cultural institution
C84
concept
A cultural institution is an organized establishment, such as a museum, library, theater, or gallery, dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and promoting the arts, heritage, and shared cultural expressions of a community or society.
Aliases (50)
- museum ×604
- historic house museum ×121
- science museum ×64
- performing arts center ×59
- cultural venue ×56
- cultural center ×48
- natural history museum ×44
- national museum ×42
- archaeological museum ×35
- open-air museum ×33
- museum complex ×30
- biographical museum ×28
- art gallery ×26
- maritime museum ×26
- cultural organization ×25
- theatre company ×23
- cultural complex ×22
- museum gallery ×22
- university museum ×21
- archaeology museum ×20
- museum department ×20
- local history museum ×18
- technology museum ×16
- exhibition space ×15
- Smithsonian museum ×13
- curatorial department ×13
- museum wing ×13
- arts centre ×12
- museum collection ×12
- anthropology museum ×10
- cultural centre ×10
- living history museum ×10
- music museum ×10
- presidential library ×10
- state museum ×10
- cultural history museum ×9
- cultural museum ×9
- memorial museum ×9
- performing arts centre ×9
- theatre venue ×9
- civil rights museum ×8
- national library ×8
- regional museum ×8
- children's museum ×7
- cultural property ×7
- art institution ×6
- cultural heritage institution ×6
- design museum ×6
- heritage museum ×6
- archival repository ×5
Instances (showing first 500 of 2,079)
- Grantham Museum ("local history museum")
- Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum ("design museum")
- Capitol Visitor Center ("museum")
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame ("museum")
- DPAC ("performing arts center")
- Japan Society (New York) ("cultural organization")
- Sandwich Glass Museum ("museum")
- Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ("kunsthalle")
- National Library of Cuba José Martí ("national library")
- San Francisco Cable Car Museum ("museum")
- Hollywood Wax Museum ("museum")
- Chicago Cultural Center ("cultural center")
- Musée d'Orsay ("museum in Paris")
- Museum of the City of New York ("museum")
- Harry S. Truman Birthplace State Historic Site ("historic house museum")
- World Cafe Live ("cultural venue")
- Sciencenter ("science museum")
- Heckscher Museum of Art ("museum")
- Liberty Bell Center ("museum")
- Bishop White House ("museum")
- British Museum ("museum")
- Teatro Nacional de Cuba
- National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C. ("science museum")
- Art Gallery of Ontario
- Obama Presidential Center ("museum complex")
- Museum of Pop Culture ("museum")
- Palacio de Bellas Artes ("cultural center")
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research ("Jewish cultural organization")
- Islamic Museum ("museum")
- Wawel Castle in Kraków ("museum")
- Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory in Kraków ("museum")
- Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts ("performing arts center")
- Navy Pier ("cultural venue")
- Peterhof Palace ("museum")
- El Museo del Barrio
- Galle ("museum")
- Great Hall ("museum gallery")
- Mark Twain Boyhood Home and Museum ("historic house museum")
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home ("museum")
- Philadelphia Museum of Art ("museum")
- Seattle Art Museum
- Forbidden City ("museum")
- The National Archives, Kew
- Chicago Children’s Museum ("museum")
- Conklin Farmhouse Museum ("historic house museum")
- National Gallery ("national museum")
- McCarter Theatre Center ("performing arts center")
- Cornerhouse ("arts centre")
- Wales Millennium Centre ("performing arts centre")
- Metlar–Bodine House Museum ("historic house museum")
- Schlossberg Museum ("museum")
- Musée Matisse ("museum")
- German Archaeological Institute ("archaeological institute")
- Becky Thatcher House ("museum")
- Grand Rapids Art Museum
- Rose Museum ("museum")
- National Gallery of Australia ("national museum")
- National Museum Cardiff ("natural history museum")
- Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ("French institution")
- Musée Marc Chagall ("national museum")
- Hall of Remembrance ("commemorative hall")
- LOC ("national library")
- Boston Guildhall ("museum")
- Reach ("cultural facility")
- Grover Cleveland Birthplace (historic site) ("historic house museum")
- World of Coca-Cola ("museum")
- Motown Museum ("music museum")
- National Museum of Australia ("national museum")
- French Academy in Rome
- Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes ("museum")
- RAE
- museum of the Battle of Britain ("museum")
- Artifacts Collection ("museum collection")
