CHAMAN: In the heart of the Chaman mountain range, a remarkable museum has emerged, carved entirely by hand into the rugged hillside. What looks like a simple mountain from afar reveals five intricately sculpted rooms that showcase the region’s rich history and culture. The museum, the vision of local resident Ibrahim Khan, combines heritage with […]
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Egypt hopes vast new museum by the Pyramids will accelerate tourism revival
Egyptian officials are hoping the inauguration of a vast new museum on Saturday will accelerate the revival of a tourism industry hampered for more than a decade by internal upheaval, a pandemic and regional conflicts. Officials believe the Grand Egyptian Museum or GEM, alone could draw as many as 7 million additional visitors annually after […]
Bangladesh turns Ex-PM’s home into ‘dictatorship museum’
Bangladesh has turned the official residence of former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina into a museum marking the fall of her rule. The site, Gonobhaban, is now a reminder of the student-led protests on August 5, 2024. These protests ended her government and forced her to flee to India by helicopter. Protesters waving flags on the […]
London museum to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
London museum has agreed to return 72 objects looted from Benin City in 1897 to the Nigerian government. “Ownership of 72 objects, which were forcibly removed from Benin City during the British military incursion in February 1897, will be transferred to the Nigerian government,” the museum said in a statement. “The collection includes 12 brass plaques, known […]
US takes steps to return 3,500-year-old ‘Gilgamesh’ tablet to Iraq
A 3,500-year-old tablet recounting the epic of Gilgamesh that once sat in Washington’s Museum of the Bible could be returned to Iraq after a judge verified its seizure Tuesday. The rare fragment, which recounts a dream sequence from the epic in Akkadian cuneiform script, is one of many ancient artifacts from Iraq and the Middle […]
Jeff Bezos donates record breaking $200 mn to Smithsonian
Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos will donate $200 million to the Smithsonian, the largest gift in the history of the institute, a statement said Wednesday. A $70 million portion of the donation will support the renovation of the National Air and Space Museum while $130 million will launch a new education center to […]
Japan’s museum honors centuries old Kulli culture of Balochistan
ISLAMABAD: By designing a themed tote-bag, the Ancient Orient Museum of Tokyo commemorates Kulli culture that flourished 2200BC to 2000BC in Balochistan. Featuring a cheetah-like feline, a continuous pattern of goats, and linden tree leaves, an image of the bag has been shared by the museum on its social media page. “This is a tote-bag […]
‘Priceless’ jewels snatched from German state museum
Robbers made off with three priceless diamond sets from a state museum in Dresden on Monday, police and museum directors said, in what German media have described as the biggest art heist since World War Two. The thieves at dawn broke into the Green Vault at Dresden’s Royal Palace — home to around 4,000 precious […]
‘I worked here’: home of Albanian author Kadare becomes a museum
Ismail Kadare draws the curtain to bring a shaft of light into the Tirana apartment where he wrote furiously during the dark days of communism — a space visitors can now explore first-hand after his former home was turned into a museum. “I worked here, next to the fireplace,” the renowned 83-year-old Albanian novelist told […]
NY museum scraps Bolsonaro event after complaints
New York’s Museum of Natural History announced Monday it had canceled a private function booked to take place there that would honor Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. The leader, who has been attacked at home and abroad for policies that critics say threaten the environment and indigenous communities, was due to receive an award at the […]