Pilot of the future

THE WORLD'S MOST INCREDIBLE MUSEUMS: 1. The Louvre → Paris → the world's largest and most visited museum 2. The British Museum → London → the entire history of human civilisation 3. The Met → New York → one of the greatest art collections ever assembled 4. The Vatican Museums → Rome → Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel alone is worth it 5. The Uffizi → Florence → the finest Renaissance art collection in existence 6. The Prado → Madrid → Goya, Velázquez and El Greco under one roof 7. The Rijksmuseum → Amsterdam → Rembrandt and Vermeer in their home city 8. The Hermitage → St Petersburg → three million objects across 350 rooms 9. The Egyptian Museum → Cairo → Tutankhamun's treasures where they belong 10. The Acropolis Museum → Athens → ancient Greece told perfectly 11. The Smithsonian → Washington DC → twenty-one museums, all completely free 12. The Natural History Museum → London → the blue whale stops everyone who sees it 13. The Guggenheim → Bilbao → the building is as important as what's inside 14. The Museum of Anthropology → Mexico City → the greatest Mesoamerican collection on earth 15. The National Palace Museum → Taipei → the finest imperial Chinese collection outside China 16. The Anne Frank House → Amsterdam → one of the most humbling experiences available 17. The Holocaust Museum → Washington DC → essential and devastating in equal measure 18. The Apartheid Museum → Johannesburg → one of the twentieth century's most important stories 19. The National Museum of India → New Delhi → five thousand years of history in one building 20. The Museum of Islamic Art → Doha → the most beautiful museum built in fifty years 21. The Topkapi Palace Museum → Istanbul → six hundred years of Ottoman Empire 22. The National Museum of China → Beijing → the world's largest museum by floor area 23. The Musée d'Orsay → Paris → the greatest Impressionist collection on earth 24. The Tate Modern → London → the finest introduction to contemporary art anywhere 25. The MoMA → New York → Van Gogh, Picasso, Warhol and Dalí in one place 26. The Design Museum → London → the objects that shaped modern daily life 27. The National Museum of Natural History → Washington DC → the Hope Diamond and 146 million specimens 28. The Museum of Old and New Art → Tasmania → the world's most surprising and provocative museum 29. The Zeitz MOCAA → Cape Town → the largest museum of contemporary African art ever built 30. The National Museum of Anthropology → Mexico City → the Aztec Sun Stone justifies every journey 31. The Pergamon Museum → Berlin → entire ancient buildings reconstructed inside its walls 32. The Imperial War Museum → London → honest, unflinching and necessary for the twentieth century 33. The Ashmolean → Oxford → the oldest public museum in the world still open today 34. The Museum of Arts and Design → New York → craft and making in all its forms 35. The National Museum of Kenya → Nairobi → some of the oldest human fossils ever found 36. The Tokyo National Museum → Tokyo → Japan's oldest and largest, with 120,000 objects 37. The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes → Buenos Aires → the finest European and Latin American art in South America 38. The National Museum of Australia → Canberra → the stories of the people who shaped a nation 39. The Museum of Cycladic Art → Athens → the finest collection of ancient Aegean civilisation 40. The Shanghai Museum → Shanghai → ancient Chinese art and bronzes at their greatest 41. The Musée National Picasso → Paris → the most comprehensive Picasso collection on earth 42. The National Gallery → London → seven centuries of Western European painting in Trafalgar Square 43. The Reina Sofía → Madrid → Picasso's Guernica makes this unmissable 44. The Museum of Fine Arts → Boston → one of America's most comprehensive art museums 45. The Nationalmuseum → Stockholm → eight centuries of Swedish art and design