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Whether it's hanging from skyscrapers or exploring ancient culture, visitors to Hong Kong's 3D Trick Art Museum are experiencing art in a unique way. 3D Trick Art has long been popular on the streets of Asia, but now it's going to new heights. (June 27)
SOUNDBITE (English) Zaccheus Law, Hong Kong 3D Museum:
"I feel quite amazing when I first step in that museum because the painting they really can do the trick art illusion and I - we can feel a lot of interaction with the artwork so I...
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WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE IMAGES. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opening in Michigan this month will have thousands of racist objects on display, not to shock, but to teach tolerance.
HEADLINE: Jim Crow Museum aims to teach tolerance
CAPTION: WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS OFFENSIVE IMAGES. The Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia opening in Michigan this month will have thousands of racist objects on display, not to shock,...
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Newly-acquired American classics go on show
Washington DC's National Gallery of Art has acquired over 6-thousand works from a collection of famed American classics.
A small selection of the works are now going on show to gallery visitors, giving a taste of what's to come.
The...
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World's first human rights declaration from 539 BC on show
AP Television
Washington, DC - 7 March, 2013
1. Various of clay Cyrus Cylinder from ancient Babylon, described as the world's first human rights declaration
2. SOUNDBITE (English) John Curtis, Keeper of Special Middle East Projects,...
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Giant, brightly coloured sculptures paraded on streets of Mexican capital
1. Wide of Mexican folk art sculptures known as Alebrijes on parade
2. Mid of marching band with various Alebrijes in background
3. Mid of various Alebrijes on parade
4. Close of Alebrije that resembles spider
5. Zoom out from Alebrije...
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Tips for visiting Paris on a budget
Paris, France, July 4th, 2008:
1. Wide shot of The Eiffel Tower
2. Wide shot of the Eiffel Tower grounds
3. Close up of the Eiffel Tower Tourist information board, showing prices
4. Mid Shot of tourists waiting in the line to go...
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Researcher says key to mysteries of Mona Lisa in her eyes
1. Wide shot Mona Lisa painting displayed on computer screen
2. Close-up pan right of Mona Lisa's eyes
3. Close-up Mona Lisa's detail, bridge with number 72 highlighted with increased contrast
4. Wide shot of Researcher of the national...
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Museum of pre-Colombian art is opened
1. Various of Pre-Columbian art pieces in new museum
2. Wide of Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru and guests
3. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru:
"Tonight we revive Peru's antique art and I would like to...
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Thousands of Argentines ride in on horseback to celebrate gaucho culture in annual festival
Thousands of Argentines gathered to celebrate the annual day of Gaucho in the town of San Antonio de Areco, on Sunday.
Horseback Gauchos paraded through the streets of San Antonio, some 115 kilometres (71 miles) north-east of Buenos...
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PERU: LIMA: SAN FRANCISCO CATACOMBS OPEN AS A MUSEUM
Spanish/Nat
A new museum has opened in the Peruvian capital, Lima, which will enable visitors to take a trip back through the centuries.
Located in the San Francisco convent - one of the jewels in Peru's religious architectural...
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President John F. Kennedy's only surviving child celebrated what would have been his 95th birthday this month by honoring three Iowa judges who were ousted after the court unanimously decided to legalize same-sex marriages
HEADLINE: JFK awards for ousted Iowa justices, US diplomat
CAPTION: President John F. Kennedy's only surviving child celebrated what would have been his 95th birthday this month by honoring three Iowa judges who were ousted after the...
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Museum undergoing troubled restoration to briefly open its doors
The Picasso museum in Paris is reopening for two days this weekend after being closed for five years of renovation and expansion that have been fraught with setbacks and dismissals.
The 37 rooms of Musee Picasso, inside the Marais...
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Mammoth sale of pre-historic fossils and skeletons
1. Tilt up on mammoth skeleton from Siberia - Late Pleistocene period
2. Close-up skull and tusks
3. Set up of Sotheby's expert Eric Mickeler walking toward and then viewing mammoth skeleton
4. Tilt up from Mickeler to mammoth...
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Art review of 2011
AP Television
Hong Kong - May 25, 2011
1. Mid of artwork of heads nodding, "Fermentation of Nose", 2011, by Heri Dono
2. Various of 2 paintings of Chairman Mao by Andy Warhol, Mao, 1973
3. Various of visitors to the Hong Kong Art...
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Cold War cooking at East German themed restaurant
AP Television
Berlin, Germany - 21 January 2012
1. Various of people dining in DDR restaurant
2. Close of mural
3. Close of mural, pull out to people dining
4. SOUNDBITE (German) Ulrich Mittenzwei, Tourist from former East German state...
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Spectacular views from hotel room which is also art exhibit
Paris - October 20th, 2007
1. Mid shot of the Everland Hotel set on the roof on the Palais de Tokyo
2. Close up of the Everland hotel
3. Wide shot of Everland hotel
4. Setup shot of the German artist Daniel Baumann, the creator of...
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Italy unveils 2,500 yr old vase returned by US Metropolitan Museum
1. Wide of Italian Minister of Culture Francesco Rutelli (back to camera) approaching veiled ancient Greek Euphronius vase
2. Cutaway of journalist
3. Rutelli (centre) and other officials including former Minister of Culture Rocco...
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City wide art installation lights up Amsterdam
Amsterdam, June 5, 2008
1. Illuminated Music Pavilion - Vandel Park Amsterdam
2. Illuminated Square -Van Gogh Museum
3. Illuminated water basins Culture Park
4. Green park at the Java Island- a tall light tower
5. Various of the...
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PERU: ARCHAEOLOGIST SALVAGES ARTIFACTS FROM SIPAN CIVILISATION
Spanish/Nat
A Peruvian archaeologist has salvaged artifacts belonging to one of Latin America's most sophisticated and unknown pre-Columbian civilisations.
Artifacts from the Sipan culture were looted from the northern town of Lambayeque...
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Discovery of Queen's Hasheptsut's mummy, presser
Cairo - 27 June, 2007
1. Wide of exterior of Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Cairo - 27 June, 2007
2. Close-up of head of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut
Cairo - 27 June, 2007
3. Pull-out from close-up of head of mummy of Queen Hatshepsut
4....
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Ancient books and manuscripts salvaged after war go on show
Pulled out of the archives and put on display.
Visitors to this exhibition at the Iraqi Museum in Baghdad are being given the chance to get up close with books and manuscripts - on display for the first time since 2003.
The National...
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Space shuttle Enterprise takes centre stage at New York museum
A piece of NASA history will go on display in New York from Thursday.
The space shuttle Enterprise is the latest addition to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.
Visitors will be able to walk underneath and around the craft in...
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Bid to sail around south east Asia in an ancient boat replica
Manila, Philippines - June 27, 2009
1. Wide of boat being launched in to the sea
2. Crowd applauding
3. Boat in the sea
Manila, Philippines - June 26, 2009
4. Exterior of Philippines National Museum
5. Museum sign
6. Wide of...
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Ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in ''Wizard of Oz'' stolen
APTN FILE - 25 May 2000
1. Wide pan of auction preview for sale of Hollywood memorabilia at Christie''s
2. Various of one of the known pairs of Judy Garland''s ruby slippers on display
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the...