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The Saturn V Rocket
The Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, is dedicated to the men, women, and machines that set humanity on a course for the moon, and won the United States the Space Race. And inside the museum's Apollo Saturn V Center you'll find an entire Saturn V rocket.
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The Saturn V was, and remains, the largest rocket ever constructed. In total, its three stages towered 363ft, or 110m tall - and here you can see it all. Its incredible to think that all this was designed to launch just three astronauts into orbit around the moon.
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Hope, the Blue Whale Skeleton
London's Natural History Museum is home to literally millions of plant and animal specimens, but few are better known - and none are bigger - than the skeleton of the largest animal to ever live on Earth - the blue whale.
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Hanging from the ceiling of the entrance hall, this cetacean, named Hope, stretches 82ft or 25.2m long. When she was alive, Hope would have weighed around 110 tonnes, her skeleton alone weighs 4.5 tonnes. She's a reminder of the need to protect the natural wonders of the world.
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Concorde
This sleek piece of sixties passenger jet design was once the envy of the skies. Flying at supersonic speeds (Mach 2 to be exact) the Franco-British Concorde set records as it delivered passengers between Paris, London, and New York in style.
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Sadly, supersonic travel never caught on. High costs and high risks led Air France and British Airways to announce in 2003 that they were grounding the fleet. Today, these futuristic planes are museum pieces, as seen at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Virginia, USA.
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The Pergamon Altar
When you have an exhibit this big, it's simply easier to build a museum around it. Berlin's Pergamon Museum is dedicated to its star attraction, the Pergamon Altar. From 1878 to 1930, this ancient Greek temple was excavated in Turkey and reconstructed in Berlin.
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The altar was originally constructed in the 2nd Century BCE by Eumenes II, perhaps as a victory monument. Highly-detailed and finely-carved friezes decorate the structure, telling the mythological tale of the founding of Pergamon. In art terms, it's on a par with the Parthenon.
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The USS Midway
And if your exhibit is simply too big for a museum… just turn it into one! The aircraft carrier USS Midway served between 1945 and 1992, and became a museum ship in 2004. At 1001ft, or 303m, she is comparable to some of the largest traditional museums.
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Claude Monet's Water Lilies
The Louvre's Mona Lisa may draw the crowds, but the real treasures are nearby, in the Musée de l'Orangerie. This greenhouse-turned-gallery is the permanent home of Claude Monet's panoramic paintings, known as the Nymphéas, or Water Lilies.
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The eight murals occupy two oval rooms. They were painted by Monet in the early 1900s, and bequeathed to France as a symbol of peace, following the end of the First World War. Sit down, relax, and allow yourself to be enveloped by these enormous, calming scenes.
