Tag: Museums & Heritage
American Folk Art Museum Staff Unanimously Votes to Form Union
Staff at the American Folk Art Museum (Afam) have voted unanimously to form a union, just a month after announcing their intent to organise. The union will include staff from
DetailEfforts to Preserve Museum of London Building Launched Amidst Threat of Demolition
Campaigners are fighting to prevent the demolition of the Museum of London’s former home, despite plans being approved to build a new office complex in its place. The Museum of
DetailThe surprising connection between the Magna Carta and five small, expensive, enamelled brackets
Five enamelled brackets for €10,000 each may seem like a hefty price tag, but when you consider that they are integral pieces of a 13th-century casket housed at Turin’s Palazzo
DetailAcademy Museum to Modify Exhibition on Hollywood’s Jewish Founders
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles is making changes to its exhibition about the Jewish film-makers and businessmen who helped shape Hollywood’s studio system in response to
DetailHistoric Toronto Church Destroyed by Fire, Group of Seven Murals Lost
A fire at the historic St Anne’s Anglican Church in Toronto on Sunday, June 9, damaged the Canadian heritage site and destroyed its unique religious murals by members of Canada’s
DetailClosure of Migrant Museum on Lampedusa Island after Seven Years
The Museum of Faith and Dialogue on the island of Lampedusa, dedicated to migrants who lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea, has been closed as Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni
DetailGermany Returns Looted Antiquities from Berlin’s Altes Museum to Italy
Berlin’s Altes Museum has repatriated 25 antiquities, including 21 Apulian vases, that are believed to have been illegally excavated and smuggled out of Italy several decades ago. The German culture
DetailDiscovery of Ernest Shackleton’s Shipwreck off the Canadian Coast
The Royal Canadian Geographical Society (RCGS) recently announced the discovery of the Quest, the ship on which explorer Ernest Shackleton died, in the Labrador Sea off the coast of Canada.
DetailNew Podcast Hosted by Venus Williams at Carnegie Museum of Art
The Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh is presenting a new exhibition titled “Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology and the Contemporary Landscape” from 11 May to 12 January 2025. This
DetailNYC’s Center for Italian Modern Art to Permanently Close
The Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), an art museum and research center in Soho, Manhattan, will permanently close on June 22. Its current exhibition, “Nanni Balestrini: Art as Political
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