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Many sectors have been put into an economic tailspin as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic which has swept the world throughout 2020. However, those...
Miracles may seem like they are in short supply right now but a museum in Utrecht is aiming to put that right with a telephone...
Museum professionals can expect some exciting new working environments in the coming twelve months with many new institutions set to open their doors for the...
Staff at Louvre voted “almost unanimously” not to open on Sunday over safety concerns about prevention measures linked to Coronavirus. With 130 cases now reported...
For hundreds of years, Japanese artists and storytellers have been captivated by yōkai – supernatural monsters and household objects-goblins come to life. A new exhibition...
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has called on the leading online retailer, Amazon, to stop selling anti-Semitic literature on its website. The museum is located...
Tesla, the technology company that is best known for its electric vehicles, has made a sizeable donation to the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno....
A picture that was discovered late last year has been finally established as a missing portrait by Gustav Klimt, the Austrian artist who is perhaps...
The famous Ionic columns that welcome visitors to the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minnesota have been transformed by the celebrated Chinese artist Ai Weiwei....
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has embarked on a programme of hiring refugees and immigrants who have direct knowledge of some...
The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced a new collaboration with the Dutch fashion brand, Daily Paper. The hip streetwear brand was originally a...
In February, the House of Representatives in the United States voted to pass a bill that will see a new museum constructed in the capital...
Located in the London Borough of Camden, the Jewish Museum has elected to leave the group of National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) it had joined in...
The historic manuscript laying out the original plans to revive the Olympic Games was today donated to The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland, almost 130 years after...
Paris Musées, a consortium of 14 different museums and art galleries in the French capital, announced in January that it would now offer around 150,000 digital...
When flames were seen at New York’s Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA), few could have realised just how devastating the fire would be. The...
Hong Kong has followed mainland China is closing its museums indefinitely as part of efforts to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Institutions including the Guangdong Art...
Street artists have few outlets for their work in mainstream galleries. Indeed, some of the most famous practitioners of graffiti art, such as Banksy, say...
For the first time, a Canadian university — the University of Guelph — is reconciling with its history of teaching eugenics. Few universities in Canada...
The National Archives and Records Administration has publicly apologised for its controversial decision to doctor a photograph it had been using as an exhibit since...
The National Archives and Records Administration, which is charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records in the United States, admitted in...
Locations for people to go and register their vote is a mainstay of the democratic function of many civilizations and the museum sector has traditionally...
It is a problem that many institutions in the West would like to have. Several museums and art galleries in Russia have faced such an...
In a move that many campaigners in the United States have long called for, two Asian art galleries that are part of the Smithsonian Institution’s...
