They also visited museums and art galleries, attended orchestral concerts, and listened to guest lecturers.

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The group visited museums, studied the architecture and made sketches of the landscape, even the foliage.

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One of the world's most visited museums, the Louvre in Paris, did not open on Wednesday because of a protest by staff over pickpockets.

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The works (120 in all) have been assembled from a range of museums in Germany, France, the Czech Republic, Russia and the U.K. and it's likely that, even had we visited those museums, these items would easily have been overlooked.

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