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Anchers Hus is the home of one of the most celebrated couples in Scandinavian art history, painters Anna Ancher (1859-1935) and Michael Ancher (1849-1927). The couple bought the house in 1884 after the birth of their daughter Helga. At that time, the house was significantly smaller. The home was extended after a design by the architect Ulrik Plesner in 1913, with a new wing for the artists’ studios as well as new family rooms. The house and its interiors have been preserved as at the time of Anna Ancher’s death in 1935 and opened as a museum in 1967.

Anchers Hus

Skagen, Denmark

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The Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp (Belgium) was the home and workplace of Christophe Plantin and the Moretus family. For 300 years, books were at the heart and soul of this place, and they still are. Who lived here? Who worked here? What exactly did they print? What kind of knowledge and ideas travelled from this house to the four corners of the world? In this UNESCO World Heritage site you will meet Christophe Plantin: pater familias, businessperson, manager, humanist, printer, publisher, and you will get a close look at the beautiful books that were printed here, from richly illustrated bibles and atlases to simple almanacs.

The Museum Plantin-Moretus

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Antwerp, Belgium

TDF Ghar is a project of The Dawood Foundation. The project of preserving the historic 1930’s house (Ghar in Urdu) was initiated with an aim to provide a space that was reminiscent of Karachi of the past and to connect visitors with the city’s rich and vibrant history. Collected archive records show that TDF Ghar was initially owned by a Hindu woman, Mrs. Haribai Motiram. She sold in April 1948 to Hanifabai Haji Ghani for her daughter Aisha Bai Dawood in June 1948 for residential purposes. In 1965 Mr. Ahmed Dawood established Hanifa Hajiani Vocational Training Centre for women with an aim to empower community women. With the passage of time, the vocational training centre witnessed a decline, and in 1991 the centre was closed. The house remained vacant for a few years before being restored in 2016 and opening to the public a year later.

TDF Ghar

Karachi, Pakistan

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The Rui Barbosa Historic House Museum, located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, opened to the public on August 13th 1930. The museum is installed in the residence where Rui Barbosa, an important Brazilian politician lived with his family between 1895 and 1923, the year of his death. It was the first Brazilian public institution be defined as a historical house museum, and as such the Casa de Rui Barbosa Museum has a relevant role amongst the historic house museums. The Museum develops technical and research activities in the areas of conservation, documentation, museum education, and communication based on its archives of museological, botanical, architectural, and biographic collections.

The Casa Rui Barbosa Museum

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Abdulla Shaig Talibzadeh is known as a master of the classics, a poet, dramatist, literary critic, master of enlightenment and cultural interpreter of Azerbaijan. The museum started its activities in 1991 December during the master’s 120th jubilee and the exposition of the museum opened in 2001. The apartment museum contains 4 rooms. The first is dedicated to Shaig and his international heritage. The second is dedicated to his personal biography, his birth place, genealogy, personal life, parents, family, and their lifestyles. The third room is dedicated to the writer’s pedagogical creativity. As Shaig said: “Besides being a writer I am proud of being a teacher”. In the forth and last room of our museum Abdulla Shaig’s artistic creativity, critical function and sources, and memorabilia are shown.

Abdulla Shaig House Museum

Baku, Azerbaijan

When Rufus King purchased this house in 1805, he was a veteran of the American Revolution, framer of the Constitution, and Ambassador to England. Intending to retire and live as a gentleman farmer, King enlarged the house and property, turning it into a working farm. He lived here while serving several terms as a senator working to pass anti-slavery legislation.After his death in 1827, King’s eldest son John Alsop King lived here. John too made his career in politics; as Governor of New York from 1857 to 1859, he fought against the Fugitive Slave Act.King Manor opened as a museum in 1900. Today it interprets the life and times of the King family with programming that fosters critical thinking and an appreciation for history as an ongoing process.

King Manor

Jamaica, NY, USA

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Situated in central Lisbon, the decorative arts collection gathered by the businessman and benefactor António de Medeiros e Almeida (1895-1986) is displayed in an elegant 19th century house which was his former residence, the “Casa-Museu Medeiros e Almeida”. The collection, of which about 2000 pieces are on permanent display, is presented in 27 galleries comprising Portuguese and international works of art ranging from the 2nd century BC to the 20th century including furniture, painting, sculpture, jewelry, textiles and sacred art, reflecting a very eclectic taste. Four collections – watches and clocks, Chinese porcelain, silverworks and fans – are showcased in specific galleries.

Medeiros de Almeida Museum House

Lisbon, Portugal

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Abel de Lima Salazar was born in 1989, Guimarães. In addition to teaching at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Porto and working as a researcher, he also produced a large body of artistic work. The Abel Salazar house museum, located in São Mamede de Infesta, is part of the heritage of the University of Porto, donated to this institution by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in 1975. Since then, the House museum has been open to the public, actively working with the academic community, and with local, national and international institutions of cultural interest. In addition to the permanent collection, there is a regular temporary exhibition programme, in which established and emerging contemporary artists participate.

Abel Salazar House Museum

Porto, Portugal

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Villa Gyllenberg is an art and home museum that was the former home of banker Ane Gyllenberg (1891–1977) and his wife Signe (1895–1977). The museum is situated in Helsinki and is owned by the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation. Ane Gyllenberg had a passion for art and built a large collection of both Finnish and international art during his lifetime. The oldest pieces date back to the 16th century and the latest to the 1970s. The collection includes nearly 40 works by Helene Schjerfbeck, most of which are on permanent display.

