This article was first published by the University of Stirling. The extremes created by accelerating change create fundamental challenges to how we care for heritage, in ways that are integral to people’s environments, identities, well-being and sense of place. Twentieth-century heritage conventions, charters and policies have created an orthodoxy of preservation by arresting change. At […]
This article was written by Claire Messenger. The ‘Safeguarding and Rescuing Archaeological Assets’ online course is now available Open Access via the British Institute At Ankara (BIAA) Digital Repository. The course, the first of its kind for Türkiye, combines theoretical and practical knowledge on the protection of archaeological assets. It is divided into 5 parts, […]
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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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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A fire has destroyed almost the entire art collection of Abkhazia, the breakaway region of Georgia that is controlled by Russia. More than 4,000 paintings at the National Art Gallery in the capital Sukhumi were lost in the blaze, including over 300 artworks by Alexander Shervashidze-Chachba. According to the Minister of Culture, Dinara Smiri, only […]
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This article was first published by BBC News. Thetford museum in Norfolk was founded by the son of Duleep Singh, the last Sikh emperor of the Punjab. The museum’s 100th anniversary is being marked with a grant worth almost £200,000. Ancient House Museum in Thetford, Norfolk, has been awarded the money by the National Lottery […]
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This article was first published by the Museums Association. Local authorities in England invested 23% less per capita in museums and galleries in 2022-23 than they did in 2009-10, a new report from Arts Council England (ACE) has found. This amounts to a real-terms decrease of 42.1% when inflation is taken into account, according to the research, […]
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