5,000 years of rare Asian artworks and artefacts spanning countries such as Japan, China, Korea, India are housed in Musée Guimet, Paris.

US-born and British-based shipwrecked hunter found an old treasure during a dive and traced its roots, which revealed the object existed between the 1496 and 1500 period

Nestled in a converted grain silo with views overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Zeitz MOCAA is uniquely built to truly embrace Africa’s devotion to contemporary arts. Designed by Heatherwick Studio, the gallery inside Grain Silo Complex has transformed the Cape Town into “a new kind of museum in an African context.”

Heavily criticised by Parisians at one point, the newly-turned centenarian’s giant glass pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre is now an undoubted icon

Blending with the old and the new is recently reopened Tate St Ives, a quarter of Britain’s famed museums

Gehry and team’s update of neoclassical building preserves the old while adding contemporary touches, and promotes easy navigation