Tag: Museum

Rhinoceros head stolen from Brussels museum

A stuffed rhinoceros head was stolen from the Brussels Natural History Museum, the second such robbery in Belgium in less than a month. "At...

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam closing for refit

Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum is to close for six months for renovations next year, its director has announced. Axel Ruger said the renovation was...

Museum to display remnants of 9/11 attacks

When a hijacked aircraft smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, Lisa Lefler left behind her briefcase...

Gandhi’s glasses go missing from Indian museum

Gandhi's spectacles have reportedly gone missing from the Sevagram Ashram (museum) in Wardha, Maharashtra. The incident reportedly took place in February 2011 but came...

‘Miracle on the Hudson’ plane departs for museum

The U.S. Airways airplane that made a splash-landing dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson" more than two years ago began a road trip on...

Mitsubishi creates giant globe for Tokyo Museum

This giant light-up disco ball is nearly 20 feet in diameter and is comprised of an astounding 10,000 OLED displays. Mitsubishi calls it their...

‘Avatar’ gets top billing at Seattle museum

A music and popular culture museum in Seattle is banking on fans of the Oscar-winning film ‘Avatar’ to take in a new exhibit on...

Folk Heritage Museum keeps tradition alive

The Folk Heritage Museum of Islamabad, frequented by a large number of people, preserves the traditional culture and offers an enchanting journey through splendid civilizations of all the four provinces.
Catering to the pluralistic society of Islamabad, the museum documents the change in culture and tradition starting from the Indus civilization to postmodern times.
A walk down the galleries gives one the impression of passing through different areas of the country in

Heartbreak museum is Croatia’s latest attraction

An iron used for a wedding suit, a rear-view mirror broken in a jealous fit and a lower leg prosthesis -- at first it's hard to find any link between the items on display at a new museum in Croatia.
But every exhibit in the Museum of Broken Relationships has one thing in common -- it tells the story of a lost love.
These material remnants of failed romances down the years are sometimes mundane, sometimes bizarre, sometimes funny, sad or even kinky.
The prosthesis is