The grief in Brazil over the loss of the 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro to a fire Sunday night has yielded to outrage, as protesters demand the government better fund protection of national treasures and the administrators in charge of the museum decry negligence in remarks Tuesday.
A California man pleaded guilty Friday to swiping a $550,000 gold bar dating back to the 1600s from a museum in Key West, Florida.
The museum is well worth a visit, even you do not care about basketball, because of the sheer spectacle of intense devotion to a single topic.
The Art Ludique museum in Paris is set to close in the new year after a former nearby migrant camp has been blamed for gutting visitor numbers.
After ten years of planning and construction, plus over a billion dollars invested, a new branch of the fabled Louvre museum will open on the island of Saadiyat in Abu Dhabi this weekend.
The Getty Center museum in Los Angeles was evacuated Tuesday afternoon after an unidentified caller reportedly called in a bomb threat.
The Auschwitz museum said Tuesday it has recovered 16,000 long-lost items belonging to Jews killed at the Nazi death camp, decades after they were stored away and forgotten by Poland’s former communist regime.
(AFP) – Mohamed Al-Subeeh was a senior restorer at Syria’s best-known mosaic museum, but as war swept deeper into his province, destroying artefacts and threatening his and his family’s lives, he was forced to flee. The 64-year-old from Idlib province
A German open air museum has defended against discrimination claims after it emerged that migrants are allowed to enter for free while Germans, and even their dogs, have to pay. A picture of prices from the Freilichtmuseum Hessenpark near Frankfurt has been making
A leading European art museum has expunged politically incorrect words such as “Negro”, “Indian”, “dwarf” and “Mohammedan” from its entire historical collection. The cultural cleansing has occurred as the Rijksmuseum, in Amsterdam, and is endorsed by the International Council of
Governor Jerry Brown insists that his request for the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR) to ascertain whether his 2,700-acre ranch lay atop an oil pool was motivated by a desire to obtain information about his ranch that he could store in a “glass case.”
Josef Yousif, the director of the Alqush Museum in Mosul, believes his museum is the next target.
