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A museum is an institution collects and conserves artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance and makes them available for public viewing.

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DW euromaxx La Cite du Vin

A new wine museum in Bordeaux

A new wine museum and exhibition hall, the Cité du Vin, has just opened in Bordeaux.
June 2, 2016
Italien Architektur-Biennale Deutscher Pavillion in Venedig

German Pavilion: New concepts for refugees

The exhibition "Making Heimat" at the German Pavilion looks at the ideal arrival place for refugees.
May 30, 2016

Lord of the flies: Insect photography by Levon Biss

A British photographer provides detailed close-ups of the otherwise unseen beauty of tiny insects.
Nature and EnvironmentMay 29, 201604:42 min
AKW Zwentendorf Blockwarte im Design von 1970

Nuclear power plant becomes a museum

The Zwentendorf nuclear power plant in Austria is now a museum.
ScienceMay 24, 201604:14 min
A man walks past closed shutters of stalls decorated with graffiti portraits of Israeli scientist Ada Yonath (C) and German-born Jewish theoretical physicist Albert Einstein (R) by British-born painter and street artist Solomon Souza at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, Israel, 02 March 2016.

Pulse: Arts and identity

How do you express your identity?
SocietyMay 24, 201630:00 min
Bonn Bad Godesberg Prügelattacke auf 17. Jährigen

WorldLink: Escalation

The German teenager who was beaten to death on the street because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
May 20, 201655:00 min
Westjordanland Birzeit Palästinensisches Museum

WorldLink: Ramallah's empty museum

An ambitious project opened in the West Bank this week. The state-of-the-art museum came with a 30 million-euro price tag. Billed to showcase Palestinian culture and history – it now stands empty. We went the Ramallah to investigate the controversial decision to open a museum without exhibits.
May 20, 201606:15 min
DW Euromaxx Niki de Saint Phalle

Niki de Saint-Phalle exhibition at the Sprengel Museum

In 2000 the Franco-American artist donated over 400 of her works to the Hannover museum.
May 19, 2016
Circus Roncalli Gründer Bernhard Paul

Circus Roncalli's Bernhard Paul: Collecting circus history

Circus director Bernhard Paul fulfilled his dream of starting a circus 40 years ago. Now he is planning a circus museum.
May 18, 201612 images
Deutschland Car-to-go an der East Side Gallery in Berlin

Memorial Sites: Cold War and Berlin Wall

Historically significant sites, from the East Side Gallery, to the Wall Museum, to Checkpoint Charlie.
May 18, 2016
Palestinian Museum in Birzeit, West Bank, Copyright: Heneghan Peng Architects

How the new Palestinian Museum aims to be transnational

As the new Palestinian Museum opens on May 18, Omar al-Qattan tells DW how it aims to overcome boundaries.
May 18, 2016
Paris Ausstellung im Musée national de l'histoire de l'immigration

Reliving refugees' odysseys

An exhibition in Paris wants to give visitors a firsthand experience of the odyssey undertaken by many refugees.
May 16, 2016
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Moscow gulag museum examines Stalin terror

Can Moscow's gulag museum help Russians in the age of Putin come to term with their troubled past?
EducationMay 13, 201602:50 min
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko with the recovered art works

Ukraine finds artworks stolen in Italy art heist

Ukraine has recovered 17 artworks from a Verona museum, apparently stolen to order for a Chechen collector last year.
May 11, 2016
Finnland ESC 2007 Verka Serduchka, Copyright: picture-alliance/dpa/Lehtikuva/H. Saukkomaa

Eurovision exhibition in the ABBA Museum

In Stockholm, "Good Evening Europe" showcases outfits worn by Eurovision Song Contest winners.
May 9, 2016
Schweden Ausstellung Good Evening Europe im ABBA-Museum in Stockholm

Eurovision exhibition in the ABBA Museum goes down memory lane

Eurovision exhibition in the ABBA Museum
MusicMay 9, 20166 images
Museum Folkwang Ausstellung Thomas Struth

Thomas Struth’s world of photography

Thomas Struth photographs places that reflect the Western world’s belief in progress.
May 9, 2016
Ausstellung der Feuerle-Sammlung im Museumsbunker Berlin

"The Feuerle Collection" - a new private museum in Berlin

Art collector Désiré Feuerle has opened a new private museum in a former Berlin bunker.
May 6, 2016

WorldLink

On this week's show: A closer look at the rise in hyper-nationalism in India. We hear from student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and DW's Isha Bhatia about what the trend means for freedom of speech and minorities. Plus, Iraq's persecuted Yazidis find refuge in Georgia, musings from German poet Julia Trompeter, and the quirky museum giving a home to relics of love lost.
May 6, 201654:59 min

Museum of broken dreams

The broken hearted often hang on to the physical reminders of love lost - from photos and love letters, to an old T-shirt or movie ticket. These remnants, and the often private stories behind them, will soon be on show at the new Museum of Broken Relationships in Los Angeles.
May 6, 201606:21 min
Deutschland Gerhard Richter Ausstellung in Baden-Baden

Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau works

Gerhard Richter revisits the horrors of the Holocaust with his “Birkenau” paintings.
May 2, 2016
The renovated rotunda at the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Copyright: picture-alliance/dpa/L. Schulze

Hamburg's Kunsthalle reopens after renovations

Hamburg's world-renowned Kunsthalle, one of Germany's most important art museums, reopens on April 30.
April 29, 2016
VW Logo in Wolfsburg, Copyright: Rainer Jensen/dpa

New exhibition presents Wolfsburg as a 'global lab'

