Kolkata: To preserve Jorasanko Thakurbari, the ancestral house of Rabindranath Tagore in north Kolkata, the West Bengal government is planning to convert it into a museum. While kicking off the bard's week-long 151st birth anniversary celebrations in Kolkata on May 1, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said they were mulling how to convert the mansion, where Tagore was born and spent most of his childhood, into a museum. "This (Tagore's house)...
11:57 PM, May 07, 2012
Chantilly: Space shuttle Discovery soared around the Washington Monument and the White House in a salute to the nation's capital on Tuesday before landing for the last time near its new museum home. The world's most travelled spaceship took off at daybreak from Cape Canaveral, Florida, bolted to the top of a modified jumbo jet for the trip. Three hours later, the pair took a few spins around Washington at...
11:06 PM, Apr 17, 2012
New Delhi: Artworks from the National Museum and the National Gallery of Modern Art would now be accessible at the touch of a keystroke with Culture Ministry today announcing a partnership with Google, that allows people to view art and stroll through museums across the world, online. The two art institutions have joined Google's Art Project that features over 30,000 artworks in gigapixel super high resolution with street view images...
06:08 PM, Apr 10, 2012
HYDERABAD: The AP Biodiversity Board (APBB) has come up with a plan to set up an international level biodiversity museum and park in Hyderabad within the next five months. Confirming the move, APBB Chairman Dr R Hampaiah said it was being planned as part of the arrangements for the Conference of Parties (CoP-11) slated to be held in the city in October. The APBB had recently sent a report on...
08:13 AM, Apr 02, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Automatic ticket kiosks will be installed at the Museum and Zoo in the city, Museums and Zoos Minister P K Jayalakshmi told the Assembly in a written reply on Wednesday.The Department of Museums and Zoos has contacted C-DIT for the purpose and an estimate of Rs 38.85 lakh submitted, she said in reply to a question by V D Satheesan, Benny Behanan, Anvar Sadath and A T George.SUMMER WOESThe...
09:01 AM, Mar 22, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: A geological museum and marine museum on Kariavattom campus and a Centre for Student Placement on Palayam University campus, apart from a big-time plan to promote academic tourism, are some of the many proposals the district gains from the Kerala University budget for 2012-13 presented at the Senate meeting on Wednesday.The budget presented by Syndicate member B S Jyotikumar has set aside Rs one crore each to set up...
08:36 AM, Mar 15, 2012
Vienna: Indian filmmaker Mani Ratnam's 'Raavanan' is now part of the permanent collection at the Austrian Film Museum, which has so far only 15 Indian films in its list. Alexander Horwath, director of the museum, was trying to get a copy of 'Raavanan' ever since he saw it at the Venice Film Festival where Ratnam received the Glory to the Filmmaker Award in 2010. "It was a glorious evening and...
08:41 PM, Mar 02, 2012
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: If you want to visit the Napier Museum and Zoo, spare some time in the morning, before high noon. That was the advice a tourist from Latvia who returned after a walk in the Zoo gave to a group of foreigners who were assembled outside the exit gate.The Latvian citizen, like scores of other tourists, was simmering with rage over the absence of the provision for drinking water on...
08:57 AM, Feb 27, 2012
HYDERABAD: The Andhra Pradesh Archeological museum at the premises of the Directorate, Archaeology and Museums, Gunfoundry, is set to open by the end of March 2012.The museum which has been closed for over a year-and-a-half due to restoration activities is expected to open soon unless the department fails to achieve its target.Once opened for public in January 2009, the museum building was later closed down in November 2011.The state of...
07:52 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Curators at the Prado Museum in Madrid have unveiled a copy of the Mona Lisa which was apparently painted at exactly the same time by a student, just feet away from da Vinci. ...
09:40 AM, Feb 22, 2012
From his custom red military jacket to a copy of 'Beat It' in Jackson's own handwriting, the Grammy museum in Los Angeles houses it all. ...
08:16 AM, Feb 13, 2012
Scientists believe the pulsar clock is more accurate than the modern atomic clock because the signal source comes from the most accurate source by pulsars - neutron stars. ...
02:53 PM, Nov 28, 2011
Mumbai: Although her recent film 'RA.One' released on Wednesday, Kareena Kapoor had lots to celebrate the next day. The actress is proud to share space with the who's who at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in London. Interestingly, Bebo's wax replica sports her look from 'Jab We Met' as against the much talked about 'size zero' from 'Tashan'. "I didn't want a western look. An Indian look would stand out better....
12:21 PM, Oct 30, 2011
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