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Syria’s cultural heritage recreated in Berlin’s Pergamon Museum
Kefah Ali Deeb is a Syrian refugee living in Berlin who is among one of 19 new Syrian and Iraqi guides working at Museum Island, a UNESCO world heritage site in Berlin’s historic centre. She conducts Arabic language tours at the Pergamon...
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Rendez-vous: The Best of Culture in Europe”
Jan Fabre. Spiritual Guards Where: Florence, Italy – Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria When: Until October 2, 2016 “Spiritual Guards” is an exhibition in Florence by Belgian contemporary and provocative artist Jan Fabre. It...
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The necropolis of Orthi Petra opens a window to the Homeric world
Situated 30km off Rethymnon, Crete, the necropolis of Orthi Petra is part of the wider archaeological site of ancient Eleftherna, a town with continuous habitation from 3000BC to the Byzantine years. Situated on the western slope of the...
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Twisting and turning into the future – Tate Modern extension unveiled
A towering extension has opened at the Tate Modern museum in London. The newly-opened Switch House building, which cost 260 million pounds (around 330 million euros), is a ten-storey twisted pyramid structure that sits next to the Tate...
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Discover the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci at London’s Science Museum
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius is the internationally-acclaimed, must-see exhibition of 2016 and demonstrates the full scope of Da Vinci’s remarkable genius as an inventor, artist,...
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The best of Arts in Europe
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius Leonardo da Vinci: The Mechanics of Genius is the internationally-acclaimed, must-see exhibition of 2016 and demonstrates the full scope of Da Vinci’s remarkable genius as an inventor, artist,...
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Artist Ai WeiWei decries Europe’s “shameful” refugee crisis
The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens is running a major exhibition of the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. Ai Weiwei at Cycladic is the artist’s first show within an archeological museum and in Greece. The aim is to present his...
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Our selection of exhibitions
Picasso isn’t just a painter. The proof of this can be seen in this unique collection of his most beautiful sculptures. From his smallest works to the most gigantic, the Picasso Museum in Paris is holding an exhibition of his...
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Peace of the Pyrenees Velazquez in Bayonne
Works by the Spanish master Diego Velazquez are on show in Bayonne at the Basque Museum. It marks a considerable, yet worthwhile investment for the museum. Une trentaine de Vélasquez prêtés par le Prado au Musée Basque de Bayonne...
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Finding Nero: Rhineland State Museum looks to rehabilitate emperor
The Roman emperor Nero who ruled from 54AD to 68AD gets a lot of bad press. He’s often depicted as a tyrant who turned increasingly to the dark side towards the end of reign. Those were the years that mostly shaped the image of the...
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Addicted to art
He doesn’t necessarily know how to pronounce it, but Christoph Müller certainly has a good nose for Danish art, more precisely the ‘Golden Age’ of Danish painting. In his Berlin apartment, the 77-year-old German art collector and...
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New dinosaur species unveiled at Ottawa museum
Horned dinosaur Spiclypeus shipporum fossil displayed at Canada Museum of Nature
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New museum opens in Brussels’ Molenbeek district
A new museum has opened in the Molenbeek district of Brussels, which, it’s hoped, will help shed the negative image of the area most recently linked to the deadly attacks there and in Paris. The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art or...
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Pompeii museum reopens after 36 years
Pompeii’s Antiquarium Museum has reopened after 36 years. Its new exhibition includes a vivid audio-visual recreation of the moment the ancient city was destroyed in 79 AD, when Mount Vesuvius erupted burying Pompeii and its inhabitants...
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Charlie Chaplin museum opens
*What is ‘Chaplin’s World?’ An interactive museum 15 years of planning Showcases the life and works of Charlie Chaplin Housed in the screen idol’s mansion on the shores of Lake Geneva The museum includes a Hollywood-style studio, a tour...
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Rome museum offers unique, immersive Caravaggio Experience
Prepare for a whole new kind of cultural experience: a Caravaggio exhibition in Rome that doesn’t feature a single canvas of the fiery Baroque master. It features an innovative video installation combined with an original musical score...
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1,2,3,4 Ramones show rocks NYC
The Ramones have their place in rock ‘n roll history, and the New York legends are now being honoured with an exhibition at the Queens Museum to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their debut album that shook the world. In partnership...
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Bulgarian businessman turns passion for Soviet-era cars into museum spectacle
Classic cars and bikes and wax works of their famous owners, from Joseph Stalin to Mikhail Gorbechev, have gone on show in Bulgaria. The Varna Retro Museum is the brainchild of businessman Tsvetan Atanasov, who’s turned his passion for...
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Calgary hopes to be Canada's music city
Some in Calgary hope the new headquarters for the National Music Centre will help rebrand the Stampede City
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Putting the art into artificial intelligence as a critic robot tours Quai Branly in Paris
Visitors to Paris’ Quai Branly museum of indigenous art might be surprised to bump into an unusual looking guest: it may not look like one, but this little robot in a bowler hat is an art critic. It is programmed to record the reactions...
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Escape the Diefenbunker Museum, and live to tell
The fun starts in March when the former federal government's nuclear attack safehouse will morph into what's being called the world's largest escape room
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Pamuk’s Musuem of Innocence opens in London
Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk is arguably the world’s first ever writer to create a novel and a museum about his work as well as to have a documentary made about his project. The 2008 book “The Museum of Innocence” tells a story of a wealthy...
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Jonathan Yeo adopts actress Cara Delevingne for new exhibition
Jonathan Yeo is one of the UK’s most highly regarded portrait artists. He is known for his portrayal of famous subjects, from politicians and royalty to Hollywood celebrities. Yeo’s latest work explores different ways of looking at the...
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What happens to all those political gifts?
Alison Crawford investigates where all the items presented to Canadian prime ministers on official occasions end up.