museums
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Google Unveils Digital Catalogue Of Lost Artifacts From Brazil’s Fire-Ravaged National Museum
Following a catastrophic fire in September that destroyed millions of priceless items at the National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro, Google has unveiled a project that preserved some of those precious artifacts and can now be explored through Google Street View.
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Flames Engulf Brazil’s National Museum, Destroying Massive Cultural And Scientific Collection
Eleven thousand years’ worth of artefacts went up in smoke as the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro — one of the largest collections in the Americas — burned down in a massive firestorm on Sunday night local time.
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This Space Museum In Central Kansas Is Worth The 20 Hour Drive
Hutchinson, Kansas isn’t the kind of place you’d wind up if you weren’t looking to. The placid prairie town sits a solid hour’s drive south of I-70, the interstate that most travellers use to blow across 684km of Kansas cornfield and cattle pasture as quickly as possible. But as soon as I entered the silver-roofed…
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Avatar Continues Its Return To Public Consciousness With A Giant Museum Exhibit
The better part of a decade has passed since audiences last visited the world of James Cameron’s Avatar. Now, with a new set of films coming, the franchise has slowly begun to return to the mainstream. There’s a Cirque du Soleil show touring, a Disney theme park coming soon and they have just announced an…