2021-05-18 23:57:12 GMT2021-05-19 07:57:12(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
Photo taken on May 18, 2021 shows an exterior view of the national museum in Bangui, Central African Republic. Central African Republic celebrated the International Museum Day on Tuesday by reopening the national museum that had been closed for five years after war. (Photo by Andre Ba/Xinhua)
Visitors take selfies with historical pieces at the national museum in Bangui, Central African Republic, on May 18, 2021. Central African Republic celebrated the International Museum Day on Tuesday by reopening the national museum that had been closed for five years after war. (Photo by Andre Ba/Xinhua)
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has renewed calls for the repatriation of all looted Nigerian artefacts, while also commending those countries that have returned such antiquities. In a statement issued in Abuja, yesterday, to mark the 2021 International Museum Day, Mohammed appealed to Nigerians, especially the elite, to join the ongoing campaign to repatriate all looted Nigerian artefacts. He said the campaign for the repatriation of looted artefacts, which was launched by the Federal Government in October 2019, had yielded fruits, with the spate of return of stolen Nigerian antiquities from around the world.
Yakub Kolas poems to be translated into Persian
MINSK, 19 May (BelTA) - Yakub Kolas poems will be translated into Persian for the first time, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Belarus Saeed Yari told BelTA on the sidelines of a ceremony to launch the literary exhibition Yakub Kolas and Omar Khayyam: life wisdom in the word of poetry” in Minsk on 18 May.
The exhibition opened at the Yakub Kolas State Literary and Memorial Museum on the International Museum Day. Ambassador Saeed Yari believes that the legacy of Yakub Kolas and Omar Khayyam belongs to the world and urged to popularize it more. He also spoke about the idea to translate the works of the Belarusian classical poet into Persian so that Iran learn more about his art.
CAIRO: Egypt on Tuesday inaugurated two new museums in two terminals of the Cairo International Airport. “On the occasion of International Museum Day, which falls on May 18 every year, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Ministry of Civil Aviation have inaugurated two new museums at the Cairo International airport,” said Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Khaled
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