International Museum Day 2025 - A Global Celebration

Friday, 16 May 2025

Here’s a list of some not so well-known museums that you might want to add to your travel bucket list.

The Americas

• Potato Museum in Idaho - houses the largest potato crisp ever made by Pringles
• Museum of Clean in Idaho - over 50 hands-on activities to learn about saving the planet
• Museo del Juguete Antiguo in Mexico City - a toy museum with over 20,000 items dating back to the mid-20^th century
• Museum of Bad Art in Boston - its slogan says it all “art too bad to be ignored”
• California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco
• Bicycle Museum of America in Ohio 
• Mutter Museum in Philadelphia - medical history museum
• Museo Larco in Lima, Peru - treasures from Ancient Peru

Canada

• Les Cours Mont-Royal Barbie Expo in Montreal
• Gopher Hole Museum in Alberta

UK and Ireland

• Museum of Brands in London
• The Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret in London
• Little Museum of Dublin in Ireland
• Horniman Museum and Gardens in London 
• Garden Museum in London
• Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford - natural history museum
• The Chester Beatty Library - where you can’t touch the books!

Europe and the Mediterranean

• Muzeum Torunskiego Piernika in Torun, Poland  - Torun Gingerbread Museum
• The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul, Turkey
• Frietmuseum in Bruges, Belgium - a museum dedicated to potato fries
• Museum of Miniatures in Prague, Czech Republic
• Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb, Croatia
• ABBA The Museum in Stockholm, Sweden
• Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark
• Museum of Alchemy Speculum Alchemiae in Prague Czech Republic
• DDR Museum in Berlin, Germany
• Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France

Asia Pacific

• Cup Noodles Museum in Osaka, Japan
• Hong Kong Museum of History in Hong Kong
• Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur
• Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington, NZ
• Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• Ghibli Museum in Tokyo, Japan - showcasing the work of the Japanese animation studio Studio Ghibli

Africa

• Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art in Cape Town, South Africa