Can You Match These Architectural Masterpieces To Their Home Cities?

Question: Where is the Museum of World Culture?

Answer: The Museum of World Culture is in Göteborg, Sweden, along with these other fascinating buildings. At the museum, the diversity of world cultures is brought to life through the medium of ever-changing exhibitions and by an avoidance of any permanent displays.

Question: Where is the Summer Palace?

Answer: The Summer Palace, or Yi He Yuan, is in Beijing, China. It is a complex of halls, towers, kiosks, and pavilions in a 720-acre (290-ha) park around Kunminghu lake, about 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Tiananmen.

Question: Where is the Olympic Art Museum?

Answer: The Olympic Art Museum is located in Lillehammer, Norway, along with these other architectural masterpieces. Lillehammer decided to extend its art museum in connection with the 1994 Winter Olympics.

Question: Where is the Hotel del Coronado?

Answer: The Hotel del Coronado is in San Diego, California. It is one of the oldest and largest all-wooden buildings in California, and has been part of San Diego’s history since the 1880s.

Question: Where is Mooloomba House?

Answer: Mooloomba House is located on North Stradbroke Island, Australia. Designed for the architects’ own use, the two-story, timber-framed holiday home blurs the distinction between exterior and interior, with courtyards and gardens running into interior rooms, and vice versa.

Question: Where is the Lewis Glucksman Gallery?

Answer: The Lewis Glucksman Gallery is in Cork, Ireland. The architects were influenced by an image from a poem by Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s Nobel Prize–winning poet, of a celestial ship floating above the monastery of Clonmacnoise, “big hull rocked to a standstill.”

Question: Where is the Church of the Savior Not Made By Hand?

Answer: The Church of the Savior Not Made By Hand is located in Moscow, Russia. It is one of the most exquisite works of art created under the patronage of railway millionaire Savva Mamontov.