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Krasnoyarsk Regional Museum in the Egyptian style, designed by Leonid Chernyshyov

An Ancient Egyptian Temple in the Middle of Siberia. What? Yes The Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East and one of the largest in Russia. Its building, designed in the Egyptian style, was the work of the distinguished Krasnoyarsk

Painted sculptures of figures and heads on stands in a museum display case with a red background.

The East · Museums · Society · Saint Petersburg

The Hermitage announced new centres in Korea and Oman after 2022

Mikhail Piotrovsky announces the opening of new Hermitage centres abroad, in Oman and South Korea. The centres in Korea and Oman are the first overseas satellites of the Hermitage to be announced since 2022.

NB! · Art · Museums

In the paintings and portraits of Giorgione there is often a mysterious figure, or several, as in this portrait of a warrior of 1505 from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna

In the paintings and portraits of Giorgione there is often a mysterious figure, or several, as in this portrait of a warrior of 1505 from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. Who is this sinister stranger, peering so intently into the warrior's face? Why does he hold the man&

NB! · Museums · Observations

Call it the curator's dilemma

Art · Museums · Heritage

While the girl's mother was briefly distracted, the child mistook an Enrico Castellani painting worth €200,000 for a blank sheet of paper and decided to draw on it in pencil

While the girl's mother was briefly distracted, the child mistook an Enrico Castellani painting worth €200,000 for a blank sheet of paper and decided to draw on it in pencil. To do so, the girl climbed onto Pecorelli's sculpture "Golden Athena", which depicts

Faith · Art · Museums

Left Hand of Christ with the Wound and Left Foot of Christ with the Wound

Willem Vrelant, Bruges, early 1460s. Tempera, gold leaf, ink on parchment. Collection of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Art · Museums · Humour

Then this drawing will be sold at the Blazar for 250 thousand

Jean Geoffroy. “Guaranteed Likeness”, c. 1880. Municipal Museum, La Roche-sur-Yon

London · Museums · Society

UK Museums Association proposes new code of ethics on sponsorship and climate

The Museums Association of Great Britain has proposed a new code of ethics. Museums are now advised to refuse sponsorship from organisations that damage the environment or violate human rights, and to seek funding from "ethical sources". Institutions are also urged to consider the climate and social consequences

Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage

Ruins of the sunken city of Canopus found off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt

Ruins of the sunken city of Canopus have been found off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. During excavations, archaeologists uncovered limestone buildings, an ancient dock, water reservoirs and monumental statues, among them a sphinx bearing images of the pharaoh Ramesses II. The port of Canopus was one of the

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Museums

Part of the great chain that guarded the approach to Constantinople from the sea

Part of the great chain that guarded the approach to Constantinople from the sea. Galata Tower Museum, Istanbul. A link just like this one, or this very one, was formerly displayed at the Archaeological Museum

Art · Museums

Group Portrait with Ribbons

Boris Orlov, 1987. The exhibition “The Road to the Avant-Garde: Artists in Dialogue in the Journal ‘A-Ya’” at the Zotov Centre

Museums · Observations · Society

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam warns it will close without additional government funding

Following the Louvre, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam has announced financial difficulties. In a recently published press release, the administration stated that the museum will close unless the Dutch government allocates additional funds for renovation. According to the statement, the authorities are "failing to keep the promise"