An online virtual museum, also showing the above mentioned artefacts, will be developed to highlight these cultural exchanges for those who cannot visit the museums.

UNESCO: CULTURE

Gone are the days when tourists might visit Egypt's museums and pyramids and ignore the country's political turmoil.

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It is be a fitting way to end your whirlwind visit through the city's niche museums -- from the kitsch to the killer.

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After you've recovered from the night before you'll want to visit some of London's fantastic museums, most of which offer free admission.

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On an average day, more than 500, 000 people visit museums, with attendance rising to 885, 000 on weekends and holidays, according to the National Endowment for Arts (NEA).

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Every place you visit, from the gardens one several times the size of Central Park to the museums (the Prado and the Thyssen-Bornemisza have some of the world's most impressive court portraiture collections), you can practically hear the whispers of kings and queens long gone.

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When she decided that my visit, not having included any museums, was short on cultural content, she took me to the Palacio del Gobierno and showed me a three-hundred-kilo tlayuda made of real masa and covered with, instead of beans and meat, depictions of life in Oaxaca.

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