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Czech Republic nuclear bunker turns Cold War museum Shortly to be added to the list of Europe’s most unusual tourist destinations, you too will soon be able to experience some of that Cold War chill in this… 18/05/2013
Moscow: Lenin’s mausoleum reopens to public Vladimir Lenin’s tomb reopened to the public on May 15, after months of renovation to repair its sinking foundations. Nestled into the Kremlin walls on the… 15/05/2013
New air for museums The precious relics on show in our museums provide us with a unique connection to the past which might otherwise be lost. But these remains are fragile… 13/05/2013
Thank you for the music Almost 40 years after they shot to fame by winning the Eurovision song contest, ABBA’s very own museum is opening in Stockholm. It traces their careers from… 06/05/2013
Amsterdam welcomes back Van Gogh in renovated museum After being closed for seven months, Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum is welcoming visitors with a new exhibition. A 20-million euro revamp was undertaken while… 01/05/2013
The assassination that shook the world Fifty years after his assassination, the glamorous US president John F. Kennedy continues to fascinate. His life and death are the focus of an exhibition… 27/04/2013
Brazil evicts indigenous people close to World Cup venue Brazilian police have removed a group of indigenous people who had returned to an abandoned museum in Rio de Janeiro which is set to be demolished ahead of… 27/04/2013
Rijksmuseum inauguration – nocomment Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands declared the national museum open on Saturday after a decade-long renovation. Among other Dutch masterpieces, Rembrandt’s… 14/04/2013
Rijksmuseum opens after decade long renovation Thousands of people have gathered outside Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum as Queen Beatrix officially re-opened the the national museum after a decade long… 13/04/2013
Louvre Museum closes doors as guards protest over pickpockets Tourists in the French capital have been left frustrated by a strike by security staff at the Louvre. Guards at the world’s most visited museum shut its… 10/04/2013
The return of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is getting ready to open its doors again after the mother of all makeovers. After 10 years and 375 million euros, the 19th-century… 08/04/2013
Gaming Soviet-style Before the Internet, DVDs and smartphones, there were arcade games – popular with kids in many parts of the world, including the former USSR. In Moscow… 02/04/2013
Pompeii and Herculaneum at the British Museum A new exhibition of items from Pompeii and Herculaneum has opened at the British Museum in London. The two cities, on the Bay of Naples in southern Italy… 28/03/2013
The butterfly effectStella Ferruzola, 3 years old, poses with a Blue Morpho butterfly on her nose at the Sensational Butterflies Exhibition at the Natural History Museum in… 26/03/2013
Fire at London library threatens collection at next door museum More than a hundred firefighters battled to save artefacts in a museum in south east London after a fire broke out at a neighbouring library. People were… 25/03/2013
Naked admiration for artwork from nudists Life is imitating art in Vienna where a special showing of images of naked men has attracted around 250 nudists. Naked apart from their boots and cameras… 19/02/2013
Bosnia’s National Museum shuts its doors after 124 years – nocomment Bosnia’s 124-year-old national museum closed its doors on Thursday in Sarajevo after disputes among politicians and dwindling state funding. 05/10/2012
Andy Warhol at the NY Met A new exhibition of Andy Warhol’s art has opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibition is called “Regarding Warhol: Sixty… 24/09/2012
Remembering Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe is being given a full star tribute by The Hollywood Museum. The highlight is a collection of photos by George Barris, a good friend of… 03/08/2012
Informal learning Learning can take place anywhere, any time. It is not necessary to be in a classroom. We explore some non-traditional learning experiences at the beach in… 03/08/2012
Titanic memories, a personal story The sinking of the Titanic on her maiden voyage has a special place in the history of Southampton, a major port in southern England. Eighty per cent of the… 12/04/2012
Siege of Sarajevo commemorated at museum More than 11,000 people lost their lives during the notorious siege of Sarajevo, which began 20 years ago. A museum in the Bosnian capital has the only… 05/04/2012
Titanic Belfast ‘symbolises new Northern Ireland’ It took three years to build the ill-fated liner and three times that long to plan and construct the Titanic Belfast, a state-of-the-art museum dedicated to… 02/04/2012
A double for one of art’s most famous faces The “Mona Lisa” is arguably the most famous face on canvas. Now Leonardo Da Vinci’s painting has a double, unveiled by Spain’s Prado Museum. The find was… 02/02/2012
Tel Aviv’s modernist museum unveils striking new wing The Tel Aviv Museum of Modern Art has just opened a spanking new 50 million euro extension designed by the American architect Preston Scott Cohen, head of the… 07/11/2011
Museum draws back the Iron Curtain The Iron Curtain Museum has opened in a former Communist police border control building on the Czech/German border. The museum documents the Cold War with… 07/08/2011
