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(AP Video by Dan Ikpoyi) Ouidah in Benin hosted thousands of visitors on Friday for the 2025 Voodoo Festival. The annual festival featured traditional ceremonies, dances, and rituals that offer deep ...

OUIDAH, Benin, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Modeste Zinsou, manager of Benin's Python Temple, gently drapes a live snake around a visitor's neck at the country's annual voodoo festival, as spectators learn ...

Spread across four floors and nearly 300,000 square feet, the Canadian Museum of History (formerly the Canadian Museum of Civilization) is a behemoth. Welcoming more than 1.2 million people ...

This weekend brought the traditional Vodun Days annual festival encompassing arts, culture and voodoo spirituality to the southern town of Ouidah, centre on the Sakpata Zoungbodji religious convent.

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) will become a Certified Autism Center (CAC) on Friday, Jan. 3. The goal is to make the museum more sensory-friendly for ...

The Washington State History Museum in Tacoma will temporarily close for more than a month starting in January as it installs a new permanent exhibit focused on Indigenous tribes. To prepare for ...

Discover the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures through the Lens of Paul Clemence Throughout their relatively recent history, museums have evolved to condense particular aspects of a culture and ...

The coastal town of Ouidah was one of Africa's most active slave-trading ports in the 18th and 19th centuries. Close to a million men, women and children were captured, chained and forced onto ...

Science is filled with tools that once seemed revolutionary and are now just part of the research tool kit. That time may have come for artificial intelligence ...

This exhibition has now closed. It ran from 24 May 2024 - 5 January 2025. Birds are the soundtrack to our mornings, they soar through our skies and swoop around our streets, but how well do we really ...