Your answers to the psychometric questions at the RANKING TEST tab reveal your personal favorites among the 15 Beautiful Facets. You can then prioritize your visits to beautiful places in CitiesBeautiful.org’s 25 cities, by focusing on your favorite Beautiful Facet. Clicking on any Beautiful Facet below will take you to a table that has all 25 cities’ Principle Features and Honorable Mentions that have been classified by that specific Beautiful Facet. Each table is sorted by the highest scoring city for that Beautiful Facet down to the lowest scoring city.
This webpage is the personalized tour of all the beautiful places that have the Beautiful Facet classification of MENTORING.
| CITY | SCORE | PRINCIPLE FEATURES | HONORABLE MENTIONS |
| London | 100 | National Gallery, British Museum,Tate Museums | Wallace Collection, Courtauld Gallery, British Library, Old Royal Naval College, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Paris | 100 | La Sorbonne, Louvre, Pompidou Centre | Musée d'Orsay, Musée de ClunyMusée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet, Musée du quai Branly, Palais de Tokyo, Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine |
| Chicago | 92 | Art Institute of Chicago, Universities--University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology; Adler Planetarium | Libraries--Harold Washington Library Center, Newberry Library ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Oriental Institute, Smart Museum of Art |
| Amsterdam | 85 | Rijksmuseum, Stedelijk Museum, Maritime Museum (Scheepvaartmuseum) | Hermitage Amsterdam; Central Library (Openbare Bibliotheek), Cobra Museum |
| Athens | 85 | Acropolis Museum, National Archaeological Museum, Benaki Museum | Museum of Cycladic Art, National Art Gallery+Alexandre Soutzo Museum, National Library |
| Washington DC | 85 | Smithsonian Museums, Library of Congress, National Gallery of Art | Phillips Collection, Folger Shakespeare Library, Universities - Georgetown, George Washington, Howard, American |
| Prague | 77 | National Gallery Museums (Národní galerie v Praze) -- Veletržní Palace, Šternberk Palace, Kinský Palace, Convent of St. Agnes of Bohemia, etc.; Strahov Monastery Library (Strahovský klášter), Museum of Decorative Arts (Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v Praze or UPM) | Charles University (Univerzita Karlova v Praze), Štefánik's Observatory (Štefánikova hvězdárna) |
| Rome | 77 | Vatican Museums, Capitoline Museums,National Museum of Rome at Palazzo Altemps, | National Etruscan Museum, National Gallery of Ancient Art in Palazzo Barberini, Sapienza University, Biblioteca Angelica |
| Budapest | 69 | Museum of Fine Arts (Szépmuvészeti Múzeum), Museum of Applied Arts (Iparmuvészeti Múzeum), Museum of Ethnography (Néprajzi Múzeum) | Hungarian National Gallery (Magyar Nemzeti Galéria); Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art (Kortárs Művészeti Múzeum); National Széchényi Library (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár) |
| Buenos Aires | 69 | Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Biblioteca Nacional | Museo Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Fundación Proa, Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano Isaac Fernández Blanco, Museo de Bellas Artes de la Boca Benito Quinquela Martín, |
| St. Petersburg | 69 | State Hermitage Museum (Gosudarstvenny Ermitazh) is a museum of art and culture, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, State Russian Museum is the largest depository of Russian fine art in Saint Petersburg; Russian National Library (Rossiiskaya Natsionalnaya Biblioteka) | St. Petersburg State University (Sankt-Peterburgskii Gosudarstvenny Universitet); Stieglitz Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts; Erarta is the largest non-governmental museum of contemporary art in Russia |
| Sydney | 69 | Australian Museum, National Maritime Museum, Sydney Observatory | State Library of New South Wales, Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney |
| Barcelona | 62 | Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, University of Barcelona, Museu Marítim | Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Museu Frederic Marès , Museu Barbier-Mueller d'Art Precolombí |
| Istanbul | 62 | Istanbul Museum of Modern Art (İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi), Sakıp Sabancı Museum (Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi), Istanbul University (İstanbul Üniversitesi) | Cemal Reşit Rey Concert Hall, Galatasaray High School |
| Melbourne | 62 | Melbourne Museum, National Gallery of Victoria International, State Library of Victoria | University of Melbourne, Johnston Collection |
| San Francisco | 62 | Museums - DeYoung, Asian Art, SFMOMA, | University of California at San Francisco, Legion of Honor |
| Cape Town | 54 | South African National Gallery, South African Museum & Planetarium, Rust en Vreugd | University of Cape Town, National Library of South Africa |
| Fez | 54 | University of al-Karaouine (al-Qarawiyyin); Dar Batha Museum; Medersas -- places of worship and religious instruction, are so numerous… | [None] |
| Hong Kong | 54 | Hong Kong Museum of Art, University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong, University of Hong Kong [in its entirety] | Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware |
| Jerusalem | 54 | Israel Museum, The Bible Lands Museum, Hebrew University - Givat Ram Campu | Umberto Nahon Museum of Italian Jewish Art |
| Kyoto | 54 | Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto Museum of Traditional Crafts, National Museum of Modern Art (Kindai Bijutsukan) | Hosomi Art Museum, Raku Museum [Tea Ceremony] |
| Rio De Janeiro | 54 | Museu Nacional, Biblioteca Nacional, Espaço Cultural da Marinha | Fundação Planetário, Real Gabinete Português |
| Seoul | 54 | National Museum of Korea, Leeum Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul Museum of Art | Seoul National University, MMCA - National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art |
| Vancouver | 54 | Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver Maritime Museum | University of British Columbia |
| Jaipur | 46 | Government Central (Albert Hall) Museum, SRC Museum of Indology, Shree Sanjay Sharma Museum | Birla Planetarium, Modern Art Gallery |
