CHARLES DICKENS MUSEUM
A Social Conscience of Victorian England
The London House where the great author wrote Oliver Twist, letter artffacts,
live readings and exhibitions.
KING
TUT BLITZES
LONDON O2
King Tutankhamun Royal Treasures Return to England.
BRITISH
MUSEUM FIRST EMPEROR EXHIBIT
Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin until April 08.
MANCHESTER
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & INDUSTRY
Industrial Revolution history of steam, ride the "Rocket" Replica.
LIVERPOOL
- BEATLES TOWN FOREVER
Mathew Street Cavern Club to The Beatles Story.
HADRIAN’S
WALL
Forts and Museums of Roman History in England's North
CHURCHILL
MUSEUM AND CABINET WAR ROOMS
Museum dedicated to Winston Churchill in his underground London
Command Center
THE
ROYAL MEWS
British Royal Family Coaches on Display in London
OLD
TRAFFORD MANCHESTER UNITED TOUR
Manchester United Football Museum and Tour
SALTBURN
SMUGGLERS HERITAGE CENTER
Explore the smuggling days of the 1700's on the North Yorkshire Tees Valley
Coast
YORK
GHOST WALKS AND YORK DUNGEON
Scares in England’s Most Haunted City
CHETHAMS
LIBRARY MANCHESTER
Unique building of curious history - Karl Marx
BEAMISH
OPEN AIR MUSEUM
Journey Back in
Living History in County
Durham
LOCOMOTION
NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM SHILDON
Stockton & Darlington Railway History County Durham
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM NORTH
War History Timeline at Manchester Salford Quays
BEATRIX
POTTER'S LAKE DISTRICT
World of Beatrix Potter and Hilltop Cumbria
CARS OF THE STARS MUSEUM
KESWICK
Hollywood’s Famous Vehicles in Cumbria England
LAKESIDE & HAVERTHWAITE
RAILROAD
Steam Train Rides in the Cumbria Lake District
YORK
NATIONAL RAILWAY MUSEUM
Steam Locomotives and other Great Wheels
WHITBY
- CAPTAIN COOK MUSEUM AND DRACULA
Resort Town on North Yorkshire Coast
ALBERT
DOCK MERSEYSIDE MARITIME MUSEUMS LIVERPOOL
Liverpool's
most popular attraction Albert Dock Museums of Maritime History
SEEING
BIG BEN AND PARLIAMENT
Touring the Parliament and the Famous Clock Tower
IRELAND -
NORTHERN IRELAND
DUBLIN’S GUINNESS® STOREHOUSE
Ireland's most Famous Brew and Dublin's
Most popular Attraction
ULSTER
AMERICAN FOLK PARK EMIGRATION EXPERIENCE
Scotch-Irish Heritage Center and Outdoor Living Museum Northern Ireland
THE
BOOK OF KELLS - DUBLIN TRINITY COLLEGE LIBRARY
Ireland’s
Great Illuminated Treasure
CLIFFS
OF MOHER & ATLANTIC EDGE
Spectacular
Sea Cliffs and Visitor Exhibit
FRANCE
RODIN
MUSEUM PARIS
Art For Lovers and Thinkers
Museum dedicated to France's
most
famous
sculptor.
PARIS
PIT STOP ON THE CHAMPS ELYSÉES
L'Atelier Renault
Showplace and restaurant for France's
top automaker on the famed shopping street of Paris.
NOT
ALL THE ART IN PARIS IS IN MUSEUMS
But most of it is at the Louvre
The Louvre Musee Art museeum in Paris
is home to 35,000 world art treasures, a magnet for families and art lovers
alike.
COLLECTIONS OF THE LOUVRE
France's Galleries of Art and History
The collections and wings of art and history at the Louvre
INVALIDES
NATIONAL ARMY MUSEUM PARIS
French Arms and Armor Museum and Napoleon’s Tomb
PETIT
PALAIS - MUSEE DES BEAUX ARTS
Paris’ other best Fine Art Museum built for 1900 Worlds
Fair
CARS
AND TRAINS OF FRANCE
French National Rail and Auto Museums in Alsace
Magnificent steam rail and auto museums
in Mulhouse
EVERYTHING'S
FINE ON THE MAGINOT LINE
On site Museum display of France's defensive system after WWI is still in evidence
in Alsace near Strasbourg.
