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Discover the 10 most visited museums in the world in 2024, from the Louvre in Paris to the Met in New York. Explore where history, art, and culture converge—perfect additions to your 2025 travel plans.

Dutch museum rolls out 200-year-old condom with unique art print

The Rijksmuseum noted the condom came from an era where sex was 'fraught with fears of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases -- especially syphilis.'

'Annabelle doll missing' rumours fake, say officials: It's safe at Warren Occult Museum

Social media was rife with rumours of the 'haunted doll, Annabelle doll, going missing. An investigative team has, however, confirmed that the doll is safe at the Warren Occult Museum, quashing all speculation.

Orange peels to bottle caps: Thousands of artists create their own 'Girl with Pearl Earring'

The winners were displayed in a replica frame in the exact spot where 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' usually hangs, between two portraits by Dutch Baroque painter Gerard ter Borch.

Croatia opens 'museum of laughter'. Here, visitors are 'disinfected from negativity'. See pics

'I've had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware,' is one of the zingers from US comedian Joan Rivers featured in Hahahouse.

Karnataka to launch digital museums, do 3D mapping of 18K antiquities

The Karnataka State Council for Science and Technology plans to undertake 3D mapping of all antiquities displayed in 17 government museums

4-year-old boy accidentally shattered ancient Bronze Age jar. What Israel museum did

The Hecht Museum, known for its collection of archaeological and art objects, has maintained that the jar, which was remarkably intact before the accident, will be restored and returned to its display.

India will get world's largest museum in 2025: Gajendra Singh Shekhawat

Gajendra Singh Shekhawat said the proposed museum will tell the story of India spanning over 5,000 years

President Droupadi Murmu shows how Artificial Intelligence can revolutionise future of art museums in India

State-run cultural institutions, and galleries like Navachara in the Rashtrapati Bhavan, are leading the way in technological innovations for an immersive experience for museum visitors in India.

UK museum to sign pact for Shivaji's Tiger Claws journey to India

The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) will sign an MoU with the Maharashtra government next week, bringing back the 17th-century Tiger Claws weapon, believed to belong to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, for an exhibition in India.

Sengol replica at Allahabad Museum draws visitors in numbers

The 'Sengol,' a historic scepter from Tamil Nadu, symbolizing the transfer of power from the British, was initially housed at the Allahabad Museum and later installed in India's new Parliament by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

International Museum Day 2023: History, theme and significance

The aim of International Museum Day is to raise awareness about the fact that, 'Museums are an important means of cultural exchange, enrichment of cultures and development of mutual understanding, cooperation and peace among peoples.'

South Korean art student eats banana art installation taped to wall because...

When asked by the museum why he ate the banana, the student simply replied that he was hungry after skipping breakfast.

Climate protesters throw mashed potatoes at Claude Monet's painting 'Les Meules'

Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction but caused no visible damage to the painting.

A vault holding long-hidden French treasures swings open its doors

After 12 years and 261 million euros of renovations, the National Library of France, in the heart of Paris, has reopened and is showing off more than 900 of its treasures, including King Dagobert’s bronze throne, Charlemagne’s ivory chess pieces, and Mozart’s handwritten score of 'Don Giovanni'.”

Delhi's Madame Tussauds museum finds new home in Noida

The wax museum, earlier located at Connaught Place’s Regal Building, features close to 50 figures from various fields, including history, sports, music, film, and television.

US man destroys museum art worth Rs 40 crore after fight with girlfriend

While the initial estimates of the damage is $5,153,000, the museum's director Agustin Arteaga said, "We anticipate the real total could be a fraction of the original estimate."

A poet who is building a museum for rare indigenous Deccan artefacts

A museum is likely to be opened in Telangana this year with the backing of the state and central government to house the thousands of ancient artefacts collected over four-and-a-half decades by an academic devoted to preserving the art and culture of tribespeople and other marginalised communities.

Dubai's 'Museum of Future' is the latest addition to its flashy architecture

The seven-storey hollow silver ellipse decorated with Arabic calligraphy, touted as the world's most beautiful building promises to take visitors on a 'journey to the year 2071'

In Pics | Japan's teamLab unveils new garden of 'floating flowers' and 'glowing moss'

Japanese art collective teamLab unveils new "Garden Area" exhibit at one of its digital art museums in Tokyo where visitors can become one with the flowers, immersing themselves in over 13,000 live orchids that bloom in mid-air and an ever-changing, glowing moss garden.

National Institute of Design called in to help with PM museum

NMML has not been able to zero in on any one of the design houses.

Nehru Museum at NMML gets a revamp under MJ Akbar

The museum will also feature other freedom fighters like Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and Maulana Azad as well as members of the first Cabinet

Jaitley, however, spared the common man from price hikes

Leather footwear priced above Rs 1,000 per pair will cost less as excise duty has gone down to 6 percent from 12 percent earlier. Packaged fruits and vegetables will also become cheaper as pre-cooling, ripening, retail packing and labelling of these items have been exempted from service tax.

Top global destinations for the artsy travellers

A typical art traveler is the one who first Google searches the nearest art galleries and museums of a particular location and then decides his/her place of accommodation.

William Morris Gallery crowned British museum of year

The William Morris Gallery, located in the artist's family home in Walthamstow in northeast London, opened in 1950 but faced closure in 2007 before securing funding for a major redevelopment. It reopened last year.