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All Cultural and Institutional Buildings

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
All Cultural and Institutional Buildings
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Norris Geyser Basin Museum

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Oakland Public School

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Okawa Elementary School

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Old Dispensary (Zanzibar)

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Old Library, Trinity College Dublin

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Ontario Heritage Square

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Ordos Museum

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Oslo Opera House

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Ospedale del Ceppo

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Palacio de Bellas Artes

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Palais Garnier

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Palazzo Cutelli

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Palazzo dell'Universita, Catania

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Palm Cottage (Miami, Florida)

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Patterson Homestead

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Pavia Civic Museums

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Petite Ecurie

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Phillips Exeter Academy Library

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Pitot House

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Pompejanum

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Prinkipo Greek Orthodox Orphanage

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Prospect House (Princeton, New Jersey)

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Ranade Institute

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Reefton School of Mines

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Reynolda House Museum of American Art

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Rijksmuseum

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Rocchetta Mattei

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Royal Albert Hall

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Royal National Theatre

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Royal Opera House

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Salk Institute

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Salk Institute for Biological Studies

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Schillerhaus (Leipzig)

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Schloss Freudenberg

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Schumann House, Leipzig

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Seager Wheelers Maple Grove Farm

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Seattle Central Library

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Semperoper

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Sharks!

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Shawbridge Boys' Farm

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Sítio Morrinhos

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Skylands (estate)

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Social Hall (Salt Lake City)

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Sōgakudō Concert Hall

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Southdown Plantation

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St. Ann's Well, Malvern

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State Archives of Naples

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Stately Oaks

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Stockholm Public Library

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Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall

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Sunshine School (San Francisco, California)

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Suzhou Museum

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Sydney Opera House

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Tat Tak School

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Tate Modern

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Teatro Bibiena

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Teatro Colon

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Teatro Farnese

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Technical High School (Salt Lake City)

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Temple Hall (Loudoun County, Virginia)

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The British Museum

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The Crystal Palace

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The Louvre

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The Wilder Homestead

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Thomas Jefferson Building

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Tianjin Binhai Library

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Tipsoo Lake Comfort Station

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Torre Abbey

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Toyoma Education Museum

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Trimborn Farm

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Uffizi Gallery

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Victoria and Albert Museum

Cultural and Institutional Buildings

Vienna State Opera

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Vil.la Joana

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Villa Abd-el-Tif

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Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte

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Villa Bernasconi

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Villa Bianca (Thessaloniki)

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Villa Brivio, Brugherio

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Villa Carducci-Pandolfini

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Villa Cerami, Catania

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Villa Corsini a Castello

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Villa Dessauer

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Villa Domergue

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Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini

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Villa Fabbricotti

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Villa Grande (Oslo)

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Villa La Palazzola

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Villa Lanna

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Villa Le Balze

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Villa Majorelle

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Villa Massimo

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Villa Mirafiori

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Villa Monastero

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Villa Mondragone

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Villa Paradiso

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Villa Puccini

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Villa Schifanoia

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Villa Schoningen

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Sources
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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