VELO
(Bicycle) MUSEUM SOUTH BURGUNDY
Unique museum of cycling in Southern Burgundy
HUGUES DE PAYNS MUSEUM
Knights Templar History in Champagne
CAVES
OF AZÉ AND BLANOT
Pre-Historic Cro-magnon Man sites in Burgundy
FONTAINEBLEAU
CHATEAU
Royal Palace, Napoleon and Military History Museums
FRAGONARD PERFUME MUSEUM AND TOUR GRASSE
Perfume history trip from Nice or Cannes.
ITALY
STONE
AND ART: RENAISSANCE
Castello del Buonconsiglio
Castle Buonconsiglio Trento's official
art museum with Renaissance and early Italian art including a running display
of Romanino.
ROME
IN RUINS - A Walking Tour
A trip to Rome can start with
an orientation foot tour from the Vatican through the ancient ruins of
the Roman Forum.
MILLE MIGLIA MUSEUM
1,000 Miles of Racing History
Museum of Italy's most iconclastic auto racing event still run every year.
SABBIONETA
Duke's Palace and Galleria
The statues are gone by the art of the buildings and walls remains.
ANCIENT ROME IN
3D
"Rewind Rome” at the Colosseum
Virtual 3d exhibit of life in Ancient Rome
GERMANY
WANDERING IMMIGRANTS
The Museum for the German "auswanderung" in
Kaiserslautern is a unique place to visit to check up on German ancestry.
BLUE
RIDER ART AND AUGUSTINER
Castle Art Museum and in the Bavarian Alps
An art museum in a Bavarian Castle featuring Kandinsky and
Munter Blue Rider period in the Oberbayern region.
LUFTWAFFE
MEMORIES
A STROLL DOWN HEINKEL LANE
Follow Germany's aviation history from the Deutsches Museum
in Munich to the hidden Messerschmitt hangar in Augsburg.
ZEPPELIN MUSEUM
Flying Glory of the Airship at Freidrichshafen
Go aboard a replica of the ill-fated Hindenburg or fly in a real
airship
over the Bodensee.
NUREMBURG
TOY MUSEUM
Wooden Soldiers, Dolls, Trains and Cars
200 years of toys in the famed walled city of Bavaria.
BIG
GUNS AND FAT UNIFORMS
Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt
Museum for German and Bavarian military history through the
ages, weapons, uniforms and artifacts, from Kaiser Wilhelm's helmut to
Turkish Emperor Siulemon's campaign tent.
FOOTSTEPS OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
The German Fairy Tale Museum
THESE OVENS DON'T BAKE BREAD
The Dachau concentration camp now a holocaust
museum.
MAINZ
MUSEUMS
Gutenberg, Roman Galleons and Bubbly Wine
Museums of history and culture, Roman past, printing and
sparkling wine in this Rhineland capital.
EUROPEAN
CASTLES INSTITUTE
Philippsburg Castle
Most extensive library of castle study
research
and preservation of all castles and palaces across Europe in Braubach.
SPEICHERSTADT HAMBURG'S OLD WAREHOUSE CITY
History, Dungeons and Model Railroads
20 year old harbor warehouses house several museums of shipping,
spice trade, model railroad, and Hamburg history.
BUCERIUS KUNST FORUM ART MUSEUM IN HAMBURG
American Art travels to Europe
One of Northern Germany's premiere art institutes presents exhibitions
through out the year in Hamburg's city center.
HAMBURG
PORT OF IMMIGRANT DREAMS
Ballin-Stadt Emigration Museum Hamburg
Hamburg's immigration story 1850-1934 is told in the former Hamburg-Amerika Line "Immigration
City" museum.
GOLD
WALL, WATCHES AND SHINY BAUBLES
The Jewelery World of Schmuckwelten Pforzheim
Jewellery exhibition emporium in Germany's Black Forest
WORLD
OF STEIFF
Toy Museum history of innovations of Margarete and Richard Steiff
and their famous "Teddy Bear"
ROTHENBURG
MUSEUMS
Curious Christmas,
Doll and Kriminal Museums in Germany's most famous
Romantic Road City.
MUNICH
BEER & OKTOBERFEST MUSEUM
History of Beer and a Pub in one
STUTTGART
MUSEUMS
A variety of museums around the central plaza, art, history
and
automobiles.
GERMAN
FAIRY-TALE ROAD
Brothers Grimm Museum Kassel and other stops.
