Museum

Originally built as a single-family house for an upper-class Dubliner in the early 18th century, the building at 14 Henrietta Street (14 Henrietta St., Inns Quay, Dublin 1, 001 HH34 Ireland; www.14henriettastreet.ie) had become a workers' tenement housing at least 100 people by 1911. Now a museum, opened on Sept. 18, 2018, the building's restored rooms display its entire history, from wealthy town home to courthouse to army barracks to tenement.

18 days, 17 nights. Departures April 11, May 30, July 11, Sept. 5 & Oct. 3, 2019. Group limit, 2-12. Highlights: In Ashgabat, TURKMENISTAN, State Historical & Cultural Park of Ancient Merv, Tolkuchka bazaar/in Nukus, UZBEKISTAN, Karakalpakstan State Museum of Art/Khiva open-air museum/Bukhara/Samarkand/Tashkent/TAJIKISTAN National Museum in Dushanbe/in Almaty, KAZAKHSTAN, Museum of Kazakh Musical Instruments, Green Bazaar/Bishkek, KYRGYZSTAN. $5,895 ppdo. Single supp., $835. Internal air, about $690.

The National Museum of Brazil, located on the campus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, was gutted by a fire on Sept. 3, with almost a complete loss of the more than 20 million items in its collections. No one was hurt in the fire, which occurred after closing time when no one was in the building.

The museum did not have a fire-prevention or -suppression system. Investigations into the cause of the fire were ongoing at press time.

Located in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, southwest of Lyon, France, is a memorial and museum to the citizens of the small town who risked their lives to save more than 3,000 Jews from the Holocaust during World War II.