Author: Jemma Jarman

This article was first published by Museums + Heritage. The Science Museum Group is to create a Museums Hub in Saudi Arabia which it says will become a ​​“centre of excellence for science and culture and support the wider museum sector”. The new hub, to be located in Riyadh, hoped to enable the Science Museum […]

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After 20 years in its Manhattan headquarters, the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art will close its galleries in October. It will continue to champion the art of the Himalayas through an expansive model that includes grant-making, digital outreach and continuing its active loan programme. […]

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This year is the 70th Anniversary of the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, which was created on the 14 May 1954. It is also the 25th Anniversary of its Second Protocol, which was opened for signature on 24 March 1999. Today, these treaties are the […]

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This article was first published by the Guardian. For 2,170 years it had lain in ruins: a palace that symbolised the golden age of antiquity, three times bigger than the Parthenon, unprecedented in architectural ambition, unparalleled in beauty. The Palace of Aigai, the largest surviving building from the classical Greek era, has resumed its past […]

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