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The most beautiful museums and art galleries on Earth - a thread 🧵

1. The Louvre Museum, France 🇫🇷 Image
2. Vatican Museums, Vatican City 🇻🇦 Image
3. Borghese Gallery, Italy 🇮🇹

4. Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA 🇺🇸 Image
5. Hermitage Museum, Russia 🇷🇺
6. The Uffizi Gallery, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
7. Prado Museum, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
8. Colonna Gallery, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
9. Van Gogh Museum, Netherlands 🇳🇱 Image
10. Natural History Museum, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Image
11. Musée d'Orsay, France 🇫🇷 Image
12. National Gallery, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Image
13. Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Italy 🇮🇹

14. Rijksmuseum, Netherlands 🇳🇱 Image
15. Acropolis Museum, Greece 🇬🇷 Image
16. British Museum, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Image
17. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
18. Museum of Qin Terra-cotta Warriors and Horses, China 🇨🇳 Image
19. Art Institute of Chicago, USA 🇺🇸 Image
20. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brazil 🇧🇷 Image
21. National Gallery Of Art, USA 🇺🇸
22. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Spain 🇪🇸 Image
23. State Historical Museum, Russia 🇷🇺 Image
24. Doge's Palace, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
25. Erawan Museum, Thailand 🇹🇭 Image
26. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Austria 🇦🇹 Image
27. Fitzwilliam Museum, United Kingdom 🇬🇧 Image
28. Claude Monet's house and gardens in Giverny, France 🇫🇷 Image
Cappella Sansevero, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
30. Galleria dell'Accademia, Italy 🇮🇹 Image
«Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.»

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