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The Picasso Museum in Paris, one of the major tourist attractions of the French capital, closed its doors on Sunday for a restoration that will last until February 2012. The museum hopes for a better welcome after the renovation for the approximately half million visitors who come each year. Also, the spaces for educational and cultural activities are adapted.  The museum is housed in a Baroque mansion in the Marais district. In the coming months, the collection of approximately five thousand works will be moved elsewhere and after that the construction will begin early next year.

The official Porsche Museum in Stutggart reached since opening earlier this year the quarter-millionth visitor. A remarkable number of visitors since the manufacturer only aimend for 100.000 a year. The fantastic plant collection includes dozens of cars, of which over 80 are shown in the beautiful museum. There are four times more than the old Porsche museum could exhibit. At the old location, the brand has received an average of 80,000 visitors over the year. The new home has an exhibition area of 5600 square meters.

India gets this summer a new tourist attraction with the Gandhi tour. Historians, supporters and even immediate family members of the former leader of the Indian people, take tourists to its birthplace in Gujarat and the place where Gandhi was assassinated in New Delhi. “It’s nice to see that from the rest of the world there’s still interest in the peaceful ideas of the late Gandhi”, said Varsha Das, director of the National Gandhi Museum near Rajghat. This summer, tourists can visit the birthplace and even drinking tea with a member of the Gandhi family. There are bidsessies and workshops followed on the same spinning wheel that Gandhi used to hand-woven clothing to protest against imported textiles. Another tour operator offers a four-hour excursion along the place where Gandhi was assassinated in 1948. A guide that tells the story of that fatal day in January.