What are the best history museums in Europe?

Question

Anywhere in Europe...what are the best ones to go to?

Answer 1

The two above answerers misunderstood your question.
Firstly, Cairo and Shanghai are not located in Europe.
Secondly, the Louvre and Musée D'Orsay are fantastic, but they're more of art museums, than "history" museums.
Here are some of the best history museums in Europe:

•The British Museum (London)
Mummies from Egypt, The Rosetta Stone, The Elgin Marbles Statues from Greece and plenty more. One of the best museum collections and the 3rd most popular tourist attraction in the world.

•Imperial War Museum (London)
The national museum of the experiences of people who have lived, fought and died in conflicts involving Britain and the Commonwealth since 1914.

•The Pergamon Museum (Berlin)
Famous for its vast Egyptian and Greek collections, the Great Altar of Pergamon, the Blue Gate of Babylon and the Market of Augustus from Caesarium, the Pergamon Museum is one of the most prominent museums in Berlin.

•The Musée de Cluny (Paris)
The Musée de Cluny (officially called Musée Nationale du Moyen Age-Thermes de Cluny) is one of the most fascinating museums in Paris, it also possesses one of the world's best collections of medieval art.

•The National Museum (Dublin)
The National Museum is the best museum in Dublin and covers thousands of years of Irish history. The collection includes some of Ireland's most precious treasures and has items from pre historic times right up to the early 1900's.

•The Vatican Historical Museum (Vatican)
This museum provides a fascinating look at the long and sometimes turbulent history of the Vatican.

•National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
Housed in a late 19th-century building, it is undoubtedly the best museum in Greece with one of the finest collections of ancient and classical Greek artefacts.

•The Vasa Museum (Stockholm)
The Vasa Museum is Scandinavia's most visited museum.
In the large shiphall stands the warship Vasa - the only remaining, intact 17th century ship in the world.

Answer 2

MOMA, the Vatican. The Louvre, the main museum in Cairo. I liked the Museum in Shanghai. I am sure that I am forgetting many but these are the ones that stick in my head. The Vatican is stunning and brings out the pirate in me. I just wanted to loot and pillage. To much great stuff and the Sistine chapel made me nervous the paintings look so real. I could go on but the guidelines say not to rant.

Answer 3

THe Louvre in Paris..so many things here its endless and musee d"orsy (opps spelling), there is a picasso museum and the sculpture one....hmmm mind blank...the one with "the kiss" and "the Thinker"....oh yeah Rodin
The Uffizi and the one where "David" is... in Florence
The Vatican museums as pointed out, with the Sistine Chapel and there is a musuem in St Peters with the pieta by leonardo da vinci
The national art gallery in London is free and has some pretty cool paintings there I have to say.

Answer 4

I agree 100% with my friend above.