Posts about Museums and Monuments
Information on museums and monuments worth seeing in the Context Travel cities.
This Saturday, Europe will welcome the annual Nuit des Musées with art museums open throughout the night in Paris and several other European cities. For the 8th consecutive year, Paris will celebrate art throughout the night of May 19th as hundreds of museums open, free of charge, for the Nuit des Musées (Night of Museums). The UNESCO sponsored event, held in over 40 European cities, continues to be a great suucess in the City of Light. This year its varied program, includes traditional art exhibits, concerts, family activities, and much more. Read on for our top suggestions:
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May 15th, 2012 under Art, Culture, Museums and Monuments, Paris, Special Events.
If you are lucky enough to visit London, you will probably be paying a visit to all its most important architectural landmarks, pubs, neighborhoods, shops, and of course a few museums. If traveling with kids or teenagers, the traditional art museum might not sound so appealing (to them), but fortunately for the kids, London is packed with extremely strange and fun museums. These unique museums are a great way to discover the more bizarre sides of London’s history, and to make your way to a few neighborhoods you probably wouldn’t have gone to otherwise. Read more »
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April 10th, 2012 under City Life, Family Travel, London, Museums and Monuments, Uncategorized.
Each spring, the tidal basin of Washington, D.C. becomes a veritable sea of pink, the air replete with the sweet scent of cherry blossoms, the pathways busy with awe-filled tourists and Washingtonians alike. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the remarkable gift of 3,000 cherry trees given to the city of Washington from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo. (In the 100 years that have elapsed, the number of trees has grown to approximately 3,750 of 16 varieties.) The symbolic gift of friendship and goodwill marks an important act of cultural diplomacy between the two countries, and the enduring tradition speaks well of the continued amity.
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March 29th, 2012 under City Life, Culture, Museums and Monuments, Special Events, Washington.
Paris is certainly a world capital for museums and exhibitions and this Spring’s line up will not disappoint. From Impressionist masters Edgar Degas and Berthe Morisot to international contemporary superstar Ai Weiwei and from photographer Robert Doisneau, Paris chronicler extraordinaire to quirky filmmaker Tim Burton, there is something for all tastes.
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March 21st, 2012 under Art, Culture, Museums and Monuments, Paris, Special Events, Uncategorized.
It’s been a little more than a month since the newly-reinstalled nineteenth-century French paintings galleries reopened at the National Gallery of Art. All the familiar faces are back – Claude Monet’s Woman With a Parasol – Madame Monet and her Son, Auguste Renoir’s A Girl with a Watering Can, Paul Cézanne’s Boy in a Red Waistcoat – as well as some new acquisitions, dusted-off finds and freshly-treated gems. According to the National Gallery’s Director, these paintings are “among the most prized in the collection,” and a walk through the galleries helps explain why.
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March 20th, 2012 under Art, Museums and Monuments, Special Events, Washington.
Everyone has their favorite season for visiting New York City, but we think the early spring, when the trees and flowers are starting to bud and bloom, and before the heat sets in, is prime time for a weekend trip. If you already have a weekend booked, or are considering a last minute trip, here are some of our top activity picks you won’t want to miss.
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March 15th, 2012 under Architecture, Art, Budget Conscious Travel, City Life, Culture, Family Travel, Food and Wine, History, Museums and Monuments, New York, Special Events, Uncategorized.
On a small plot of land wedged between the southern end of the Bund and a densely packed neighborhood of ramshackle structures—a fantastic remnant of old Shanghai—dozens of construction workers run cranes, pour concrete, and shuttle wheelbarrows frenetically about as they erect yet another skyscraper. Read more »
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February 29th, 2012 under Architecture, City Life, History, Museums and Monuments, Shanghai, Uncategorized.
While millions of visitors flock to tour the Uffizi Galleries or peer at Michelangelo’s David in the Accademia, Florence hosts a wealth of off-beat sites and museums. Whether for the repeat visitor who wants to try something new or a discerning newcomer looking to move away from the pack, here are our top five suggestions of off-beat sites and museums to visit in Florence. Read more »
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February 14th, 2012 under Culture, Florence, Museums and Monuments.
On 17th January one hundred years ago, Captain Robert Falcon Scott and a small team of five naval and army officers and scientists reached the South Pole. The story is well known: how the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had won the race to the Pole to the bitter disappointment of the British expedition; how Scott and his party perished in cruel conditions on their way back to their base camp; the self-sacrifice of Captain Lawrence Oats; the rest of the group’s final days in a blizzard only 11 miles from the depot of provisions that would have saved them. Read more »
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January 16th, 2012 under History, London, Museums and Monuments, Special Events.
The second part of our conversation with art historian Frank Dabell fast forwards to our modern age, the conditions that are now present inside the Sistine Chapel, and how one can get the most out of their visit in what can often be a chaotic environment. Read more »
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December 20th, 2011 under Art, Culture, Museums and Monuments, Rome.
