This article was first published by W Magazine. The Louvre is eyeing a new home for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa. According to a new report, the museum’s crown jewel is at the center of renovation plans aimed at quelling “disappointment” over the artwork’s crowded viewing experience. “We don’t welcome visitors very well in this room, so […]
This article was first published by Human Rights Watch. There has been growing awareness and concern about the damage and destruction that armed conflict inflicts on cultural heritage. Such heritage ranges from ancient archaeological sites to modern exemplars of architecture, world-renowned monuments to regional museums, places of religious worship to centers for artistic performance. Cultural […]
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This article was first published by The Guardian. Police have charged two men in their 30s over the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree last September. Daniel Michael Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, both from Cumbria, have been charged with criminal damage to the tree and to a neighbouring part of Hadrian’s Wall, which […]
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ICOM UK sends congratulations to the Sámi Museum Siida, Finland, which has won the European Museum of the Year Award 2024. The Sámi Museum Siida is the only museum in Finland to actively collect Sámi cultural heritage by preserving, safeguarding, and presenting Sámi tangible and intangible cultural heritage and conducting collections-based research. The museum, founded […]
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Art Fund has announced the five finalists for Museum of the Year 2024. The winner of the award will receive £120,000, with the other finalists receiving £15,000 each. The winner will be announced at London’s National Gallery in July. The finalists are: […]
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This article was written by Maria Blyzinsky, ICOM UK Trustee. ICOM UK has been supporting a partnership project to digitise collections at the National Preserve ‘Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra’, thanks to a grant from ICOM. It was one of six projects selected for funding in 2022 following a call out for proposals by the ICOM Strategic Allocation […]
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This article was first published by UNESCO. Experts from East Africa gathered in Nairobi for a workshop to discuss current challenges posed at the World Heritage sites in danger in Kenya, Madagascar, and Tanzania. Africa, despite its rich and diverse cultural and natural heritage, remains the second least represented region on the World Heritage List. […]
This article was first published by The Guardian. Archaeologists discovered centuries-old cherries surprisingly well-preserved inside two glass bottles stashed in George Washington’s historic Virginia home. They found the bottles during excavations as part of a major revitalization of the first US president’s mansion, known as Mount Vernon, the Washington Post reported. According to a statement from Mount Vernon, […]
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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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