Villa Gyllenberg

Helsinki’s Kuusisaari, Finland

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Herttoniemi or Hertonäs Manor Museum is located outside Helsinki, Finland. The museum was created in the 1920’s. It consists of a main building and two gazebos, several economy buildings and Knusbacka, a museological farmstead, that was transported here from Sipoo (east of Helsinki). The manor has been owned by many famous Finnish landlords such as commander Augustin Ehrensvärd, who built the fortress Sveaborg (Suomenlinna) outside Helsinki in the 18th century, and admiral Carl Olof Cronstedt. During Cronstedt’s time the main building was renovated in the neoclassicial style in 1815. The museum is now upheld by a society, Svenska Odlingens Vänner i Helsinge Text & picture: Curator Eva Ahl-Waris.

Hertonäs Manor Museum

Helsinki, Finland

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The Tyrolean Farmstead Museum Association was founded in the Autumn of 1974 with the objective of illustrating the life and work of the farming community in the Tyrol in the pre-industrial period. Since then, fourteen farmhouses and numerous outbuildings have been saved from demolition in North, East, and South Tyrol and moved to the grounds of the museum. A 90-minute walk will now show you what life on the farm was like in earlier centuries.

Museum of Tyrolean Farmsteads

Kramsach, Austria

The Boa Vista Palace is situated at the top of the Mantiqueira Mountains in Campos do Jordão. Historically, it was the former governor’s official winter residence and in 1969 a group of experts selected additional furniture, paintings, sculptures, tapestry, and art objects to build the palace collection so that today it functions as a palace-museum open to the public displaying Brazilian historical furniture and art. In 1970, the building hosted the first edition of the current Campos do Jordão International Winter Festival. Throughout its 50 years, the palace has become an icon of the state cultural life.

Boa Vista Palace

Campos do JordãoSão Paulo, Brazil

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Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves purchased the home of the painter José Malhoa (1904-1905) in 1932, he continued to live there, and organize his collections there until his death in 1965.The collection of Portuguese painting assembled by Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves includes 19th and 20th-century oil paintings, watercolours and drawings, covering the themes of genre, landscape, and portraiture. The furniture collection, which includes European pieces from 18th and 19th centuries, show also a preference for Portuguese works. The collection of Chinese porcelain, the most important in Portugal, shows extraordinary pieces from Ming and Qing dynasties.

Casa-Museu Dr. Anastácio Gonçalves

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Lisbon, Portugal

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The Martiros Sarian House Museum in Yerevan is devoted to one of the great 20th century Armenian artists. All the works and sketches that were in the house are preserved and exhibited in the Museum. The house museum’s permanent exhibition is located on the three floors of the museum in chronological order representing all periods and genres of the artist’s creativity. It also includes famous works from the Sarian family collection. The artist’s studio – the museum’s sacred place – is open for the visitors as well.

Martiros Sarian House Museum

Yerevan, Armenia

Feliciano Béjar Ruíz (1920 – February 1, 2007) was a Mexican artist and artisan, best known for a style of sculpture called “magiscopios” which involved various materials along with crystals and/or lenses to play with light or create distorted visions. The Casa Museo Feliciano Bejar includes a number of houses within a compound that celebrate his life. The eight showrooms recreate Bejar’s rooms, a central patio, and 3 window displays to show art collections. The Casa Zaragoza, recreates the family atmosphere showing its paintings and “magiscopios”, that define Feliciano Bejar as an international and van guard artist. The Casa Atrio includes Bejar´s family store. Several rooms in this house are used to develop and promote music, painting, literature and “rebocería” lessons. The parents’ bedroom and dining room have been preserved.

El Porvenir Casa Museo Feliciano Bejar

Michoacán, Mexico

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Craigdarroch is a granite and sandstone house completed in 1890 for the Dunsmuir family, Scottish immigrants to Canada who made a fortune from Vancouver Island coal sold primarily in the San Francisco Bay area. The castle was built on an 11-hectare site high above Victoria, the capital city of British Columbia. Over 150,000 people visit the museum each year to marvel at the extraordinary woodwork and art glass windows. The majority of the interior is presented as a 19th century residence, but portions of the house are used to tell the stories of the many public institutions that used the place for most of its lifetime.

Craigdarroch Castle

Canada

Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum is a former Imperial Residence near St. Petersburg. Founded in the mid-18th century, it was a beloved summer place for the Royal Family, especially during the reigns of Paul I and Alexander III. The palace was opened to the public in 1918 and was witness to the dramatic events of the 20th century. Today, the museum offers a number of permanent and temporary exhibitions, summer festivals, activities for children and special events. Gatchina Palace is a popular filming location in cinema, particularly for period dramas, including War & Peace.

Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum

Gatchina, Russia

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The Museum Villa Stuck has been a museum of the City of Munich since 1992 and as such a foundation of the City of Munich with a donation from Hans Joachim and Amélie Ziersch.

Villa Stuck

Munich, Germany

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The Casa de Portinari Museum in the town of Brodowski (Brazil), is dedicated to the artist Candido Portinari. This eminent Brazilian painter lived and worked in the town where he was born. Casa de Portinari was immortalized in his visual and poetic work. The house collection is composed of fresco and tempera mural paintings, mainly along a sacred theme. The museum also contains drawings, personal-use objects, furniture and domestic utensils and is under the auspices of the São Paulo State Secretariat of Culture.

Museu Casa De Portinari

Brodowski, São Paulo State, Brazil

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The Pau Casals Museum is located in the house of the world-famous cellist Pablo Casals (El Vendrell, 1876 – Puerto Rico, 1973). He had the house built in 1910 on the seafront of Sant Salvador Beach in El Vendrell, where he was born. The house with its gardens, sculpture garden and belvedere looking out over the sea, was initially designed as a summer residence and was renovated by the architect Antoni Puig Gairalt between 1931 and 1936. Pablo Casals lived here until 1939 after Spanish Civil War, when he went into exile never to return. The house was opened as a museum in 1974, and in 2001, the building reopened following refurbishment work and a new exhibition design that gives visitors the opportunity to appreciate the life and the extensive musical and humanistic legacy of Casals.

