This article was first published by BBC News. Looted artefacts from the Asante kingdom are finally on display in Ghana, 150 years after British colonisers took them. Ghanaians flocked to the Manhyia Palace Museum in Kumasi, the capital of Asante region, to welcome the 32 items home. The V&A is lending 17 pieces while 15 […]
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This article was first published by The Guardian. A painting by the Austrian artist Gustav Klimt that was considered lost for 100 years has sold for €30m (£26m) at an auction in Vienna. Entitled Portrait of Fräulein Lieser, the unfinished picture was painted in the spring of 1917, when Klimt was one of the most celebrated portraitists […]
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This article was first published by The Wallace Collection. Explore the life of the great Sikh leader Ranjit Singh (1780–1839) in a new major exhibition, Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King. With an unwavering sense of destiny, Ranjit Singh conquered the Punjab, an area that today encompasses Pakistan, following a period of anarchy caused by decades of […]
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The Zoological Society of London – the charity that runs London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo – has launched a public appeal for objects and memories for their bicentenary exhibition in 2026. Called the History Hive Project, they are asking people to share memories, photographs, footage and historic objects connected to ZSL to help bring their […]
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This article was first published by Returning Heritage. A Roman bronze head from a statue of a young man, acquired by the Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 1971, is returning to Turkey after evidence emerged it was excavated illegally. The Museum said they agreed the object needed to be returned to Turkey after receiving […]
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Our 2024 annual conference was held in Belfast, where, under the theme ‘Common Ground’, we connected a full house of delegates with international ideas for dealing with local complexities, and covered a lot of ground across South Asia, Rwanda, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and all four nations of the UK, with a particular focus on Northern Ireland. This […]
This article was first published by ICOMAM. The annual conference for ICOM’s International Committee for Museums and Collections of Arms and Military History will take place at the National Army Museum, London, in October 2024. It is jointly organised and co-hosted by the Royal Armouries and the National Army Museum. To mark this, ICOMAM has […]
ICOM UK represents ICOM members in the four nations comprising the UK and the UK’s overseas territories. The ICOM UK Board currently includes trustees representing Scotland, Northern Ireland and England. The positions of representatives for Wales and territories currently considered as British Overseas Territories are currently available. We are therefore looking for two new trustees, […]
This article was first published by Balkan Museum Network. During the international museum conference of the Balkan Museum Network, titled “Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in Time of Crisis”, held on April 18-19, 2024, Merima Ražanica was proudly announced as the recipient of the first-ever Peace Curator Prize. This prestigious award celebrates her exceptional contributions to peace-building […]
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