1-1-30 Zaimokuchonishi, Sakai-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka, Japan
Sakai’s traditional-craft centre, including the Sakai Knife Museum CUT, with production tools and techniques plus other local crafts such as textiles, incense and food traditions.
Set within the former Geffrye almshouses on Kingsland Road, the Museum of the Home explores how people have made, used and understood domestic space. Its Rooms Through Time trace four centuries of home life through furnished interiors, while the Home Galleries, period gardens and restored Almshouse 14 connect furniture and objects to changing rituals, technologies and social histories.
Singapore’s oldest museum and a cultural landmark on Stamford Road, presenting the country’s history through national collections, artefacts and contemporary multimedia. Its nineteenth-century building and layered account of Singapore’s development make it a foundational stop for understanding the city beyond the modern skyline.
Denmark’s leading museum for design and applied arts, with collections spanning furniture, ceramics, silver, fashion, textiles and industrial design. Essential for seeing Danish design in its broader historical setting, alongside especially strong East Asian holdings.
Stockholm’s extraordinary maritime museum, built around the remarkably preserved Vasa warship of 1628 and its hundreds of carved wooden sculptures. The scale and survival of the ship make this one of the city’s essential encounters with Swedish history.