- Titanic Belfast museum ("museum")
- High Museum of Art ("museum")
- Grand Rapids Public Museum ("museum")
- Hoxie House ("historic house museum")
- Folger Shakespeare Library ("cultural center")
- Botero Museum ("museum")
- Museum Campus Chicago ("cultural complex")
- Stalin Museum ("biographical museum")
- Jüdisches Museum Franken (branch in Fürth) ("Jewish museum")
- Carlyle House Historic Park ("historic house museum")
- Torpedo Factory Art Center
- Iolani Palace ("museum")
- Lithgow Public Library
- Graceland ("museum")
- Old Fort Western ("museum")
- Maine State Museum ("state museum")
- Grand Palais, Paris ("museum complex")
- Cantigny Park ("museum complex")
- Metropolitan Opera
- Crumlin Road Gaol ("museum")
- Bishop Museum ("museum")
- Chinese Historical Society of America Museum ("cultural museum")
- Stadtmuseum Fürth ("local history museum")
- Moorland–Spingarn Research Center ("archival repository")
- West Building ("museum wing")
- Hancock-Clarke House ("museum")
- Schloss Tegel ("museum")
- Exhibitions Pavilion ("museum gallery")
- Nikola Tesla Museum ("science museum")
- National Civil Rights Museum ("civil rights museum")
- Down House, Downe, Kent ("museum")
- East Building ("museum wing")
- European Academy of Sciences and Arts ("cultural organization")
- Art Institute of Chicago ("museum")
- Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco ("cultural organization")
- Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California, United States ("presidential library")
- Stax Museum of American Soul Music ("music museum")
- Olana (estate and landscape design) ("historic house museum")
- The Breakers ("museum")
- Newport Art Association building (consulting role) ("cultural property")
- Ancient Near East collection ("museum collection")
- Saroyan Theatre ("performing arts center")
- Detroit Institute of Arts
- Honolulu Museum of Art
- West Point Museum ("museum")
- Norman Rockwell Museum ("biographical museum")
- Longwood House ("museum")
- Palais de Chaillot ("cultural venue")
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums ("living history museum")
- Bibliotheca Alexandrina ("cultural center")
- Krannert Center for the Performing Arts ("performing arts center")
- Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts ("performing arts centre")
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Vienna State Opera
- Salzburg Festival ("theatre festival")
- La Scala
- Nobel Museum ("museum")
- The Terence Rattigan Society ("cultural organization")
- Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site ("historic house museum")
- Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum ("presidential library")
- New Orleans Mint ("museum")
- Krannert Art Museum ("university museum")
- Department of Islamic Art ("curatorial department")
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts ("performing arts center")
- Yasnaya Polyana ("museum")
- Alfred Nobel Monument in New York City ("cultural property")
- Kruger House, Pretoria ("historic house museum")
- Finca Vigía ("museum")
- Boeing Galleries ("art exhibition venue")
- Brewmaster’s Castle ("historic house museum")
- Boston Public Library (Copley Square main branch) ("cultural center")
- Presidential Libraries ("museum")
- Tanglewood ("performing arts center")
- Locust Grove Estate ("historic house museum")
- Franklin Court ("museum complex")
- National First Ladies’ Library ("museum")
- Hart House ("cultural centre")
- Banting House National Historic Site in London, Ontario ("museum")
- Declaration House ("museum")
- George Washington Masonic National Memorial ("museum")
- West Overton Museums ("museum complex")
- J. Paul Getty Trust
- Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument (Hearst Castle) ("historic house museum")
- Ferus Gallery ("art gallery")
- National Museum, New Delhi ("national museum")
- E. B. Crocker Art Gallery
- MacArthur Memorial ("museum")
- Victoria Mansion ("historic house museum")
- Federal Hall National Memorial ("museum")
- Birla House, New Delhi ("museum")
- Burlington House ("cultural venue")
- Seattle Central Library
- MoMA PS1 ("art institution")
- Academy Museum of Motion Pictures ("museum")
- Battleship USS Iowa Museum ("maritime museum")
- Durham Performing Arts Center ("performing arts center")
- Graafs Museum ("museum")
- Nehru Memorial Museum and Library ("museum")
- Santiniketan ("cultural centre")
- Pro Football Hall of Fame ("museum")
- Union Station Kansas City ("cultural center")
- NLBM ("museum")
- Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ("cultural venue")
- Delphi Archaeological Museum ("archaeological museum")
