- The HEH, an initiative by the European Parliament, is a recently opened museum in Brussels - what does the acronym HEH stand for?
- The Churchill War Rooms is a museum in London that is one of the five branches of which British national museum organisation?
- What is the name of the Viking museum and visitor attraction centre in York?
- Being one of the British Museum's most popular attractions, what exactly are the 82 late 12th-century carved items found on a beach on the Isle of Lewis, in 1831?
- Which building, designed by Chinese-American architect I.M. Pei, serves as the main entrance to the Louvre Museum in Paris?
- The Tate network comprises of four galleries in England, two are the Tate Britain and Tate Modern in London, can you name the locations of the other two galleries?
- What is the street address of London's National Gallery?
- The Prado Museum is in which European city?
- Which sort of museum in North Wales is connected to the nearby village of Llanberis by the Llanberis Lake Railway?
- Which sort of national museum is located at Crich, Derbyshire, with over 60 main exhibits built between 1900 and 1930?
- Name the world famous museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia?
- The Flambards Experience, including museum exhibits of Victorian shops and life in Britain during the Blitz, is in which English county?
- The Gallery of the Academy of Florence, an art museum in Florence, Italy, is best known for which piece of art?
- Which open-air museum in County Durham, England, features examples of everyday life in urban and rural North East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century?
Answers:
- House of European History
- Imperial War Museum
- The Jorvik Viking Centre
- 82 chess pieces called The Lewis Chessmen
- The Louvre Pyramid
- Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives
- Trafalgar Square
- Madrid
- National Slate Museum
- National Tramway Museum
- Hermitage Museum
- Cornwall
- Michelangelo's sculpture David
- Beamish Museum
Museum Questions
- Which American art museum would you visit to see Salvador Dali's The Persistence of Memory?
- Can you name the world's first university museum?
- What is the most famous painting to be seen in the Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain's national museum of 20th-century art?
- Which London museum was called the South Kensington Museum before it was renamed in 1899?
- Which British national museum, founded in 1952 by Lord Montagu, is located in the village of Beaulieu?
- What name is given to the group of American museums administered by the Government of the United States 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge'?
- If you visited the Duveen Gallery, in the British Museum, what would you see?
- The world famous Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum in which city?
- Which Spanish museum of modern and contemporary art was designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry?
- The Musical Instruments Museum, internationally renowned for its collection of over 8,000 instruments, is in which European city?
- Which sort of museum was founded by the British broadcaster Gyles Brandreth?
- A simple image of which object has been the British Museum's best selling postcard for several decades?
- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is located in which U.S. city?
- In 2016, which museum was the second most visited museum in the Netherlands, after the Rijksmuseum?
Answers:
- MoMA or The Museum of Modern Art (in Midtown Manhattan, New York City)
- The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Guernica (by Picasso)
- The V&A (the Victoria and Albert Museum)
- National Motor Museum
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Elgin Marbles
- Florence, Italy
- The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
- Brussels
- Teddy Bear Museum
- Rosetta Stone
- Boston
- The Van Gogh Museum
British museums and their locations
- National Football Museum - Manchester (in the Urbis building in Manchester city centre)
- The Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden - St Ives
- The Tolbooth Museum - Aberdeen
- The Helicopter Museum - Weston-super-Mare
- The Horniman Museum - London
- The Pitt Rivers Museum - Oxford
- National Science and Media Museum - Bradford
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum - Glasgow
- National Railway Museum - York
- The Mary Rose Museum - Portsmouth
- International Slavery Museum - Liverpool
- The National Coal Mining Museum for England - Overton (Caphouse Colliery in Overton, near Wakefield, West Yorkshire)
- The Wallace Collection - London
- Walker Art Gallery - Liverpool
- The Shoe Museum - Street, Somerset
- Roman Baths Museum - Bath
- St Fagans National History Museum - Cardiff
- The Fitzwilliam Museum - Cambridge
- The Riverside Museum - Glasgow
- The National Brewery Centre Museum - Burton-on-Trent
- Laing Art Gallery - Newcastle upon Tyne
- Pen Museum - Birmingham
- The National Emergency Services Museum - Sheffield
- The National Waterways Museum - Ellesmere Port, Cheshire
- The National Space Centre - Leicester
- National Motorcycle Museum - Bickenhill, Solihull
- The Fashion Museum - Bath
- Dog Collar Museum - Leeds Castle, Kent
- Laurel and Hardy Museum - Ulverston, Cumbria
- The Museum of Childhood - Edinburgh
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