The 200-year-old State Kremlin Museum in Moscowithitreasuresrangingging from ancient icons and imperial regalia to nine Fabergé eggs, will begin a $50 million expansion this year that is to include the construction of a new conservation and exhibition facility outside the Kremlin walls, officials said.
Now treasures ranging from the remains of Cro-Magnon man to the celebrated 23,000-year-old Venus of Lespugue – as well as René Descartes's skull – are once again to go on show with the rebirth of one of the world's greatest museums of prehistory.
You'll find tucked-away treasures ranging from funk to disco and beyond.
Others have become hunters of ancient treasures, ranging from coins and machinery long buried under the sands on Bikanel Island to spheres in forgotten caves and ruins.
Its abundant cultural treasures range from the extraordinarily well-preserved Greek temples and theatres at Segesta, Agrigento and Taormina to the Baroque beauty of Catania and Noto.
As striking as Mr. Pei's architecture, however, was the obvious subtext of the collection, whose treasures range from Iraqi ceramics to Spanish silk curtains and Indian jewelry.
The treasures ranged from samovars to murals, leaded-glass ceilings, banana-split dishes, doormen's green frock coats and a Wurlitzer jukebox.
Treasures range from a collection of tiny printed volumes going back to the 17th century, some so small they could fit on your thumbnail, to a handwritten inventory of the library of Mme. de Pompadour.
The treasures ranged from a picture of a brooding Gertrude Stein with a handwritten tribute to her publishers to a portrait of a jaunty William Faulkner suited up for fox-hunting with a red coat and a riding crop.
Other treasures range from Pieter van der Heyden's "Blind Leading the Blind" (circa 1561), a wonderfully satirical engraving of two roguish mendicants after a print by Hieronymus Bosch, to Kim Wescott's arresting drypoint "Re-echo" (2000), an ingenious abstraction that mingles black, silver and red marks in a dense evocation of the landscape of her native Australia.
