• The lawsuit, filed in New York City on behalf of former patrons, contends that the world famous museum, which receives six million visitors a year, uses misleading marketing and cashier training to deceive unwary visitors.

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  • Dubai-based construction firm Arabtec announced on Tuesday that it had won the 2.4 billion dirham construction contract for the Middle East outpost of the famous French museum and will begin construction immediately.

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  • "The Eye of the Storm, " his solo exhibition at the Guggenheim in New York in 2005, was notable for the creation of a massive mirrored tower that reinvented the contours of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous serpentine museum.

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  • The Toland-Herzig Famous Endings museum, located within the Toland-Herzig Funeral Home in the town of Dover (about 80 miles south of Cleveland), houses the largest collection of funeral memorabilia in the country, including items from the services of movie stars, sports heroes and US presidents.

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  • Where better to launch the latest effort to blend old media and new than at a spiral-shaped museum famous for turning round and round on itself?

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  • The museum, home to famous works from masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, is the most visited museum in the world with around 10 million visitors last year.

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  • Hush tour or lunch at Queens' Hollis Famous Burgers and Hip Hop Museum (20103 Hollis Avenue).

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  • Only 3 months old, the Grammy Museum goes well beyond the famous music awards.

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  • His likeness, thanks to Holbein's famous portraits in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum and elsewhere, is so well known that it almost qualifies as a brand.

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  • In honour of the birthday celebrations, the Birthplace visitor centre will open a new exhibition, Famous Beyond Words, in March, retelling the story of Shakespeare's development from Stratford local to world famous playwright, using artefacts from the museum's collection (such as the 1623 First Folio, the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays and the only reliable source for more than 20 of his works).

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  • By its literal definition, the Hall would simply be a room filled with famous people, like a wing of the Museum of American History dedicated to the Kardashians.

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  • With good reason, guidebooks extol the virtues of the museums in Mexico's capital, including the world-famous Palacio de Bellas Artes (Fine Arts Museum) and the Museo Nacional de Antropologia (National Anthropology Museum).

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  • Kiki has been an internationally famous artist since her first show at New York's Museum of Modern Art ("Projects 24: Kiki Smith") in the '90s.

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  • Even the Mohenjo Daro museum has been looted, with many of its famous seals (thought to have been used by traders) among the artefacts that were stolen.

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  • He was the driving force behind the rebuild of the famous Colossus computer and one of the founders of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, as well as being a British spy-catcher.

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  • The house is one of the Dali triad that includes the Dali Theatre-Museum in Figueres and the Gala Dali Castle-House Museum in Pubol, but Portlligat is where the famous Surrealist lived from 1930 to 1982 and where he created works like The Madonna of Portlligat.

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  • He participated in the restauration works of the Museum of Louvre and his works were exhibited in several famous art galleries, including Stavanger Kunstforening, Norway (1972), the French Institute of Athens, Greece (1983), the gallery Terra Nova, Switzerland (1997).

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  • This includes the 3, 500-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of the famous Pharaoh Akhenaten, on show at the newly re-opened Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany.

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  • Famous artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and Frida Kahlo do appear in museum shows, but the permanent modern art collections of most major institutions are comprised largely of work by male artists.

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  • There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.

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  • In a famous incident, Galina took a fancy to an antique diamond-studded crown in a museum in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital.

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  • Most people think the famous square, red LOVE statue seen in New York and Philadelphia comes from one of those museum-filled cities.

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  • For years he coveted a shotgun in Harrah's Pony Express Museum in Reno that had belonged to Black Bart, the 19th-century robber famous for leaving poems at the scene of stickups.

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  • Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.

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  • You can hike little-known Central Park trails, wander the grounds uptown at the Cloisters museum in Fort Tryon Park, or even kiss your sweetie in Times Square a la the famous V-J Day photo.

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  • Bob Gwynne, associate curator of rail vehicles at the National Railway Museum in York - where the engine 'Flying Scotsman' is being restored - said the famous train came about because of one forgotten man.

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  • Munch painted four versions of his famous painting between 1893 and 1910, and there are two of the originals on view at the Munch Museum, one at the National Gallery of Norway and one at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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