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World’s first Snoopy Museum opens in Tokyo

​It is the first official “satellite” museum of the original Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California, and will display over one hundred artworks of the late American cartoonist Charles M. Schulz.

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Palace Museum sees souvenir sales boom

Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, announced on Wednesday that its sales of souvenirs in 2015 surpassed 1 billion yuan ($154 million).

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Palace Museum sees souvenir sales boom

Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, announced on Wednesday that its sales of souvenirs in 2015 surpassed 1 billion yuan ($154 million).

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Taiwan's first comfort women museum moves closer to opening

Taipei, March 8 (CNA) The plaque of the first museum dedicated to Taiwanese "comfort women," who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II, was unveiled Tuesday, International Women's Day.

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Egypt to pull down Mubarak's ruling building in Tahrir after 4 years of his ouster

​In the heart of the Egyptian capital city Cairo, adjacent to the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, near a large hotel and the newly-established underground Tahrir Garage, and a little distant from the Nile River bank at the Corniche Street, here lies a damaged 15-storey building with deteriorating structure and black traces of burning.

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Selfie sticks on way to being banned

China's major museums are ready to say no to "selfie sticks", but are still considering whether to close their doors completely to the world's newest camera accessory.

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Nepal to set up first museum on communist movement

​Nepal will get its first museum on its communist movement in the near future, a senior communist leader told Xinhua here in Kathmandu on Wednesday.

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Nepal's first aircraft museum to boost tourism in far west region

​The opening of Nepal's first aircraft museum in Dhangadi in the far western part of the country, some 500 km from Kathmandu, has attracted local and foreign tourists to the much-neglected region.

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Nanjing Massacre museum to be renovated for first memorial day

China's Nanjing Massacre museum will be temporarily closed for maintenance and renovation, the museum announced Saturday.

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Construction begins on China's national maritime museum

Work began on China's national maritime museum on Tuesday in the northern port city of Tianjin.

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Concert raises funds for Maria Callas Museum-Opera Academy

Greece pays tribute to the great late Greek-American soprano Maria Callas with the establishment of a Museum-Opera Academy dedicated to her and her work scheduled to open in 2015, according to the Association for the Maria Callas House.

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A look at Nepal's past through Kathmandu museum

Nepal is considered as one of the fastest urbanizing countries in South Asia and the museum, which officially opened its doors this week, encourages visitors to think about the idea of cities, shared spaces and the process of urban development.

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British Museum to hold exhibition on Vikings

The British Museum will hold an exhibition on Vikings on Thursday, displaying discoveries and objects of the pirates from northern European 1,000 years ago, museum authorities said Tuesday.

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China's Forbidden City implements Monday closure

The Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, in central Beijing will be closed to the public every Monday for renovation and maintenance starting on Jan. 6, it announced Sunday.