Public Domain Photo: Porcelain Vase located at China Sex Museum, in Tongli (or Tong-Li), a town in Wujiang county on the outskirts of Suzhou, China.
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Traditional Arts and Customs Museum in Seville, Spain
Public Domain Photo: The Traditional Arts and Customs Museum (Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares) on Plaza de América, Parque de María Luisa, in Seville, Spain.
Museo de Artes y Costumbres Populares (The Museum of Arts and Traditions in Seville, Andalusia, Spain) is located in the María Luisa Park, across the Plaza de América from the Provincial Archeological Museum.
The museum occupies the Mudéjar Pavilion (Pabellón Mudéjar) built in 1914, and several alterations and additions have been carried out since then. The museum was established by a decree of 23 March 1972, initially as a section of the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville. The permanent exhibition space amounts to 5,496 square meters (18,031 feet).
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Garden at Bayou Bend Estate, MFAH
Photo: Garden at the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, MFAH, Houston, Texas
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens feature one of USA’s best collections of American decorative art and furniture at the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg and designed by architect John F. Staub in 1928. Miss Hogg donated the home and its collections to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in 1957 and it was opened to the public in 1966.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Botanical Garden, Berlin
The Botanical Garden in Berlin (Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem) with an area of 43 hectares, home to around 22,000 different species of exotic plants brought in from erstwhile German colonies is one of the most important gardens in the world. Located in Dahlem neighborhood of the borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, it was constructed between 1897 and 1910 under the supervision of architect Adolf Engler.
Now, being a part of the Free University of Berlin, the Botanical Museum complex, with a large herbarium and a large scientific library, consists of several buildings and glasshouses, such as the Cactus Pavilion and the Pavilion Victoria, and its arboretum is spread over 14 hectares. The Great Pavilion, the largest glasshouse in the world, is a 25-meter tall steel structure covered by glass with floor area of width 30 meters and length 60 meters, with a constant temperature level at 30 °C and high air humidity.

