The Jewish Museum of Florida on Miami Beach is located in a former 1936 synagogue and recently expanded to include the former 1928 synagogue next door.

http://www.jewishmuseum.com/historicalbuildings.html

 

The Musée d’Orsay in Paris is a former train station.

http://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html

 

 

 

Musei Capitolini Centrale Montimartini in Rome was an old electrical plant—they mix the antique statues with the machines and tools and it really makes you look at those sculptures in a very different way—check it out at: http://www.centralemontemartini.org/

You can do a virtual tour at this site: http://www.centralemontemartini.org/sede/visita_virtuale

It’s all about power!

 

 

 

The National Museum of the American Indian George Gustav Heye Center in New York City is in an old Customs House http://www.gosmithsonian.com/museums/national-museum-of-the-american-indian-heye-center-new-york/

 

 

 

 

 

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