Culture
Festa del Redentore, Celebrating the end of the plague, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
The best party in Venice is the 440-year-old Festa del Redentore. Every year a remarkable 25,000 fireworks explode over Serenissima,…
Fashion in the Ringstrasse era, Wien Museum Karlsplatz
When sophisticated Viennese society kitted itself out with a new wardrobe, Tall, stiff collars characterize the period, as do women's…
Electric City, Neons of Hong Kong, West Kowloon Cultural District
For much of its history, Hong Kong has been inseparable from its neon signs, both in fact and in the…
Hong Kong Neon Signs, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District
Neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases. Light-emitting tubes…
Water Above All, Water Tank Project
A water tank is a container for storing water. Water tanks are used to provide storage of water for use…
Ethnic Minorities Attire and Adornment Exhibition, Yunnan Provincial Museum
Yunnan is noted for a very high level of ethnic diversity. It has the highest number of ethnic groups among…
Siena in the Literature of Federico Tozzi, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
The Sienese writer Federigo Tozzi (Siena 1883 - Rome 1920) is one of the figures that made the Tuscan city…
Venice Cuisine, Food of the Water City, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
Venetian cuisine is characterized by seafood, but also includes garden products from the islands of the lagoon, rice from the…
Flavours of Siena, highly acclaimed gastronomic cultures, Italian Youth Committee UNESCO
The historic centre of Siena has been declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site. It is one of the nation's…
Women’s Fashion from 1800s to 1950s, A History of Shaping the Body, York Castle Museums
For centuries women's clothing has exaggerated body shape to fashionable extremes. This collections shows body-shaping fashions from the eighteenth to…