History Museum, Bern, on now till February 13, 2011
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The Historisches Museum Bern dedicates a major exhibition to the great navigator and explorer James Cook (1728–1779). For the first time since Cook’s three voyages to the South Seas, more than 400 exhibits will be brought together from museums and private collections around the world.
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How a Swiss artist captured Native Americans
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His intricate artwork, which helped shape perceptions of Native Americans at the time, is currently on show at a special exhibition at the reopened North America Native Museum in Zurich. “The museum possesses many original Bodmer engravings. This year is also the 200th anniversary since the artist’s birth, and we wanted to mark this jubilee…
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Alfred Vogel discovered the healing qualities of the Echinacea purpurea through his friendship with a Sioux medicine man, Ben Black Elk. In 1952, Vogel, a respected herbalist, spent several weeks with the Sioux in the Pine Ridge reserve in South Dakota to find out more about their culture and medicine. There he met Black Elk,…
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