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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
Bosnia’s national treasures on their knees Bosnia’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
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
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