The Pau Casals Museum

Platja de Sant Salvador, Tarragona, Spain

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The Museum of Spanish Art, founded on October 12, 1962 was the residence of the Argentine writer Enrique Larreta. In 1916, after a long stay in Europe, the building became the family’s permanent residence. There, Larreta arranged his art collection consisting of paintings, sculptures and furniture from the Spanish 16th and 17th centuries. From the Central Patio, you can access the different rooms: the Blue Room, the Oratory, the Red Room, the Desk, the Dining Room, the Library and temporary exhibitions. Over the years, the original collection has grown through acquisitions, donations and transfers, adding valuable works that were perfectly integrated with the initial collection.

Museo de Arte Español Enrique Larreta

Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The Chalet is a leisure residence in Pena Park, built between 1866 and 1868 by D. Fernando II of Portugal and his second wife Elise Hensler, Countess of Edla. It integrates the romantic vogue of chalets, cottages or small pavilions built in landscape parks and the desire to live modestly, in communion with nature. These intentions are confirmed by the utilization of natural or faux natural materials, and by the multiple fenestration throughout the facades with each room opening directly to the exterior. Architececturally, there is an affiliation with the American “Carpenter Gothic style” and the “Old Alpine and Bavarian style.”

Chalet of the Countess of Edla – Pena Park

Sintra, Portugal

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The Marble Palace Leader Museum is located in Skanes (Monastir- Tunisia). It was the summer residence of Leader Habib Bourguiba (1903-2000), the first president of the Republic of Tunisia (1957-1987). Deserted from 1987 to 1998, it was opened to the public in 2013 and given the name “Leader Museum”. The Palace is spread over three floors. On the ground floor is with the morocco lounge and press room The first floor is divided into two areas: the public space where we find the Meeting room and the Conference room and the private space where we find the bedrooms and the private office. On the second floor the bedroom of Habib Bourguiba’s daughter Hajer. The palace is surrounded gardens and fountains.

Marble Palace Leader Museum

Skanes, Monastir, Tunisia

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The architect Sir John Soane’s home became a museum on his death (1837) and exquisitely restored interiors house his poetic and picturesque arrangements of works of art including architectural fragments, models, paintings, antiquities, furniture and even mummified cats. A tour of the Soane is a close encounter with an architectural genius. The museum is still today an icon for contemporary architects across the world and has been described as ‘the supreme example of the house-museum in the world’. It is the smallest UK national museum.

SIR JOHN SOANE'S MUSEUM

London, United Kingdom

Built in the early 1860s, this house was one of the earliest to be constructed outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem. It was built in the typical Ottoman urban style of the time, with vaulted ceilings, thick walls, and a large central area flanked by side rooms and a spacious garden. In 1924 Dr. Albert Ticho and his wife, the artist Anna Ticho bought the house, turning the ground floor into an eye hospital and using the upper floor as their private apartment. Up until his death in 1960, the hospital served the population of Jerusalem, rich and poor alike. Anna assisted her husband in his work, but later began to spend more time pursuing her art. In 1980 Anna Ticho bequeathed the house and its collections to the Israel Museum, and the Ticho House Museum opened in 1984.

Ticho House

Jerusalem, Israel

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The DLC Ancestral House is a local private museum located at the heart of Lopez Jaena Street in San Roque, Cavite City. It is a mid-century house built by Florentina Gomez of Funeraria Central from whom it was acquired by José and Amparo de la Cruz in 1960. The house became the office and chapel of Funeraria Filipinas until the 1980s. Funeraria Filipinas was founded in 1953 and is regarded as the oldest operating funeral home in Cavite City. The house contains various collections like flora and fauna of the Philippines, visual arts, and ethnographic materials. It is also a space for practicing and preserving Caviteno heritage. In addition to the collection, there is a regular seasonal exhibition program in-house and online.

De La Cruz Ancestral House

San Roque, Cavite City, The Philippines

The Eva Klabin House Museum is situated in her residence of over 30 years and includes a permanent exhibition of the collection formed by Eva Klabin (1903-1991). It is one of the most important collections of classical art in any Brazilian museum, with pieces ranging from Ancient Egypt to Impressionism, including paintings, sculptures, furniture, and decorative art. As well as organizing visits to the collection, the institution produces several other activities, including temporary exhibitions, concerts, courses, workshops, and publications. The Breathing Project creates temporary installations of contemporary art in the exhibition space, and has become a reference for this type of intervention in cultural institutions.

Eva Klabin House Museum

Lagoa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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The “Case della Memoria” Historic Homes Association is a network of 80 houses museum in 12 Italian regions related to many famous people. These are the homes where great figures in every field of knowledge, art, literature, science, history lived. From Giovanni Boccaccio to Leonardo da Vinci; from Michelangelo Buonarroti and Galileo Galilei to Giuseppe Verdi. And also Giacomo Puccini, Enzo Ferrari and Luciano Pavarotti. It is not possible to read the works of great writers, admire the paintings and sculptures of brilliant artists, without “meeting” the protagonists, their experiences, the history of the time they lived and worked, the strong link with the territory in which they were born or where they lived. The association’s goal is to raise awareness of and enhance these significant historic buildings.

Associazione Nazionale Case della memoria

Historic Homes Association, Italy

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The Franketienne museum-residence is located in the rural village of Ravine Seche in Haiti. Franck Etienne was born in 1936 to a Haitian mother and an American father. Although destined to be a diplomat, for over thirty years he was a professor, teaching Mathematics, Physics, Literature and Philosophy. In 1988, he was appointed Minister of Culture in the government of Professor Manigat, victim of a military coup, 4 months later. Franck Etienne is a nationally and internationally recognized writer publishing over forty books. Frankétienne began painting in 1972 ; strongly influenced by the influences of the American school (Jackson Pollock) and COBRA, he eventually developed a personal style dominated by a mixture of abstract and figurative.

