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The Press Office of Malmaison Reports That Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass Has at Long Last Returned to the Native Walls of the Residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New

The press office of Malmaison reports that Jacques-Louis David's Bonaparte Crossing the Great St Bernard Pass has at long last returned to the native walls of the residence of Napoleon Bonaparte and Joséphine de Beauharnais from the Brooklyn Museum in New York. Before that, the canvas was

Coming Up · Museums · Observations · Society

At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan

At the North Caucasus branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Vladikavkaz, the exhibition "One for All", devoted to the 75th anniversary of Victory, opens today, the first day of three days of mourning in Ossetia for the victims of Beslan. The organisers' idea

Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums

A 1466 tapestry from the series of Duke Philip the Good is kept in the Bern Historical Museum

One of the eight parts of the famous series of tapestries of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy. The tapestry was made in 1466 in the millefleurs technique, popular in the 15th and 16th centuries, that is, "a thousand flowers", which make up the main artistic body of

Museums · Heritage · Society

American Alliance of Museums warns a third of US museums may close by the end of 2020

Meanwhile, in the United States, 12,000 museums face closure. The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) believes that one museum in three across the States may shut its doors by the end of 2020, owing to the colossal crisis that has befallen Americans this year.

Archaeology · Museums · Heritage

Speaking of underwater finds, Greece has just opened an underwater museum of ancient antiquities, the "Parthenon of Shipwrecks"

Speaking of underwater finds, Greece has very recently opened an underwater museum of ancient antiquities, the "Parthenon of Shipwrecks". The exhibition can be viewed if you have diving skills, until 2 October, while the diving season lasts.

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Heritage

The discovery of the Riace bronze warriors by a humble diver (or, to be precise, almost simultaneously with the discovery of the same sculptures by four boys), though reckoned among the most precious finds, remains a rather mysterious one

The discovery of the Riace bronze warriors by a humble diver (or, to be precise, almost simultaneously with the discovery of the same sculptures by four boys), though reckoned among the most precious finds, remains a rather mysterious one. Even 47 years on, the circumstances in which the statues were

Coming Up · Art · Museums · Paris

For those who do not intend to crawl out of the house today, I suggest a visit to the Getty Museum's online exhibition on artsandculture.google, devoted to eighteenth-century pastel painting, namely to how pastel competed with oil, and artists began…

For those who do not intend to crawl out of the house today, I suggest a visit to the Getty Museum's online exhibition on artsandculture.google, devoted to eighteenth-century pastel painting, namely to how pastel competed with oil, and artists began to make large pastel canvases from

Interviews · Museums · Heritage · Nature

Nadezhda Kulakova describes the treatment of ancient trees in the Khmelita park

Today, for the Museum Affairs series, we spoke with Nadezhda Kulakova, Director of the Griboyedov Khmelita State Museum-Reserve of History, Culture and Nature. Nadezhda Viktorovna kindly told us how Khmelita looks after its ancient trees, which were already fully grown in Griboyedov's day. - - We reported on the

Archive · Moscow · Museums

The website of the State Historical Museum now offers a million digitised exhibits from 16 collections: precious metals, fine-art materials, archaeological monuments, early Russian painting, wood and furniture, ceramics and glass, numismatics and…

The website of the State Historical Museum now offers a million digitised exhibits from 16 collections: precious metals, fine-art materials, archaeological monuments, early Russian painting, wood and furniture, ceramics and glass, numismatics and much else besides. And that is not all: the museum promises to add a further 5

Museums · Ethnography · Humour

Do you know what these ultra-fashionable nineteenth-century boots from the museum of the French département of Ardèche were for?

Do you know what these ultra-fashionable nineteenth-century boots from the museum of the French département of Ardèche were for? No, not for some forgotten martial art or a frightening provincial pastime, but for a peaceful and useful business: the husking of chestnuts and acorns, which are eaten. Incidentally,

Books · Museums · Observations · Education

Educational podcasts from HSE, GQ and the Nekrasov Library on Yandex Music

Podcasts once more. Not long ago I wrote about what various museums are recording. Today I shall tell you what else the world of podcasting has to offer by way of education. It seems that everyone has taken up podcasts of late, so finding good content is now fairly easy.

Art · Books · Museums · Rome

Marble copy of the copper dog described by Pliny, in Baron Barracco's museum in Rome

Pliny the Elder waxes enthusiastic about a dog licking its wound in the temple of Juno on the Capitol:. "This art attained a perfection incredible in a man, and with it a boldness to match. … Our generation saw on the Capitol, before it burned down so recently, … a dog