In order to address this issue, UNESCO's Phnom Penh Office, in collaboration with the Cambodian National Commission for UNESCO and the National Museum, is organising a workshop for Cambodian Memory of the World focal points.

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The building has served as a museum for the past 77 years and, prior to that, was a religious centre for Istanbul and the wider world for more than 1, 400 years.

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Mr MacGregor argues that they have belonged to a unique collection for more than 200 years, in a museum that attracts more visitors than any other in the world, rather than just to one nation's history.

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The New York office was opened when the firm won the competition for a building for two of the cultural institutions originally designated for inclusion on the World Trade Center site, the Freedom Museum and the Drawing Center.

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If the thought of drugs and violence makes you want to drink away the world's troubles, there is of course a museum for that too.

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And if a Hebborn forgery should merit museum standing, then there was one more drawing in the world for people to relish.

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For a few precious frost-nipped weeks, these museum-piece cities of Olde World Europe flicker back to the Middle Ages -- not the ossified medieval throwbacks of soot-blackened cathedrals and tourist-bedeviled museums, but the living, breathing yesteryear of a bustling outdoor marketplace.

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