Frankétienne Museum

Ravine Seche, Haiti

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“Museum of Spoonsweet” is situated in an old civic house in Kraljevo (Serbia), dating back in 1908. Founded by Filip Cvetić, famous local wine trader, it was their family home. The house was built in the Secession style, and is painted with decorative motives in al secco technique. Interior wall decoration is preserved and presented in a salon where today’s museum is located. This specific gastroheritological museum was dedicated to spoon sweet (slatko), a traditional Serbian dessert, made by the Cvetić family from all kind of fruits and flowers from its authentic garden.

Museum of Spoonsweet

Kraljevo, Serbia

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Eduardo Frei Montalva House Museum is the first Chilean museum dedicated to a former President of the Republic. Named a National Monument in 2005, it commemorates the historical importance of Montalva, placing an emphasis on his role as intellectual and statesman.The residence was home to the President and his family for more than 40 years. Through the preservation of the house and it’s artifacts, the Chilean spirit of the 1960s is preserved and can be explored through patrimonial objects, a collection of Chilean and Latin American paintings, numismatics, decorations and even lunar fragments given by the crew of the Apollo XII.

Casa Museo Eduardo Frei Montalva

Providencia, Chile

Founded in 1991 thanks to scientist and lecturer in physiology, Adolfo Pini (1920-1986) and named after him, the Foundation is based in Milan in the elegant, late Nineteenth Century building situated at 2 Corso Garibaldi. Renzo Bongiovanni Radice (1899-1970), painter and Adolfo’s maternal uncle also lived at this address. He was a key figure in Pini’s cultural education and in feeding his interest for the arts. Pini wished the Foundation dedicated to his uncle’s memory, with the goal of promoting and giving value to his artworks through studies and exhibitions, as well as supporting young artists with scholarships, education opportunities and other initiatives. The Foundation is also committed to the promotion of Adolfo Pini’s heritage, who was, besides his scientific endeavours, a writer, a poet, a composer and an art enthusiast, thus being a great example of the perfect synthesis between scientific and humanistic culture. Among the initiatives held by the Foundation are “StorieMilanesi”, a cycle of projects dedicated to contemporary art, and fellowship for young students.

Fondazione Adolfo Pini

Milan, Italy

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Built at the end of the 18th Century – first quarter of the 19th Century, the Palace of Ajuda became the official residence of the Portuguese royal family from the reign of King Louis I (1861-1889) until the end of the Portuguese monarchy (1910). It was the court setting for the official visits, ceremonies, balls and banquets. It is the only Royal Palace open to the public in Lisbon, presenting the display and décor of the rooms as they originally were. The Palace holds important collections of decorative arts, paintings, sculpture, tapestries, engravings, photography and works of Art by artists such as El Greco, or Greuze Géricault, among others.

Palácio da Ajuda

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Lisbon, Portugal

The Blue House was Frida’s residence for most of her life; initially with her family and years later, with Diego Rivera. Since its opening in 1958, this house museum has exhibited the ambience that inspired Frida in her creation, as well as her personal belongings. Along with paintings by both artists, Kahlo and Rivera, notable works of popular art, pre-Columbian sculptures, photographs, documents, books and furniture are displayed. Thus, this residence transmits to its visitors Frida’s personal and artistic space. The beautiful garden is an essential part of the Museum, and gives the visitor access to Frida’s Dresses exhibition.

Museo Frida Kahlo

Coyoacan, Mexico City, Mexico

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Muhammad Ali Jinnah was born on 25th December 1876 in Karachi. Wazir Mansion is deemed as his birthplace, which is situated in Kharadar – one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city. Jinnah’s family migrated from Gujrat (India) and he spent 16 years of his youth at Wazir Mansion, before relocating to England to pursue higher studies. Soon after his move, his parents moved back to Gujrat. It is believed that the house was sold after Fatima Jinnah’s birth. Wazir Mansion was built during the mid-19th century and its lime-coloured exterior is the most note-worthy feature of the place. It serves as a museum and it is titled as ‘Quaid-e-Azam Birthplace Museum’ since it is home to Jinnah’s personal belongings – from books, furniture, couches to bed sets, daily use commodities, and other artefacts.

Wazir Mansion

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Karachi, Pakistan

At a time when issues surrounding migrants, refugees, and immigration have taken center stage, the Tenement Museum is a potent reminder that, as a nation shaped by immigration, our brightest hope for the future lies in the lessons of the past. Our mission is to foster a society that embraces and values the role of immigration and migration in the evolving American identity through guided tours; curriculum and programs for secondary and post-secondary educators; stories, primary sources and media shared on our website; and interactive online experiences such as Your Story, Our Story, podcasts and more.

The Tenement Museum

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New York, USA

America’s finest example of the architecture and decorative arts of the Arts & Crafts movement, the Gamble House was designed in 1908 by architects Charles and Henry Greene. Located near Los Angeles, in Pasadena, California, the Gamble House was built as a winter home for the family of David and Mary Gamble (Procter & Gamble), whose heirs gave the house to the City of Pasadena in 1966 with its architect-designed furnishings. Featuring exquisite craftsmanship in wood, and a design that envisioned abundant outdoor living (even sleeping!), the house and gardens stand as a paradigm of architecture as fine art.

The Gamble House

Pasadena, California, USA

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Gunnebo House in Gothenburg, was built in 1782–1796. The house was built by one of Sweden’s wealthiest merchants, John Hall, and was designed by the architect of the City of Gothenburg, Carl Wilhelm Carlberg. The Hall family was one of the leaders of The British Factory, an organization that was crucial for the foundation of Gothenburg’s wealth. The house’s architecture was inspired by the latest fashion from Paris, and the interiors are among the most renowned neoclassical rooms in Northern Europe.The house is open all year round and has a café, restaurant, and a gift shop.

