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Giza: The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) Opens Its New Library, Featuring 17,000 Volumes for Research and Culture

Giza: The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) Opens Its New Library, Featuring 17,000 Volumes for Research and Culture

The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM) in Giza has inaugurated its new library, designed as a center for knowledge, scientific research, and cultural exchange. The project was carried out with the support of the French government and in collaboration with k...
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The Umberto Eco Library opens in Bologna, featuring over 32,000 volumes from his home and study

The Umberto Eco Library opens in Bologna, featuring over 32,000 volumes from his home and study

Ten years after Umberto Eco’s passing, Bologna is opening its doors to one of the most important collections of an author’s works in the contemporary world. The Eco Library has been inaugurated—a project that makes the personal collection...
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Treasures of the Odessa University Science Library: in books the memory of Europe

Treasures of the Odessa University Science Library: in books the memory of Europe

The cultural heritage of the city of Odessa, Ukraine's great Black Sea port, is unique in the richness of contributions from different European cultural traditions. This is the result of the city's peculiar history, founded in 1794 during the French ...
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Museums and libraries: online course on hospitality as a strategic lever

Museums and libraries: online course on hospitality as a strategic lever

The National School of Heritage and Cultural Activities has made available online the new training course The Art of Welcoming: principles and practices of hospitality in museums, archives and libraries, designed for those who work in direct contact ...
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UK government invests 1.5 billion in culture: its social importance recognized

UK government invests 1.5 billion in culture: its social importance recognized

The U.K. government has announced a total investment of 1.5 billion pounds (about 1.7 billion euros) earmarked for culture over the next five years, outlining what is being presented as a step change from more than a decade of underfunding. The packa...
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Why does the Italian Library of Archaeology and Art History have to move to Palazzo San Felice?

Why does the Italian Library of Archaeology and Art History have to move to Palazzo San Felice?

"This is a auspicious date that we will remember. A special history that for the first time is preparing to reopen to the public with the precise role of a cultural center," said Minister Alessandro Giuli on June 12 as he inaugurated Palazzo San Feli...
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Florence, extraordinary donation to Kunsthistorisches Institut: the Serlupiana Library arrives

Florence, extraordinary donation to Kunsthistorisches Institut: the Serlupiana Library arrives

A library is not just a collection of books: it is a geography of knowledge, a map of collective and intellectual memory. And today, with the entrance of the Serlupiana Library to the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz - Max-Planck-Institut (KHI),...
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The pandemic of libraries. Open, but amidst a thousand difficulties and major inconveniences

The pandemic of libraries. Open, but amidst a thousand difficulties and major inconveniences

June 22, 2020: in Florence, a group of citizens takes to Piazza della Signoria to protest against the City Council, which, more than a month after reopening operations after the end of the confinement to contain the Covid-19 contagion, still keeps ...
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