- Jewish Museum ("Jewish museum")
- Los Angeles Office of Historic Resources ("historic preservation agency")
- Eastern State Penitentiary ("museum")
- Académie royale de danse ("royal institution")
- Historic General Dodge House ("historic house museum")
- Academy Award
- Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum ("museum")
- Steelworks Center of the West ("museum")
- Red River Railroad Museum ("museum")
- Académie royale de musique ("royal institution")
- Académie royale d’architecture ("French cultural institution")
- Hockey Hall of Fame ("museum")
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ("Holocaust museum")
- Science North ("science museum")
- Dynamic Earth ("science museum")
- Library of Congress ("national library")
- Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts ("performing arts center")
- Historic Hudson Valley ("cultural organization")
- Donald W. Reynolds Museum and Education Center ("museum")
- Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York ("museum")
- Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum ("museum")
- Blue Room
- Academia Brasileira de Letras
- Maharashtra Sahitya Parishad (de facto) ("cultural organization")
- Soho House, Handsworth ("museum")
- Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) ("science museum")
- Munch Museum ("biographical museum")
- Eisenhower Hall Theatre ("performing arts center")
- Accademia della Crusca
- Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo
- Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum ("presidential library")
- Ontario Science Centre ("science museum")
- Lenox Library, New York City
- Fram Museum ("maritime museum")
- Ledaal, Stavanger ("museum")
- Confederate heritage organizations ("cultural organization")
- National Gallery of Canada ("national museum")
- Fort York ("museum")
- Ontario Place ("cultural complex")
- Rockcliffe Mansion ("museum")
- Lyric Theatre ("theatre venue")
- Viking Ship Museum ("museum")
- National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design ("design museum")
- EYE Filmmuseum
- Cromhouthuizen ("museum")
- Stratford Hall, Westmoreland County, Virginia ("museum")
- Lee Chapel, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia ("museum")
- Canadian Museum of History ("national museum")
- Harbourfront Centre ("cultural hub")
- Dallas Symphony Orchestra (headquarters) ("cultural infrastructure")
- Palais des Beaux-Arts ("cultural venue")
- Portland Museum of Art ("museum")
- Shriver House Museum ("historic house museum")
- Canadian War Museum ("national museum")
- Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts ("performing arts centre")
- Armoury Chamber ("museum")
- Canadian Museum of Nature ("natural history museum")
- National Arts Centre ("performing arts centre")
- Ministry of Culture of Egypt ("cultural organization")
- Palais des Arts Libéraux ("cultural venue")
- Galleria Borghese ("art gallery")
- Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ("museum organization")
- Egyptian Museum ("museum")
- Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts ("performing arts center")
- Emlen Physick Estate ("historic house museum")
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ("national library")
- World Golf Hall of Fame ("museum")
- Petersen House ("museum")
- Shoto Museum of Art
- Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site ("open-air museum")
- Norwegian-American organizations ("cultural organizations")
- Royal Spanish Academy
- Koninklijke Bibliotheek complex ("cultural complex")
- Castel Sant'Angelo ("museum")
- Frank Lloyd Wright Westcott House ("historic house museum")
- Somerset House, London ("cultural centre")
- Cardston, Alberta, Canada ("museum")
- Bentley Priory ("museum")
- California Office of Historic Preservation ("historic preservation agency")
- Derby Museum and Art Gallery
- Pickford’s House Museum ("historic house museum")
- YadVashem ("museum")
- San Antonio de los Baños ("museum")
- Woori Korean Art Collection ("museum collection")
- Derby Silk Mill ("industrial museum")
- Clarke House Museum ("historic house museum")
- Mauritshuis ("museum")
- Dominican Academy of Language
- University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History ("museum")
- Trinity Theatre ("cultural centre")
- National Museum of Beirut ("archaeological museum")
- Archives nationales
- Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo ("natural history museum")
- TIFF ("cultural organization")
- TIFF Bell Lightbox ("cultural complex")
- National Endowment for the Humanities ("cultural agency")
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ("museum")
