International Prize “Marche d’Acqua” Fabriano Watercolour 2012

The city of Fabriano has announced its second edition of the ‘International Prize “Marche d’Acqua” Fabriano Watercolour 2012’ an event that the Tourism Councillorship of the Municipality of Fabriano will open on June 2nd 2012, at the Paper and Watermark Museum. The museum is the ideal site to hold the Italian 2nd International Prize dedicated [...]

Publishers as Curators: A New Model for Doing Business Online — HBS Working Knowledge

See on Scoop.it – Online Business Models Robin Good: If you are looking for an alternative way to look at how your online publishing business could thrive in the future, you may want to take into consideration your local art museum. At east, this is what Assistant Professor Ray Weaver suggests.   Here’s why:   [...]

Touch faces, bodies, gestures, expressions, discover volumes and perspective with your own hands

The Museo Tattile Statale Omero was created to fill this gap in the range of cultural services for the non-sighted, and also to offer an innovative space where artistic perception passes through multi-sense, and not just visual, stimuli. Touching art, an unthinkable aim until very recently. Touching art is not only for those who can’t exploit [...]

Jesi and its secret rural “museum”

In a small café of Jesi, very oldfashioned, rustic, some would say even ugly.. if you go across the first room, you will find a real museum. A museum on how farmers lived in the early 20th century and even earlier. In fact, it’s not really a museum, it’s supposed to be a wine drinking [...]

Carlo Crivelli – Annunciation with St Emidius – for the – Masterpieces from museums of the world in the Hermitage

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On February 14th, 2012, the State Hermitage Museum was home to the opening of a new exhibit from the collection of the National Gallery, London, entitled the Annunciation with St. Emidius, which continues the series of exhibits entitled Masterpieces from the World’s Museums in the Hermitage.The Annunciation with St. Emidius, the most famous work by [...]

The Louvre Museum, a must see attraction in Paris

Ensconced inside the heart of Paris near the Seine, the Louvre is a museum that was originally a palace, which was inhabited by French monarchs. Right after the incarceration of Louis XVI, the artifacts in the Louvre that belonged to the royal family, became a residence of France. The palace became a repository from the [...]