Tag: Museums & Heritage

The Hispanic Society Museum & Library in New York is launching a Goya Research Center in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of Francisco Goya’s death in 2028. Led by Goya

An anti-censorship organization is criticizing the Pérez Art Museum Miami (Pamm), the Minneapolis Museum of Art (Mia), and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, for canceling or postponing upcoming

Two works to be removed from the Young Artists’ Summer Show at the Royal Academy of Arts due to concerns raised by the Board of Deputies of British Jews. The

The National Trust for Historic Preservation in Washington, DC, has announced $3 million in grants to 30 Black historic sites across the US, including eight representing the history of Black

The UK government has announced plans to build a national Holocaust memorial next to the Houses of Parliament. This project, initially proposed in 2015, aims to provide a permanent site

The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art recently returned two Benin bronzes to the Oba of Benin in a historic ceremony at the Benin Palace in Nigeria. This marks

Stonehenge has been spared from being added to Unesco’s “World Heritage in Danger” list after a proposed amendment struck it off the at-risk list. The decision follows controversy over a

Last week, five climate activists, known as the “Whole Truth Five,” received record prison sentences for their involvement in organizing a protest on the UK’s M25 motorway against the issuance

Italian odd-job man Vincenzo Peruggia and former Egyptian minister of tourism and antiquities, Zahi Hawass, both share a desire to repatriate stolen artifacts, particularly Leonardo’s iconic Mona Lisa. Peruggia famously

As school summer holidays begin in the UK, visitors to National Trust sites may encounter protesters calling for the charity to end its partnership with Barclays over its connections to