Victoria and Albert Museum was founded in 1852 as the South Kensington Museum. The permanent collection consists of over 2.3 million exhibits.
V&A Family: V&A South Kensington, V&A Museum of Childhood (transforming), V&A Dundee, V&A at Design Society (Shekou, China), V&A East (project).
The museum is divided into four sections - collections: 1) Asia; 2) furniture, textiles and fashion; 3) sculpture, metalwork, ceramics, glass; 4) word and image. The collection includes applied and decorative arts as well as design, as well as post-classical sculpture. The collections of the Italian Renaissance belong to the largest outside Italy. The Asian department covers art from South Asia, China, Japan, Korea and the Islamic world. East Asian collections draw attention with ceramics and metalwork.

Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (Bảo tàng Dân tộc học Việt Nam) opened to the public in 1997.
The 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups are featured in permanent exhibitions in the two-story Bronze Drum Building. The four-story Kite Building is an exhibition space for the cultures of peoples outside Vietnam, primarily from Southeast Asia. Architectural Garden outdoor exhibition on the area of 2 hectares presents ten works of folk architecture of ten ethnic groups in Vietnam.
The collections include over 30,000 artifacts.
The entire museum covers an area of 4.38 hectares.

The War Memorial of Korea, opened in 1994, commemorates military veterans and victims of wars.
In the covered exhibition halls and in the open air, you can see war memorabilia, weapons and military equipment from prehistoric times to modern times.
The museum has more than 13,000 exhibits in its collection.
It covers an area of over 20,000 square meters.

The War Remnants Museum was established in 1975.
The War Remnants Museum houses a vast collection of artifacts, photographs, and exhibits related to the Vietnam War and the broader history of war in Vietnam. Its collections include:
1. Military Equipment and Vehicles
- Tanks, helicopters, fighter jets, and artillery.
- A decommissioned "tiger cage" prison cell, used by South Vietnam to hold political prisoners.
2. Photographic Exhibits
- A large collection of wartime photographs, including Pulitzer Prize-winning images.
- Agent Orange and Napalm attack photos, showing their effects on civilians and soldiers.
- Images from international war correspondents who covered the Vietnam War.
3. Weapons and Ordnance
- Rifles, machine guns, grenades, bombs, and other wartime weaponry.
- Defused cluster bombs and artillery shells used during the war.
4. International Anti-War Movement
- Posters, newspaper clippings, and banners from global protests against the war.
5. Vietnamese Resistance and Victory
- Displays on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, guerrilla warfare, and Viet Cong tactics.
- Uniforms, personal belongings, and weapons used by North Vietnamese forces.
- Victory celebrations and the fall of Saigon in 1975.
The War Remnants Museum houses a collection of over 20,000 artifacts, documents, and photographs related to the Vietnam War. Of these, more than 1,500 items are selected for permanent display across its eight thematic exhibition halls.
The War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City encompasses a total area of 7,548 square meters. This includes a three-story main exhibition building with a floor space of 4,522 square meters, and an outdoor exhibit area covering 3,026 square meters.

Wawel Royal Castle-State Art Collection gives the date of its foundation 1930.
Wawel Royal Castle was built from the 10th century, the present castle was built in the 14th century and then extended over the next hundreds of years. From the end of the 11th century to 1606, it was the residence of the kings of Poland. It consists of a series of buildings from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods arranged around the main, arcaded courtyard in the style of the Italian Renaissance.
At the permanent exhibitions Wawel Royal Castle you can see: the coronation sword Szczerbiec, a collection of 138 tapestries made in Brussels from around 1550 to 1560, the largest collection of Ottoman tents in Europe.
Wawel Royal Castle covers 7,040 square meters. There are 71 exhibition halls to visit.
The museum's branches are: Pieskowa Skała Castle and Manor House at Stryszów.
On the Wawel Hill, next to the castle, there is a cathedral, the construction of which began in the 14th century, on the foundations of two earlier cathedrals. Polish monarchs were crowned in the Wawel Cathedral. In the crypts under the Wawel Cathedral, there are the tombs of Polish kings, national heroes and national bards. The cathedral is surrounded by numerous chapels, one of them Sigismund's Chapel, conceived as the mausoleum of the last members of the Jagiellonian dynasty, is considered an outstanding example of the Tuscan Renaissance. The Cathedral Museum named after John Paul II, opened in 1978, operates at the cathedral.

The Westminster Abbey built from the 10th century. The present church was built in the 13th century in the Gothic style.
The abbey, from the beginning of its history it was a Roman Catholic church and from 1539 it became a Church of England ("Royal Peculiar" - a church responsible directly to the sovereign).
The abbey, beginning with William the Conqueror (from 1066), is the site of the coronation of the kings of England and Great Britain. Since the 13th century, the abbey has also been the burial place of kings and distinguished persons.
The Westminster Abbey Museum has been open since 1908.
The width of the nave is 26 meters, the height of the nave is 31 meters, floor area is 3,000 square meters. The height of the towers is 69 meters.

Whitney Museum of American Art opened to the public in 1931.
It collects works of 20th-century and contemporary American art focusing on the works of living artists. Collection volume of 25,000 paintings, sculptures, graphics, drawings, photographs, films, videos, installations, new media art representing over 3,500 artists. His collections include works by, among others: Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Alexander Calder, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Jackson Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol.

