Tag: Museum

Inside New York’s first chocolate museum

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The sweet history of chocolate is assembled in New York’s first chocolate museum founded by famed pastry chef and chocolatier, Jacques Torres. For Torres, the museum is an opportunity to share his passion with others. “I love to transfer the love that I have for chocolate and the knowledge that I have for chocolates to whoever wants to learn about it. So museum makes the perfect sense to bring […]

Newly discovered Egyptian colossus starts journey to Cairo museum

CAIRO, Egypt (Reuters) — Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany on Monday (March 13) started moving an eight-meter statue that was discovered  submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum last week. The massive statue depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago, archaeologists have said. The discovery, hailed by the Antiquities Ministry as one of the most important ever, was made near the ruins of Ramses II’s temple in the […]

Museums around the Metro

QUEZON City, Philippines (February 17) – A great artist by the name of Pablo Picasso also once said that “Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” The same can be said about every other vocation. A child is so full of potential that they can be anything they want when they grow up. To give them that helpful nudge, a visit to the museum may […]

Provincial Museum at Library sa Quirino, bukas na para sa lahat

QUIRINO (Eagle News) – Bukas na sa lahat ang Provincial Museum at Library sa lalawigan ng Quirino. Hinati ito sa anim na bahagi para sa anim na bayan na bumubuo sa lalawigan. Ang nasabing bayan ay ang sumusunod; Diffun Saguday Aglipay Maddela Nagtipunan Cabarroguis – Capital ng Quirino Ang bawat bayan ay may kani-kaniyang kontribusyon. Sa pagpasok pa lamang sa museum ay maipipinta na sa isipan kung paano namuhay ng simple ang mga ninuno sa […]

Museum and Galleries Month

In the end we were just wanderers in this world.. who will always longing for the past, and wishing we could turn back the time.. and feel it once again, but the only thing that left.. is to reminisce together with the presents of the things that give pleasure to us. October is Museums and Galleries Month Infographics by Dexter Magno Researches by: Regielyn Catubag and MRFaith Bonalos

Brazil’s biggest dinosaur found after passing 60 years in cupboard

by Sebastian Smith RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AFP) — Brazil just found its biggest ever dinosaur — in a storage cupboard. In its prime, more than 66 million years ago, this long necked herbivore was 25 meters (82 feet) long — longer than an articulated bus — and could chomp through trees at a terrifying rate. By the time the creature was found by renowned Brazilian paleontologist Llewellyn Ivor Price in 1953, only a few […]

New York plans new museum for Statue of Liberty visitors

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — The 4.3 million annual visitors to the Statue of Liberty — that most recognizable symbol of American freedom — will be greeted by a modern multimedia museum in future, New York officials said Thursday. The celebrated statue, designed by sculptor Auguste Bartholdi and built by Gustave Eiffel — donated by France on the 1876 centenary of US independence and inaugurated on Liberty Island in 1886 — has not had […]

Archaeologists dig Afghanistan, map its cultural heritage

by Anne CHAON KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — For archaeologists Afghanistan, rich in ancient treasures and once a key stop on the legendary silk road, is an “open-air museum”, albeit one ravaged by war and plagued by looters. After 30 years of conflicts, Afghanistan’s cultural heritage is in dire straits, but one group of archaeologists is trying to put the country’s historical sites back on the map – literally. An international team is working to map […]

Museum and Galleries Month

In the end we were just wanderers in this world.. who will always longing for the past, and wishing we could turn back the time.. and feel it once again, but the only thing that left.. is to reminisce together with the presents of the things that give pleasure to us. October is Museums and Galleries Month Infographics by Dexter Magno Researches by: Regielyn Catubag and MRFaith Bonalos

October is museums and galleries month!

QUEZON City, Philippines (October 16) – Have you ever been to a museum? How about an art gallery? Some of you may have some you may haven’t, but before you go to galleries and museums of your choice, whether it may be just for appreciation of art or a requirement for your humanities class, you must know first that in every place you’ll visit, there will always be etiquette to be observed and of course, must […]