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This Google Street View is reposted from an older post for purpose of comparison with my digitally modified version of this street view shared in Artistic Google album of Google+
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Showing posts with label Museum. Show all posts
Tent With A Zipper
Google Street View
This is not a real tent but a sculpture made to look like tent. Also notice the stone with a zipper next to the tent. These sculpture are part of the exhibits at the Ju Ming museum in Jinshan, near Taipei, Taiwan.
The museum is the largest outdoor museum in Taiwan and showcases the work of Taiwan's famous sculptor Ju Ming and other International fame sculptors like Andy Warhol, Bernard Buffet, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso etc.
The museum contains more than one thousand sculptures and it is fun to roam around via Google Street View.
The museum contains more than one thousand sculptures and it is fun to roam around via Google Street View.
More details and images: Travelogue of An Armchair Traveller
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Colourful Buildings of Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt Museum, Denmark
Google Street View
Google Street View
Carl-Henning Pedersen and Else Alfelt Museum in Birk outside Herning, Denmark is housed in a circular building whose exterior is beautifully covered with a 90 metre long ceramic frieze by Carl-Henning Pedersen.
Its extension building, which is in pyramidal (prism) shape, also has two sides covered with blue ceramic tiles painted by Carl-Henning Pedersen. The third side is made of glass.
Source of info: Danish Wikipedia (English Translation)
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Crying Giant
Google Street View
Found this sculpture on the promenade along the beach at Strandweg, Scheveningen, The Hague, Holland.
Named "Crying Giant" it is part of the fairy tales sculptures created by New York sculptor Tom Otterness for the open air exhibit - Beelden aan Zee (Sculptures by the Sea) Museum.
Similar sculpture by the artist can be seen at Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art at Kansas city (Google Street View)
Another Sculpture by the Sea can be seen in this post.
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Thunderbird Park, Victoria, Canada
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This strange looking building with totem pole is the Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The park displays many totem poles and other monuments of the First Nations - The aboriginal peoples of Canada.
More info about the theme park: Wikipedia
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Saturn-V Rocket Full Scale Model
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Full-scale model of Saturn-V rocket at U.S. Space & Rocket Centre, Huntsville, Alabama. The centre is a space museum showcasing American rocketry and space-related exhibits.
Other smaller rockets including Saturn-I (extreme left) can also be seen.
More info: ussrc.com
Other smaller rockets including Saturn-I (extreme left) can also be seen.
More info: ussrc.com
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World's Largest Titanic Museum, Branson, USA
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This is a permanent two story museum shaped like the RMS Titanic. The building is a 1:2 (50%) scaled replica of the front half portion of the ship complete with the Grand Staircase, the Dinning Hall, First/Third Class cabins etc. and holds 400 artifacts from the wreck of the ship. It also has interactive exhibits such as a touchable iceberg, Bridge Area and Telegraph Room from where one can send SOS message.
The ship is surrounded by water to give an illusion of the sea. At the entrance, the visitors are issued a boarding card with name of actual passenger of the ship. Finally at the end of the trip, in the Memorial room, they come to know the fate of the passenger whose name is on the boarding card whether he/she was lucky enough to survive or was one of the unlucky one who died in the icy water on April 14/15, 1912.
More info and images: Travelogue Of An Armchair Traveller
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UFO Shaped Museum, Contemporary Art Museum, Niterói, Brazil
Google Street View
This strange shaped building is the Contemporary Art Museum in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Designed by the famous architect Oscar Niemeyer, it is one of most recognisable landmark of the city.
Source of info and more info: Wikimedia
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White Rabbit at Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
Google Street View (Note Oct. 26, 2011: The White Rabbit is gone now and the current street view shows a Yellow Duck.
The Museum in San Jose is reportedly one of top 10 children's museums in USA and amongst the top 5 science centres in the world.
More info about museum: Official website
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Sculpture By The Sea, The Hague
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This remarkable artwork on the boulevard at the Scheveningen, the busiest tourist centres of The Hague, Netherlands, was created by by Igor Mitoraj. The sculpture is part of the outdoor exhibit at Beelden aan Zee (Sculptures by the Sea) Museum.
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Shakespeare's Wife - Anne Hathaway's Cottage
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This 15th century house known as Anne Hathaway's Cottage is the childhood home of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare.
Situated in village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England it is about 1.6 kilometre (1 mile) west of Shakespeare's town Stratford-upon-Avon and is now a museum.
Situated in village of Shottery, Warwickshire, England it is about 1.6 kilometre (1 mile) west of Shakespeare's town Stratford-upon-Avon and is now a museum.
More info: Wikipedia
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Globe of Science and Innovation at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Google Street View
Made entirely of wood, this 27 metres high and 40 metres diameter Globe, about the size of the dome of Saint Peter's in Rome, is the main entry point for the CERN's museum of particle physics known as "Microcosm".
Besides the reception area, the Globe also houses "Universe of Particles" section of the exhibit.
Source of info and more info: CERN Website
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