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Why would someone want Hitler's wristwatch?

An auction house in the US has become known for its Nazi memorabilia. But why is there such a big market?

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Should European museums return African heritage items?

As conversations about decolonisation increase, more museums are considering returning their looted African heritage, but is this the right approach?

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Here's the winner of the UK's Museum of the Year 2022

Art Fund has announced the winner for its prestigious 2022 Museum of the Year award.

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Hidden self-portrait of Van Gogh discovered behind another painting

Conservators have found a self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh behind his masterpeice 'Head of a Peasant Woman', but how was it discovered?

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These Ancient Greek statues used to be colourful

Two historians have created a new exhibition at the Met, returning Greek and Roman statues to their original colours.

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The best exhibitions to see in Europe this summer

From comic books to sculptures, from African empires to Norwegian folktales, there's no shortage of exhibitions to attend this summer.

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Seven of Europe's best virtual exhibitions to check out this summer

From Paris to Zagreb, all from your own couch: here are some of the best virtual tours to try this summer.

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Who are these people? A London museum needs your help

A search has been launched for members of Britain's so-called 'Windrush generation' of Caribbean migrants who featured in photos long thought to have been lost

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Stolen artefacts recovered by police go on display in new Rome museum

Italy has been so successful in regaining ancient artworks and artefacts illegally exported from the country that it has now created a museum just for them.

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Cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis goes on show in Iceland

The museum has had a plaster cast of the guitarist's member donated 52 years after his death.

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A cast of Jimi Hendrix's penis on display at museum in Iceland

The Icelandic Phallological Museum has just added a new artefact to its vast collection: a plaster cast of the erect penis of legendary rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix.

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Six present ideas for culture-loving dads on Father’s Day

If you're searching for an idea that you can purchase online at the last minute, then here's our list of experienced-based gifts for culture-loving dads.

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The artist is sorta present: how VR is changing art

In his latest piece, Albert Oehlen asks viewers to enter his studio via VR and watch him draw a new work. The eerie experience gets you up close and personal without ever being near another actual person.

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Controversy brews as Kim K accused of damaging Marilyn Monroe dress

The dress that Monroe wore to serenade JF Kennedy is a piece of history, did Kardashian stretch her luck by wearing it?

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Norway's national museum and new home for 'The Scream' opens in Oslo

Norway's new national museum gets a royal opening in Oslo and becomes the Nordic region's largest cultural building.

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Kyiv war exhibition displays objects left behind by Russian soldiers

The dust has hardly settled. Not long ago Russian troops were bearing down on Ukraine's capital - now the story of this chapter of the invasion is already being told in Kyiv's State Museum of the Great Patriotic War

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Drinking up wine history in Armenia

Home to some of the most ancient relics related to winemaking, a new museum is showing a history of wine that's separate from it's traditionally thought origins.

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Man who was "mad at his girl" smashes $5 million of art in US museum

21-year-old man Brian Hernandez told the police he was upset "at his girl" when he broke into the Dallas Museum of Art through a window and smashed millennia-old artworks valued at millions.

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Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee: Inside the home of a superfan

Days ahead of Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee marking 70 years on the throne on Thursday, 78-year-old pensioner Margaret Tyler shows off her collection of royal family memorabilia that fills the ground floor of her house in northwestern suburb Wembley.

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Egypt unveils a treasure trove of ancient artifacts

Egyptian antiquities authorities on Monday put on display a set of 2,500-year-old artifacts recently unearthed at the famous Saqqara necropolis near Cairo.