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August 11, 2004 By: Betty Ramsey Passport Destination: Famous Museums Packing Round 1. Two unusual museums in Hollywood are Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum and GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS Museum. 2. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is one of the 16 museum/galleries that make up the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION . 3 Which of these famous museums is in Madrid, Spain. THE PRADO 4. Toltec, Oaxaca and Maya Halls are part of this city's Museum of Anthropology. MEXICO CITY 5. At the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway, you can see the actual RAFT used by Thor Hyerdahl. 6. His "Water Lilies" is one of 2,200 paintings at London`s National Gallery. CLAUDE MONET Picture: rounded modern building Departure Round 1. You can dine beneath a cast of part of the Parthenon in this London museum's restaurant. THE BRITISH MUSEUM 2. In Dallas, a history of presidential campaign TV commercials is on display at this museum. SIXTH FLOOR 3. Paintings play major roles in all these classic films except NOW VOYAGER . 4. This river flows from the Alps through Munich, home of the famous old Pinakothek Museum. ISAR 5. Displays about the history of lawn tennis are at a sport's lovers museum in WIMBLEDON , England. Picture: beige flat building with curved front door On Tour 1. The Wallace Collection and the Tate Gallery are two noted museums located in LONDON . 2 This collection in West Los Angeles is said to be the best-endowed museum in the world. J. PAUL GETTY MUSEUM 3. Hillwood, former home of Margery Post, is now a museum that now houses objects from Imperial RUSSIA . 4. The Musee D'Orsay in Paris specialized in French art of the MID AND LATE 19TH CENTURY . 5. The Deutsch Museum in Munich is often called the greatest SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY museum in the world. 6. Mexico built a museum to house the mural "Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Alameda Central" by DIEGO RIVERA . 7. The Temple of Dendor, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was a 1965 gift to the United States from EGYPT . Picture: Neo-classical building with glass pyramid 8. The Royal Tyrrell Paleontology Museum in Canada has the world`s largest exhibit of DYNASAU SKELETONS . 9. Visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmusum want to see the famous "Night Watch" by this famous artist. REMBRANDT 10. You would have to be in this country to visit the famed Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. TURKEY 11. Michelangelo, De Vinci and Botticelli are among artists whose work is on display in Florence's UFFIZI GALLERY . 12. The Ashmolean, Britain's oldest public museum, is in this historical town with "dreaming spires". OXFORD Bonus Question One The BUFFALO BILL Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, is regarded as America's finest western museum. Bonus Question Two Where on the map of Wyoming is Cody found? Area 1 Picture: Baroque type building Slide Show 1. What famous architect designed the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT 2. The three-story "Hall of Witness" at the HOLOCOST MEMORIAL Museum in Washington, DC is emotionally poignant. 3. This world famous art museum was originally a royal palace. THE LOUVRE 4. You can visit The Hermitage, Russia's most famous art museum, in this famous city. ST. PETERSBURG Clues for next destination: Desert Valley Hohokam Culture |