Museums & palaces in Europe

4 museums & palaces in Europe, hand-picked and rated, with maps and when they are open.

• Achilleion ★★★★★
  The palace Empress Elisabeth of Austria, 'Sisi', built in 1890-91 above Gastouri for her hero Achilles: terraced gardens, the marble Dying Achilles and the Kaiser's giant bronze, with the east coast…
• Archaeological Museum of Corfu ★★★★☆
  Home of the Gorgon of Corfu, the pediment of the Temple of Artemis from about 580 BC and among the oldest stone pediments in Greece, with the Lion of Menecrates and finds from ancient Kerkyra. A…
• Mon Repos ★★★★☆
  The villa in the woods south of town where Prince Philip was born in 1921, now the Museum of Palaiopolis on ancient Kerkyra; paths through the estate lead to the ruins of Doric temples. The park is…
• Museum of Asian Art ★★★★☆
  Chinese porcelain, Japanese prints and samurai armour, and Buddhist sculpture from Gandhara, in the neoclassical palace the British built for their governors on the Spianada. A state museum that…