Museum of the Bamoun Kings: ancient treasures from Cameroon find a spectacular new home: One of the most significant African museum openings of 2024 was the Musée des Rois Bamoun, or Museum of the Bamoun Kings, in Foumban, Cameroon. Housing over 10,000 objects, it offers more than 600 years of history in its display of …
An artist has stolen a coin from the British Museum as part of a performance piece – but is the artwork ethical?: In June, the Brazilian artist Ilê Sartuzi removed a historical coin from its display case in the British Museum in London and deposited it in a donation box in the museum’s lobby. The …
Skateboard at the Design Museum celebrates 60 years of style, culture and cool: Skateboards are not complicated design objects. They consist of little more than a simple deck, usually made of wood, which forms the riding surface. The board is completed by a pair of trucks (pivoted metal turning devices) and four polyurethane wheels. With …
How colonial violence in Tasmania helped build scientists’ reputations and prestigious museum collections: We might imagine that scientists gain recognition thanks to the ideas they generate and the knowledge they contribute to our understanding of the world, earned through careers of diligent research. But not everyone takes this route. When Tasmanian solicitor Morton Allport died …
Museum classifies Roman emperor as trans – but modern labels oversimplify ancient gender identities: The Roses of Heliogabalus by Alma-Tadema (1888) depicts a feast thrown by Elagabalus. Musée Jacquemart-André Elagabalus ruled as Roman emperor for just four years before being murdered in AD 222. He was still a teenager when he died. Despite his short …
Britain’s new Faith Museum is the ideal place to set aside your preconceptions about religion: The new Faith Museum in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, faces three problems. First, “religion” is an explosively controversial subject on which it’s almost impossible not to stir up anger. Yet it’s also a subject that a great many modern British …
Evolution revolution: how a Cape Town museum exhibit is rewriting the story of humankind: Picture your typical human evolution museum display. You walk into a dimly lit space with glass boxes on white plinths or roped off areas. There are lots and lots of bones. Maybe a bit of history on how those bones were …
Fortnite’s new in-game Holocaust museum shows us a virtual future for education: A player in Fortnite visiting the Holocaust museum and learning about the Jews of Tunisia. Luc Bernard If you’ve played Fortnite, you’ll probably know it as a battle royale game in which you fight it out with around 100 other players until there …
Young V&A: Museum of Childhood rebrand excels at playful spaces but misses chances to go deeper: The former Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green has reopened its doors as the newly styled “Young V&A” after a “£13m programme of reimagining”. The new offering marks an effort to embed creativity into the visitor experience, with child-centred …
Controversy over poems at British Museum shows urgent need for more recognition for translators: Interior of the British Museum. MarkLG/Shutterstock The British Museum has had to apologise after a translator’s words were used without permission. Writer and translator Yilin Wang shared on Twitter that their translations of work by the Chinese feminist poet Qiu Jin …
Van Gogh Museum at 50: how galleries are challenging the ‘tortured genius’ narrative: At the time that Vincent van Gogh was creating his acclaimed work, The Starry Night, he was hospitalised at Saint-Paul de Mausole asylum. He painted the vivid night sky from his room without the bars of his window, editing out the institution. …
Van Gogh Museum at 50: Vincent van Gogh and the art market – a brief history: Amsterdam's Van Gogh Museum. Shutterstock Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum turns 50 in 2023. The museum, dedicated to the art of one of the most famous artists in the world, attracts over two million visitors each year. You can listen …
Van Gogh Museum at 50: what painter’s letters to his family expose about why he became an artist: Vincent van Gogh fits the stereotypical image of the tragic modern artist: the tortured genius and scruffy bohemian battling mental ill-health and lack of recognition from peers and a public who couldn’t appreciate his audacious vision. Now, …
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is now an opera – the case for adaptating the book that the Auschwitz Museum said ‘should be avoided’: Irish novelist John Boyne published his novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas in 2006. The protagonist, eight-year-old German boy Bruno, has no idea that his father is the kommandant …
Rosetta Stone: a new museum is reviving calls to return the artefact to Egypt: The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza. Ashy Cat Inc, CC BY-NC-SA With the Arab spring of 2011, a downturn in tourism and the devastation of COVID, the odds have been stacked against the opening of Giza’s Grand Egyptian Museum, work on …
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Ghana’s National Museum: superb restoration but painful stories remain untold: A museum Ghana’s national museum has reopened its doors after a seven-year closure to allow for major renovations. The museum was first opened in March 1957 as part of the celebrations marking the transition from colonial rule to independence. The opening also marked the end …
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