MUGI – My Unique Gift Idea

Share.. Los Angeles art museums are lagging behind those of smaller cities in annual attendance. Only the Getty Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, made the top-100 list in the Art Newspaper’s international survey of museum attendance. The Getty came in 33rd with its 1,205,685 visitors last year, pulling in behind the [...]

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Share..Google and Yad Vashem recently announced a collaboration to create a public online archive of Holocaust documents from around the world. It’s not just the Holocaust though, Google, for some time has been working to bring much of the world’s cultural and historical heritage online. The initial stage of the project has now been completed; [...]

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Share..Friday, the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia is opening its new building for a weekend of celebrations. The balcony of the $150 million museum overlooks the Liberty Bell and Independence National Historical Park – the place where the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were signed. The setting is very appropriate as [...]

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Share.. Vincent Van Gogh’s talent went largely unnoticed during the course of his life – but posthumous appreciation is sung everywhere from Paris to Manhattan to Cairo. In 1886, Vincent Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) spent the summer and autumn in Paris, where he created more than 30 pieces, including “Poppy Flower,” to perfect his [...]

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Share..Found on the sixth and seventh floors of the Pacific Department Store in Yungho City, Taiwan, about nine miles from Taipei City, is a unique shopping experience. The Museum of World Religions, which opened in 2001, is the brainchild of Master Hsin Tao, a Buddhist monk who spent more than a decade renouncing the world. [...]

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