Jerusalem’s iconic citadel has opened its revamped museum after a three-year, $50 million makeover that included a restoration of its signature minaret. The Tower of David, the ancient fortress on the western edge of the Old City, contains remnants of successive fortifications built one atop the other dating back over two millennia. For centuries, pilgrims, conquerors and tourists visiting the city holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam have entered Jerusalem beneath the adjacent Jaffa Gate. Today, the former castle serves as a museum dedicated to the city’s 3,000-year history. A woman walks at the inner courtyard of the Tower of David Museum, in Jerusalem's Old City, after a three-year renovation project, Monday, May 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) It is a daunting task...
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Italy has been so successful in recovering ancient artworks and artifacts that were illegally exported from the country it has created a museum for them. The Museum of Rescued Art was inaugurated Wednesday in a cavernous structure that is part of Rome’s ancient Baths of Diocletian. The Octagonal Hall exhibition space was designed to showcase Italy’s efforts, through patient diplomacy and court challenges, to get valuable antiquities repatriated, often after decades in foreign museums or private collections. Exhibits in the new museum will change every few months as the objects on display return to what experts consider their territory of origin, many of them places that were part of ancient Etruscan or Magna Grecia civilizations in central or southern Italy. Votive terracotta hea...
Read More- Establishment of a major museum for global modern and contemporary art in Abu Dhabi- Abu Dhabi's plans to transform the emirate into a culture and creative industries centre and further its economic diversification- Collaboration between the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation advances Abu Dhabi's cultural vision- Guggenheim Abu Dhabi will foster cultural exchange and present a global collection with a focus on West Asia, North Africa and South Asia (WANASA)- Guggenheim Abu Dhabi museum contractor has been appointed with a contract value of USD 1 billion to deliver the Frank Gehry designed museum The Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi (DCT Abu Dhabi) has announced that the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is on track for 2025 completi...
Read MoreSalar Jung museum at Hyderabad is one of the three national museums of India and also the third largest in the country with the biggest one-man collections of antiques in the world, all belonging to Salar Jung family, which was finally converted into a museum by Nawab Mir Yusuf Ali Khan Salar Jung III (1889-1949), who was former Prime Minister of the seventh Nizam of Hyderabad. This museum has a collection of sculptures, paintings, carvings, textiles, manuscripts, ceramics, metallic artefacts, carpets, clocks and furniture from Japan, China, Burma, Nepal, Persia, Egypt, Europe and North America besides India. The English Bracket Clock at Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad is said to have manufactured in England and assembled in Calcutta in the late 19th century. This musical clock is one of th...
Read MoreThe English Bracket Clock at Salarjung Museum in Hyderabad is said to have manufactured in England and assembled in Calcutta in the late 19th century. It was acquired by Salar Jung III, Nawab Mir Yousuf Ali Khan (1889-1949) from the Cooke and Kelvey Co. Clock has more than 350 parts. It contains a mechanism by which a small toy figure of a bearded man comes out from the enclosure three minutes before every hour and exactly at 60th minute strikes the gong as per time (eg. Five times at 5' o clock) and then goes back inside. This musical clock is one of the biggest attractions of the museum and daily during the museum timings at every hour people gather in big numbers just to see the striking of the gong by the toy. https://youtu.be/0vwrZ2HCI8M ...
Read MoreOne of world’s most visited museums reopened to the public on Monday three and a half months of COVID-19 lockdown. France’s iconic Louvre Museum re-opened, without lengthy queues of visitors as before the coronavirus pandemic. Some 7,000 reservations have been made for the opening day while before the pandemic the museum had around 30,000 visitors each day, Jean-Luc Martinez, President-Director of Louvre, said. For those who arrived for a visit, mask-wearing is compulsory. Slots of 500 visitors every half hour have been set up to comply with health rules. The Louvre and Tuileries National Estate includes several gardens, which cover an area of 30 hectares. Louvre is the world's largest art museum and a historic monument. The museum is housed in the Louvre Palace, originally bui...
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