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Top Swiss Museum Faces Backlash Over Nazi-Era Art Collection
A top Swiss museum has run into trouble showing an art collection acquired in questionable circumstances during World War II, with some saying its attempt to put it "in context" does not focus enough on the fate of the art's former Jewish owners.
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Tamannaah Bhatia's Swiss Trip Was Incomplete Without A Lindt's Chocolate Museum Visit, Here's More About It
Tamannaah Bhatia visited the Lindt Home of Chocolate in Zurich and here's all you need to know about this Swiss chocolate heaven.
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Swiss Museum Offers $11,100 Reward For Info On 2 Missing Valuable Paintings
Kunsthaus Zurich, one of Switzerland's top art museums, is offering a 10,000 Swiss franc ($11,100) reward for information that could help it track down two missing paintings, police said Tuesday.
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2 Masterpieces Missing From Swiss Museum Post Fire
A leading Swiss art museum said Tuesday that two 17th century paintings had gone missing after hundreds of artworks were moved due to a small fire last August.
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This New Chocolate Museum In Switzerland Is A Dreamland For Chocolate Lovers
Experience an interactive world of chocolate at Lindt Home Of Chocolate, Switzerland's new chocolate museum
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25,000 Strangers Pooled Their Cash To Buy This Picasso Painting
It won't hang on the wall in their living rooms, but they own it nonetheless: 25,000 Internet users banded together to buy a Picasso painting, which went on display in Geneva on Friday. The 1968 painting titled "Buste de mousquetaire" (Musketeer Bust) was offered up at the bargain price of two million Swiss francs ($2.0 million, 1.7 million euros)....
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Alien Artist H R Giger Dies at 74
Swiss artist H R Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien, has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said on Tuesday.
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Swiss museum to inspect inherited Nazi-era art hoard
A Swiss museum that unexpectedly inherited a disputed hoard of priceless paintings, some likely plundered from Jews during World War II, plans to send a team to Germany to inspect the treasure.
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Swiss museum clinic tries to cure information junkies
The Libyan war, the Greek debt crisis and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal have all been rich fodder this year for news junkies -- but is today's information overload healthy? A Swiss clinic has set out to help those who feel overwhelmed by such excess with an unusual exhibition that runs until July 15, 2012 at the Museum for Communication in Ber...
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Top Swiss Museum Faces Backlash Over Nazi-Era Art Collection
A top Swiss museum has run into trouble showing an art collection acquired in questionable circumstances during World War II, with some saying its attempt to put it "in context" does not focus enough on the fate of the art's former Jewish owners.
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Tamannaah Bhatia's Swiss Trip Was Incomplete Without A Lindt's Chocolate Museum Visit, Here's More About It
Tamannaah Bhatia visited the Lindt Home of Chocolate in Zurich and here's all you need to know about this Swiss chocolate heaven.
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Swiss Museum Offers $11,100 Reward For Info On 2 Missing Valuable Paintings
Kunsthaus Zurich, one of Switzerland's top art museums, is offering a 10,000 Swiss franc ($11,100) reward for information that could help it track down two missing paintings, police said Tuesday.
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2 Masterpieces Missing From Swiss Museum Post Fire
A leading Swiss art museum said Tuesday that two 17th century paintings had gone missing after hundreds of artworks were moved due to a small fire last August.
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This New Chocolate Museum In Switzerland Is A Dreamland For Chocolate Lovers
Experience an interactive world of chocolate at Lindt Home Of Chocolate, Switzerland's new chocolate museum
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25,000 Strangers Pooled Their Cash To Buy This Picasso Painting
It won't hang on the wall in their living rooms, but they own it nonetheless: 25,000 Internet users banded together to buy a Picasso painting, which went on display in Geneva on Friday. The 1968 painting titled "Buste de mousquetaire" (Musketeer Bust) was offered up at the bargain price of two million Swiss francs ($2.0 million, 1.7 million euros)....
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Alien Artist H R Giger Dies at 74
Swiss artist H R Giger, who designed the creature in Ridley Scott's sci-fi horror classic Alien, has died at age 74 from injuries suffered in a fall, his museum said on Tuesday.
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Swiss museum to inspect inherited Nazi-era art hoard
A Swiss museum that unexpectedly inherited a disputed hoard of priceless paintings, some likely plundered from Jews during World War II, plans to send a team to Germany to inspect the treasure.
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Swiss museum clinic tries to cure information junkies
The Libyan war, the Greek debt crisis and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal have all been rich fodder this year for news junkies -- but is today's information overload healthy? A Swiss clinic has set out to help those who feel overwhelmed by such excess with an unusual exhibition that runs until July 15, 2012 at the Museum for Communication in Ber...
