Museum sights in Europe
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Toy Museums
A treat for kids (and kids-at-heart) is the Musée des Automates (Automation Museum), a small theme-park-style display showing 300 automated dolls from the last two centuries, including a near-life-size re-creation of bygone Montmartre in Paris, right down to the Moulin Rouge and the funicular railway. Trainspotters will love the equally appealing Musée des Modèles Réduits (Scale Model Museum) next door, with miniature cars, computer-automated naval battles and a tootling model railway. Both museums are wheelchair accessible.
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Museum of the War of Independence & Republic Museum
The former has a collection of military photographs and documents, housed in Turkey's first parliament (the Republican grand national assembly held early sessions here). The latter was the assembly's second headquarters, and features exhibits on the republic's beginnings.
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Musées Gadagne
Housed in a 16th-century mansion built for two rich Florentine bankers, this newly reopened museum incorporates an excellent local history museum covering the city’s layout as its silk-weaving, cinema and transportation evolved, and an international puppet museum paying homage to Lyon’s iconic puppet, Guignol. On the 4th floor, a café adjoins tranquil, terraced gardens, here since the 14th century and laid out two centuries later.
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Casa Natal de Picasso
Casa Natal de Picasso, Picasso’s birthplace, is a centre for exhibitions and academic research on contemporary art, with a few compelling items of personal memorabilia and a well-stocked shop. A couple of doors away at Plaza de la Merced 13 you can view temporary art exhibitions (a large collection of Dalí magazine covers was showing at the time of research). Entrance is free with the Picasso museum combined ticket.
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The Shakespeare Houses
Five of the most important buildings associated with Shakespeare contain museums that form the core of the visitor experience at Stratford, run by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust . You can buy individual tickets, but it's more cost-effective to buy a combination ticket covering the three houses in town, or all five properties. Expect long queues throughout the summer.
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Museum Quarter
Hull has several city-run museums concentrated in an area promoted as the Museum Quarter. All share the same contact details and opening hours, and all are free.
The fascinating Streetlife Museum contains re-created street scenes from Georgian and Victorian times and from the 1930s, with all sorts of historic vehicles to explore, from stagecoaches to bicycles to buses and trams. Behind the museum, marooned in the mud of the River Hull, is the Arctic Corsair. Tours of this Atlantic trawler, a veteran of the 1970s 'Cod Wars', demonstrate the hardships of fishing north of the Arctic Circle.
Nearby you'll find the Hull & East Riding Museum (local history and archaeology), and
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Medreses
The medrese (seminary) in the southern corner of the Selimiye complex houses the Selimiye Foundation Museum, with displays covering the restoration of the mosque, metalwork, İznik tiles and seminary education. The medrese in the eastern corner houses the Turkish & Islamic Arts Museum (Türk İslam Eserleri Müzesi), which was being renovated when we visited.
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Málaga's Other Museums
Casa Natal de Picasso,Picasso's birthplace, is a centre for exhibitions (a large collection of Dalí magazine covers was showing at the time of writing) and academic research on contemporary art, with a few compelling items of personal memorabilia and a well-stocked shop. A couple of doors away at Plaza de la Merced 13 you can view temporary art exhibitions . Entrance is free with the Picasso museum combined ticket.
The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo is a coolly minimal museum of international 20th- and 21st-century art housed in a skilfully converted 1930s market. To get here head west on the Alameda Principal from the city centre and turn left when you get to the Río Guad…
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Archaeological & Ethnographic Museums
Beside the Sahib-i Ata Külliyesi, the Archaeological Museum is like a continuation of the museum at Çatalhöyük, with neolithic finds including the skeleton of a baby girl, clutching jewellery made of stone and bone. Artefacts range across the millennia, from chalcolithic terracotta jars to Hittite hieroglyphs, an Assyrian oil lamp shaped like a bunch of grapes, and bronze and stone Roman sarcophagi, one narrating the labours of Hercules in high-relief carvings. Nearby, the dusty Ethnographic Museum has a good collection of Ottoman craftwork, including some keys the size of 21st-century doors.
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Museums
Bordeaux has a healthy collection of museums and galleries. Gallo-Roman statues and relics dating back 25,000 years are among the highlights at the impressive Musée d'Aquitaine. Ask to borrow an English-language catalogue.
Built in 1824 as a warehouse for French colonial produce like coffee, cocoa, peanuts and vanilla, the cavernous Entrepôts Lainé creates a dramatic backdrop for cutting-edge modern art at the CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain.
The evolution of Occidental art from the Renaissance to the mid-20th century is on view at Bordeaux' Musée des Beaux-Arts. Occupying two wings of the 1770s-built Hôtel de Ville, either side of the Jardin de la Mairie (an elegant pu…
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