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501. Nairobi Railway Museum
Museum beside Nairobi railway station telling the story of the line that created the city, with steam locomotives, coaches and historic photographs.
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502. National Art Gallery of Namibia
Namibia's state art gallery, showing Namibian, African and European art from its permanent collections alongside changing contemporary exhibitions in central Windhoek.
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503. National Gallery of Art
The national art museum on the Mall, with a neoclassical West Building of European and American masters, a modern East Building and a sculpture garden.
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504. National Gallery of Ireland
Ireland's national art collection on Merrion Square, free to enter, with Caravaggio's The Taking of Christ, a Vermeer and the Yeats collection.
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505. National Mosque of Malaysia (Masjid Negara)
Opened in 1965, Malaysia's National Mosque holds 15,000 worshippers beneath a 16-pointed concrete star roof, with a 73-metre minaret shaped like a folded umbrella.
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506. National Museum
The Czech Republic's largest museum, in a neo-Renaissance palace at the top of Wenceslas Square, with history and natural history galleries and a Pantheon.
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507. National Museum of Denmark
Denmark's largest museum of cultural history, in a former royal mansion near Slotsholmen, home to the Sun Chariot, the Egtved Girl, the Gundestrup Cauldron and major Viking finds.
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508. National Museum of Fine Arts
The national collection of Filipino art, from 19th-century masters to National Artists, displayed free of charge in the former Legislative Building beside Rizal Park.
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509. Natural History Museum
A cathedral-like Victorian museum in South Kensington with free galleries of dinosaurs, minerals, wildlife and earth sciences.
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510. Nejjarine Museum of Wooden Arts and Crafts
An 18th-century merchants' inn on Place Nejjarine, restored in the 1990s and opened in 1998 as a museum of Moroccan woodwork and carpentry.
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511. New Orleans Museum of Art
NOMA is the city's oldest fine arts museum, set in City Park with a broad collection and the free Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden behind it.
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512. Nijo Castle
Built for the Tokugawa shoguns in the early 1600s, this moated castle holds the Ninomaru Palace with its painted screens and chirping nightingale floors.
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513. Oceanário de Lisboa
Built for Expo '98 on a pier in Parque das Nações, Lisbon's aquarium centres on a five-million-litre tank holding sharks, rays and an ocean sunfish.
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514. Old Dispensary
Ornate 1890s seafront building with carved wooden balconies and stained glass, restored by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and now home to a small history museum.
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515. One Pillar Pagoda
A small wooden Buddhist pagoda raised on a single stone pillar in a lotus pond, first built in 1049 and rebuilt after its destruction in 1954.
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516. Oriental Pearl Tower
The 468-metre television tower of stacked spheres that opened in Lujiazui in 1995, with glass-floored decks, a revolving restaurant and several viewing levels.
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517. Parque Arví
A vast forest park on the eastern slopes above Medellín, reached by Metrocable, with pre-Hispanic stone paths, hiking and cycling trails and a food and craft market.
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518. Parque del Buen Retiro
Madrid's best-loved park, a former royal garden of around 118 hectares with a boating lake, the Crystal Palace and a rose garden, part of a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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519. Patan Durbar Square
The Malla royal square of Patan, lined with stone and pagoda temples such as the Krishna Mandir and home to one of Nepal's finest museums.
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520. Pinacoteca di Brera
Milan's main picture gallery in the Palazzo di Brera, with Mantegna, Piero della Francesca, Raphael, Caravaggio and Hayez's The Kiss.
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