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Andong National University Museum

Andong National University, South Korea

Andong National University Museum was established for academic activities such as surveying, studying and exhibiting cultural assets of the local region. The museum opened at Myeongnyun-dong in 1979, and moved to...

Bate Collection of Musical Instruments

University of Oxford, United Kingdom

See history & description of the Bate Collection at: http://www.bate.ox.ac.uk/assets/files/A%20SHORT%20HISTORY%20OF%20THE%20BATE%20COLLECTION.pdf

Museum of Modern Arts

Anadolu University, Turkey

Museums, exhibiting the cultural and artistic assets of the past and present, are institutions that contribute to the raising of historical and cultural awareness. Culture is reproduced in museums. Learning how to...

Bialystok University of Technology History Center

Bialystok University of Technology, Poland

The idea behind collecting memorabilia related to the history of the Bialystok University of Technology (Politechnika Białostocka - PB) dates back to 1980s. It was then that Mirosław Bujanowski, member of the...

Connecticut State Museum of Natural History and Connecticut Archaeology Center

University of Connecticut, United States of America

Natural history collections are a library of physical and biological data that scientists and scholars use to better understand our world. At the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, collections are important...

Dongguk University Gyeongju Museum

Dongguk University Gyeongju, South Korea

As a Buddhist school, it was established to collect, arrange and display Buddhist artifacts, investigate buried cultural assets in the surrounding area, research and research materials, and preserve cultural assets.

Earth Science Collections

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich), Switzerland

The Earth Science Collections of fossils, rocks, minerals, precious stones and meteorites represent a true archive of the history of the Earth, giving an insight into all kinds of geological processes. The...

Hallym University Museum

Hallym University, South Korea

Through the collection and preservation of prehistoric artifacts and folklore items from the historical era, the museum will provide a forum for understanding the history and culture of local residents as well as...

Jeju National University Museum

Jeju National University, South Korea

The museum was opened in March 1967 as a folk museum attached to Cheju National University. It was reorganized as a museum of Jeju National University in June 1985 and functions as a comprehensive museum. Since...

Kyungsung University Museum

Kyungsung University, South Korea

The Kyungsung University Museum holds about 8,835 cultural assets, of which 2,677 are bronze pieces and 4,647 are pottery. [Text from the Web site: ...

Museum of the city and the land

University of Tuscia, Italy

In 1991, Enrico Guidoni and Elisabetta De Minicis proposed a national, regional, and local project to implement a new system of museums. The Museum of Vetralla, a prototype, was created in 1992, in Piazza Don...

Museum of Etruscan Italic Antiquities- University of Rome “La Sapienza”

University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

The Museum, articulated in different sections illustrating the main aspects of the cultures of the pre-roman Italy, in particular with regard to the Etruscan, is located on two floors and occupies a overall exhibition...

Museum of Origins- University of Rome “La Sapienza“”

University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy

The Museum of the origins was founded in 1942 by Ugo Rellini, Professor in palaeoethnology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” from 1929 to 1940. The Museum born of a first group of collections donated by the same...

Museum of Physics

University of Cagliari, Italy

the collection: about 400 of the Physics Laboratory and later the Institute of Physics of the Royal University; many of them are in good condition and the historical and scientific value often combine aesthetic...

'Umberto Scerrato' Oriental Museum

Università degli studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", Italy

The Oriental Museum “Umberto Scerrato” of the University of Naples “L’Orientale” was inaugurated on November 13, 2012. The Museum is located in Palazzo Du Mesnil, Via Partenope. The museum display includes almost 300...

Museum of Brazilian Art

Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado - FAAP, Brazil

Armando Alvares Penteado (1884-1947) was a scion of one of the most traditional families of 19th century São Paulo. His background led to his cultivating an appreciation of the arts and sciences and honing his taste...

Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP)

University of Porto, Portugal

The Museum’s historical collections that originally come about along with the creation of the first public Nautical Class (1762) and Sketching and Drawing Class (1779), which have been in the origin of U.Porto, are...

Pusan National University Museum

Pusan National University, South Korea

The Pusan National University Museum opened in 1964. The museum has studied the history and the cultures of Korea in wide scope from the prehistoric period to the modern era through accumulation of various data. In...

Tuscia’s Contemporary Art Network

University of Tuscia, Italy

In numerous seats of the University of Tuscia, there is a permanent collection of art works which is continually augmented by donations or temporary loans with the objective of exhibiting the works in order to...

Sungkyunkwan University Museum

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

Sungkyunkwan University Museum collects, excavates and exhibits the cultural assets of Korea covering various areas including the Confucian culture of the Joseon Era, anthology, and history. To fulfill its purpose,...

The Hunterian

University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Founded in 1807, The Hunterian is Scotland's oldest public museum and home to one of the largest collections outside the National Museums. The Hunterian is one of the leading university museums in the world and its...

Tokyo Kasei University Museum

Tokyo Kasei University, Japan

The museum owes its reputation to a significant number of historically important documents and books bound in Japanese style, which have been carefully collected since the school’s foundation. Moreover, experts at...

University Museum

Kyoto University, Japan

There are in excess of 2.5 million collection objects relating to arts and sciences and education which Kyoto University has collected and studied for the past one hundred years. They are significant not only in...