Windsor Castle is a royal residence built in the three bailey wards with a round keep type since the 11th century. In the Lower Ward there is the St George's Chapel and the Albert Memorial Chapel - royal mausoleums. The Upper Ward houses the royal library, with a collection of drawings by, among others, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Hans Holbein the Younger.
Windsor Castle is 800 meters long. It covers an area of 53,000 square meters. It is the largest inhabited castle in the world.
The castle is surrounded by a 200-hectare Home Park. Within the park there is Frogmore House with its garden, which houses the mausoleum of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Further south from Windsor Castle is the Great Park, covering approximately 700 hectares.

Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2024, photo Peter Packer

The World Museum dates back to 1853. The World Museum is part of the National Museums Liverpool.
The collections of the World Museum are divided into:
- Antiquities, Egyptian, Greek, Roman and Anglo-Saxon collections, approximately 80,000 artifacts
- World Cultures, collections from West Africa, East Asia, Tibet, the Northwest coast of the Americas, Amazon, New Zealand and New Guinea, about 40,000 objects
- Natural History, collections in the field of geology, botany, zoology, over a million specimens from around the world
- Physical sciences, a collection of scientific instruments and objects related to astronomy and space, particle physics, oceanography.

Yad Vashem founded in 1953, open to the public in 1957 is the World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Yad Vashem commemorates the Righteous Among the Nations.
Yad Vashem is a complex with an area of over 18 hectares. It houses various museums, archives, research and education centers, monuments and memorials. Among others: Holocaust History Museum with a new Hall of Names and a Museum of Holocaust Art.

Zaanse Schans is a former residential and industrial district filled with many historic wooden windmills, houses, warehouses, shops and workshops.
In 1998, the Zaans Museum was opened, which currently has over 32,000 items in its collection. The museums open in Zaanse Schans are:
Zaans Museum and Verkade Experience
Albert Heijn Museum Shop
Bakery Museum de Gecroonde Duyvekater
The Zaanse Time Museum
Jisper House
Honig Breethuis
Windmill Museum
The windmills that can be visited in Zaanse Schans are:
De Huisman
De Kat
De Gekroonde Poelenburg
De Zoeker
Het Jonge Schaap
De Bonte Hen
De Os
Het Klaverblad
De Bleeke Dood
De Ooievaar
Mini-mills on the Schans

Zhejiang Museum was founded in 1929 as the West Lake Museum. It has over 100,000 exhibits in its permanent collection.
His collection includes archaeological findings of the Neolithic Hemudu culture, jade artifacts and silk fabrics of the Liangzhu culture, bronze Yue instruments, ceramics from the Tang Dynasty in Yue kilns, a bronze mirror from Huzhou, and calligraphies and paintings of local painters from the Ming and Qing period.

The Zhejiang Museum of Natural History (ZMNH) has been operating since 1984.
It has branches in Hangzhou and Anji.
ZMNH has nearly 200,000 specimens in its collection (of which 50,000 are at exhibitions). which record the course of life on earth, present the history of man and nature. Permanent exhibitions are: Lobby, The Life Story of the Earth, Bioworld, Green Zhejiang, Land of Wild, Health and Education.
ZMNH covers nearly 33,000 square meters of space.

Monte Albán is one of the first cities in Mesoamerica, founded 500 years BC. It functioned as the ancient capital of the Zapotecs from the beginning of AD until 800 AD.
The city center is occupied by the monumental Main Plaza bordered to the north and south by large platforms. A series of smaller platform mounds surround the Main Plaza to the east and west. On the platforms to which the large stairs lead, there are, among others: Ballgame Court, Pyramid Complex, Palace.
In front of the city entrance on the north side are the Tomb Complex and the Museo de Sitio de Monte Albán. In the museum, you can see stone carvings called "Danzantes" depicting tortured and sacrificed prisoners of war. Zona Arqueológica de Monte Albán covers an area of 4,000 hectares.

The oldest ruins of the Mayan city-state known today as Palenque date back to the 5th century BC. A city-state after the fall in the 9th century AD the jungle overgrown. The Spaniards first found themselves in Palenque in 1567, and in 1773 the exploration of the ruins began.
The most important buildings are Temple of the Inscriptions, Temples of the Cross group, Palace.
Among other things, the jade mask of King K'inich Janab Pakal and the mask of the Red Queen were found in the Palenque tombs.
By 2005, an area of approximately 2.5 square kilometers had been exposed from the jungle. It is estimated that it is not even 2% of the area occupied by the city-state, and over a thousand objects are still covered by the jungle.
Currently, Palenque is part of the Zona Arqueológica de Palenque (INAH) and the Parque Nacional Palenque. The Palenque houses the Museo de Sitio de Palenque 'Alberto Ruz Lhuillier' and the Museo del Textil Lak Puj Kul.

Zona Arqueológica de Teotihuacán includes the ancient Mesoamerican city with the Pyramid of the Sun, Pyramid of the Moon, Temple of Cetzalkokal. Open to public visiting since the 1920s. The area open to visitors is currently 264 hectares.

Tulum is a former Mayan city that was surrounded by a wall.
Its history dates back to at least the 6th century AD. Its peak development falls between the 13th and 15th centuries. After the occupation by the Spaniards in the 16th century, the city was deserted.
Main historic buildings: Temple of the Frescoes, Temple of the Descending God, El Castillo.