museums
Antiquities minister inaugurates Tokyo’s pharaoh exhibition
Archaeology
October 15, 2015
Antiquities minister inaugurates Tokyo’s pharaoh exhibition
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty will head the opening ceremony on Thursday evening for an exhibition in Japan of Pharaoh antiquities…
Specialized center for digital documentation of museums
Archaeology
August 19, 2015
Specialized center for digital documentation of museums
Antiquities Minister Mamdouh al-Damaty has discussed ways of cooperating with Jerry Scott, president of the American Research Center, in digitalizing artifacts…
Public transportation, museums, gardens for free on Suez Canal inauguration day
Egypt
August 4, 2015
Public transportation, museums, gardens for free on Suez Canal inauguration day
In celebration of new Suez Canal waterway inauguration, Mamdouh al-Damaty, Antiquities Minister, announced that all museums across the governorates will…
Mass tourism forces mobbed museums to overhaul welcome
Art news
March 18, 2015
Mass tourism forces mobbed museums to overhaul welcome
Mass tourism spurred by cheap flights and richer emerging economies is forcing the world's top museums to rethink their welcome,…
Paris cultural landmarks to ban selfie sticks following museums
Art news
March 12, 2015
Paris cultural landmarks to ban selfie sticks following museums
Museums in the world's most visited city are moving to ban the popular extendable rods because of the danger they…
Museums for free on World Tourism Day
Art news
September 10, 2014
Museums for free on World Tourism Day
Ahmed Mutawa, director of the Archaeological Sites Development Department, said all museums will be for free on World Tourism Day…
Pro-Hitler graffiti found in Israel’s Holocaust museum
World
June 11, 2012
Pro-Hitler graffiti found in Israel’s Holocaust museum
Hebrew graffiti thanking the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler for the Holocaust and denouncing Zionism were sprayed inside the Yad Vashem…
Museum for late Pope Shenouda’s belongings to be established
Egypt
April 21, 2012
Museum for late Pope Shenouda’s belongings to be established
Father Pachomious, the acting pope, has agreed to establish a large museum to display the belongings of late Pope Shenouda…
Obama helps break ground on black history museum
World
February 22, 2012
Obama helps break ground on black history museum
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama heralded a new national black history museum as "not just a record of tragedy,…
Wax museum offers window to Iraq’s past
World
February 14, 2012
Wax museum offers window to Iraq’s past
Baghdad's version of a wax museum features figures that depict Iraq's past rather than replicas of celebrities like Michael Jackson,…