National Portrait Gallery

The National Portrait Gallery is a ancient art museum situated at 8th and F Streets NW in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It was established in 1962 and started out to the public in 1968. It is part of the Smithsonian Institution. Its selections concentrate on images of famous Americans. The museum is located in the historic Old Patent Office Building.

The National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are the eponym for the Collection Area Washington Metro station, situated across the intersection of F and 7th Streets NW.

National Museum of African Art

The National Museum of African Art is an African art museum situated in Washington, D.C., United States. The museum is one of nineteen under the side of the Smithsonian Institution. It was started in 1964 and it was actually situated at the Frederick Douglass House in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

In 1979 the museum was moved over to the Smithsonian and shifted to the National Mall. It opened up in its current location, as one of two institutions, designed generally underground, in the quadrangle complex regarding the Smithsonian Institution Building in 1987.

Dumbarton Oaks

Dumbarton Oaks is a historical property in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It was the home and gardens of Robert Woods Bliss (1875–1962) and his wife Mildred Barnes Bliss (1879–1969). The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection was established here by the Bliss couple, who provided the property to Harvard University in 1940. The research institute that has emerged from this bequest is devoted to assisting scholarship in the fields of Byzantine, Pre Columbian and garden style and scenery architecture studies, particularly through its research fellowships, meetings, exhibitions, and publications. Dumbarton Oaks also opens its gardens and museum selections to the public and hosts public lectures and a concert series.

Palace of Mysore

The Palace of Mysore is a historical and famous palace in the city of Mysore in Karnataka, southern India. It is the formal residence and seat of the Wodeyars the Maharajas of Mysore, the royal family of Mysore, who ruled the princely state from 1399 to 1950. The palace homes two durbar halls ceremonial conference halls of the royal court and incorporates a enchanting and huge range of courtyards, gardens, and buildings. The palace is in the central area of inner Mysore and is facing the Chamundi Hills eastward.

Mysore is generally identified as the City of Palaces. There are about seven palaces inclusive of this. However, Mysore Palace relates especially to the one within the Old Fort which was built by the Maharaja Rajarshi His Highness Krishnarajendra Wadiyar IV. This Palace is now one of the most popular tourist destinations in India after the Taj Mahal. Is has more than 6 million tourists yearly.

Sri Harmandir Sahib

Sri Harmandir Sahib known as also Sri Darbar Sahib and informally known as the Golden Temple. It is the holiest Gurdwara of Sikhism which is situatedin the city of Amritsar, Punjab, India. Amritsar was established in 1574 by the fourth Sikh guru, Guru Ram Das. The fifth Sikh Guru, Guru Arjan developed the Harmandir Sahib to be construct in the center of this holy tank and upon its construction, installed the Adi Granth, the holy scripture of Sikhism, inside the Harmandir Sahib. The Harmandir Sahib complex is also home to the Akal Takht. Akal Takht stands for the throne of the timeless one, constituted by the Sixth Guru, Guru Hargobind. The Harmandir Sahib is considered as the residence of God's spiritual feature, the Akal Takht is the seat of God's temporary authority.

India Gate

The India Gate, is a war memorial situated astride the Rajpath on the eastern side of the Ceremonial Axis of New Delhi, earlier called Kingsway. India gate is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the undivided Indian Army who died in the period 1914–21 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and in other places in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 13,300 service mens names, which includes some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are engraved on the gate. The India Gate even however a war memorial, brings up the design style of the triumphal arch like the Arch of Constantine outside the Colosseum in Rome, and is generally compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai. It was created by Sir Edwin Lutyens.