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Buildings built to house cultural, educational or civic-assembly institutions: the museum, the opera house, the cultural center, the exhibition building, the stadium, the pavilion and the amphitheater. Belongs here: any named building whose primary purpose is to house a museum, performance venue, exhibition, sporting event or similar public cultural institution. Does not belong here: a government building housing an administrative function rather than a cultural one, grouped under government and civic buildings, or a religious building, grouped under religious and sacred buildings even where it also serves a cultural role.

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Era of Emergence
530 BCE 1
Origin Region
Mesopotamia (Iraq) 1
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Abraham Glen House

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Adena Mansion

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Ainola

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Alexander Campbell Mansion

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Amelia Cottage Museum

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American Peace Society House

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Andrew Dickson White House

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Antique Furniture & Wooden Sculpture Museum

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Apthorp Farm

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Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens

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Ashikaga Gakkō

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Auckland War Memorial Museum

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Backåkra

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Bagore Ki Haveli

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Baileo

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Barcelona Pavilion

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Beijing National Stadium

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Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Bellefonte Academy

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Bellevue (LaGrange, Georgia)

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Berliner Philharmonie

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Bertramka

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Betty's Hope

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Bodleian Library

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Bolshoi Theatre

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Borgo Medioevale

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Bosehaus

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Boston Public Library

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Bradley Academy Museum

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British Library

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Broadfield House, Crawley

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Brookside Museum

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Burt-Stark Mansion

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Butchers' Guild Hall, Hildesheim

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Bybee-Howell House

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Calderstones House

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Caldwell Parsonage

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California Academy of Sciences

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Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts

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Cardona Residence

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Carnegie Hall

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Carr's Hill

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Casa do Sítio Tatuapé

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Casa natale di Tiziano Vecellio

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Casa Roig Museum

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Casa Wiechers-Villaronga

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Cedar Falls Ice House

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Centre Pompidou

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Chard Museum

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Charles Macdonald Concrete House Museum

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1. Wikipedia
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  • Wikipedia, Museum, history section, era
    One of the oldest museums known is Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, built by Princess Ennigaldi in modern Iraq at the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. The site dates from c. 530 BC, and contained artifacts from earlier Mesopotamian civilizations.
  • Wikipedia, Museum, history section, region
    One of the oldest museums known is Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum, built by Princess Ennigaldi in modern Iraq at the end of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
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