Topic: Museums
AFP Global Edition | 2010-03-12 16:10:22
A complete Tibetan Buddhist shrine room, including a silver Buddha, gem-encrusted adornments and silk scroll paintings, goes on display for the first time in Washington on Saturday. The shrine room has been set up in a religiously accurate manner with ritual implements, including some blessed by the Dalai Lama, and a shrine loaned by a private collector to the Arthur ...
AP News | 2010-03-11 15:14:07
This image released by Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, March 11, 2010, shows a painting entitled "The Bedroom", by Vincent van Gogh. One of van Gogh's most famous paintings, "The Bedroom," has been taken away for restoration ...
Reuters Life! Online Report | 2010-03-11 14:41:43
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - One museum's renovations are another's exhibition. Thus, 20 masterworks from Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum in Ohio will summer at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York while the Allen Museum is closed for renovations. From March 16 through August 29, 19 paintings and one sculpture from one of the finest ...
AP Features | 2010-03-10 20:18:15
In this March 8, 2010 photo courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, a silk shawl belonging to Harriet Tubman that was a gift from Queen Victoria, c. 1897 is seen at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History ...
