Museum

Exterior of the Museum of the City of New York, with a promotion for the "City of Faith" exhibition currently on display, New York, Dec. 1, 2022.

Museum exhibit highlights New York’s sacred spaces

Lifestyle & Belief

The “City of Faith” museum exhibit looks at the New York City’s religious roots and immigrant experience, with a special focus on the South Asian community after 9/11. Curator Azra Dawood tells The World what inspired her and why such a discussion is important.

A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card

Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.

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Kunsthalle Osnabrück co-director Anna Jehle sits near colorful stained-glass windows inside a church.

The perplexing acoustics of an art show in northwest Germany

Arts, Culture & Media
A plate of pasta with green sauces

This artist wants you to take a bite out of art history

Food
Fred Wilson

Fred Wilson uses the museum as his palette

Arts
Hadi Jasim was an Iraqi translator for the US military. Now he's a "global guide" at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.

This Philadelphia museum hired Iraqi and Syrian refugees as tour guides for its Middle East gallery

Arts, Culture & Media

Refugees from Syria and Iraq help visitors at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology make connections between history and the present day.

Thelma Golden, art curator and director of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Thelma Golden pushes the museum world on behalf of African-American art

Arts

African-American art has been shepherded into the mainstream by just a handful of key figures. Thelma Golden is one of them.

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Massive Art Museum for the Price of a Subway Ticket

Arts, Culture & Media

The answer to the Geo Quiz is a place often described as the longest and largest art museum in the world. More than 90 public spaces transformed into galleries span over 70 miles of this Scandinavian city. Where is this museum?

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‘A Dialogue With Time’: An Exhibit About What is Feels Like to Get Old

Lifestyle & Belief

An Israeli children’s museum has opened what the world’s first museum exhibit simulating what it is like to get old.

New Exhibit Explores How We Talk to Objects

Whether you know it or not, you speak with objects every day.  You put the coffee machine on and tell it to make the beverage you want, your cell phone rings and it lets you who’s calling and you treat your computer as a gateway to the online world.  Essentially, you are interacting and communicating with the […]