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Egypt’s tourism and antiquities minister on Tuesday inaugurated two museums inside Cairo International Airport in observance of International Museum Day, celebrated annually on May 18.
The new museums are inside Terminals 2 and 3 and will hold artefacts to give travellers a “glimpse of Egypt’s treasures”, said an official Tourism Ministry announcement released on Facebook on Tuesday.
The artefacts were chosen to represent the Egypt s various civilisational eras including the Pharaonic, Greco-Roman, Coptic and Islamic periods.
Most of the pieces were in storage at the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square, the Suez Museum and Alexandria’s Greco-Roman Museum, said Prof Moamen Othman, head of the ministry’s museums department.
People experience cultural relic restoration craft at Sichuan Museum
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A craftsman of cultural relics restores a painting in Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, May 18. (Photo: China News Service/An Yuan)
May 18 is the 45th International Museum Day. The theme of this year s International Museum Day is The Future of Museums: Restoration and Remodeling . People experienced how ceramics and paintings were restored in Sichuan Museum.
A craftsman restores the cultural relics in Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, May 18. (Photo: China News Service/An Yuan)
A cultural relic craftsman restores ceramics in Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, May 18. (Photo: China News Service/An Yuan)
Visitors watch the process of painting restoration at the Cultural Relics Protection Science and Technology Center in Sichuan Museum, Chengdu, Sichuan, May 18. (Photo: China News Service/An Yuan)
2021-05-19 09:26 By: Xinhua
Tourists take photos of models of the Humble Administrator s Garden at Suzhou Garden Museum in Suzhou, east China s Jiangsu province, May 18, 2021. The International Museum Day is celebrated on May 18 every year. The theme this year is The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine. (Photo by Hang Xingwei/Xinhua)
ATHENS, May 18 (Xinhua) Greece celebrated International Museum Day on Tuesday by opening the doors of its museums nationwide to the public free of charge, in
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