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The Dresden State Art Collections were hit by a cyberattack on 21 January 2026. As a result, online services have stopped working: the web shop, ticket sales and visitor services. The museums remain open, the security systems are functioning, and tickets purchased before the attack remain valid. The police and
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The Louvre and the National Galleries of Scotland lent Chardin's still lifes, sung by Diderot, for Dior's summer collection show in June 2025. Two paintings by one of the greatest realist artists of the 18th century graced the debut show of Jonathan Anderson, the new creative
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Spanish fresco of the first half of the twelfth century from the monastery church of San Baudelio de Berlanga. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art · Moscow · Museums · Heritage
The Historical Museum Completes Restoration of Henryk Siemiradzki's Monumental Canvases "The Funeral Feast of Sviatoslav's Warriors after the Battle of Dorostolon" and "The Funeral of a Rus in Bulgar" The paintings were commissioned by the museum's founder, Count Uvarov, in
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The Traditional Round-Up of Moscow's Exhibitions. 📌 Closing soon: the exhibition “Krasnopevtsev. The Balance of the Unequal” at the AZ/ART Museum, until 1 February 📌 The exhibition “A Private Collection” at the Our Artists gallery, until 1 March 📌 The exhibition “From the Patriotic War to the Decembrists. Icons,
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The Centre Pompidou gives up one of its two exhibition spaces at the Grand Palais owing to financial difficulties faced by both institutions. While the main building of the Centre Pompidou is closed for renovation, the museum has been using two venues at the Grand Palais; it has now been
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Diana of Anet, made around 1550 and crowning a monumental fountain in the park of the Château d'Anet. Unfortunately, the sculptor's name has remained unknown, but this masterpiece has been attributed, consistently and mistakenly, to Benvenuto Cellini, Jean Goujon and Germain Pilon. Collection of the Louvre;
Archaeology · Museums · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
For more than 70 years, bones in the collection of the University of Alaska Museum of the North were mistaken for the remains of a mammoth. In 1951–1952 the anthropologist Otto Geist found these bones in the interior of Alaska and gave them to the museum, and from then
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At present the Manuscripts Department of the Tolstoy Museum holds some 300,000 items, more than half of them sheets bearing the classic's autographs. The idea of a museum of Lev Nikolayevich's manuscripts was first voiced by Fekla Tolstaya as long ago as 2018. The writer&
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Louvre staff continue their strike amid lack of progress in talks between the museum's management and the Ministry of Culture. The strikes, which began in mid-December, resumed on 5 January after a break for the holidays. The museum was closed today. The trade unions are demanding higher
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In the regular "Where to Go" column: Moscow exhibitions you can visit this week. 📌 Closing soon: "Karl Bryullov. Rome – Moscow – Saint Petersburg" at the Tretyakov Gallery, until 18 January 📌 Closing soon: "From Dawn to Dusk: Byzantine Coins from the Collection of G.A. Shchetinin"
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In 1896 the Louvre bought the tiara of the Scythian king Saitaphernes for 220,000 francs. Eight of the foremost specialists in antiquity and the history of art pronounced it a masterpiece and assured the museum that it would become the pride of the Louvre. The Imperial Museum in Vienna