Gunnebo House

Mölndal, Sweden

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Historic New England is a regional heritage organization that saves and shares New England’s past to engage and inform present and future generations. We engage audiences in developing a deeper understanding and enjoyment of New England home life by collecting, preserving, and using significant buildings, landscapes, archives, stories, and objects from the past to today. Our thirty-seven historic sites span four centuries of architectural styles and five New England states.

Historic New England

Boston, Massachusetts

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The Van Schijndel House (1992) is a true signature house wherein every aspect, including most of the furniture was designed and built by Mart van Schijndel himself. The architect’s vision and key concepts of light, color, space and furniture design make this impressive house stand out as a Gesamtkunstwerk. Although he only had 175 square meters to work with, van Schijndel made it feel seemingly larger by the impressive use of light and color. In 1999, the Van Schijndel House was included in the Utrecht Municipal Historic Buildings Register due to its special architectural value, making the house the youngest architectural monument in Holland.

The Van Schijndel House

Pieterskerkhof, Netherlands

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Cerralbo Museum is a well-preserved example of a 19th century mansion with its original decor and display of collections. It was the residence of Enrique de Aguilera, 17th Marquis of Cerralbo and his family: the wife, Inocencia Serrano, and her offspring, Antonio and Amelia del Valle. The Marquis was a great art and history lover who created an important art and antiquities collection The mansion was built and decorated between 1883 and 1893. Designed as a residential home, it was also a place where the Marquis could exhibit his private collections. Today, it is one of the most representative house-museums in Spain.

Museo Cerralbo

Madrid, Spain

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Vizcaya Museum and Gardens preserves the estate of International Harvester Company Vice President James Deering (1859–1925). Built between 1914 and 1922, Vizcaya is one of the most complete remaining examples of a European-inspired estate from the American Gilded Age. Occupying 50 acres of land overlooking Miami’s Biscayne Bay, the estate consists of a Main House with 34 decorated rooms and over 2,500 art objects and furnishings that span 2,000 years; 10-acres of formal, European-inspired gardens that feature historic sculptures and fountains; a native hardwood hammock; and a historic farm village. The estate is particularly unusual for its close relationship between the built environment and its native subtropical setting, including its location merely several hundred feet away from the water.

Vizcaya Museum & Gardens

Miami, Florida

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In the old town center of Perugia, near the Cathedral and the Etruscan Well, an old palace, dating to the 17th Century, houses a valuable collection of paintings, porcelains, printed works, manuscripts and embroidered fabrics. The stately mansion of the Marchesi Bourbon di Sorbello welcomes visitors in rooms with painted ceilings, elegant 18th Century furnishings and chandeliers, as well as an evocative vista over Perugia and the Valley of Assisi.

Palazzo Sorbello House Museum

Perugia, Italy

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For nearly four centuries, Castle d’Ursel was the favourite summer residence of the noble d’Ursel family. Every year the duke went there with his family and servants. Now the castle is the property of the Province of Antwerp, which is bringing it back to life and lovingly restoring it to its former glory.

Castle d'Ursel

Hingene, Belgium

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Palazzo Falson is the former home of Capt Olof Frederick Gollcher OBE (1889-1962), the son of a prosperous shipping merchant of Swedish descent. Gollcher was an artist, scholar and philanthropist, as well as a discerning collector of objets d’art and historical objects. Palazzo Falson was not only his home, but also a setting for his works of art and antiques. Here he spent many happy years constantly adding to and rearranging his collections. After Gollcher’s death in 1962, the house and its contents passed into the hands of The Captain O. F. Gollcher OBE Art and Archaeological Foundation. In 2001 Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti (Maltese Heritage Foundation) entered into a management agreement with the Gollcher Foundation, and proceeded to restore the palazzo and all its contents to their former glory, thus fulfilling Gollcher’s wish to open up this unique and extraordinary treasure-trove to the general public.

Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum

Mdina, Malta

The Monserrate Palace is located in the heart of a landscape park in the Sintra Mountains. Originally, this was a Neo-Gothic 18th century manor, the first of its style in Portugal. William Beckford resided here as a tenant between 1794 and 1795. After Beckford had left, an enchanted Lord Byron visited the romantic and decayed property. In the 19th century, the old manor was reconfigured by the architect Thomas Knowles to its current configuration, as a summer residence for the English magnate Francis Cook. The original plant and volumes were maintained incorporating the then fashionable Venetian Gothic; exotic influences – Islamic and Indian – and overall the reference of a garden pavilion.

Palace of Monserrate

Sintra, Portugal

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Milanese Stories take visitors to the doors of house-museums, artists’ studios, architectural and designer studios throughout the city. Through these locations, visitors can become acquainted with the city, seen through the eyes of those who in different times, social environments, neighbourhoods and personalities have left behind a legacy of culture and knowledge for the city. You can visit storiemilanesi.org online from your home or on the go inr Milan. Read and listen to the stories. Plan your route on the georeferenced map, choosing your own itinerary. When something is interesting, find out more Browse the gallery of images … and then enter the museums.

Storie Milanesi

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Milan, Italy

Lope de Vega, the “Phoenix of Wits”, lived in this house for a quarter of a century. Written on its walls are some of his most acclaimed works, and here he saw his great love, Marta de Nevares, die. Friends and admirers have passed through it. Converted today into a house museum, the building, in addition to serving as a reminder of the important figure of the playwright and poet, is an example of the style of life during the famous Golden Age of Spain.

