Museums and Collections

Country fans may flock to Nashville's music scene, but this Appalachian town is where the genre was born.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

This tile-work piece featuring a chicken riding in carriage is both a remarkable artistic creation and a social commentary of politics and culture in 17th-century Portugal.

This sandstone plateau once served as a stronghold for Lesotho's King Moshoeshoe I and his subjects.

Discover the mummified remains of Ancient Egypt in the middle of metropolitan Tokyo.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Features unique photographic collections by women of the American West and historical attractions such as a two-story outhouse.

An unassuming music museum recounts the rags to riches story of a dramatic Portuguese genre.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

In a historic steel foundry east of the Mississippi River, thousands of wooden crates hold the architectural remnants of buildings long gone but not forgotten.

A 6,888-carat piece of turquoise that bears a striking resemblance to the first President of the United States.

A tribute to the region's rich history of pottery art.

More than 1,000 stone figures were discovered in a small Nigerian town, where they had been sitting for centuries.