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You Have to Visit these 18 Museums

Historically, museums started as private collections of individuals, families, or institutions of curious and rare artifacts and other objects. The first museum known to historians is the Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, which operated in 530 B.C.E. in what is now modern-day Iraq. It was run by princess Ennigaldi, daughter of the last king of the Babylonian Empire.
The traveler community of the website TripAdvisor recently created a list of the best museums in the world. If you like to travel and enjoy the arts, history, and science, you’re going to want to visit all of these museums. If you’re not sure, use this list to help you choose which museums you should visit.

The Gold Museum (Museo del Oro) - Bogota, Colombia







The Museum houses the largest collection of pre-Columbian gold artifacts, with over 55,000 pieces.

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Museum of New Zealand - Wellington, New Zealand







Known as "Te Papa Tongarewa", the museum holds several collections, including the most diverse collection of colossal squids, fossils of ancient local flora and fauna, as well as cultural textile and photography of the natives.

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Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim - Brumadinho, Brazil





When developers planned to destroy the area around his farm in the 1980's, Fernando Paz began buying the land, eventually owning 5,000 acres, which he turned into a botanical garden. He later invited Brazillian artists to add their art to the garden and by 2008 it has become the most popular art museum in South America.

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Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses Museum - Xi'an, China







The mausoleum was discovered by mistake in 1974 by Chinese farmers who were digging a well. Further excavation uncovered over 9,000 terra cotta statue of soldiers, chariots and horses. Work on the mausoleum began in 230 B.C.E. when Emperor Qin Shi Huang ascended to the throne. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum - Washington DC, U.S.A.







The Smithsonian museum holds the world's largest collection of historic aircrafts and spacecrafts. It houses many Nazi-ear prototypes, as well as the famous (or infamous) Enola Gay, The B-29 plane that dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima at the end of WWII.

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Musee du Louvre - Paris, France







Considered the most famous museum in the world, the Louvre has over 35,000 items on exhibition, dating from all the way back to prehistoric time and up to the 21st century. It is the permanent home of the Mona Lisa, the Code of Hammurabi, Venus de Milo, and many more famous works of art.

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