First Lady Michelle Obama closes her visit to South Africa – nocomment US First Lady Michelle Obama and her two daughters Malia and Sasha toured Cape Town’s District Six Museum that serves as a remembrance of the country’s… 24/06/2011
Frankfurt Modern Art Museum turns 20 To celebrate its 20th anniversary, the Modern Art Museum in Frankfurt is presenting an enormous exhibition of contemporary art, spread over double its usual… 22/06/2011
A golden reopening for Georgia’s top museum The Georgian National Museum has opened its doors again after a six year refurbishment with a glittering exhibition of ancient gold from the fabled land where… 30/05/2011
Mega memory for next generation USB sticks For several years now, research has focused on computer storage capacity and processor speed. Chips have become smaller and cheaper and each generation… 05/04/2011
World’s richest man opens art museum in Mexico Some 16,000 silver hexagons cover the new Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, a museum which houses the art collection of the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim. The… 30/03/2011
Turin automobile museum reopens Turin’s automobile museum has reopened after four year’s refurbishment. The enlarged building is now home to one of the rarest and most valuable car… 23/03/2011
Walk around world’s top galleries – at home If you are one of those people who mean to visit more museums and galleries but keep putting it off, the excuses are running out. The Google Art Project means… 03/02/2011
Cultural heritage – a new dimension Anne Coulié is a preservation expert at the Louvre, specialising in ceramics from ancient Greece. David Kolin is an IT expert, working on 3D technologies at… 08/09/2010
Famed Delacroix defaced at Louvre-LensPolice in France have arrested a woman at the Louvre-Lens for allegedly defacing one Eugene Delacroix’s most famous works. The painting called “La Liberte… 08/02/2013
Missing half of Courbet’s ‘Origin of the World’ found: claimA collector says he has discovered the missing top half of Gustave Courbet’s famous painting ‘The Origin of the World’ which hangs in the Musee d’Orsay… 08/02/2013
Brazen burglars in BergenPolice in Norway have released surveillance video of a daring raid on a museum, where burglars made off with 25 valuable pieces of Chinese art. The oldest… 28/01/2013
Three held over Dutch art heist in RomaniaPolice in Romania have detained three suspects believed to be linked to a major art theft from a Dutch art gallery last October. Seven masterpieces… 23/01/2013
Artifacts stolen from Ancient Olympia museum recoveredGreek police have recovered 70 bronze artifacts stolen from a museum in Ancient Olympia in February. Three men were arrested during an operation where they… 25/11/2012
Space shuttle Atlantis begins Florida retirementYou thought the Space Shuttle had been retired? Two of them have already been turned into museum pieces and now the last – Atlantis - has made its final… 02/11/2012
Endeavour goes where it has never gone beforeThe retired space shuttle Endeavour has gone where it has never gone before. The NASA craft has started a two-day crawl through Los Angeles on Friday where… 13/10/2012
Afghan treasures return homeMore than 800 looted Afghan treasures are back in Kabul’s national museum after being rescued from smugglers by British police. Because of London’s… 05/08/2012
Gelato Museum: Italy puts ice cream on displayA museum dedicated to the delights of traditional Italian ice cream, known as gelato, is set to open outside Bologna. Some say the dessert dates back to… 21/07/2012
Dinosaur skeleton wanted by Mongolia seized in USA dinosaur skeleton at the centre of an international legal dispute has been seized by US authorities on behalf of Mongolia, the country it is said to come… 23/06/2012
The Queen opens Cutty SarkGreat Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II has officially opened the newly restored Cutty Sark. The world’s last remaining tea clipper, which was badly damaged by a… 25/04/2012
Space shuttle Discovery makes final voyage before retirementThe space shuttle Discovery, one of three surviving shuttles, dispensed with a rocket propelled launch for its final voyage on Tuesday and piggy-backed a ride… 17/04/2012
Titanic’s peaceful message to BelfastThe world’s biggest Titanic attraction opened this weekend in the city where the doomed liner was built one hundred years ago. Belfast in Northern Ireland… 01/04/2012
Bosnia’s national treasures on their kneesBosnia’s National Museum in Sarajevo is almost a miracle in itself, outlasting the Habsburg empire, and emerging bloodied but unbowed from two World Wars and… 10/01/2012
Restoration row over da Vinci masterpieceTwo eminent French art experts have resigned over the way a Leonardo da Vinci painting has been restored. The pair claim the Louvre museum in Paris has… 30/12/2011
Back in the Day: stolen Mona Lisa foundDecember 12, 1913 Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, the Mona Lisa is found in a hotel room in Florence, Italy two years after being stolen from the Louvre… 09/12/2011
Arnie honoured in AustriaKeeping his famous promise of ‘I’ll be back’ Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to his home town of Thal in Austria on Friday. Surrounded by hundreds of fans… 07/10/2011
August 21, 1911: the Mona Lisa vanishesIt is perhaps the world’s most famous painting in the world’s most famous museum. But exactly 100 years ago, on August 21 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished from… 20/08/2011
Turin automobile museum reopensTurin’s automobile museum has reopened after four year’s refurbishment. The enlarged building is now home to one of the rarest and most valuable car… 24/03/2011