THE
KENNEDYS MUSEUM BERLIN
President Kennedy Family History at Brandenberg Gate
BERLIN
DDR MUSEUM
Remembering Good Old East Germany Socialist Days
GERMAN
TECHNIK MUSEUM BERLIN
Great Rail Collection, Aviation, Auto, and Science
WORLD'S
LARGEST MODEL RAILWAY - LOXX AM ALEX
Berlin Miniature at New Alexa Center Mall
WITTENBERG
LUTHERSTADT
Martin Luther House and Museum
BERLIN
MUSEUM FOR FILM AND TELEVISION
Fantastic Film History at Potsdamerplatz Sony Center
PERGAMON MUSEUM
Antiquities on Berlin’s Museum Island
NEANDERTHAL MUSEUM
Hangin’ with
the World's Most Famous Caveman near Dusseldorf
EISENBAHN
RAIL MUSEM BOCHUM-DAHLHAUSEN
Largest Operating Steam Rail Museum in Germany
CHECKPOINT
CHARLIE BERLIN MAUERMUSEUM
Secrecy and Freedom at the Berlin Wall's Museum
BERLIN
MUSEUM OF KOMMUNICATION
Entertaining Robots
and German Post and Telephone History
MUNICH ART MUSEUM TREASURES
Three Epochs of Art - Pinakotheks Alte Neue and Moderne
FALL
OF BERLIN WALL 20th ANNIVERSARY 2009
Celebrations and Events May to November
DUSSELDORF
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUMS K21- KIT
Quirky Modern Art Museums of Dusseldorf
DÜSSELDORF
FILM MUSEUM
German Film History on The Rhine
KING
TUTUNKHAMUN IN MUNICH
Tomb and Treasures of King Tut Exhibition
MONACO
FORBIDDEN
MONTE-CARLO
Monaco Grimadi Palace Secrets
BELGIUM
WATERLOO
BATTLEGROUND
Wellington and Napoleon Museums
Dueling museums commemorate one of the most famous
battles in Napoleonic history
FLANDERS
FIELDS IN "THE GREAT WAR"
1st World War Museums of Belgium
The bloodiest
battles of World War I were fought in the fields of Flanders
Belgium
"BATTLE
OF THE BULGE" WWII WAR SITES
Touring World War II Museums, Cemeteries & Monuments
A trail of museums battlefield monumetns in Belgium Ardennes
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS
RACETRACK MUSEUM
Belgian Grand Prix Circuit History at Abbey Stavelot
SWITZERLAND
BEYER
CLOCK AND WATCH URHEN MUSEUM - ZURICH
Private
Collection of Time on Zurich's Bahnhofstrasse
SHERLOCK
HOLMES MUSEUM - MEIRINGEN
Reichenbach
Falls and the "Englisherhof" Hotel du Savage
EINSTEIN
HOUSE AND MUSEUM - BERN
Einstein's Apartment in Bern and the Einstein Museum
BOURBAKI
PANORAMA - LUCERNE
Tourist Attraction of the Industrial Age - illustration of Franco-Prussian
War
ROSENGART
PICASSO KLEE COLLECTION - LUCERNE
Picasso,
Klee & Classic
Modernism Art Private Collection Museum in Lucerne
PATEK
PHILIPPE MUSEUM - GENEVA
500 Years of Watchmaking Design and History
BUCHERER
ROLLING BALL CLOCK - LUCERNE
Watchmakers Store Keeping Time in Lucerne
GLACIER
GARDEN OF LUCERNE
Glacier Museum and the Ice Age in Historic Swiss House
RICHARD
WAGNER MUSEUM - LUCERNE
Composers Lakeside House and Antique Musical Instument Collection
CERN:
HADRON SUPER COLLIDER - GENEVA
Visit the Atom Smasher Lab Tunnel Exhibit in Geneva
AUSTRIA
VIENNA’S
HOUSE OF MUSIC
Play With Sound at the Interactive Philharmonic Haus der Musik
THE
EMPEROR CRYPT - KAISER'S TOMB VIENNA
Habsburg Emperors Burial Monuments
CROATIA
MUSEUM
MEDIMURJE CAKOVEC - ZRINSKI
CASTLE
Art and Folk History Museum in the Croatian Zrinski
Dynasty Fortress
TITO’S
BIRTHPLACE & CROATIAN HERITAGE MUSEUM
Open
Air Old Village in Kumrovec and Marshal Tito's Birth House
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