Cité de la Musique is an international reference center dedicated to music. There are spaces dedicated to perform, learn, listen, play, study, view, discover, read and get involved to music through various ways.
Cité de la Musique (Paris)
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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum (Cleveland)
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A., is dedicated to register the history of the most famous and influencial artists, producers and people who had great impact on the rock and pop music industry.
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Photo: rockhall @ flickr
Photo: rockhall @ flickr
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Museum of Broken Relationships (Zagreb)
The Museum of Broken Relationships is the pure definition of “wow”. A great idea. The collection is made by the donation of objects that tells a story of a broken heart. Along with the objects, comes a text explaning them.
“She was the first woman that I let move in with me. All my friends thought I needed to learn to let people in more. A few months after she moved in, I was offered to travel to the US. She could not come along. At the airport we said goodbye in tears, and she was assuring me she could not survive three weeks without me. I returned after three weeks, and she said: “I fell in love with someone else. I have known her for just 4 days, but I know that she can give me everything that you cannot.”
I was banal and asked about her plans regarding our life together. The next day she still had no answer, so I kicked her out. She immediately went on holiday with her new girlfriend while her furniture stayed with me. Not knowing what to do with my anger, I finally bought this axe at Karstadt to blow off steam and to give her at least a small feeling of loss – which she obviously did not have after our break-up.
In the 14 days of her holiday, every day I axed one piece of her furniture. I kept the remains there, as an expression of my inner condition. The more her room filled with chopped furniture acquiring the look of my soul, the better I felt. Two weeks after she left, she came back for the furniture. It was neatly arranged into small heaps and fragments of wood. She took that trash and left my apartment for good. The axe was promoted to a therapy instrument.”
Crystal Bridges Museum (Bentonville)
The Crystal Bridges Museum, in Bentonville, Arkansas, U.S.A., is dedicated to american art from the colonial era to nowadays. The collection includes works from Asher B. Durand, Norman Rockwell, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, James Turrell, Georgia O’Keeffe among other names that represent the artistic evolution in the United States. The building was designed by Moshe Safdie.
Via Design Boom
Museu das Telecomunicações (Rio de Janeiro)
The Museu das Telecomunicações (Telecommunications Museum), managed by Oi Futuro Institute, tells the story of telecommunications through various interactive devices. It also counts with a collection of various classic devices, documents, magazines, photographs, negatives, telephone directories and other related objects.
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Via Uol Notícias e Arcoweb
Moscow Design Museum
Russia has its own design museum, where people can have contact with examples of great international and russian design. By using a grid to compose shape variations, the museum has an expansive visual identity system that is very “catchy”.
Moscow Design Museum from Lava on Vimeo.
Museo Soumaya (Mexico City)
Museo Soumaya is a private museum, owned by The Carlos Slim Foundation. By having the organic shape made with hexagonal plates, it can be compared to the Bullring in Birmingham. Still, a special piece of contemporary architecture and engineering.
Via The New York Times Style Magazine, World Architecture News and e-architect.
Autoworld Brussels
The Autoworld Brussels is a museum that illustrates the history of automobiles and its evolution through time with a showcase of more than 250 vehicles, from horse carriages to modern sports cars.
Museum of Contemporary Art – MCA Denver
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, U.S.A. has not only a great building, but also a great website design. Building made by Adjaye Associates.
Via Arch Daily
Titanic Belfast
The Titanic Belfast museum will open on March 31, at the same place where the ship was built 100 years ago. This museum is a certain destiny to tourists visiting Ireland.
To understand the concept of the building there is a very interesting iconic evolution made from the architects Civic Arts / Eric R. Kuhne & Associates, available on the official’s museum site (or here directly).
Via PINIweb, Photoblog on msnbc.com, BBC and Cruzeiros Online.
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari (Modena)
The new Ferrari museum dedicated to the man behind the brand, Enzo Ferrari, opened on March 10th, 2012. The museum is in the location of the house where Enzo was born in 1898.
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Museo Interactivo de Ciencias e Innovación de Nayarit (Tepic)
The Museo de Ciencias e Innovación of Nayarit (Interactive Science and Innovation Museum of Nayarit), also self-entitled Museo Divertido (funny museum), is a museum with an educative focus were people can experience science, technology and innovation through inumerous interactive devices.
Centre Pompidou Mobile
The Centre Pompidou Mobile is a creative initiative that can bring a selection of masterpieces from the museum’s collection to anywhere in France.
Via Imagination for People
Ordos Museum
With the recent phenomenon of completely new cities beeing raised in China, specially in places where there used to be nothing else but deserts, the construction of astonishing buildings such as the Ordos Museum can shock us with the beauty that contemporary architecture achieved. The Ordos Museum is a project of the chinese Mad Architects.
new museum in Ordos – by Niu Han from MAD architects – beiijing on Vimeo.
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FC Barcelona Museum
The spanish soccer club has recently released that more than 1.6 million people have visited their museum in 2011. The impressive numbers put the Barça Museum among some of the most visited museums in spain.
Harley-Davidson Museum (Milwaukee)
A good way for a lovemark to share its values, show its history and amuse its fans is to create a museum. Harley-Davidson’s fans have their own temple in Winsconsin.
Via Moto.com.br
Museu de Cera de Petropolis (Petropolis Wax Museum)
The city of Petropolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil has its own wax museum with real and fictional characters made by the sculptor Henry Alvarez.
Seattle Pinball Museum
Not really sure if this can be effectively called a museum, but its a start and deserves a wow anyway!
Via Gamester Arcade 81.
National Museum of Singapore – Night Festival
In 2008, during the Night Festival, The National Museum of Singapore received large scale projections in its façade made by the australian company The Electric Canvas. Check it out:
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Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)
The Contemporary Jewish Museum was found in 1984, in San Francisco, California, USA. Its core purpose is to be an engaging forum for diverse audiences where new perspectives on Jewish culture, history, art, and ideas thrive. The building, designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind, embodies a number of symbolic references to Jewish concepts.
Museu Nacional do Mar – Virtual Tour (São Francisco do Sul)
The National Sea Museum, located in São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, has more than 60 boats in natural sizes and 200 modeling pieces and naval crafts to tell stories about the art and the wisdom of the men who live in the sea. The 15 rooms with different themes shows the variety of tradicional brazilian boats. They have a very good virtual tour you can see by clicking on the image bellow.
Rapperswil-jona Municipal Museum (Zurich)
Tamayo Art Museum ad (Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City)
Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto)
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Edemar Cid Ferreira’s ex-mansion-museum-like
Edemar Cid Ferreira is an ex-banker, with a big passion for the arts, whose bank broke in 2004. He was dumped from his mansion by justice in 2011 january. Seeing the pictures you’ll understand why this mansion is in this blog.
Via Uol Notícias (more images) and Folha.com (the history).
Denver Art Museum
Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Computer Game Museum: Guerrilla Marketing in a building (Berlim)
Museu do Futebol (São Paulo)
Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein)
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