Soldiers protect Egypt’s Pharaonic treasuresSoldiers are patrolling the Cairo antiquities museum – home to the world’s greatest collection of Pharaonic treasures – after looters broke in and smashed… 30/01/2011
Egyptians form human shield to protect museumOne Cairo building that has been spared so far in the anti-government protests is the Egyptian Museum, despite a fire raging at the ruling National Democratic… 29/01/2011
The Estonian hotel that has walls with earsIt looks like any ordinary hotel. But take the lift to the top of Hotel Viru in the Estonian capital, and then walk up a flight stairs, and its secret past… 25/11/2010
Louvre holds whip round for Three GracesThe Louvre museum in Paris is calling on art lovers to help it buy The Three Graces, a 16th century oil painting by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. 18/11/2010
Basquiat retrospective opens in ParisThe City Museum of Modern Art in Paris is presenting the largest retrospective ever shown in France of the charismatic American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. 18/10/2010
Hitler exhibition seeks to set the right toneThe exhibition is not, the curators say, a study of Hitler’s personality, still less a collection of Nazi memorabilia. “Hitler and the Germans” has been… 15/10/2010
Cairo art theft blamed on bad camera and alarm upkeepThe Mahmoud Khalil Museum of Art in Cairo’s cameras and alarm system were out of order, a security official has said, when the same Dutch master’s painting… 22/08/2010
Search for van Gogh piece goes onEgypt’s culture minister has retracted his claim that police had recovered a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh that was stolen from a Cairo… 22/08/2010
A Queen’s year on displayA year in the life of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II is the theme of an exhibition at her London residence, Buckingham Palace. Different rooms feature different… 05/08/2010
The DeepA new exhibition has opened at the Natural History Museum in London. It is called “The Deep” and as the name suggests, it looks at the history of deep marine… 09/06/2010
In with the new in RomeA gallery celebrating contemporary art and architecture has opened in Rome; a city defined by ancient monuments and historical buildings. 31/05/2010
Hats off to the Pompidou-MetzTake a Chinese bamboo hat, turn it upside down and you have a rough idea of what the roof on the new Pompidou Centre – the Pompidou-Metz – looks like. 17/05/2010
Soviet submarine turned into museumAn old Soviet submarine typical of those used during the Cold War has been turned into a private museum in St Petersburg. The vessel is the last of more than… 15/04/2010
Swiss museum honours RousseauOn the centenary of Henri Rousseau’s death, The Beyeler Foundation in Switzerland is celebrating the artist with a special exhibition of his work. 15/02/2010
Gittoes’s Taliwood doc chosen by MoMADescribed as a guerilla film maker, Australian artist George Gittoes has travelled to war zones around the world, filming, taking photographs and eventually… 10/02/2010
Egypt calls for the return of Queen NefertitiEgypt is to demand the return of the 3,300-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti from a Berlin museum after it was discovered it left the country on false… 21/12/2009
Italy’s first ever ship museum on the waterThe S518 Nazario Sauro has made a final journey from La Spezia in Northern Italy to Genoa. There it will become a museum and opens it’s doors to the public in… 23/11/2009
Madrid exhibition focuses on eroticismThe history of eroticism in western art is the theme of a two-part exhibition just opening in Madrid. Tears of Eros is named after the work of Georges… 20/10/2009
Nefertiti’s new Berlin home open to the publicBerlin’s bomb damaged Neues Museum has opened its doors after a 212 million euro refit. German Chancellor Angela Merkel cut the ribbon in an inauguration… 16/10/2009
Greece demands return of Elgin MarblesGreece has opened its long-delayed Acropolis Museum – with a message to Britain: it wants the Elgin marbles back. Greece has been waging a campaign for the… 21/06/2009
Greece opens new Acropolis museumGreece is making last minute preparations to open the gates of the long-awaited Acropolis Museum. Dignitaries from around the world will attend the ceremony… 20/06/2009
New Magritte Museum in BrusselsThe new Magritte Museum has opened in the centre of Brussels. It contains the world’s largest collection of his work. More than 40 years after his death… 03/06/2009
Beatles museum opens in HamburgAlmost six decades after the legendary British band first performed in Hamburg, the north German city is opening up a museum dedicated to the Beatles. Located… 29/05/2009
IDA on display in New YorkThe Museum of Natural History in New York is showing off the 47 million year-old skeleton of a fosil creature that scientists have affectionately called… 21/05/2009
Glass museum opens in Croatia & NY exhibit features controversial Ground Zero architectA museum dedicated to antique glass has opened in the Croatian city of Zadar. And in New York, the Queen Sofia Insitute launches an exhibition dedicated… 13/05/2009
German museum row defusedA row in Berlin over a new museum that will show the plight of Germans forced out of eastern Europe after World World Two appears to have been defused. The… 04/03/2009
Pick up a Porsche – even if it’s only a tiny oneThe ultimate petrolhead tourist destination has opened in Zuffenhausen near Stuttgart… the new Porsche Museum. One of Germany’s smallest independent car… 04/03/2009
