The headquarters of many banks and businesses are also here, as well as 100 museums including the comprehensive Modern Art Museum and the living history museum Skansen, home to traditional Swedish buildings and craftspeople.

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Wright Museum of African American History, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pewabic Pottery and the Motown Museum.

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The sheer amount of things to see is staggering, and like any big city art or natural history museum, the vast majority of the artifacts and memorabilia are in storage, not on display, enabling them to be rotated with enough frequency so that every time you visit it is new again.

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Visit the Yale University Art Gallery, which houses more than 185, 000 pieces of international and American art, or the Peabody Museum of Natural History, which displays mounted apatosaurus and stegosaurus dinosaur bones in its great hall.

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Mountain View just added 20 US museums to its battery of 10, 000 indoor schematics, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, 17 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in DC.

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The city's Heritage Museum has a hall devoted to artefacts related to the art and its history, including a reconstructed theatre, librettos and multimedia programs.

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