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Bulgarian honor bid in Washington stirs debate
A request by the Bulgarian Embassy to name a Washington intersection after a favorite native son — a man credited with helping save the country's ...
Mamma Mia!: ABBA The Museum opens in Stockholm
You can thank ABBA for the music. And so much more. A museum devoted to the pop superstars opening in Stockholm on Tuesday will celebrate the band's ...
German WWII bomber to be salvaged off UK coast
A famous German World War II bomber nicknamed "the flying pencil" has spent decades submerged in the English Channel after being shot down in the ...
Van Gogh Museum reopens with display on his craft
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has reopened after a seven-month renovation, kicking off with "Van Gogh At Work," an exhibition that shows the ...
Holocaust survivors, veterans gather at DC museum
Elderly survivors of the Holocaust and the veterans who helped liberate them gathered for what could be their last big reunion Monday at the U.S.
Artist decorates the Louvre's iconic pyramid
An Italian artist decorated the Louvre museum's glass pyramid Wednesday for the first time in the iconic monument's history, in a protest against ...
US philanthropist savors opening of Jewish museum
As his train rolled across Germany in 1939, passing through small towns where swastikas fluttered from flagpoles, Tad Taube cowered in fear each time ...
Gang steals rhino horns from Irish museum storage
Masked men stole stuffed rhinoceros heads containing eight valuable horns from the warehouse of Ireland's National Museum, police and museum officials ...
Netherlands' Rijksmuseum opens to the public
Amid brass bands and a daytime fireworks display, the Netherlands' Queen Beatrix on Saturday officially reopened the Rijksmuseum, the country's ...
Warsaw Ghetto memorial reflects a changing Poland
Almost nothing remains of the old Warsaw Ghetto: a few buildings here and there, a synagogue, some fragments of a brick wall. The rest was blown up ...
Rare Russian vases sell for $2.7M in private sale
Randy Buttram never gave much thought to the two 4½-foot tall ornate vases that graced the elegant main entrance of his grandparents' Oklahoma City ...
Palestinians building museum to tell their story
Palestinians on Thursday began construction of the West Bank's largest museum devoted to their history, planning to tell diverse stories of ...
Louvre workers walk off job over pickpockets
The Louvre was closed Wednesday after its workers walked off their jobs to protest what is said to be a rising problem of pickpockets haunting the ...
Matisse in Norwegian museum was once Nazi loot
The family of a prominent Parisian art dealer is demanding that a Norwegian museum return an Henri Matisse painting seized by Nazis under the ...
Riches of Dutch History Return to Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands, is finally set to reopen to the public, with Rembrandt van Rijn's masterpiece "The Night ...
Louvre gets new leader, a Greek antiquities expert
France's Louvre museum is getting a new director — the man who is leading the restoration of its most famous Greek sculpture and has his hands in some ...
Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return ...
Exhibit of Jews in Germany raises interest, ire
"Are there still Jews in Germany?" ''Are the Jews a chosen people?" Nearly 70 years after the Holocaust, there is no more sensitive an issue in German ...
Pompeii exhibition brings doomed town to life
Pompeii is the little Roman town that became a byword for sudden, violent death. A new exhibition at the British Museum wants it to be equally famous ...
Tilda Swinton takes an artful nap at US museum
It's not the kind of performance that will win her another Academy Award, but British actress Tilda Swinton certainly has people buzzing at the Museum ...
Tilda Swinton performs art of sleeping in NYC
Actress Tilda Swinton is performing the art of sleeping at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. A musem spokeswoman says the "Moonrise Kingdom" star ...
Rome museum exhibit on Italy's history of energy
Italy must import nearly all the energy needed to keep cars rolling, factories humming and lights lit. Much of its postwar political policy has been ...
Museum to showcase contemporary Latin American art
Long a cultural backwater, Rio de Janeiro has taken another leap toward becoming an art hot spot with this week's opening of a museum built around one ...
5 free things in Amsterdam, from canals to parks
The Dutch capital has plenty to celebrate this year, most notably the April 13 reopening of the magnificent Rijksmuseum after 10 years of renovations ...
Show at London's V&A museum celebrates David Bowie
When did the modern era begin? With the Renaissance? With Elvis Presley? For a generation of music-loving Britons, it started on July 6, 1972, when ...