Lope de Vega Casa Museo

Madrid, Spain

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The building Herengracht 401 is a double Amsterdam Canal House built at the end of the 17th century by the merchant Coenraad Christoffers. The artist Gisèle d’Ailly – van Waterschoot van der Gracht (1912-2013) was born in The Hague, the daughter of the Austrian Baroness Josephine von Hammer-Purgstall and the Dutch geologist Willem A.J.M. van Waterschoot van der Gracht. She grew up in the United States and Austria and studied art in Paris. As an artist, she mastered various techniques, like stained glass painting, design of tapestries, drawing, etching and painting. In the 1930s Gisèle returned to the Netherlands, and in she moved to Herengracht 401. During the Second World War, the visual artist Gisèle and the German poet Wolfgang Frommel hid young Jewish people at the residence. In 1959 she married Arnold d’Ailly (1902-1967), mayor of Amsterdam from 1946 to 1956 and continued to live on Herengracht until her death. Today, the House of Gisèle (H401) is a private foundation located in the Herengracht building of late artist Gisèle. The house’s interior is largely intact from the 1940s and 50s, with art everywhere, timeless classic furniture, overflowing bookcases and a phenomenal view of the canal. The House and Foundation are a place where research, art and dialogue come together to investigate the human condition with all its contradictions. The central question is how we as a society, organizations and individuals with layered pasts want to deal with the present and the future. Through collaboration with local and international partner institutions, with artists, thinkers, scholars and scientists, academic and artistic research at H401 goes hand in hand with residences, exhibitions, publications and European cooperation projects with a focus on new ways of dealing with heritage, involving artists.

The House of Gisèle

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Quaid e Azam House museum is the house of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. Mr. Jinnah purchased this lavish property (nearly 1 km squared) over 70 years ago. Sixty-six years old at the time of purchase, Jinnah’s retirement plan was to move into the house. However, after finally relocating here in 1947, he was only able to live at the residence for a brief period. After he fell ill, upon medical advice, he was transferred to Governor House where he spent his last days. The colonial era yellow stone structure is built in lime-stone masonry with wooden trusses supporting the roof. Red ceramic Manglore tiles are used to cover the roof. The staircase is all wooden and is in dark brown colour. Beautifully coloured tiles are used at the ground floor and wooden planks are used on the first as floor covering.

Quaid e Azam House Museum

Karachi, Pakistan

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Rundāle Palace, the summer residence of the Duke of Courland, Ernst Johann Biron, was built according to the architectural design of the architect Francesco Rastrelli. Most of the interiors were produced between 1765 and 1768, when sculptor Johann Michael Graff and painters Francesco Martini and Carlo Zucchi worked at the palace. The state staircases and the Small Gallery are unique examples of Francesco Rastrelli’s early design style and have survived to this day. The Baroque garden of Rundāle Palace was created under the leadership of gardeners Christopher and Michael Weyland (1736–1740). It displays all the characteristic elements of Baroque gardens including a rose garden (approx. 2200 varieties), a collection of decorative trees and shrubs, and plantations of summer flowers and perennial plants characteristic to the 18th century.

Rundāle Palace Museum

Latvia

The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum is a historic house museum that exquisitely expresses an extraordinary adventure of collecting at the end of the 19th century. The protagonists were two brothers: the Barons Fausto and Giuseppe Bagatti Valsecchi. Beginning in the 1880s, these two undertook the refurbishment of their family home in the heart of Milan in order to create an ambiance inspired by Lombard homes of the 16th century. At the same time, they began to collect paintings and decorative arts of the 15th and 16th centuries. The Bagatti Valsecchi Museum was opened to the public in 1994. In recent years, the museum has organized and held many cultural initiatives as concerts, conferences and exhibits.

FONDAZIONE BAGATTI VALSECCHI ONLUS

Milan, Itay

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Engaging in research on Ankara and its environs, Koç University Vehbi Koç Ankara Studies Research Center (VEKAM) was established in 1994. In 2014 it formed an association with Koç University. The Ankara Orchard House, which is registered as a second-degree cultural heritage building id situated on the Koç University VEKAM campus. The House holds an important part Ankara’s orchard tradition. It also reflects a transition period of social life from the Ottoman to the Republican Period while representing a model with the building and its collection. The House has been hosting the Semahat and Nusret Arsel Collection since 2007, which is comprised of metal, glass, and calligraphic works, textiles, carpets, and ceramics dating from the 19th century to the middle of the 20th century Anatolia. Thus, the House with its collection is the only place in Ankara featuring such sort of display in a traditional Turkish house.

Ankara Orchard House

Ankara, Turkey

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Schloss (Castle) Waldegg is situated on a hill at the foot of the Jura, in the middle of the idyllic recreational area of the baroque town of Solothurn. From the extensive grounds, the view sweeps over the Swiss Plateau to the Bernese Alps. Inspired by French and Italian architecture, the powerful patrician Johann Viktor von Besenval from Solothurn had the magnificent house erected as his summer residence between 1682 and 1686. With the house, the avenues that extend far into the landscape and the wonderful gardens Besenval created a splendid baroque work of art.

Schloss Waldegg

Solothurn, Switzerland

Palazzo Maffei House Museum is a new point of reference for art lovers, an eclectic path between artworks that go through more than two thousand years of history, with more than 600 works united by a kaleidoscopic passion for collecting. Authentic masterpieces of modern and contemporary art and the great masters of the twentieth century: from Picasso to de Chirico, from Magritte to Kandinsky and Warhol, as well as Fontana, Burri and Manzoni. An important focus Italian Futurism, Metaphysics and on Veronese and Veneto painters from the fourteenth until the nineteenth century. In Verona, in the heart of the city, Palazzo Maffei House Museum offers visitors, in the atmosphere of a private home, a journey with a “double soul”, between ancient and modern, a dialogue between the arts: painting, sculpture, applied arts and architecture.

