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Abandon all good taste, ye who enter the Romanian Museum of Kitsch!

In the old historical centre of the Romanian capital, Bucharest, there is a new tourist attraction: the Romanian Kitsch Museum.

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European 'history house' opens this weekend

It was meant to have been open in 2014, but now the House of European History finally opens its doors to the public this weekend.

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Museum of Ice Cream serves up sweet art

A mouth-watering exhibition in Los Angeles celebrates all things ice cream.

Germany

100kg gold coin stolen from Berlin museum

A gold coin worth up to $4m is stolen from the Bode Museum, in Berlin, Germany

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The State Museum of Arts in Tashkent, Uzbekistan

In Postcards from Uzbekistan this week we visit the State Museum of Arts in the capital Tashkent.

Netherlands

Two stolen Van Gogh paintings back on display in Amsterdam

Two priceless paintings by Vincent Van Gogh are once again hanging in an Amsterdam museum 14 years after being stolen by the mafia.

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Mosul's museum freed from ISIL, but not in good shape

After being under ISIL control for more than two years, all that remains inside Mosul’s museum is destruction and traces of looting.

Cult

Landmark exhibition of the major works of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer at the Louvre

A landmark exhibition of the major works of the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer has opened.

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Artists create hyper-realistic sculptures for new exhibition

Eerily life-like sculptures on display at a new art exhibition will leave visitors doing a double-take.

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Bolivia opens the "Evo Museum"

Bolivia on Thursday opened a $7 million museum dedicated to President Evo Morales and indigenous peoples in Morales’s birthplace of Orinoca high up in the deserts of the Bolivian…

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Trump gets his wall

A tourist attraction in Hamburg, Germany that features miniature models of various parts of the world has put up a wall around the United States, in a dig at President Donald Trump’s plan to build a f

Sci-Tech

Too much bum time says Experimentarium

Museum where the exhibits interact with you

Cult

The Pompidou Centre in Paris celebrates its 40th birthday

The Pompidou Centre in Paris is instantly recognisable.

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Europe's first underwater museum opens in Lanzarote

British artist Jason DeCaires Taylor has created what is the first underwater museum in Europe.

USA

Star Wars film maker chooses LA for art museum

After holding the art world in suspense Star Wars film maker George Lucas has finally chosen Los Angeles to build his $1bn (900,000 euros) Museum of Narrative…

Cult

The Osmotheque of Versailles - a unique archive of perfumes

Perfumes have had a powerful effect on people the world over for thousands of years.

France

360º Video: noon at the Museum

Once a month, Lyon’s Arts and Crafts Museum organises a guided tour, focused on a particular piece of artwork and a concert related to the piece.

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Postcards from Uzbekistan: treasure trove of banned art

Paintings banned by authorities in Soviet times were saved in a secret collection in Karakalpakstan

Cult

Van Gogh book of drawings slammed as fake

An extraordinary row has broken out over a new book that claims to contain previously unpublished drawings by Dutch master Vincent Van Gogh.

Sci-Tech

The Kiss comes to life for the visually impaired

The Belvedere Museum in Vienna has unveiled a 3D version of a famed Gustav Klimt painting.