"Night at the Museum in Moscow held a half a million people
In action "Night at the Museum" held the night of 15 to 16 May, just in Moscow attended by 550 thousand, wrote, on Monday 17 May, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" referring to the Head of the museum and the exhibition of the Department of Culture Anton Goryanova.
The official added that in 2010 the action "Night at the Museum", in contrast to last year, did not participate casual visitors. Gorianov recalled that last year's event coincided with the final of Eurovision in Moscow, and, according to him, then went to the museums for more impressions "pop fans.
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Half of Moscow museums refused to let visitors at night
135 of 257 museums and cultural heritage sites located in Moscow, refused to let to him on the night from 15 to 16 May, when there is action "Night at the Museum. Write about this "new news.
Head of the Department of Historical Heritage in the Department of Culture of Moscow Natalia Efimova reported that most were refused departmental museums, which is situated on sensitive sites, depending on the time of their departments and can not be opened at night. " For example, the Railway Museum, located in the depot.
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In addition, failures linked to the fact that in the past departmental and university museums could not cope with the influx of visitors. Thus, the Museum of Art of Cookery in 2009, was unable to treat all guests. The Museum of wood stated that demonstrate respect for nature in a crowded room did not succeed.
Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin refused to attend the 'Night at the Museum "for the exhibition of works by Picasso. Under the contract with Paris museum artist, GMII should renounce such acts for the sake of preservation work. Why is the night visitors will not be let in other buildings GMII - Department of personal collections and the Art Gallery of Western Europe and America - are not reported. Will not work and the Museum of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.
In the museum night in Moscow will be put three free bus routes. The first will be held on the inner side of the Garden Ring. Second from the metro station "Park Kultury" go to the museum-panorama "Borodino battle", the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War Museum of the defense of Moscow and Darwin muzeyu.Trety route linking Tsaritsyno, Kolomna, Lublin, Blachernae-Kuzminki and Kuskovo.
"Night at the Museum" in Moscow first took place in 2007. In 2009 the event was attended by 120 museums and 600 thousand visitors. Among the institutions that open their doors at night this time - the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Archaeology, History Museum, Central Museum of Old Russian culture and art of the Andrei Rublev Museum of the Gulag, the Memorial Museum of Space, Pushkin Memorial Apartment on the Arbat, the State Museum of Architecture named Shchusev , National Center for Contemporary Art.
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Scientists are very close to finding the remains of Caravaggio
Italian scientists are searching for graves of the artist Caravaggio and said that were poised to identify the remains, reports the Associated Press.
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According to head a team of researchers Vincent Silvano (Silvano Vinceti), among all sets of human bones exhumed, only one may be the remains of the artist. Radiocarbon dating showed that the remains belonged to men aged 37 to 45 years, who died about the same time, when, and Caravaggio. Painter at the time of death was nearly 39 years. The exhumation was carried out in the Tuscan town of Porto Ercole (Porto Ercole), where the artist died.
In the bones was discovered high levels of lead and other metals that may be associated with painting.
Nevertheless, the results are inconclusive. To determine whether the remains belong to Caravaggio, the scientists will conduct DNA testing, their results will be announced in the next two weeks. Previously, researchers took DNA samples from fellow artist, are likely to be his descendants.
Caravaggio died in 1610, remains to this day is officially considered to be unfound. Causes of death is also not known for certain: among versions - fever, syphilis, murder.
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In Germany, dismantled sculpture naked Pope
The authorities of the German city of Konstanz on Lake Constance dismantled installed at the city railway station statue of a naked Pope by the sculptor Peter Lenk (Peter Lenk), said the Swiss NZZ-Online.
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The figure of a nude pontiff height of two meters and weighing 700 pounds is a fragment of another famous sculpture Lenka "Empire", which in 1993 was installed at the entrance to the city's harbor of Constanta.
Made of concrete "Empire" 9 meters high and weighing 18 tons is a figure of medieval whore with their hands. The hands she perched two naked men: one in the imperial crown, the other in the papal tiara.
The first male figure depicts the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire Sigismund, second - Pope Martin V. All the sculpture "Imperia" refers to Honore de Balzac's short story "The Beauty of Empires", which tells how a courtesan by the name of the Empire, taking advantage of the passions and weaknesses of the Catholic clergy was able to influence decisions XVI Ecumenical Council of Constance.
Commenting on the decision of the tourist bureau of Constanta, on the territory of which was equipped with a separate figure of a naked Pope, the sculptor Peter Lenk explained its adoption of the provincial local officials. Moreover, in his opinion, the Bureau could exert pressure from the conservatives of the Christian Democratic Union and the Catholic Church. They are, according to the sculptor, fear that because of the statue of a naked current pontiff Pope Benedict XVI may cancel his visit to Konstanz, scheduled for 2014, when the deal turns Constance.
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http://www.lenta.ru/news/2010/05/14/papst/