France Is Trying Free Museum Admission
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France is proceeding with an experiment in free admission at 18 national museums in an effort to entice more French to visit them, Reuters reported.
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France's biggest fashion group presented plans on Monday for a futuristic museum built out of glass to promote the heritage of its brands, promising the new Paris landmark would be a celebration of creativity.
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The $263 million Musee du Quai Branly , which builders are racing to complete for its February 2006 opening, is President Jacques Chirac's pet project.
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The Arc de Triomphe in Paris reintroduced its museum, right, with a new permanent exhibition highlighting the history of the site. More than $1.45 million was spent to clean and refurbish the museum in the first major makeover since it opened, in 1929, Jean-Paul Ciret, director of cultural development for Franceâs national monuments, said in a telephone interview. âThe arc is the most symbolic monument of France, like the Eiffel Tower is a symbol of Paris,â he said. The exhibition, officially inaugurated by culture officials on Monday, includes video images showing famous arches throughout Europe and details of the monumentâs frieze. The arch, which opened in 1836, was visited by 1.3 million people last year, more than 80 percent of them foreigners.
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Politics: 7 October 2004, Thursday. A Bulgarian culture and information center will be opened in Paris by the prime minister, who is currently on a visit in the French capital.
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Fifty impressionist masterpieces by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and other French artists are headed for China for a unprecedented three-city, six-month tour due to begin next month.
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France's culture minister will approve the construction of an annex to the Louvre Museum in Abu Dhabi, his office said Saturday, despite criticism in art circles that the government is playing loose with France's artistic treasures.
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A Paris-based rights group Monday called on visiting French President Jacques Chirac to help seek the release of a jailed Chinese journalist and cyber dissident during his visit to the city of Shanghai.
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French officials on Friday inaugurated a museum that gives visitors a close-up glimpse of a network of tunnels where Allied forces hid as they prepared to attack German lines during World War I.
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One of France's most lavish museum   restorations, the 35 million euro ($44.4 million) overhaul of   the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, comes to fruition on Friday when   the Paris collection reopens after a decade of work.
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Visits to Swedenâs national museums dropped nearly 20 percent last year after they ended their free admissions policy, Agence France-Presse reported. The culture ministry said that Swedenâs 19 national museums, 16 of them in Stockholm, recorded some 6.5 million visits in 2007, down from around 8.0 million a year earlier. The decline came after Swedenâs government pushed through new admission fees to the museums starting on Jan. 1, 2007, two years after the previous government had removed the fees.
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France's storied Louvre museum, home to priceless art works like the Mona Lisa, said Tuesday it will open a new Louvre in this Persian Gulf boomtown, prompting outcries from some who accuse the museum of ...Comment
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An immigration bill, expected to pass, requires knowledge of French and proof of support.
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France and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement Tuesday to open a branch of the Louvre museum in Abu Dhabi, despite criticism that the French government is peddling the country's artistic treasures.
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French authorities plan to boost security in museums and churches across the country after a spate of art thefts, the culture ministry said on Thursday.
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England's museums and galleries should give people access to more artworks, the government says.
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It's summer in Paris and the French capital is preparing to offer bikes for anyone who wants to take a ride.