In a mad mix of game-show glitter and marketing flash, Airbnb is offering customers a chance to spend a night in a Paris museum, stay in houses mocked up to look like movie settings, or sleep surrounded by eight Ferrari racing cars. Those and other chimerical listings are part of a splashy new campaign by the short-term […]
Airbnb offering exotic experiences from a Paris museum to the house in âUpâ â some for free
May 2, 2024 by
Pro-Palestinian protesters throw smoke bomb, hit with pepper spray after being barred from entering the American Museum of Natural History for the second week
December 2, 2023 by
Pro-Palestinian protesters took to the streets of New York City again Saturday, storming Times Square after they were rebuffed as they tried to enter the American Museum of Natural History for the second weekend in a row. The protest, which started at the Upper West Side museum at 2 p.m., included the expectation that demonstrators […]
Louvre Museum in Paris Evacuated, Shut Down Following Reported Bomb Threat in Wake of Suspected Islamist Attack
November 15, 2023 by
Louvre Museum in Paris Evacuated, Shut Down Following Reported Bomb Threat in Wake of Suspected Islamist Attack Alaattin Dogru/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The world-famous Louvre Museum in Paris has been evacuated and shut down for the rest of the day after reportedly receiving a bomb threat amid increasing tensions over the Israel-Palestine conflict and
When Melania Trump Asked to Borrow a Painting, Museum Offered a Literal Toilet.
January 28, 2018 by
First lady Melania Trumpâs request to borrow a Vincent van Gogh painting from the Guggenheim Museum was refused, but a curator did offer another work of art: a functional 18-karat gold toilet. The curator at the Guggenheim responded to Trumpâs request by offering to loan the White House a working toilet made of gold called […]
The Museum of the Bible is More Than a Museum.
November 21, 2017 by
The Museum of the Bible opened in Washington, D.C., last weekend, and not a moment too soon for a city (and nation) plagued by scandal. In addition to ongoing investigations by a special counsel and various congressional committees, sexual harassment seems to have infected the nation’s capital and the country like a scourge. One doesn’t […]
BreakPoint: A Museum Fit for the Bible.
November 19, 2017 by
The Bible is the greatest book ever writtenâand now, thereâs a museum fit to tell its story! At the end of his Gospel, the Apostle John said, âNow there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that […]
Pope Francis, Netanyahu Send Their Blessings as Museum of the Bible Opens in D.C.
November 18, 2017 by
Washington, D.C. â Prominent leaders from many faiths gathered in D.C. Friday for the dedication and ribbon cutting ceremony that marked the opening of the non-sectarian, $500 million Museum of the Bible which seeks to entertain and educate visitors about the history of the Bible and its significance. The dedication ceremony of the museum, which […]
