Places that teach us about history
Museums and galleries give insight into human history. Museums protect and display significant cultural, artistic, historic, or scientific treasures.
While these exhibitions provide instructive and visually stimulating insights, there are other advantages to visiting these facilities. Simply said, museums aim to educate, encourage, and connect people. The lessons we can learn from historical events, wonders, and tragedies are invaluable.
- The British Museum – the world’s oldest national public museum devoted to human history, art, and culture, based in London. Its permanent collection of eight million artworks is one of the greatest and most extensive in the world. It tells the story of human civilization from its inception to the current day.
- National Portrait Gallery – is site to the world’s biggest collection of portraits, exhibiting notable men and women who have helped define British history from the old Medieval monarchs to the present day, with modern pictures expressing modern-day Britain’s variety, innovation, and multi-culturalism.
- The Army Museum – one of the world’s major military art and history museums in Paris.
- The Egyptian Museum – is the Middle East’s oldest archaeological museum and home to the world’s greatest collection of Pharaonic artefacts.
- Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau – aspired to preserve the remembrance of Holocaust victims. The museum is one of Poland’s most popular tourist destinations, demonstrating the continuing significance of Holocaust memorials.