Museums are houses for beautiful and historically significant objects, so it’s only fitting that the building itself be gorgeous. The most beautiful museums in the world can be radical experiments in architecture, beautiful entries into old traditions, or just plain weird. In the case of Hanoi Museum, it’s is the inverted pyramid structure that helps establish it as one of the most beautiful museums in the world.
One of the thirty-six most beautiful museums of the world chosen by Business Insider, the Hanoi Museum’s inverted pyramid has a spiral ramp inside that brings visitors to every exhibit.
One of the buildings in China’s Forbidden City is the Palace Museum. It’s a gorgeous wooden structure, and one of the most-visited museums in the world.
The Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain is one of Frank Gehry’s most ambitious works.
The Natural History Museum in London, UK, has cavernous, well-lit halls to illuminate its exhibits.
Louvre (France) is the world’s largest museum, standing out with a modern glass pyramid in Napoléon courtyard. Louvre’s art collection contains the most famous works in art history as well as valuable objects of ancient civilizations. It is also one of the most visited museums in the world.
The largest museum in Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum looks like a crystal jutting out from rock.
The Moscow State Historical Museum is near the Red Square, and made with deep red bricks.
Another of Frank Gehry’s works, the Louis Vuitton Foundation (Paris – France) stands out with its distinctive features and space filled with light.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is a sprawling work of Neoclassical architecture, filled with columns and stone ledges that nonetheless give plenty of space for the treasures inside.
The “wings” of the Milwaukee Art Museum fold and unfold daily.
The Salvador Dalí Museum in Figueres, Spain, is fittingly weird and delightful.
Once a gorgeous train station, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris is now a gorgeous French art museum.
France’s Cité du Vin opened earlier this year in Bordeaux. It’s a museum for wine.
Many visitors describe the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) as a cross between a solar-powered dinosaur and a giant air conditioning unit.
One of the world’s biggest museums, Russia’s enormous Hermitage Museum is painted a bright seafoam green.
The Erawan Museum in Thailand is best known for its three-headed elephant sculpture on the roof.
Like the rest of the Vatican, the city’s museums are filled with colorful frescoes.
Norway’s Hedmark Museum is a huge glass shape that encloses and protects the ruins of a 12th-century cathedral within.
The Potala Palace in Tibet was the main residence of the Dalai Lama until the 1959 Tibet uprising. Now it’s a museum for Buddhism.
Bao Han (Source: Business Insider)