What: Course on the history of Russian culture When: Friday-Sunday, January 29-31 Where: Online More: This course was initiated by Professor of Oxford and Shaninki Andrey Zorin. It will talk about Russian culture from the era of the Varangians to the era of rock concerts: lectures by the best scientists, timelines, galleries and ...
In February, the Big Apple will host many noteworthy events. If you need a reason to leave the house, check out this list of events for each day of the month from The New York Times. February 1 On the first day of February at Metropolitan ...
If on a Friday summer evening you suddenly find yourself near the Museum of Natural History in Washington, you will see a strange picture: adults and children, loaded with huge bales, from which pillows and mattresses peep out, walk towards the entrance, writes Ksenia Turkova in her column for ...
In every state of the United States there are museums that surprise with the strangeness of the choice of object for study, and in some cases even want to ask: "Who decided that this deserves a whole museum?" Reader's Digest has compiled a list of just such museums in different states. California: International ...
From the engineering building of the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), a painting by Arkhip Kuindzhi “Ai-Petri. Crimea". According to eyewitnesses, the attacker, disguised as a museum worker, took the painting out of the frame and disappeared with it right in front of the public, writes TJ. Visitors said that after 10 minutes ...
The unique KGB espionage museum reveals to everyone the spy secrets used by Soviet intelligence officers. It houses the world's largest collection of KGB spy artifacts, more than three thousand items that have never been exhibited in the United States before. Top-3 KGB Spy Museum ...
In the Bible Museum in Washington, five Dead Sea Scrolls, which were considered the museum's most valuable artifacts, turned out to be a fake, writes RTVi. German researchers have found in the scrolls "characteristics incompatible with ancient origins." Artifacts will no longer be displayed in the museum. Researchers say the story ...
In October, a museum of most people's favorite dish - pizza - will open in New York. There will be exciting interactive exhibits and quirky galleries, including a cheese cave and pizza beach. The museum will also host pizza meditation and pizza zen, although it is not yet clear what exactly they represent...
The Metropolitan Museum has posted over 500 art books for free. The catalog includes the works of the museum itself, collections of the most famous works of art, books on the history of painting and calligraphy, and much more, writes Lifehacker. The MetPublications collection includes works from the past 50 years, ...
For the first time, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York introduces paid admission for non-city residents. Writes about this AM New York. Effective March 1, any visitor to the museum who lives outside of New York State is required to pay a $ 25 entry fee. A ticket for seniors costs $ 17, ...