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Museum criticizes Anne Frank-themed ‘escape room’

AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Anne Frank foundation on Friday criticized an "escape room" game made to look like the Amsterdam apartment where the teenage Jewish diarist hid with her family from the Netherlands' Nazi occupiers during World War II. According to its website, the recently opened Escape Bunker

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PEM’s ‘Asia in Amsterdam’ exhibit combines culture and commerce

"Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age" is the latest exhibition of marvel at the Peabody Essex Museum. Now through June 5, visitors of the PEM are welcome to explore a sensational presentation of art and cultural innovation through commerce, using all five senses.

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The MFA’s Dutch Masters: Artistic distinctions then and now

One way to explain the vision of the Museum of Fine Arts' latest exhibit, Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, is to point to the intellectual feat required to organize so complex a collection. Indeed, it is an impressive tribute to the artistic dexterity