Palazzo Maffei - Fondazione Carlon

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Verona, Italy

Casa Masó is the birthplace of the Art Nouveau Catalan architect Rafael Masó (1880-1935). It represents one of his most important architectural achievements. The house has been preserved with furniture and decor designed by architect between 1910 and 1918, and it is the only one of the famous houses along the river in Girona’s old city that is open to the public. It also offers a library and archive open to scholars and exhibitions related to his work.

Casa Masó

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Girona, Spain

The Portlligat House Museum was Salvador Dalí’s only fixed abode from 1930, the place in which he normally lived and worked up until 1982 when, upon Gala’s death, he took up residence at Púbol Castle. Three different areas can be distinguished in the house: the part where the couple’s private life was lived, on the ground floor and rooms 8 to 13. The studio, rooms 6 and 7, with numerous objects related with artistic activity; and the exterior: room 14, the olive grove (15, 16, 17 and 18) and courtyards 19 and 20, designed for social life and ephemeral creative activity.

Portlligat House Museum

Girona, Spain

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The Melnikov House was designed by architect Konstantin Melnikov in Moscow for him and his family (1927-1929). We opened our doors for small public tours (up to 5 persons) on December 3, 2014 as a first step in the dissemination of the architectural work of Konstantin Melnikov. A world-famous masterpiece of the architectural avant-garde, the house was originally designed and built in 1927-1929 as ‘an experimental cylindrical house’ to test out Melnikov’s concept of mass construction for residential estates. The original layout, elegant spatial arrangement and smart engineering techniques made this masterpiece world famous. Melnikov said that the essence of the house is in its “even distribution of weight, light, air and heat.” Because of its unique architectural form, it has kept its modern appearance while remaining authentic to the atmosphere of the 20th century, reflecting the tragic life of this maverick architect.

The Melnikov House

Moscow, Russia

Located in the Plaine du Cul-de-Sac not far from Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, Le Musee du Parc Historique de la Canne a Sucre both a historical house museum and retraces the painful history of slavery and the American occupation in Haiti against the backdrop of agricultural exploitation. Many figures, residents of the location through highlighted at the site: The colonist Louis de Taveau de Chambrun de Chateaublond and his wife, daughter of the cruel Caradeux, both left, one to France and the other to South Carolina, before the revolution; Colonel Lerebours, the first Haitian to own this place after independence from the country of Haiti in 1804; Tancrede Auguste, Haitian agro-industrialist who later became president of Haiti ...

Le Musee du Parc Historique de la Canne a Sucre

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

The Agnon House is a National Heritage Site, dedicated to the work of the writer S.Y. Agnon, the 1966 Nobel Prizewinner in Literature. Agnon and his wife Esther built this house in 1931, and he lived here until his death in 1970. The house is now a literary museum and a venue for tours, lectures, performances and workshops. Visitors are welcome to see the writer’s home, to get to know his and his family’s life, to get a taste of his enormous body of work, to capture a glimpse of his study, and to appreciate his unique contribution to contemporary Hebrew culture.

The Agnon House

Jerusalem, Israel

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Villa Ocampo is the former house of Victoria Ocampo, Argentine writer and intellectual. Best known as an advocate for others and as the creator of the literary magazine Sur, she was one of the most prominent South American women of her time. Her sister Silvina Ocampo, also a writer, was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares. The house is famous for the list of distinguished visitors who came to Argentina invited by Victoria. Villa Ocampo was also a regular meeting place for Argentine writers. The Documental Central of Villa Ocampo, keeps alive the memory of all this profuse intellectual activity with letters, books, photos and films. UNESCO runs the UNESCO-Villa Ocampo House and Observatory, it develops programs and is open to the public three days a week.

Villa Ocampo

Beccar, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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The Ema Klabin House Museum was created by the Brazilian businesswoman, collector, and philanthropist Ema Gordon Klabin (1907–1994), with the purpose of preserving her art collection, library, and personal archive. It is situated in the home that she built in the 1950s specifically to hold more than 1,600 works of art gathered in her lifetime. The collection encompasses 17 centuries of history, including significant works of European, Asian, African, and Brazilian art and decorative art. Opened for public visits since 2007, the museum also promotes temporary exhibitions, concerts, lectures, educational activities and contemporary art installations.

Ema Klabin House Museum

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São Paulo, Brazil

FUNDAÇÃO CULTURAL EMA GORDON KLABIN

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Nijo-jo Castle in Kyoto, a designated World Heritage site, was constructed in 1603, the year the Tokugawa Shogunate was established, to demonstrate the shogunate’s power over the Imperial capital of Kyoto.In 1626, the castle was expanded in preparation for the emperor’s visit. The current architecture of Ninomaru Palace remains almost as it was at that time. In 1867, the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate proclaimed the restoration of power to the emperor at Ninomaru Palace. In other words, this castle has witnessed the transformation of Japan’s governing system, from the beginning to the end of the Edo Shogunate.

Nijo-jo Castle

Kyoto, Japan

The museum is characterized by its visionary founder, Wilhelmina von Hallwyl. The house was built and tailormade for Wilhelmina von Hallwyl’s collections of Dutch and Flemish art, antique furniture, silver, European and East Asian porcelain. Wilhelmina and her husband, Walther von Hallwyl, moved in to Hallwyl house in 1898. The collection would eventually grow into an ethnographic project and all items for everyday use would be kept and preserved. The museum’s diverse collections create a multitude of facets of the past. The house and collections were donated to the Swedish state in 1920. The museum opened in 1938.

The Hallwyl Museum

Stockholm, Sweden

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In Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine there are a number of monuments – preserved unique fortifications from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. One of these monuments is the “Kyiv Fortress” National Historical and Architectural Museum. The New Pechersk Fortress and Lysogirsky Fort are also part of the museum. The exhibition hall is located in the restored part of the Hospital Fortification which was built according to the polygonal system in 1836-1851. A permanent exhibition is devoted to the history of artillery development. The central goal of the monument-museum is to educate about the historical and cultural heritage of fortification monuments and to aid in their protection and popularization.

