A statue of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II is surrounded by honor guards as it is relocated at the Grand Egyptian Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2018. CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry says it has placed the ancient colossus of famed pharaoh Ramses II at the …
“Museum of Madness” exhibition to show oil painting by Nazi leader. An oil painting by Adolf Hitler is to go on display for the first time at a museum in northern Italy. The small untitled work has been lent by a German private collector to the Museum of Salo, on …
NATICK, Mass. (AP) — A suburban Boston museum with a huge trove of World War II-era items has acquired two key documents, including one from the Germans demanding the U.S. surrender. The Natick-based Museum of World War II says the latest additions “epitomize the American spirit at the end of …
Located in the hall where Vladimir Lenin first met Josef Stalin, the Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland, is no longer purposed toward pleasing Soviets, but rather toward exploring Finland’s complicated ties with them. JANUARY 8, 2017 TAMPERE, FINLAND—This city, Finland’s second largest, is known as the birthplace of the Soviet …
A commercial firm has recreated the bunker where Hitler committed suicide in 1945. What do you do about the buildings associated with Hitler’s life and death? In Austria, they are hitting the delete key, but in Germany, it’s more like copy and paste. After decades of indecision and delay, the …
Exhibit offering 1:25 scale model of Fuhrerbunker hopes to bring visitors to get involved in society “In this room ended the greatest mass murder of all times,” advertises the Berlin Story Museum, inviting visitors to its new exhibit recreating Adolf Hitler’s study, where he lived and worked until committing suicide …
A British museum has been searching for parts of the Lorenz cipher machine, used by the Nazis in World War II to send secret messages. So when sharp-eyed museum volunteers happened upon what appeared to be a Lorenz teleprinter on eBay, it almost seemed too good to be true. National …
North Korea hopes to reap large profits from its new Angkor Panorama Museum in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Siem Reap, Cambodia – Visitors to the Angkor Panorama Museum are greeted by a huge painting of a smiling Buddha – a life-sized reproduction of one of the stone faces that adorns the …
Inscriptions on the gold coins are puzzling archaeologists in China. A museum in eastern China is offering a reward to anyone who can decipher the inscriptions written on six gold coins in its collection. The centuries-old coins were first unearthed on a farm in the southern Hunan province in the …
Staff at the Cinquantenaire Museum in Belgium have resorted to wrapping exhibits in cling film to protect them from rain pouring through holes in the roof It is among Belgium’s most prestigious museums and counts Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagi, Roman mosaics and a statue from Easter Island among its richest treasures. …
Egyptian prosecutors are reported to have referred eight museum employees for trial over a botched reattachment of the beard on the burial mask of the pharaoh, Tutankhamun. Egyptian media say prosecutors have referred eight museum employees for trial over the botched reattachment of the beard on the burial mask of …
In just the past six years, the evangelical owners of Hobby Lobby have amassed one of the world’s largest private collections of biblical antiquities. Why? In November 2017, the Museum of the Bible will open in Washington, D.C., two blocks from the National Mall. Like many of the city’s other …