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• Rare Minoan treasures to be displayed in New York

  - 2008-03-05

  ATHENS AFP — Around 300 priceless artifacts from Europe's oldest civilisation, the Minoans of ancient Crete, will go on display in New York from March 13, the private Alexander S. Onassis foundation said Wednesday. Titled "From the Land of the Labyrinth: Minoan Crete, 3000-1100 BC", the six-month exhibition will...

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• German museum discovers prized Monet is a fake

  - 2008-02-14

  BERLIN AFP — A German museum said on Thursday it had discovered that its prized Monet painting "The Seine at Port Villez" is a fake. A spokesman for the Wallraf-Richartz Museum and Foundation Corboud in Cologne in western Germany said a research project carried out as part of an...

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• Making a show of lost love

  - 2007-10-27

  BERLIN AFP — When the love affair is over and the angry words of recrimination have faded into the air, what better way to dull the pain than to put on display the tokens of that lost passion? The 250 exhibits in the Museum of Broken Relationships in Berlin...

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• Crypt opens on world's biggest mummy show in Germany

  - 2007-10-04

  BERLIN AFP — The world's biggest mummy exhibition has opened in Germany, with 70 preserved specimens from around the world, organisers said Thursday. The show at the Zeughaus Museum in the southwestern city of Mannheim, "Mummies -- The Dream of Eternal Life," presents a variety of naturally and artificially...

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• Disputed British art prize winners back on show

  - 2007-10-01

  LONDON AFP — Highlights from over 20 years of Britain's often-controversial Turner Prize art show go on display from Tuesday, in a retrospective exhibition which is once again fueling fierce debate. A pickled cow by ex Britart badboy Damien Hirst and Chris Ofili's elephant dung canvas are among the...

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• Kenya hominid's US trip sparks row

  - 2007-09-25

  NAIROBI AFP — Plans to send Turkana Boy -- a unique hominid skeleton -- and other prehistoric jewels from Kenyan museums for exhibition in the United States have sparked heated debate among Kenya's scientific community. The trip will bring in a much-needed windfall to Kenya's cash-strapped museums but the...

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• Working models of Da Vinci's inventions go on show in Vienna

  - 2005-03-08

  VIENNA AFP — The scientific genius of Leonardo da Vinci is on show at an exhibition here of 62 functioning full-scale and miniature models of his inventions, the biggest such display in the world. His designs include a forerunner of the bicycle, breathing apparatus for divers, hang gliders, elevators,...

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• Contemporary artists in Britain celebrate the humble garden shed

  - 2004-05-28

  LONDON AFP ? There are few things more quintessentially British than the garden shed, and now the humble wooden structure's place in national life is being honoured -- with an exhibition at London's Victoria and Albert museum. "The Other Flower Show" -- a reference to the more traditional Chelsea...

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