Art

Rated the best room in the world for opera

One of its three halls is underground

It covers an entire point of the harbour

Eight million objects live in this building

Giant eggs sit on the roof

The greatest opera singers have all sung here

It has a branch inside an airport

A retired airliner sits in the middle of it

Over 50,000 panels cover this tower

She was born and died in this blue house

The outside is only the prelude

A white roof rises over it like a sail

Da Vinci and Van Gogh hang in the same building

Two stone lions guard the door

Every UK book has to send a copy here

A glass dome sits in the middle of a lake

Titanium curves sit on the riverfront

A medieval castle still stands underneath

Locals say the roof looks like a durian

The Phantom of the Opera was set here

66,000 works spanning thirty centuries

The queen changed its name at the last minute

His widow paid for it as a gift to the city

175 of its places are standing room

It anchors a whole city of science

Most of the three million items stay hidden

Four concert halls hide inside one building

1.5 million works under one roof

Its front is printed on a banknote

Opera and ballet share the same house

The glass skin copies Iceland's basalt rock