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Slovenian researchers have helped the Museum of London analyse the composition of a huge baby Donald Trump blimp as part of the museum's efforts to preserve the work and exhibit it in its protest collection.

New legislation put to public consultation on Saturday seeks to wean five of Greece's top state museums, including the archaeological museums of Athens and Thessaloniki, from the Culture Ministry, giving them more freedom - and responsibility.

Ground-breaking museum gives minorities dispensing with old ideas of interpretation to give members of minorities 'a voice that is rarely heard in public spaces'.

With Asian visitors still largely absent, major Paris museums struggled to regain pre-pandemic numbers in 2022, despite a huge recovery from the previous year, official figures showed on Jan. 5.

The Louvre, the world's most visited museum, welcomed 7.8 million people last year, a 170-percent increase on 2021, but still down 19 percent on 2019.

The number of museums in Türkiye has increased by 5.1 percent in 2021, compared to 2020, and the number of visitors to the museums and ruins has skyrocketed by 69 percent in a year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) has announced.

In a report named "Cultural Heritage 2021" issued on Sept. 7, TÜİK declared that the number of museums in the country has reached 519.

Italy has been so successful in recovering ancient artworks and artifacts that were illegally exported from the country it has created a museum for them.

The Museum of Islamic Civilizations, which opened last week in the Büyük Çamlıca Mosque Complex, draws great interest from visitors with its exceptional artworks that shed light on the development of Islamic art.

The findings unearthed in the Aşağıpınar archeological excavations in the northwestern province of Kırklareli will be passed down to future generations in an open-air time tunnel on the site.

Started in 1993, the studies on the site revealed the traces of the region's oldest farming communities which brought agriculture and village settlement from Anatolia to Thrace.

Los Angeles is finally getting a museum for movies - and it's about time, said Tom Hanks, as he welcomed journalists to a special pre-opening event on Sept. 21.

Troy Museum in the northwestern province of Çanakkale has been deemed worthy of the European Museum Academy Special Award.

The Culture and Tourism Ministry said in a statement on Sept. 19 that the museum also received the 2020 European Museum of the Year Special Appreciation Award.