Marco Serrato

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  • Museum of Cosmonautics – VDNH Park

    Museum of Cosmonautics – VDNH Park

    Moscow’s Cosmonautics Museum is aimed to showcase the important role that Russia played in the space race during the 20th century. The museum is located underneath a 350-foot tall titanium obelisk known as the Monument to the Conquerors of Space, built in 1964 to celebrate the launch of Sputnik. We learned while visiting it that the museum pays special…

  • State Historical Museum – Moscow, ðŸ‡·ðŸ‡º

    State Historical Museum – Moscow, ðŸ‡·ðŸ‡º

    The State Historical is the largest national museum in Russia. It has priceless exhibits of archeology, numismatics, houseware, weapons and works of decorative and applied art. The Museum was built in 1875–1883, specifically for keeping the national treasury of Russia. We visited it by the end of June 2025, during our Summer vacations. We learned…

  • Choco-Story Museum – Playa del Carmen, Mexico ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡½

    Choco-Story Museum – Playa del Carmen, Mexico ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡½

    This museum, which we visited during a long weekend that we spent at Playa del Carmen in Mexico, presents a great opportunity to immerse yourself in a fascinating journey through the history and art of chocolate, from its origins to its arrival in Europe and its transformation into the world’s (or almost everyone’s) favorite sweet.…

  • Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

    Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

    We visited this museum in March 2025, during a weekend we stayed in town. The Phoenix Museum is considered the largest art museum in the southwestern United States and is home to a collection of more than 20,000 objects. As presented in its website, the museum engages more than 300,000 guests, lifelong learners, and art…

  • Lyman Museum – Hilo; Hawai’i

    Lyman Museum – Hilo; Hawai’i

    The Lyman Museum captured my attention since planning our trip to Hawai’i. As presented in its website, it began as the Lyman Mission House, originally built for New England missionaries David and Sarah Lyman in 1839. Nearly one hundred years later, in 1931, the Museum was established by their descendants. Nowadays, the restored Mission House…

  • National Museum of the Republic of Karelia

    National Museum of the Republic of Karelia

    The National Museum of the Republic of Karelia was founded in 1871 by Olonets Governor Grigory Grigoriev. The museum collection contains more than 230 thousand items and makes it possible to present the originality of the region in the context of the spiritual and material wealth of Karelia. The museum is located in the historical…

  • The State Russian Museum – Saint Petersburg

    The State Russian Museum – Saint Petersburg

    The State Russian Museum, formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III, on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world’s largest depository of  Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in the world with a total area over 30 hectares. In 2022 it attracted 2,651,688 visitors, ranking twelfth on list…

  • Belarusian National Arts Museum ðŸ‡§ðŸ‡¾

    Belarusian National Arts Museum ðŸ‡§ðŸ‡¾

    We visited this museum during some days we spent working remotely while visiting my in laws. We spent a weekend in Minsk and took advantage to visit it. The Museum is considered to be the largest art museum in Belarus. It comprises more than thirty thousands works of art, which make up various collections organized in…

  • Hong Kong Museum of History ðŸ‡­ðŸ‡°

    Hong Kong Museum of History ðŸ‡­ðŸ‡°

    The Hong Kong Museum of History has a remarkable collection, which is what motivated me to make a quick early morning visit to it while being in Hing Kong. I learned that this museum is considered as one of the best museums of the city, with visual appealing exhibitions and galleries which makes it fun to explore…

  • Hong Kong Science Museum ðŸ‡­ðŸ‡°

    Hong Kong Science Museum ðŸ‡­ðŸ‡°

    The Hong Kong Science Museum aims to provide an enjoyable learning experience for people of all ages and walks of life. I had a chance to make a quick visit to if during a trip to Hong Kong, and was able to observe how it aims to inspire visitors with engaging interactive exhibits which allow…

  • Superstition Mountain Museum – Tonto National Forest, Arizona ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸

    Superstition Mountain Museum – Tonto National Forest, Arizona ðŸ‡ºðŸ‡¸

    Superstition Mountain Museum is located in a rugged 160,000 acre Superstition Mountain range in the Tonto National Forest in Central Arizona. The museum’s focus, as presented in its official website, is on providing visitors with an experience of the Old West. The museum provides a historical context that includes the region’s Native American people, the…

  • Diego Rivera’s House Museum – Guanajuato, Mexico ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡½

    Diego Rivera’s House Museum – Guanajuato, Mexico ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡½

    Diego Rivera’s birthplace is now an excellent museum honoring the famous artist, who was persona non grata here for years. Rivera and his twin brother were born in the house in 1886 (Carlos died at age two) and lived here until the family moved to Mexico City six years later. The museum’s ground floor is a re-creation…

  • Mayan World Museum of Mérida, Mexico ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡½

    Mayan World Museum of Mérida, Mexico ðŸ‡²ðŸ‡½

    We visited this museum while spending some vacation days and New Year’s Eve in Mérida, Mexico, in December 2023. The museum is aimed to celebrate the Maya culture and it houses a permanent collection of more than 1100 remarkably well-preserved artifacts, including a reclining chac-mool sculpture from Chichén Itzá and a cool underworld figure unearthed…

  • Uplistsikhe Cave Town – Georgia ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡ª

    Uplistsikhe Cave Town – Georgia ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡ª

    Uplistsikhe Cave Town-Fortress is situated on a rocky massif about 15 km from Gori, Georgia. We stopped to visit this place prior to spending one night in Gori, while being on our way to the Caucasus Mountains during Summer 2023. This Cave Town is also located aside the river Mtkvari and, in addition to the…

  • Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War – Minsk, Belarus ðŸ‡§ðŸ‡¾

    Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War – Minsk, Belarus ðŸ‡§ðŸ‡¾

    After arriving to Belarus to spend a couple of weeks with my in-laws and work remotely from there, we decided to spend a weekend in Minsk. One of the reasons to come to the country’s capital was to visit the Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War which, as presented in…

  • The Joseph Stalin Museum – Gori, Georgia ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡ª

    The Joseph Stalin Museum – Gori, Georgia ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡ª

    After spending a couple of days in the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia, we continued our road trip throughout this country and drove towards the country’s capital, Tbilisi. We decided to stop for one night in the small city of Gori, the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, since it has a memorial museum devoted to him. This…

  • Batumi Archeological Museum – Batumi, Georgia ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡ª

    Batumi Archeological Museum – Batumi, Georgia ðŸ‡¬ðŸ‡ª

    We visited this Museum during our stay in Batumi, which was the first city we visited in Georgia during a Summer roadtrip we did throughout this country in July 2023. The Museum was founded in 1994 and is considered one of the most important scientific, educational and cultural centers in Georgia. It presents a variety…

  • Botero Museum – Bogotá, Colombia

    Botero Museum – Bogotá, Colombia

    This museum is housed in a colonial mansion in old town Bogotá, Colombia, and is best known for its robust collection of Colombian artist Fernando Botero’s works. It also presents pieces by other worldwide know artists such as Dalí, Chagall, and de Kooning. I visited this museum for the first time about ten years ago,…

  • The Gold Museum – Bogotá, Colombia

    The Gold Museum – Bogotá, Colombia

    The Gold Museum is located in the heart of Bogotá, Colombia. While I had already visited this museum a couple of times in the past, I had a chance to go through it again in October 2022, since we visited it with a group of graduate students enrolled in a Global Field Seminar I lectured…

  • Museum of Belarusian Polesye – Pinsk, Brest Region. Belarus

    Museum of Belarusian Polesye – Pinsk, Brest Region. Belarus

    We visited this Museum during Summer 2022, while spending some weeks in Eastern Europe and working remotely from there. The museum was founded in 1924 and opened in 1936, just prior to the Second World War. In 1940, it was established as the Pinsk Local History and Folk Museum, and from 1954 it was the…

  • Museum of Nature; Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park – Belarus

    Museum of Nature; Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park – Belarus

    The Nature Museum of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park is the largest natural history museum in the Republic of Belarus in terms of its design and collection. It is also, as presented in its website, the one with the greatest amount of visitors per year: around 150 thousand. We visited this Museum during Summer 2022…

  • Adalar Müzesi; Museum of the Princes Islands – Büyükada, Turkey

    Adalar Müzesi; Museum of the Princes Islands – Büyükada, Turkey

    My wife and I spent some days in Turkey and, among several places, decided to visit Buyukada and Heibeliada islands. While both islands are full of great nature and views, we also decided to make a brief stop at Adalar Müzesi, or Museum of the Princes’ Islands. It is a small but charming museum with…

  • Istanbul Archeological Museum – Turkey

    Istanbul Archeological Museum – Turkey

    During our latest visit to Istanbul, we decided to visit its Archeological Museum. Besides its importance as the first Turkish museum, it remains one of the world’s largest museums with over one million works. Opened to the public in 1891, it houses a collection of Greek, Roman and Byzantine artifacts. These are photos of some…

  • The Great Palace Mosaic Museum – Istanbul, Turkey

    The Great Palace Mosaic Museum – Istanbul, Turkey

    This is another Museum we visited in Istanbul, Turkey, over Summer 2022. Some highlights, out of the information presented in the museum, and photos are outlined below:

  • Morgan Library and Museum – NYC

    Morgan Library and Museum – NYC

    I had a chance to visit the Morgan Library and Museum during a May 2022 trip to New York. As presented in its website, this is a museum and independent research library that began as the personal library of financier, collector, and cultural benefactor Pierpont Morgan. As early as 1890 Morgan had begun to assemble…

  • The Musical Instruments Museum – United States and Canada section. Scottsdale – AZ

    The Musical Instruments Museum – United States and Canada section. Scottsdale – AZ

    We decided to visit the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) again in late April 2023, before our yearly membership would be over. As shared in my previous blog posts about this museum and presented in its website, the MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global, which I…

  • The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) – European Section. Scottsdale – AZ

    The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) – European Section. Scottsdale – AZ

    After getting the annual membership in June 2022, we decided to visit the Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) again in early January. As shared in my previous blog post about this museum and presented in its website, the MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global, which I…

  • The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) – Special Exhibition (Treasures): Asia and Latin America sections. Scottsdale – AZ

    The Musical Instruments Museum (MIM) – Special Exhibition (Treasures): Asia and Latin America sections. Scottsdale – AZ

    After almost ten months living in the Phoenix area, my wife and I had a chance to visit the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM). As presented in its website, MIM began with a vision to create a musical instrument museum that would be truly global, which I think they have really accomplished. MIM’s founder Bob Ulrich…

  • Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park – Phoenix, AZ

    Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park – Phoenix, AZ

    My wife and I took advantage of a weekend at home to visit Pueblo Grande Museum and Archeological Park, where we spent around three hours. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, Pueblo Grande is an archaeological site once inhabited by the Hohokam culture. It is also a National Historic Landmark and part of the City of Phoenix…

  • Museum of Nature – Turov, Belarus

    Museum of Nature – Turov, Belarus

    We visited this museum during Summer 2022, while going on a roadtrip during our stay in Belarus. The Museum of Nature in Turov was founded in 1998 and, as presented at its entrance, was created to show the beauty and greatness of the Polesie landscapes and their biological diversity. The museum not only raises the…