Wolfsburg and its car industry have become the subject of a new exhibition.
April 28, 2016
Francois Pinault, Copyright: Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images

New Paris museum to house one of world's top art collections

One of the largest private art collections in the world is going to be housed at a new Paris location.
April 27, 2016
Picture shows smoke rising from India's Natural History musem

New Delhi fire razes top Indian museum

An overnight fire at India's National Museum of Natural History has destroyed many rare specimens and exhibits.
April 26, 2016
Logo Euromaxx - Lifestyle Europe (Credit: DW)

Euromaxx - Highlights of the week

Underwear through the ages at London’s V&A, an innovative house in Vienna and streaming services.
April 25, 2016
DW Euromaxx Geschichte der Unterwäsche

Underwear through the ages

An unusual fashion show opens in London.
CultureApril 24, 201605:33 min
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Euromaxx - Highlights of the Week

Underwear through the ages at London’s V&A, an innovative house in Vienna and streaming services.
CultureApril 24, 201626:04 min
Propaganda stickers from the exhibition Sticky Messages at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, Copyright: Deutsches Historisches Museum

How stickers are used for propaganda

Sticky politics? An exhibition in Berlin shows how stickers have been used for political purposes.
April 21, 2016
Ausstellung "Angezettelt". (Foto: Deutsches Historisches Museum Berlin)

How the Nazis used stickers to spread propaganda

An exhibition in the German Historical Museum scrutinizes racist stickers.
CultureApril 21, 20167 images
Art by Momo at the MIMA Copyright: DW/D. Pundy

More than just terror: Molenbeek opens a new art museum

The Brussels district of Molenbeek is a notorious Islamist stronghold, but less is known about its vibrant art scene.
April 20, 2016
Lemur leaf frog (Photo: imago/imagebroker)

One girl's bid to save the frogs

A 10-year-old girl is hopping mad about the state of the world’s frogs - and is doing her bit to save them.
April 19, 201606:57 min
Charlie Chaplin in 'City Lights,' 1931, Copyright: AP

Charlie Chaplin museum opens in Switzerland

He shook up the silent film world as the tramp and was banned from the US. Now Charlie Chaplin is getting a museum.
April 18, 2016
Bar in Israel. Copyright: Jüdisches Museum München/Y. Gawze

Why Jews replaced wine with beer in Bavaria

When Bavaria introduced its Beer Purity Law 500 years ago, Jews had long developed their own brewing tradition.
April 13, 2016
Two faces on a painting from the late works of Emil Nolde. (Picture: NDR)

Emil Nolde's late works

The Nolde-Museum in North Frisia is showing the late works of the famous Expressionist.
April 12, 2016
Koto family, shown in 2006 in Aleppo, Copyright: Sammlung Deutsches Auswandererhaus

Museum shares Syrian family's trek to Germany

The German Emigration Center tells stories of refugees from all over the world, including a Syrian family in Germany.
April 6, 2016
Symbolic image of a museum, Copyright: Colourbox/A. Mijatovic

#MuseumWeek brings digital exposure to culture

Hundreds of cultural and arts institutions around the world are tweeting about their treasures this week.
March 29, 2016
A Cambodian woman places a garland around a 10th-century sandstone sculpture of the Hindu god Rama after it was returned from the Denver Art Museum

US museum returns plundered statue to Cambodia

A 10th-century sculpture of a Hindu god has been returned to Cambodia decades after it was looted from a temple.
March 28, 2016
Polen Merkowa Ulma Familien Museum

Poland examines its WW2 history narrative

Some charge that the Polish government stresses heroic deeds committed by Poles, while ignoring their wrongdoings.
March 20, 2016
Illustration Weltraum-Touristen

Traveling around the world through artists' eyes

"We're Off Then" is the theme of an exhibition at Berlin's Museum of Prints and Drawings.
March 18, 201610 images
Memorial Wall with names of Poles who saved Jews during WWII

New Holocaust museum opens in Poland

Poland has opened its first museum devoted to Poles who helped Jews during the war.
March 17, 2016
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Hitler's art dealer

Hildebrand Gurlitt was part Jewish and loved the Modern art the Nazis banned - but still became Hitler's art dealer.
March 15, 2016
Coffee beans in a drum roaster. (Picture: NDR)

All about Coffee

A new museum in Hamburg spills the beans on a favorite brew!
March 10, 2016
Lüttich Neuanfang mit Kultur

Liège gets a fresh start with art

The Belgian city of Liège has left its shoddy small-town image behind and reinvented itself as a cultural metropolis.
CultureMarch 10, 20169 images
Filmproduzent Artur Brauner

Filmmaker Brauner donates works to Jewish Museum

Filmmaker Artur Brauner has donated 21 of his films to the Jewish Museum in Berlin.
March 7, 2016
Deutschland München BMW-Museum

Automotive Museums in Germany

For car lovers, we present a range of excellent museums devoted to the major German automotive brands.
March 7, 2016

The Cranachs in Moscow

A restitution dispute, German-Russian diplomacy, and a milestone Cranach exhibition.
March 7, 2016
01.2012 DW Euromaxx Highlights

Euromaxx - Highlights of the week | 06.03.2016

Europe's largest underwater museum, news from the fashion front, one hit wonders and two museums that focus on football.
March 7, 2016
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Euromaxx - Highlights of the Week

Europe's largest underwater museum, news from the fashion front, one hit wonders and two museums that focus on football.
CultureMarch 6, 201626:00 min

The art of soccer

The TRIAD agency develops designs for football museums.
SportsMarch 6, 201604:42 min