Museums – Strangers Guide

France

“A clamor, in the distance. A crowd running under the rain beating down, between the canvases the...”

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Massachusetts

“The scene into which we stepped bears description. The American Wing is built around a sizable...”

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Founded in 1683, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, is the world’s oldest university museum. To put it in perspective, the year it first...

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Afghanistan

In 1988, a decade into Afghanistan’s bitter civil war, officials at the country’s national museum decided to hide its most valuable artifacts for fear...

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Japan

The Momofuku Ando Instant Ramen Museum in Osaka, Japan, is devoted entirely to instant noodles. It boasts a chicken ramen factory where you can...

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Egypt

In March, researchers at the British Museum in London discovered the world’s oldest tattoo on an Egyptian mummy that had been housed in the...

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Switzerland

H.R. Giger, who died four years ago, was a Swiss painter known for his otherworldly, airbrushed images fusing humans and machines. Giger was a...

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Cuba

Museums: Forming the Stories We Tell Ourselves

Institutions reflect the biases and longings of a culture

by Jacob Sims

The headline banner reads: “Between 1960 and 1962 the CIA spent millions persuading [Cuban] parents to...

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