The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands is a website set up to preserve the memory of all those who were persecuted as Jews in the Netherlands during the Second World War and who did not survive the Shoah. The Digital Monument is an initiative of the late…
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José Clemente Orozco at work on the sixth fresco panel from Epic of Civilization on the American Continent.PBS will celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month by showcasing a variety of interesting programs that will highlight the accomplishments and contributions of Hispanics in the United States. Two of those featured will be artists, Jose…
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A Georgian woman leaves her damaged home in Gori . (Photo: REUTERS)
The director of the Josef Stalin museum in Gori, Georgia, says he had to flee to the capital of Tbilisi in his car loaded with authentic items from the museum during the Russian bombing of the country.
Gori, Stalin’s birthplace, was…
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Developed by the Barbican Museum in London, Game On examines videogames from the game design process, to the culture among gamers and beyond. Visitors can experience the past forty years of electronic gaming, play over 100 games on their original hardware and using the software that would have been used at…
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It seems like an age ago that I blogged about the use of the web, particularly blogging, to communicate better issues related to heritage conservation, particularly as it is a field in the broader heritage sector which is perhaps most shrouded in mystery. Communication has tended to be aimed purely…
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The National Library of Ireland is offering a virtual tour of the exhibition “The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats” on the award-winning Yeats Exhibition homepage.
The notebook of one of Ireland’s most famous poets is one of thousands of objects in an exhibition titled “The Life and Works of William…
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‘Restoration Rocks’: jewelry collection with fragments of Guggenheim Museum’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright building encapsulated in glass.
Always dreamed of owning an architectural masterpiece? Since last April the Guggenheim Museum in New York is offering Restoration Rocks, a special edition jewelry line that incorporates actual historic fragments of Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic…
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These are the words of the National Trust’s Director-General, Fiona Reynolds on a new kind of campaign by the trust to get the public to decide the future of Seaton Delaval Hall, its gardens, grounds and a large area of countryside in south Northumberland near Blyth.
The Trust intend to purchase the…
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