This article was first published by NPR. Curators of Israeli and Palestinian history and art have found themselves confronted by very different realities in the scramble to preserve museum works in the middle of an ongoing war. In the frightening early hours of the Hamas attack on Israel on Oct. 7, some museums in Israel […]
This article was first published by the Museums Association. Plans to provide advice on the restitution of cultural heritage held in Irish institutions moved forward this week with the first meeting of an advisory committee. The group was created in June to develop guidelines on artefacts in Ireland that may have been illegally or unethically elicited or traded. […]
Read More… from Irish repatriation committee holds first meeting
This article was first published by Sapiens. After alleged thefts from the British Museum, a curator explains the challenges of keeping track of collections—and the legal limitations on returning cultural material to source communities. In August 2023, news broke that a senior curator allegedly stole and sold nearly 2,000 objects from the British Museum over the course […]
This article was first published by Reuters. The Louvre art museum in Paris will hike its basic entrance fee next year by 29%, adding to concerns that visitors coming to Paris for next year’s Olympic Games will face spiralling costs. The Louvre, which houses the Mona Lisa and is the world’s most visited museum, said […]
Read More… from Paris’ Louvre museum to hike ticket prices by 29%
Booking is open for the 2024 ICOM UK Conference – Common Ground: the role of museums in divided communities at the Ulster Museum, Belfast. We encourage you to book early to get the best deals on transport and accommodation. We live in an age of division and discord, with many communities riven by political differences, […]
This article was first published by The Art Newspaper. A Byzantine church and a seventh-century mosque are believed to have been obliterated, while scores of other cultural landmarks have been affected. The human cost of the bombardment of the Gaza Strip in the war with Israel is well documented. What is less well known is […]
This year, two new International Committees have been created: SUSTAIN – The International Committee on Museums and Sustainable Development: ICOM began to address sustainability within its organisation in the middle of the last decade. The new IC replaces the Working Group on Sustainability (WGS) after two mandate periods from 2018 – 2023. SUSTAIN’s goal is […]
Read More… from Opportunity to join the boards of ICOM’s new International Committees
This article was first published by The Guardian. Stories about the legacy of slavery and colonialism must be central to the way museums and heritage organisations present their collections as part of “a new chapter of what heritage is about”, the incoming head of English Heritage has said. Nick Merriman said a focus on the country’s often […]
Read More… from Colonial past must be in mainstream of UK history, says new English Heritage chief
ICOM’s International Committee for Museology (ICOFOM), the School of Art History at the University of St Andrews, and the European Research Council (ERC) selected and UK Research & Innovation (UKRI) funded Shared Island Stories research project, are pleased to announce a hybrid (in-person and online) conference on the overarching topic of Transnational Island Museologies, to be held from […]
