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Ironman Mural

Meggs, Bask - POW! WOW! Hawaii

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The D-Day

U.S. National Archives

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Detail of the east frieze

Pheidias Workshop - Acropolis Museum

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SPOTLIGHT STORIES

A Tapestry for Our Time

Grayson Perry's 'Walthamstow Tapestry'

BORN ON THIS DAY

Salvator Rosa, the "perpetual rebel"

June 20, 1615 - March 15, 1673

FEATURED STORY

The Quilts of Susana Allen Hunter

Art from everyday life

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Banksy

43 items

Mary Cassatt

147 items

Gerhard Richter

12 items

Barbara Hepworth

6 items

El Greco

66 items

All Artists

4,521 artists

EXPLORE

Red in Peter Paul Rubens' painting

Flashes of bright crimson

VIRTUAL TOUR

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Explore Frank lloyd Wright's famous rotunda

ORIGINAL SELFIE

Joseph Ducreux

1783

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Van Gogh Museum

152 items

Sadler's Wells

91 items

Lettl Collection

94 items

Outdoor Project

251 items

Nomura Museum of Art

50 items

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1,151 partners

FASHION IN FOCUS

Evening dress, 1956

By Charles James

IN DETAIL

Textile length, 'Bird'

By legendary designer, William Morris

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Clocks from 1720

Keeping time for 300 years

Mediums

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Graphite

12,536 items

Lacquer

614 items

Colored pencil

80 items

Nephrite

422 items

Iron

1,115 items

All Mediums

214 mediums

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High Fashion

Traditional dress from the Peruvian mountains

VIRTUAL TOUR

Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Explore the spectacular collection in 360°

ART MOVEMENTS

Geometric abstraction

Playing with 2D

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TODAY IN HISTORY

1967 - Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing to be drafted into the Vietnam War

FEATURED EXHIBIT

1930 Jodhpur Saloon

A palace on wheels

WOMEN IN CULTURE

From astronauts to artists, explore women's impact on history and culture

Historical Events

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Civil Rights Act of 1964

21 items

Great Fire of London

16 items

Genpei War

7 items

Philippine Revolution

77 items

Colonial India

48 items

All Historical Events

400 historical events

OBJECT IN FOCUS

Solar oven

Capturing solar power since 1880

UNSUNG HEROES

Maggie L. Walker

Pioneering civil rights activist

VIRTUAL TOUR

Captain Scott's Antarctic hut

Walk in the footsteps of the great explorers

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National Museum of Australia

180 items

The King Center

42 items

Dr. Bhau Daji Lad Mumbai City Museum

224 items

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center

174 items

Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum

176 items

All Partners

1,151 partners

FEATURED STORY

Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.

The man who made dreams reality

CLASSIC IMAGE

Outside Looking In, Mobile, Alabama

By Gordon Parks

TODAY IN HISTORY

1963 - The first 'Bat Day' is held at Yankee Stadium, New York

Historical Figures

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Bella Abzug

1,133 items

Sun Yat-sen

57 items

Nizami Ganjavi

94 items

Elizabeth II

2,133 items

Søren Kierkegaard

26 items

All Historical Figures

4,080 historical figures

MYSTERY OBJECT

There's no QWERTY keyboard here...

CLASSIC IMAGE

Gandhi comes to London, 1931

From The London Express

VIRTUAL TOUR

Thomas Edison's Laboratory

Explore this pioneering laboratory in 360˚

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MONUMENTS

Piazza del Duomo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa

NATURE IN FOCUS

Yosemite National Park

Wander through vast wilderness

WONDERS OF INDIA

From ancient monuments to yoga, discover India's finest cultural treasures

Places

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Studley Royal Park and the Ruins of Fountains Abbey

50 items

Niagara Falls

54 items

Historic Villages of Shirakawa-go and Gokayama

18 items

Chantilly

13 items

Archaeological Areas of Pompei

81 items

All Places

6,755 places

CITYSCAPES

Historic Town of Ouro Preto

A glittering jewel in Brazil's crown

MARVELS OF TECHNOLOGY

Blaenavon Industrial Landscape, UK

Mine the rich seam of Welsh history

INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

Kumbh Mela mass Hindu pilgrimage on the Ganges, India

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St. Paul's Cathedral

155 items

Walled City of Lahore Authority

46 items

Mocăniţa - Last of the Carpathian Forestry Railways

149 items

Skokloster Castle

46 items

National Museum of World Cultures - Tropenmuseum

2,467 items

All Partners

1,151 partners

ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS

Qutb Complex

The pinnacle of Indo-Islamic architecture

SPIRITUAL SITES

Batalha Monastery

Carving faith in stone

ANCIENT MONUMENTS

Giza Necropolis

Uncover the Great Pyramids of Egypt