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More than 120 museums were opened for free as the annual "Night of Museums" was kicked off.

Visitors wait to enter a museum in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on the night of Nov. 15, 2008. More than 120 museums or cultural exhibitions were opened to the public for free as the annual "Night of Museums" was kicked off in Buenos Aires on Saturday. The cultural activity will finish at 2:00 AM on Nov. 16. (Xinhua/Martin Zabala)

Museums: A world of art, 30 years in the making

NEW YORK: Exhibitions come and go; they are what museums do. Collections are slowly built and stay; they are what museums are. "The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art plays both sides of this dynamic. It catches a monumental institution at a moment of major change.

SIGNING OF AGREEMENT: NMBM AND TYNE AND WEAR MUSEUMS, UK

The Museums of the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality and Tyne and Wear Museums of the United Kingdom will tomorrow (27/11//2008) sign a joint agreement to work together over the coming three years.

Your Guide To Museums, Galleries, Theaters

Your Guide To Museums, Galleries, Theaters - Prudent Press Agency (Prudent Press Agency)---Visiting museums, galleries and theaters can give one a new perspective and outlook in life. Looking at artistic pictures, paintings, artifacts, sculptures can give life a brand new dimension that you’ve never seen before.

Buenos Aires kicks off annual "Night of Museums"

Visitors wait to enter a museum in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on the night of Nov. 15, 2008. More than 120 museums or cultural exhibitions were opened to the public for free as the annual "Night of Museums" was kicked off in Buenos Aires on Saturday. The cultural activity will finish at 2:00 AM on Nov. 16. (Xinhua/Martin Zabala)

Museums digitalise collections

Curators of museums large and small are embracing the Internet as a way to move older works from storage to cyberspace - a sort of permanent store room unaffected by moisture and pests, and one that anyone can enter.

Museums both large and small begin preserving collections digitally

Curators of museums large and small are embracing the Internet as a way to move older works from storage to cyberspace - a sort of permanent store room unaffected by moisture and pests, and one that anyone can enter.

Museums in UAE

A wealth of historic information can be found in the many museums of the UAE. Wherever you live or visit in the United Arab Emirates, there's a museum nearby to inform and entertain.

Museums showcase glimpses of the past

A wealth of historic information can be found in the many museums of the UAE. Wherever you live or visit in the United Arab Emirates, there's a museum nearby to inform and entertain.

Museums Sheffield Showcases The Best Innovative Metalwork Designs

Artists, makers and designers across the UK have produced the very best in bold, brave and innovative metalwork design, in the hope of winning the Museums Sheffield National Metalwork Design Award.

Museums Want Change You Can Collect

The Smithsonian's Museum of American History has long been curator of presidential memorabilia. But in a few years, the Smithsonian will be opening a new museum — of African-American History and Culture. And both museums are on the lookout for collectibles from the campaign of the first black president.

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Vacations are a great way to bond with your children, but admit it, you’d love to have just one adults-only evening. Don’t feel guilty: Your kids may be craving some time with people their own age as well. At these museums, everybody wins—and the kids might actually learn something, too. Just don’t tell them that—this is a vacation, after all.

Qatar Museums Authority and Tribeca Film Festival To Launch 'Tribeca Film Festival Doha' in November 2009

Qatar Museums Authority and Tribeca Film Festival To Launch 'Tribeca Film Festival Doha' in November 2009

Railway Museums Launch Joint WWII Railway Worker Project

Two railway museums have joined forces to launch a research and outreach project that looks at the vital role railwaymen played during the Second World War.

Sofias museums: National Museum of Military History

Sofia’s museums concentrated in the central part of the city, reveal the millennia-old history of the Bulgarian capital. The Archaeological Museum displays priceless items dated to Antiquity. The Ethnographic Museum stands out for its rich collection featuring local traditions, and the Earth & Man Museum presents an array of minerals and precious stones.

Liverpool Museums Offers Free Christmas Fun

This Christmas, National Museums Liverpool will be hosting free Christmas themed events for all the family over the holiday period to help spread some festive cheer.

Nov21 Museums Association of the Caribbean conference a success

The 20th annual general meeting and conference of the Museums Association of the Caribbean (MAC) came to a satisfactory conclusion last Friday with a half-day excursion to Nevis, according to a press release issued by the Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park Society.

Museums showcase glimpses of the past

A wealth of historic information can be found in the many museums of the UAE. Wherever you live or visit in the United Arab Emirates, there's a museum nearby to inform and entertain.

Two more museums by middle of next year

KUANTAN: Two new museums -- the Malaysian Textile Museum and Natural History Museum -- are being built and will be open to the public by the middle of next year.

News in Brief: Qatar Museums Authority unveils website

DOHA • Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) recently unveiled its website to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art on November 22. The website www.qma.org.qa is part of QMA's branding campaign.

Qatar Museums Authority and Tribeca Film Festival launch "Tribeca Film Festival Doha" in November 2009

The Museum of Islamic Art opening 1 December 2008 is a pioneering project, setting apart the cultural vision of the State of Qatar, both in the region and across the world. Under the guiding vision of Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Chairperson of the Qatar Museums Authority Board of Trustees, the project sets the founding stone in the cultural blueprint to transform the State of Qatar into a global capital of culture.

Tribeca Film Festival and Qatar Museums Authority To Launch 'Tribeca Film Festival Doha' in November 2009

PRNewswire/ -- Qatar Museums Authority (QMA), the organization dedicated to developing the cultural resources of this Arabian Gulf state as a platform for international dialogue and understanding, has announced a groundbreaking agreement with

News in Brief: Qatar Museums Authority unveils website

DOHA • Qatar Museums Authority (QMA) recently unveiled its website to coincide with the opening of the Museum of Islamic Art on November 22. The website www.qma.org.qa is part of QMA's branding campaign.

Activity of museums, galleries or exhibition grounds, Slovenia, 2007

In 2007, exhibitions in 164 museums, museum collections, exhibition grounds and galleries that transmitted data on their activity were attended by 2,501,147 visitors.

Britain's museums

Ethiopia is demanding that Britain's museums return some of its most significant religious treasures. President Girma Wolde-Giorgis has personally intervened in a dispute to get the artefacts, including the Ethiopian royal crown, returned home 140 years after they were "looted" by marauding British troops.

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