Topic: Europe
Vienna's museum quarter (MQ) has become a highlight of the city's cultural scene in the 10 years since its creation, recording 3.8 million visitors last year, its director said Wednesday."Originally, we expected one million people (per year), this is four times as ...
LONDON, Jun (Reuters Life!) - Summer nights are for spending outside, especially in London where luxuriantly long light evenings are the perfect opportunity to explore some of the capital's treasures after work. Here are five favorites to enjoy:1. Chelsea Physic Garden: Summer ...
Authorities in Florence on Thursday asked the Louvre Museum to loan them Leonardo's closely-guarded Mona Lisa for an exhibit in 2013 -- 100 years since the last time the work was displayed in Italy.The appeal to France came from an Italian historical ...
National Art Museum of China director Fan Di'an unveiled a Chinese exhibition in Rome on Wednesday with 100 seminal works that help define the transition between ancient and modern Chinese art."At a time when Chinese and Western cultures came together, between the ...
Bulgaria opened its first contemporary art museum and the first new major art venue for the past 30 years on Friday in an old munitions depot in downtown Sofia.The Sofia Arsenal Museum of Contemporary Art (SAMCA), a 1.2-million-euro ($1.7-million) project featuring a ...
The Acropolis Museum was Greece's top tourist draw in 2010, eclipsing for the first time the ancient Athens citadel whose sculptures it showcases, official data showed on Monday.Over 1.3 million people queued to visit the country's newest museum between January and December ...
Six letters written by 19th century composer and pianist Frederic Chopin, thought to have been lost since World War II, were Thursday revealed by the Polish museum dedicated to the musical icon.Warsaw's Chopin Museum said that it spent almost a decade trying ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - One of the largest hauls of Roman coins ever to be found in Britain and a hoard of exquisitely decorated Iron Age gold neck ornaments unearthed in Scotland are to be saved for the nation.Both national treasures were ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Tate museums will showcase works by 19th and 20th century giants Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet and Edvard Munch as well as contemporary artists Damien Hirst and Cy Twombly next year when Britain hosts the Olympics.Tino Sehgal has also been ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Even in the chaos and violence of war there is hope. That is the message running through a new British Museum exhibition of Afghanistan's ancient treasures thought lost, destroyed, or looted over the past 30 years.The collection of ...
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