Sri Lanka is now the fourth largest tea exporter in the world, and the country’s tea history is showcased at the Ceylon Tea Museum in town ... embracing Portuguese, Dutch, British and vernacular ...
Exter invested those rubbery dollars not in building factories but in pure consumption! ‘Independence’ was to mimick a white lifestyle, in rupees. Brought in to build up Colombo 7’s fake mansions, ...
In 1990 thieves disguised as police stole 13 artworks from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Their empty frames have been ...
The world’s biggest art heist took place 35 years ago when 13 works of art were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner ...
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 35 years after the theft, restores frames: ‘We’re always hopeful for their return’ ...
Conservators unveiled the completed restoration of the frame that once held Rembrandt's "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of ...
Though it’s interesting to parse what happened on March 18, 1990, when the theft was being perpetrated, what’s really ...
Despite a groundbreaking ten-million-dollar reward, in three and a half decades, none of the stolen art has been recovered.
In the national museum, a display shows the painstaking seven decade-long process to pursue artefacts, starting immediately after Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule in 1949. Over the decades ...
The Verzetsmuseum (the Dutch Resistance Museum), located by the Artis Royal Zoo, has been called the city's best-kept secret by some. The informative – even inspiring – museum tells the ...
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