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ("music museum")
- B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center ("museum")
- Mit Rahina museum area ("open-air museum")
- Pearl Harbor Visitor Center ("museum complex")
- Prado Museum ("national museum")
- Haslemere ("museum")
- Hampton Court Palace ("museum")
- Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site ("historic house museum")
- Sabhal Mòr Ostaig
- Mexican Academy of Language
- Reina Sofía Museum ("national museum")
- Drama Theatre ("theatre venue")
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum ("museum")
- Montrose ("museum")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Argentina
- Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline ("cultural venue")
- National Football Museum ("museum in the United Kingdom")
- Royal Exchange Theatre ("theatre company")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Chile
- State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg facilities ("museum complex")
- SMG ("museum group")
- La Llotja Theatre and Conference Centre in Lleida ("cultural venue")
- Wei-Wu-Ying National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts ("performing arts center")
- Kaap Skil Maritime and Beachcombers Museum extension ("cultural building")
- HOME ("arts centre")
- First Street, Manchester ("arts centre")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Colombia
- Elizabethan House Museum ("historic house museum")
- Asian Pavilion ("museum wing")
- Philips Wing ("museum wing")
- Gallery of Honour ("museum gallery")
- Night Watch Gallery ("museum gallery")
- Library Theatre Company, Manchester ("theatre company")
- Time and Tide Museum ("museum")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Peru
- Yale University Art Gallery ("university museum")
- Harvard Square ("cultural center")
- Longfellow House–Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site ("historic house museum")
- Beyeler Foundation Museum ("museum")
- Auditorium Parco della Musica ("cultural center")
- Jean-Marie Tjibaou Cultural Center ("cultural center")
- Stopera ("cultural venue")
- Hermitage Amsterdam ("museum")
- Medici court in Florence ("cultural center")
- Wyly Theatre ("performing arts center")
- Springfield Museum of Art ("museum")
- The Wayside (historic house in Concord) ("museum")
- Moody Performance Hall ("performing arts center")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Venezuela
- John Taylor Johnston ("museum president")
- Department of Asian Art ("curatorial department")
- SFO Museum ("museum")
- Penn Museum ("archaeology museum")
- Busan Cinema Center ("cultural complex")
- Whitney Museum of American Art building (Meatpacking District) ("cultural infrastructure")
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center ("cultural center")
- Newstead Abbey ("historic house museum")
- Nasher Sculpture Center
- John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum ("presidential library")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Ecuador
- Field Museum of Natural History ("natural history museum")
- People’s History Museum ("museum")
- The Lowry ("arts centre")
- National Statuary Hall ("art gallery")
- Oak Ridge History Museum
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Guthrie Theater ("performing arts center")
- Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse ("museum")
- Ordsall Hall ("museum")
- Science Museum, London ("science museum")
- Brooklyn Museum
- Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders ("museum")
- Bunkamura ("cultural complex")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Paraguay
- National Railway Museum ("national museum")
- Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques ("French institution")
- International Ballet Festival of Havana ("dance festival")
- Science Museum of Minnesota ("science museum")
- Crocker Art Museum ("museum")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Uruguay
- National Gallery of Victoria
- State Library Victoria
- Greyhound Hall of Fame ("museum")
- National Science and Media Museum ("museum")
- EMK Institute ("civic institution")
- Sutter’s Fort ("living history museum")
- Hagia Sophia ("museum")
- Jacob's Pillow ("dance center")
- Williamstown Theatre Festival ("theatre festival")
- Centre Pompidou ("multidisciplinary cultural center")
- Academy of the Spanish Language in Guatemala
- Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language
- Cragside ("museum")
- Seelye Mansion ("museum")
- Topkapi Palace ("museum")
- Victoria Memorial ("museum")
- Indian Museum ("museum")
- Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art ("museum wing")