The 36 most beautiful museums in the world

(VNF) - Business Insider has released the list of 36 most attractive museums, one of them belong to Vietnam which is popular museum attracting a lot of visitors by unique design and creativeness in display.

Built to celebrate the millennial anniversary of Hanoi, The Hanoi Museum, this seemingly gravity-defying building takes the form of an inverted pyramid. Although buildings and monuments wider at the top than at the bottom are nothing new (with the New York Guggenheim being another example on this list) few have achieved it on such a remarkable scale.

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The Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain is one of Frank Gehry's most ambitious works.

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London's Natural History Museum has cavernous, well-lit halls to illuminate its exhibits.

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The world's largest museum — and that stubbornly modern pyramid in front — is also one of the world's most beautiful. Nothing else is like the Louvre in Paris.

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Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Guggenheim Museum in New York spirals upward. Its hollow center can be used to display big art pieces.

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Berlin's Jewish Museum is in an iconic lightning-bolt-like zigzag, making it hard to see around the turns ahead.

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Washington, DC is known for its Neoclassical-style museums, but the National Museum of the American Indian looks like a rock formation smoothed by the elements.

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The largest museum in Canada, the Royal Ontario Museum looks like a crystal jutting out from rock.

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The Moscow State Historical Museum is near the Red Square, and made with deep red bricks.

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The Erawan Museum in Thailand is best known for its three-headed elephant sculpture on the roof.

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Like the rest of the Vatican, the city's museums are filled with colorful frescoes. Here's the Hall of Maps.

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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.

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Other museums on the list are Palace Museum and Maritime Museum (China); National Art Center (Japan); Louis Vuitton Foundation, Musée d’Orsay and Cité du Vin (France); Metropolitan Museum of Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, Museum of Modern Art, Museum of the North and Broad museum (US); Museum of Islamic Art (Quatar); Salvador Dalí Museum (Spain); Museum of Italian Art (Peru); Museum of Tomorrow (Brazil); Quito Astronomical Observatory (Ecuador); National Museum (Czech Republic); Hermitage Museum (Russia); Mapungubwe Collection and Iziko Museum (South Africa); Hedmark Museum (Norway); Museo Soumaya (Mexico); National Museum of Fine Arts (Chile); Tigre Art Museum (Argentina)./.

( According to thisisinsider.com )