Mar 2nd, 2010 at 1:00PM: If you want to see one of Gustav Klimt's pieces, you'll need to cross through a world that may make you uncomfortable ... and you'll probably need partner. Haven't figured it out yet? The Secession, a contemporary art museum in downtown Vienna, has plopped a swingers club between the museum and the Klimt – part of a project by Christoph Buechel, an artist from Switzerland. During the day, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Swinging new art exhibit comes to Vienna Museum
Mar 2nd, 2010 at 1:00PM: If you want to see one of Gustav Klimt's pieces, you'll need to cross through a world that may make you uncomfortable ... and you'll probably need partner. Haven't figured it out yet? The Secession, a contemporary art museum in downtown Vienna, has plopped a swingers club between the museum and the Klimt – part of a project by Christoph Buechel, an artist from Switzerland. During the day, ...Museum attendance surged in 2009
Mar 2nd, 2010 at 12:00PM: What did you do instead of travel last year? Well, according to the American Association of Museums, you probably caught an art, science or historical exhibit. Museum attendance shot up last year, according to a survey of 481 of them, with more than 57 percent of them reporting gains in attendance. More than 40 percent sustained "significant increases" of 5 percent to more than 20 percent ...Iranian and British national museums face off over artifact
Feb 7th, 2010 at 1:00PM: Iran's national museum has cut off ties with the British Museum because of a controversy over a 2,500 year-old cuneiform tablet called the Cyrus cylinder. One of the most important artifacts from Persian civilization, the cylinder was supposed to be loaned to Iran but the loan has been delayed. Iran says the delay is politically motivated, but the British Museum says they need to compare the ...Giant colon opens in Canada
Feb 7th, 2010 at 10:00AM: A forty-foot long colon big enough to walk through is touring Canada.
Don't worry, this isn't the diseased byproduct of eating too much poutine; it's actually an educational exhibit set up by the Ministry of Health, the Colorectal Cancer Association of Canada, and Long-Term Care and Cancer Care Ontario. The display, which looks like a disturbing take on the traditional bouncy castle, is an ...Follow a Museum Day on Twitter becomes Internet phenomenon
Feb 3rd, 2010 at 9:00AM: Today's prize for obscure made-up celebrations goes to Jim Richardson, organizer of "Follow a Museum Day on Twitter", which was celebrated Feb. 1 all over the Internet. According to the folks over at Culture24 it was the hottest topic that day, shoving aside a scandal involving the captain of England's football team and the release of the iPad as the most popular subject tweeted in the UK, US, and ..."Degenerate Art" scattered by Nazis back in German museum
Jan 31st, 2010 at 3:00PM: Back in the 1920s and 30s, the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany, had one of the best collections of contemporary art in the world. The Nazis didn't like modernism, though, partially because they didn't understand it, and partially because so many Jews, liberals, and homosexuals were prominent in the art scene. It didn't help that modern art questioned values such as nationalism and militarism. So ...Roman "Swiss Army knife" goes on display
Jan 30th, 2010 at 3:00PM: The Romans were an inventive bunch. They had running water, flush toilets, and mass media two thousand years ago. They also had their own version of the Swiss Army knife.
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Jan 30th, 2010 at 2:30PM: Tourists at the National Archives will no longer be able to document their visit, once a ban on photography inside the building goes into effect.
About a million people visit the National Archives each year and though flash photography is already banned inside because of the damage the ultraviolet radiation can cause to the old documents, it's estimated that 50,000 flashbulbs still go off ...ABBAworld opens in London
Jan 28th, 2010 at 12:30PM: Get ready, ABBA fans, because ABBAworld, the first official (and band-supported) ABBA museum has just opened in London.
The interactive museum will contain 25 rooms full of ABBA memorabilia, including behind-the-scenes footage and interviews, never-before-seen music videos and photos, and clothes, instruments, and personal belongings from each member of the band. In one room, you'll even find ...Exhibit highlights 1001 inventions of the Muslim world
Jan 23rd, 2010 at 10:00AM: A new exhibit at London's Science Museum explores the often-forgotten contributions to science from Muslim scholars.
