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Ashgabat Carpet Museum home to ancient treasures

Ashgabat’s Carpet Museum boasts more than 2.

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Time-lapse video shows whale skeleton become museum’s centrepiece

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Navigating Aarhus

Aarhus, located on the East coast of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark, is 2017’s European capital of culture.

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Nazi-era art to go on show in Bern

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Contemporary African art wows Paris

Great must see African art in Paris

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Fighting prejudice through Islamic art

A new light is being shone on centuries-old pieces of art from the Middle East at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art

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World's largest jellyfish collection

Having roamed the seas for the last 500 years, jellyfish are the oldest multi-organ creature on the planet

Sweden

The Museum of Failure: when products are so bad, they're good

Israel

Ai Weiwei's ''Maybe, Maybe Not'' exhibition opens

Romania

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.

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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.

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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…