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£6.8m founding text donated to the Olympic Museum
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...
Chinese Museums Put Exhibitions Online Due to Coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak in several cities of China has led to some drastic measures including the construction of a huge new medical facility in the...
Museums Transform Their Collections Into Free Colouring Pages
Under the hashtag #ColorOurCollections, a growing number of institutions around the world have been encouraging people to colour in their black and white exhibits to...
Australian Museums Call For Action on Climate Change
Some of the best-known natural history museums and similar institutions in Australia have called on the government to take more action in the country in...
Paris Museums Put 100,000 Artworks Online, Copyright-Free
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...
Museums Open Up Archives with Unsplash
Unsplash is the largest platform for freely sharing photos in the world. With more than 60 million image downloads and 10 billion views every month,...
Recovery Begins Following New York Museum Blaze
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...
Horniman Museum and Gardens announces Climate and Ecology Manifesto
The Horniman Museum and Gardens in London announced today a Manifesto outlining its platform for action and the steps it will take to mitigate against...
Museums Shut Indefinitely Over Covid-19
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...
What Digital Twin Technology Means for Museums
Museums are complex organisations and technology has to some extent made them more complicated. The Natural History Museum in London, for example, has more than...
Street Art Championed By Californian Gallery
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...
Digital Technologies Used to Bring the Tower of David Museum to Life
Digital techniques, including the use of augmented reality (AR), have been put to use in the museum sector before, usually in the field of artistic...
Marina Abramović Performance Piece Comes to HoloLens 2
On Monday, the world-renowned auction house, Christie’s, announced that would be presenting a new performance art installation using mixed reality technology by the leading conceptual...
Go big or go home: how blockbuster exhibitions are saving museums
“Blockbuster” is no longer a term reserved for high-grossing movies or best-selling novels. Turns out, it can also refer to museum culture. Attendance figures will...
London’s Natural History Museum Declares Climate Emergency
The Natural History Museum in London has declared an 11-year plan to deal with its part in the changing climate in what it has declared...
Anti-Capitalist Protestors Hack New York Gallery’s Exhibition
The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City was subject to an anti-capitalist protest which came in the form of an internet-based hack...
How to Deal with Bad Museum Managers?
Almost anyone who has been working in museums for any length of time will have stories about bad managers. They are nearly impossible to avoid...
German Museum Experiments With Novel Approach to Charging Its Visitors
In Bremen, the Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, which was founded in 1991, decided to take a new approach to the way it would charge...
Universities must open their archives and share their oppressive pasts
For the first time, a Canadian university — the University of Guelph — is reconciling with its history of teaching eugenics. Few universities in Canada...
Archive Apologises Over Altering Image of Women’s March
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...
National Archives Exhibit Blurs Images Critical of the US President
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...
NYC Museums Declined to be Polling Places
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...
