Museums
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British Museum ends ‘deeply troubling’ sponsorship from Japanese tobacco firm
Move welcomed by critics, who have been calling for end to ‘morally unacceptable’ deals since 2016The British …
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Groundbreaking British Museum show set to challenge samurai myths
Exclusive: Exhibition will reveal complex reality, featuring women and artistic creations, beyond armour-clad …
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Ancient example of printed text to be displayed in Melbourne: ‘It unites us all’
A Japanese prayer scroll dating back more than 1,250 years has been acquired by the State Library of Victoria …
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Former Nintendo factory in Kyoto opens as nostalgia-fuelled gaming museum
Museum features consoles from 1983’s Famicom to 2017’s Switch, as well as honouring Nintendo’s pre-video-game …
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Pushing Buttons: At Nintendo’s new museum in Japan, I found a nostalgia-laced trip down memory lane – not a history lesson
From playing Super Mario on a giant control to spotting Pikmin hiding in corners, my visit to this delightful …
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Dame Elizabeth Esteve-Coll obituary
Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum whose radical ideas and management style put her in the cultural fi…
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A crappy day out: Melbourne’s poo museum is now open for business
The new Instagram-ready space is a celebration of defecation, wrapped up in the Japanese kawaii aesthetic. Tob…
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Pokémon no go: Van Gogh Museum stops free cards amid tout chaos
Booming resale market for cards featuring Pikachu in style of Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait With Grey Felt HatThey …
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Tokyo review – lust and loneliness in Japan’s pleasure quarters
Ashmolean Museum, OxfordA seductive encounter with past and present at the Olympic city shows that Tokyo pract…
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Imperial War Museum unveils film marking 75 years since Hiroshima bomb
Video by Es Devlin and Machiko Weston tells story of nuclear bombing in Hiroshima and NagasakiA powerful 10-mi…
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Fluid and fashionable: V&A shakes up image of ‘traditional’ kimono
Exhibition shows off rich history of Japanese garment in all its three-dimensional gloryMore than 100 kimonos,…
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The kimono – from costume to catwalk
From the 17th to the 20th century the kimono was the principal piece of clothing in Japan for both men and wom…
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V&A hosts Europe’s first major exhibition on kimono
Catwalk pieces and costumes from Memoirs of a Geisha and Star Wars will feature in showA rare 17th century tre…