Tag: #Museum
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Educational Excursion: Students and Teachers Visit Lok Virsa Museum and Pakistan Monument
Islamabad, [7-12-2024] – Today, a group of enthusiastic students, teachers, and staff from The Teachers School Chakwal embarked on an educational excursion to the Lok Virsa Museum and Pakistan Monument in Islamabad. The trip, organized with the special assistance of the Principal Information Officer (MOIB), aimed to provide students with a unique opportunity to explore…
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British Museum to display world’s ‘oldest map of stars’
October 18, 2021: The Nebra Sky Disc, thought to be the world’s oldest map of stars is about to go on display at the British Museum. This ancient object is believed to be 3,600 years old, dating from the historic Bronze Age. The disc had been unearthed in Germany in 1999 and is now considered…
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Wax Museum Madame Tussauds to Open in Dubai
London’s famous wax museum Madame Tussauds has decided to will open another branch in Dubai by the end of this year. Madame Tussauds also have there branches in US, Europe and Asia. But it is well known for its main branch in London where tourists and visitors enjoy 250 wax sculptures. “Today, Merlin Entertainments Ltd,…
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Glasgow artist launches plastic bag museum
Glasgow, Nov 1 (AFP/APP):Katrina Cobain unwraps a parcel and removes its precious contents, slowly and delicately as if she were handling an ancient scroll of papyrus. But the items she places on the table of a makeshift studio in an old tobacco pipe factory in the east end of Glasgow are rather more mundane —…
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Turkey to dedicate museum to Ottoman sultan
ISTANBUL, Sep 28 (Xinhua/APP):Turkey will establish a museum dedicated to Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, scientists behind the project said. The museum is to be constructed in Edirne, a town located some 230 km northwest of Istanbul where the sultan was born, raised, and educated. The sultan conquered the Byzantine city of Constantinople, today’s Istanbul, in…
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Is Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Museum or Mosque? Decision to be made today
In Turkey today, the Council of State has to decide whether Hagia Sophia in Istanbul can be converted into a mosque or not. Built in the sixth century during the reign of Byzantine King Justinian I, it was the largest church in the world for nearly a thousand years. When the Ottoman Empire conquered the…
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Major museum heists
Paris, Nov 26 (AFP/APP): The art heist at a museum in Dresden on Monday is the latest major robbery of artworks and precious objects from museums. Following are some precedents: – The Mona Lisa, the Louvre – On August 21, 1911, Leonardo de Vinci’s famed “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris.…
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Pakistan Monument Museum tops popular site with 514,944 visits during 2018
ISLAMABAD, Oct 10 (APP):Pakistan Monument Museum (PMM) in Islamabad remained at the top for the third time in 2018 with 514,944 visits, followed by Khewra Mines with 430,561 visits and the third popular site was Lok Virsa Heritage Museum with 319,470 visits. According to recent report by Gallup Pakistan titled “Cultural Heritage and Museum Visits…