Exhibits

The Inca Empire, the largest in the Americas, stretched 4,000 kilometres along the Andes and governed 12 million people through an extraordinary system of roads, storehouses, and administrative centres.

In 1868, Japan ended two and a half centuries of feudal isolation and launched the most dramatic national transformation in modern history, becoming an industrial and military power within a single generation.

Between 1775 and 1783, thirteen British colonies in North America fought and won their independence, founding a republic whose ideals of liberty and self-government would inspire revolutions around the world for the next two centuries.