1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in our World follows the contributions of Muslim civilization from the 7th to the 17th centuries. After the disintegration of the Roman Empire, scientific study lapsed in Europe, but soon dynamic civilizations based in the Middle East ...Five great tank museums
Jan 12th, 2010 at 12:00PM: OK, I'll admit it, inside I'm still twelve years old. I love big lumbering metal monsters that crash through brick walls and blast away with cannons and machine guns. Tanks rock. So with no further justification, here are five of the best tank museums in the world. The Tank Museum, Bovington, United Kingdom The British invented the tank in an attempt to break the deadlock of trench warfare during ...Smithsonian draws more people, brings in extra cash
Jan 6th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Last year wasn't bad for everyone. The Smithsonian Institution returned to past glory, logging more than 30 million visits. Action at the Smithsonian hasn't been this high since before the 9/11-related travel market slump. The 18 museums and galleries -- and the zoo -- saw an up-tick of 19.4 percent in 2009, up from 25.15 million visits the year before. The fact it's free to visit probably helped. ...Five art exhibitions you must see this year
Jan 6th, 2010 at 10:00AM: Art lovers, take note, 2010 is shaping up to be a great year for exhibitions. Here are five of the best, but there are plenty more than these!
Tokyo
It's hard to beat Japanese art for sheer naturalistic beauty, and the Tokyo National Museum has an extensive collection of the best. See the work of one of the great Japanese masters in Hasegawa Tohaku: 400th Memorial Retrospective. This painter, ...Ethiopian tribe hopes museum and tourism will save its culture
Jan 3rd, 2010 at 2:30PM: The Konso people of southern Ethiopia live in a remote region, but that hasn't saved them from grave robbers. These little-known farmers, who number only about a quarter of a million, have gotten the attention of international art dealers because the Konso honor their dead warriors and hunters with waka, elaborately decorated wooden funeral stele that can be several feet tall. They are a striking ...Northwest museum to outlast the airline it honors
Jan 2nd, 2010 at 4:00PM: The remaining traces of Northwest Airlines may disappear from the fleet in 2010, but the airline will always have a home in Minnesota. A private, nonprofit museum dedicated to the carrier is going to stay open, even though the object of its affection will be integrated fully into the Delta fold. Delta has its own museum, which undoubtedly will celebrate the acquisition of Northwest someday, but ...Erotic art exhibit bares all
Dec 10th, 2009 at 2:30PM: When you think of art exhibits, you probably don't think of scenes of group sex, gigantic phalli, and barnyard animals, but the Eros exhibition ain't your grandma's art show. In fact, when this art was made, your grandma wouldn't be born for another two thousand years. The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, Greece, has just opened "Eros: From Hesiod's Theogony to Late Antiquity". This exhibition is ...Gold treasure revealed
Dec 9th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Back in September we reported on an amazing find of Anglo-Saxon gold that had been discovered in England. Now some of the treasure is on display at a free exhibit at the British Museum. The Staffordshire Hoard dates to the 7th or 8th centuries AD, a time when England was a patchwork of small Anglo-Saxon kingdoms. The Anglo-Saxons were great warriors and storytellers and made some of the most ...Compromise over Rosetta Stone fight?
Dec 9th, 2009 at 10:30AM: Dr. Zahi Hawass, the head of Egyptian Antiquities Council, has offered a compromise in his battle with the British Museum over the return of the Rosetta Stone. The stone was discovered by French archaeologists in 1799 but went to the British Empire in 1801 as spoils of war after they ejected Napoleon from Egypt. It's one of the most important of ancient Egyptian artifacts because it has the same ...Coming attractions: Ethiopia
Dec 8th, 2009 at 10:30AM: There aren't many countries that can truly call themselves unique. France has great cuisine, but so does Italy. India has challenging and beautiful mountaineering routes, and so does Peru.
But Ethiopia really is unique. It's the only African country that was never colonized, and as far as paleontologists can tell, it's where the human race evolved from our earlier ancestors.
Ethiopia's Great ...Google to immortalize Iraqi museum
Nov 25th, 2009 at 3:30PM: Google is taking Iraq's national museum global. Company CEO, Eric Schmidt, said Tuesday that Google is going to document what's in the museum and will share photographs of the war-torn countries museum holdings with the world. The museum, which reopened this year, was torn apart after Saddam Hussein's regime was toppled in April 2003.
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