When you're travelling to a new place, often one of the main things you're looking for is a really brilliant museum or gallery. Here are some museums worth visiting.
Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum, Xi'an
Can you imagine how unbelievable it must have felt to uncover the terracotta warriors for the first time? No, of course you can't, but we're guessing it must have felt pretty good. The people who found it were farmers in Xi'an in 1974. Gathered around the tomb of China's first emperor, the 8,000 warriors and their horses are a grand sight.
State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
It is said that if you look at every object in the State Hermitage Museum for one minute each, it would take 1 1 years to see everything. That's quite for sure. But it's certainly that you just hang around its galleries for a day or two. Highlights include an over 200-year-old clock decorated with mechanical golden peacocks, but make sure to take plenty of pictures of the building's outer wall too(It looks best on fresh winter mornings).
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
With its 40 Rembrandts(Dutch painter) and four Vermeers (Dutch painter), the Rijksmuseum is unmissable if you're partial to a sullen(沉闷的) seventeenth-century scene. The museum in fact houses more than a million works of art, and by no means are these limited to just paintings. If you're visiting with kids, hunt down the dollhouse collections and review Dutch life in miniature—right down to the tiny plates set for dinner.
Tate Modern, London
The Tate has four galleries in the UK: Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives, Tate Britain, and Tate Modern. It's the latter that's really world-class, though. Housed in a former power station on London's Bankside, the cavernous(像洞穴的) galleries house a vast lasting collection and amazing exhibitions that pull in the crowds.