Ukraine’s leading World War II history museum will remove Soviet-era monuments as part of a push to erase centuries-old ties to Russia. “The museum space must get rid of the Soviet narrative, which has been used for decades to promote the myth of the ‘great patriotic war,’” the Kiev-based National Museum of …
Read More »Angry boyfriend destroys museum’s priceless artifacts
A man broke into the Dallas Art Museum at around 9:45pm on Wednesday night and wrecked some $5.2 million worth of artifacts because he was upset with his girlfriend, Dallas Police revealed on Friday. The suspect, Brian Hernandez, has been charged with criminal mischief of greater than or equal to $300,000. …
Read More »Russia’s iconic museum rules on foreign exhibits
One of the world’s largest museums, the State Hermitage in St.Petersburg, will not be participating in foreign exhibitions this year because of the Ukraine conflict, its director, Mikhail Piotrovsky, said on Tuesday. “Under the current circumstances, we will not have permission to export [the art pieces] outside the Russian Federation,” …
Read More »German-Russian WWII museum changes name
A German museum dedicated to World War II, and to the ending of that conflict in Europe, has decided to drop the reference to Russia in its name, in response to Moscow’s military campaign in Ukraine. The German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst is housed in the building where Hitler’s forces signed Germany’s …
Read More »‘Largest’ US museum considers returning looted artworks
The Smithsonian Museum has officially admitted many of its celebrated collections were obtained unethically – essentially looted – in a statement published on Tuesday. Observing that “many artifacts and works of art have been in the Smithsonian’s holdings for decades or, in some cases, more than 150 years,” the museum …
Read More »Museum returns painting looted by Nazis 71 years ago
A fine arts museum in Belgium has returned a painting to the heirs of a German Jewish couple who had their property stolen by the Nazi regime before World War II. ‘Blumenstilleben,’ (Still Life with Flowers) painted in 1913 by German artist Lovis Corinth, was among dozens of artworks stolen …
Read More »A sight for sore eyes? Pornhub ‘classic nudes’ guide may soon be coming to an art museum near you
Titillating images from some of the world’s best-known art museums are brought to life in ‘Show Me the Nudes,’ a smartphone-based artistic scavenger hunt featuring some of the art world’s best-known nude paintings. Equipped with maps of the real-life artifacts in their museum layout, newly minted art enthusiasts can get …
Read More »Piece of ‘HITLER’s SKULL’ exhibited in Moscow museum (PHOTO)
The piece of skull was showcased by Russia’s State Archive in Moscow as part of an exhibition dedicated to the archive’s 100th anniversary, Russian media reports. Visitors will have a chance to view it until January 31. Among other items shown to the public are the bullets and bayonets the …
Read More »RAS handed over to the British Museum of rare findings from the Arctic
Needles for sewing, jewelry made of mammoth tusks and walrus tusks. Russian Academy of Sciences will give the British Museum a rare find. According to “The Guardian” artifacts older than 28 thousand years will be first presented to the public in the largest exhibition devoted to the Arctic. The most …
Read More »In Kiev flooded the Museum at the Postal square
Activists spoke on the state Museum. In the underground space of the future Museum at the Postal square there was flooding due to rain. As reported on page “at the Museum of Post”, on the Museum grounds around the perimeter of the observed moisture walls, water fills the hollows of …
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