In longtime war zones like Cambodia and Burma, no one knows exactly where the mines were laid and they represent a virtual museum of different styles and histories, lingering long after citizens of the taxpayers of countries responsible can recall only dimly the history of the wars, far less their objectives.
We talk about the Dreamland project in Margate: local enthusiasts have been buying up heritage pleasure rides - most recently, Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Junior Whip - and are now raising money so that Dreamland can be reopened as the world's first amusement park of historic rides (the Deco cinema will also be restored, as a museum of street style).
In a city with almost no reverence for its past, the district has survived as a sort of museum of various architectural styles.
Work began on the two others in 2009, and the entire refurbished complex — a block-and-a-half-long stretch that is itself a museum of changing architectural styles — is scheduled to open officially on Wednesday, a few months after visitors began being admitted to the galleries as they were completed.
4. Savour Shanghai's dishy deco heritage Shanghai is a snappy museum of art-deco style.
Museums of fashion flaunt her dresses.
This museum has one of the greatest variety of styles and artists and cover a wide range of art history.
If "Philippe de Montebello is the last of a breed" of the museum directors of our style, we are probably the last of the breed of old-fashioned museumgoers of his style.
Ms. Bern often finds herself caught between the different museum styles of her sons, Adam, 13, and Ben, 10. "The older one reads every single word on every single card," she said.
Mr. Tschumi says of the museum's style: "The argument of the building is that you can address the past while being totally contemporary, totally unsentimental.
