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German director for British Museum

For the first time since the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign, a non-Briton has been tapped as director of the British Museum. He’s Hartwig Fischer, director the Dresden’s City Art Collections. Ironically, the man he will replace is moving to Berlin…

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Spy museum opens in Berlin, espionage capital

With a long history of spy-versus-spy in the Cold War, and all sorts of espionage intrigue both before and since, it seems only fitting that Berlin should have a museum of espionage, and now it does, with the opening of Spy Museum Berlin tomorrow….

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More Art under Your Feet

In a previous  BLOG , we took a look at some of the world’s most popular art, and in a form you’ll not often find in museums, but can be found nearly everywhere: manhole covers.

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Lufthansa strike Day 2: 1000 cancellations

Lufthansa’s pilots, who struck intercontinental flights yesterday, have extended their strike for a second day. As a result, Lufthansa has cancelled over 1000 short and medium-haul flights affecting 140,000 passengers.   The strike, which is the…

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German director for British Museum

For the first time since the middle of Queen Victoria’s reign, a non-Briton has been tapped as director of the British Museum. He’s Hartwig Fischer, director the Dresden’s City Art Collections. Ironically, the man he will replace is moving to Berlin…

Read More

Spy museum opens in Berlin, espionage capital

With a long history of spy-versus-spy in the Cold War, and all sorts of espionage intrigue both before and since, it seems only fitting that Berlin should have a museum of espionage, and now it does, with the opening of Spy Museum Berlin tomorrow….

Read More

More Art under Your Feet

In a previous  BLOG , we took a look at some of the world’s most popular art, and in a form you’ll not often find in museums, but can be found nearly everywhere: manhole covers.

Read More

Lufthansa strike Day 2: 1000 cancellations

Lufthansa’s pilots, who struck intercontinental flights yesterday, have extended their strike for a second day. As a result, Lufthansa has cancelled over 1000 short and medium-haul flights affecting 140,000 passengers.   The strike, which is the…

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