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Staff at the Prado, Spain's top art museum, usually prevent visitors from touching its priceless treasures.

• 17 июля 2015, 12:18

Russia opened the doors of a new museum dedicated to Nobel Prize-winning dissident poet Joseph Brodsky in the communal flat where he spent his youth.

• 23 мая 2015, 11:06

Huge black and gold sarcophaguses with kohl-rimmed eyes dwarf visitors at Turin's palatial Egyptian museum, which is reopening to the public.

• 01 апреля 2015, 15:45

Workers at Syria's National Museum of Damascus carefully wrap statues and place them in boxes to be transported to a safe place.

• 26 марта 2015, 15:34

A major exhibition on the human body in ancient Greek art is to open at the British Museum from Thursday, exploring notions of ideal beauty.

• 25 марта 2015, 16:48

"Mad Men" captured the style and drive of New York's finest 1960s ad men, enthralling viewers with tales of their creative genius and tortured infidelities.

• 20 марта 2015, 13:26

The famous Louvre in France received 9.3 million visitors last year, retaining its title as the most-visited museum in the world.

• 07 января 2015, 13:10

Locals in Bilbao say an art museum helped save their Spanish city from decline. Now they are glad to know their saviour, the Guggenheim, will be staying for some time.

• 22 декабря 2014, 13:49

A rare dinosaur skeleton goes on display at London's Natural History museum -- the first to be exhibited there in a century.

• 04 декабря 2014, 16:05

The Smithsonian Institution announced a major overhaul of its museums along the south side of the National Mall in Washington.

• 14 ноября 2014, 13:38

Belgium's King Philippe visited the Jewish Museum in Brussels in a show of support for the Jewish community and the relatives of four people killed in a gun attack there in May.

• 08 ноября 2014, 13:27

A millennium of Jewish history in Poland was obliterated by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust. Now, a new Warsaw museum is celebrating a lost Jewish community that was the world's largest and most vibrant.

• 25 октября 2014, 14:04

Emerging from the woods at the edge of Paris like a glass ship, the hyper-modern Louis Vuitton art museum was inaugurated on Monday.

• 21 октября 2014, 14:13

Sherlock Holmes never existed but his fictional address of 221B Baker Street still receives a steady flow of letters addressed to the famously intuitive detective.

• 17 октября 2014, 16:23

An Israeli artist based in London Zadok Ben-David has introduced his unique exhibition The Other Side of Midnight at the National Museum in Astana.

• 27 сентября 2014, 02:41

The most significant archaeological find in Kazakhstan has finally been presented to the anxiously waiting public.

• 10 сентября 2014, 14:32

38 facilities will be built for the upcoming EXPO-2017 international exhibition in Astana, Kazakhstan.

• 01 сентября 2014, 12:36

No commemoration for the millions of victims of Mao Zedong's mayhem was held on the anniversary of its start.

• 15 августа 2014, 12:03

A row between Tokyo and Taipei over the loan of a host of treasured artefacts to Japan has been solved, Taiwanese officials said, with the exhibition set to open on schedule.

• 24 июня 2014, 04:16

A Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.

• 23 мая 2014, 09:57