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At least 90,000 African artefacts in French museums and the procedure for their return

The French Senate Approves a Bill Easing the Restitution of Cultural Property to Former Colonies. The country's museums hold no fewer than 90,000 artefacts removed from Africa during the period of the Second French Colonial Empire. Current French legislation complicates the return of these objects: each item

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A new selection of exhibitions in Moscow

📌 Lev Povzner’s solo exhibition “Куда ночь, туда и сон” at the Alina Pinsky gallery — until 21 February 📌 Olesya Novikova’s solo exhibition “Сарафаны сна” at Cube.Moscow — until 1 March 📌 Sergey Bugayev-Afrika’s solo exhibition “Rebus” at SISTEMA GALLERY — until 8 March 📌 The exhibition “The Romanovs. From Peterhof

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Pan, 2nd century, Archaeological Museum of Gortyn, near Heraklion

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In 2025, over 22 million people visited museums and exhibitions under the Moscow Department of Culture

In 2025, over 22 million people visited museums and exhibitions under the Moscow Department of Culture. That is 30% more than the year before. The most popular were the Museum of Moscow, the museum-reserves “Tsaritsyno”, “Ostankino and Kuskovo”, “Kolomenskoye — Izmailovo”, and the Darwin Museum.

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Yesterday was the fourth time since the start of the December strike that the Louvre was closed to visitors in its entirety

Architecture · Books · Moscow · Museums

Vitruvius from the Pushkin Museum Library on Display in Hall 7 of the Main Building

The "Moscow" Vitruvius from the Pushkin Museum library can be seen in Gallery 7 of the main building. The pages will be turned from time to time; I was promised that this would happen every day. So the original of the book, published in a facsimile copy, can

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Daniele Barbaro's marginalia found in the 1511 Vitruvius edition at the Pushkin Museum

The Pushkin Museum has summed up the results of the "Moscow Vitruvius" project. At the centre of attention of art historians, bibliographers, historians, palaeographers and even graphologists was a rare folio: an edition of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio's treatise Ten Books on Architecture, printed in Venice in

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Five Moscow exhibitions with closing dates from 1 February to 24 May

Where to go: a selection of Moscow exhibitions worth visiting this week. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition "Krasnopevtsev. The Balance of the Unequal" at the AZ/ART Centre for Contemporary Art on Maroseika, until 1 February 📌 The exhibition "New Gothic" at the HSE ART GALLERY in the

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The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts

The term “Art Deco” is an abbreviation of the French Arts Décoratifs from the official title of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. To mark the centenary, the exhibition Paris 1925 has opened at the Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine in the Trocadéro, in

Bronze statuette of a woman warrior in a helmet with spear and shield, on a marble plinth in a museum display case.

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Carlo Sarrabezolles sculpture of 1925 at the National Museum of French Monuments in Paris

The Triumphal Dance of Pallas Athena. Carlo Sarrabezolles, 1925. Paris, National Museum of French Monuments

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Paris police warned Louvre management about outdated security systems before the robbery

The string of absurd updates to the file on the disgraceful Louvre robbery seems destined never to end. New glaring details have come to light, but the chief detail remains unchanged: so far, we have not seen a single resignation. How about this? A month and a half before the

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Golden vase depicting winged bulls, found in a tomb at Marlik, in north-eastern Iran, that is, on the south-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the territory of the ancient satrapy of Hyrcania

Golden vase depicting winged bulls, found in a tomb at Marlik, in north-eastern Iran, that is, on the south-eastern shore of the Caspian Sea, in the territory of the ancient satrapy of Hyrcania. 12th-10th centuries BC. National Museum of Iran, Tehran