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Victorian town museum ready to reopen
Blists Hill Victorian Town is preparing to welcome visitors when it reopens on Saturday. The Ironbridge Gorge Museums attraction near Telford, Shropshire, is introducing various social distancing and public hygiene measures to keep...
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Senator Blocks Legislation On Museums Dedicated To Latinos, Women
Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah says creating the two dedicated museums would go against national unity and cultural inclusion.
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CLEAN : Amy Winehouse belongings expected to reach $2 mn at auction
Hundreds of items that belonged to late Grammy-winning artist Amy Winehouse, including the dress she wore during her final concert, are going up for auction in the United States (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)
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Court rules US man to get Nazi-seized art
HEADLINE: Court rules US man to get Nazi-seized art
CAPTION: Germany's top federal appeals court has ruled that a Berlin museum must return thousands of posters to an American Jew. They'd been seized from Paul Sach's father Hans by the...
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Museum dedicated to surrealist painter finally opens
1. Tilt down wide exterior of Magritte Museum building
2. Various of sign announcing opening of the Magritte Museum in June
3. Main entrance hall of the Magritte Museum with a large scale photo of the surrealist artist Rene Magritte
4....
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Leaders of the soon-to-open Sept. 11 museum portrayed it as a monument to unity and resilience ahead of its dedication Thursday. (May 14)
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Leaders of the soon-to-open 9/11 Memorial and Museum portrayed it as a monument to unity and resilience ahead of its dedication Thursday, saying that the struggles to build it and conflicts...
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Restoration of old Cairo brings new life to the old quarter
AP Television
Cairo, Egypt, January 2009
1. Wide Al-Azhar Park, Cairo
2. Close up yellow flower
3. Wide flowers in park with old Cairo in background
4. Wide view over rooftops of old city
5. Pan narrow streets of old city...
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Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Sao Paulo on Tuesday night for the latest protest against Brazil hosting the World Cup, which will begin in the country in June.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Sao Paulo on Tuesday night for the latest protest against Brazil hosting the World Cup, which will begin in the country in June.
The demonstrators braved the rain to hold up banners, bang drums and...
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UK/CUBA: 2 HALVES OF ITALIAN MASTERPIECE BY CANALETTO TO BE RE-UNITED
English/Nat
Britain's art world is looking to Cuba to re-unite two halves of a famous masterpiece by the 18th-century Italian painter, Canaletto.
The painting, "Chelsea by the Thames", was sold off in two halves by the artist when he ...
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Germany - Display of human body parts
A museum exhibition in Mannheim of skinless corpses is attracting big crowds, despite criticism by church leaders that it is degrading to human dignity. People are queuing for up to three hours to view a collection of skinned corpses and...
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Collection of North Korean art goes on exhibition
Vilnius - January 24, 2008
1. Lithuanian National Museum on the river
2. Closer shot museum
3. Exterior of museum, sign reading "Lithuanian National Museum"
4. Various of workers hanging paintings for exhibition
5. Various of...
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Ancient sculptures moved to Athens' new museum
Athens - 27 August 2007
1. Wide Acropolis hill with Plaka district below it
Athens - 12 July 2007
2. Pan from tourists walking to Parthenon
3. Close-up of sculptures on Parthenon pediment and metopes (any of the spaces between two...
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Cold War surveillance bunker opens as a museum
A new museum far below the city streets of Prague has shone a light on the once secret surveillance activities of the Czech government.
The museum is situated in a 500 square metre (5,400 square feet) underground bunker below the Jalta...
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22 year street exhibit for Rome artist
AP Television
Rome, 3 April 2011
1. Various of small paper artworks by Italian artist Fausto delle Chiaie
2. Wide of artist Fausto delle Chiaie sitting against fence amongst his artwork
3. Various of Fausto delle Chiaie sitting on...
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London museum opens career-spanning exhibition on British landscape painter
Rolling green hills, wandering farm cattle and the quaint English countryside.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum is opening a major new exhibition on British landscape painter John Constable.
Best-known to many for 'The Hay Wain' - an...
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Andy Warhol retrospective to open in Washington D.C.
1. Museum exteriors
2. Various of people looking at paintings
3. Audience listening to speaker
4. SOUNDBITE (English): Tom Sokolowski, Director of The Andy Warhol Museum:
"Andy Warhol was an extraordinary painter but what made him great...
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RUSSIA: 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF KALASHNIKOV AK 47 MACHINE GUN
Russian/Nat
Half a century since the first AK-47 machine guns went into production and the world is still firing away.
At the international arms fair this week in Abu-Dhabi, Kalashnikovs will once again be one of Russia's hottest...
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Schiele's painting on display, presser, vox pops
1. Wide exterior of Leopold Museum
2. Mid of display board with image of 'Portrait of Wally' by Egon Schiele
3. Close up of detail of poster reading (English) "Welcome Wally!"
4. People waiting in front of the entrance to the museum,...
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EXCLUSIVE National Sept 11 Memorial Museum prepares to open its doors
1. Tilt up of twisted steel recovered from the World Trade Center following the 11 September 2001 (9/11) attacks
2. Tilt down, "Survivors Staircase" (in centre)
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Daniels, President of 9/11 Memorial &...
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701 artifacts, stolen after fall of Saddam's regime, retrieved
1. Exterior of museum
2. Sign reading (Arabic and English) "Iraq museum"
3. Various of media and officials inside museum looking at artefacts
4. Various of artefacts on display
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Amira Idan, Head of General...
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After an AP investigation revealed flaws in the military surplus system, nearly two dozen F-14s are demolished in the Arizona desert; an effort to prevent those parts from getting into the wrong hands.
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Headline: Tomcats destroyed after AP investigation
Caption: After an AP investigation revealed flaws in the military surplus system, nearly two dozen F-14s are demolished in the Arizona desert; an effort to...
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SYND 26-1-73 68.9 CARAT DIAMOND DISPLAYED AT MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
The uncut "Star Of Sierra Leone" on display at the Museum Of Natural History in New York.
1. ms and zoom out, front of Museum Of Natural History
2. cu Star Of Sierra Leone diamond rotating
3. Questions and answerws, Dr Vincent Manson...
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Reaction to Obama Primaries victory from around US
Washington, D.C.
1. Wide of exterior of the Newseum (museum of news)
2. Man reading headlines outside Newseum
3. Zoom-in to Journal Sentinel's cover with headline reading (English) "Obama's In."
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Natasha Davis,...
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Argentina marks 10 years since worst economic crisis in its history
December 20, 2011
1. Wide of demonstrators in street marking 10th anniversary of Argentina's economic crisis
2. Mid of demonstrators brandishing sticks, smoke billowing from tyres burning in background
3. Wide of demonstration, people...