Kyiv Fortress

Kyiv, Ukraine

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Gammel Estrup – The Danish Manor Museum was founded in 1930, to preservate and develop Gammel Estrup Manor. The museum also undertakes research of all aspects of manors, including architecture and landscape, culture and history, agriculture and economy – both in a national and an international perspective. During a visit to Gammel Estrup Manor you can discover how masters and servants lived through 600 years as you walk through stunning halls and elegant rooms where counts and countesses lived through the centuries. These public spaces can be compared to the manor kitchen, where original recipes are baked during all school holidays and in the period before Christmas. The beautiful baroque gardens are open to the public and children can explore the large nature playground. Exhibitions are staged throughout the year and there are special activities for children during all school holidays.

Gammel Estrup

Auning, Denmark

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This exceptional building in Kaunas tells the story of the city and the nation over the last two centuries. The Museum of the Historical Presidential Palace in Kaunas focuses on the two decades of Independent Lithuania from 1919 to 1940 when the building served as the Presidential Palace; however, other periods are also increasingly attracting visitors and history researchers. Thus, the museum is striving to tell whatever the walls of this historic building might wish to narrate.

The Historical Presidential Palace

Kaunas, Lithuania

In 1902, the Danish poet and painter Holger Drachmann (1846-1908) bought a former schoolmaster’s cottage in Skagen and had it remodeled as a studio and home for him and his third wife Soffi. Drachmann had been a frequent visitor to Skagen since the 1870s and was a central figure in the Skagen artists’ colony. The interior of Drachmanns Hus is every bit as eccentric as its owner was and contains around 150 paintings and drawings – primarily created by Drachmann himself. Drachmann died in 1908, and the house opened as a museum in 1911.

Drachmanns Hus

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Skagen, Denmark

You can experience the rich history of this magnificent monument in both in the castle and its park. Heeswijk Castle is situated in the valley of the river AA, near Den Bosch. The last owners were connected to the Dutch Royal Family, and today, the castle is a museum open to the public. Heeswijk Castle offers an interesting variety of activities of all ages. By downloading our app from the website or borrowing a tablet from the museum shop, a visitor can independently discover the secrets of the castle whether it be Mediaeval wars, a wealthy baron, a bizarre testament or other events spanning a millennium of history. Our guides are pleased to tell a lot more about all there is to find out about the castle and its surroundings. Special programs and updates are available on our website.

Heeswijk Castle

The Netherlands

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House Doorn was the residence of the last German Emperor, Wilhelm II. After the German defeat in the First World War, Wilhelm fled to the neutral Netherlands and he lived on this estate in the Utrecht province from 1920 until his death in 1941. In 1919, Wilhelm bought House Doorn, which was originally a 14th century moated castle but had been converted into an elegant country house at the end of the 18th century. In 1920, 59 train wagons transported around 30,000 objects to the Netherlands from Wilhelm’s palaces in Berlin and Potsdam to furnish the House. Splendid furniture, paintings, silver and porcelain enabled the royal asylum-seeker to keep up his former lifestyle. Today, this imperial residence-in-exile is a museum, with 3 floors and 12 rooms that are all open to the public. The original interior is still intact and offers visitors an authentic view of an international royal residence and lifestyle.

Huis Doorn

Doorn, Netherlands

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Just outside Brussels, in the middle of the rolling hills of the Pajottenland, stands the most romantic castle of Flanders. Gaasbeek Castle is a unique historical house with an extensive collection that has organically grown with it. We regularly mount exhibitions in collaboration with artists and we present this house and its collection in a bold way as a heritage laboratory and inspiring place to meet. We always give you, our visitor, the central position: we entice, move and encourage reflection.

Gaasbeek Castle

Lennik, Belgium

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This white wooden villa was once the private residence of Baron Gustaf Mannerheim (1867-1951), Marshal of Finland, undoubtedly one of the most famous personalities in Finnish history. Built in 1874 and remodelled for Mannerheim in the 1920s, the house still authentically reflects the peaceful, elegant atmosphere created by the assured good taste of this cultured cosmopolitan with a background of a 30-year long service in the Russian Imperial Army. Since its opening in 1951, the Mannerheim Museum’s mission has been to introduce the different phases of a unique life story and the physical surroundings linked to that, as well as generally retell the different stages of Finnish history. The museum pays attention to constructive patriotism and simultaneously supports multiculturalism and multilingualism.

The Mannerheim Museum

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Helsinki, Finland

Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg (SPSG) The palaces and gardens of the Prussian kings in Berlin, Potsdam and the state of Brandenburg are considered to be of exceptional cultural and historical significance. The buildings, with their interior decorations, collections, as well as the garden and park complexes were created over a period spanning nearly four centuries and document the changing history of Prussia, Germany and Europe at the same time. The Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg is responsible for more than 30 accessible museum palaces, which are embedded in historical parks. Among these are the renowned Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam and Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin.

Sanssouci Palace and Charlottenburg Palace

Potsdam, Berlin

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Born in 1887, Marjorie Merriweather Post became one of America’s most successful businesswomen. When both of Post’s parents died in the 1910s, she became, at the age of 27, the owner of the $20 million cereal company that would later become the General Foods Corporation. Marjorie Merriweather Post bought Hillwood in 1955 and soon decided her home would be a museum that would inspire and educate the public. Her estate endowed the country with the most comprehensive collection of Russian imperial art outside of Russia, a distinguished eighteenth-century French decorative art collection, and twenty-five acres of serene landscaped gardens and natural woodlands for all to enjoy. Opened as a public institution in 1977, today Hillwood's allure stems from the equally fascinating parts that make up the whole.

Hillwood Estate

Washington, D.C.

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