Architecture · Museums · Science · Paris · Saint Petersburg
In 1931, a Foucault pendulum, the invention of a French astronomer of 1851 that demonstrates the rotation of the Earth, was installed beneath the dome of Saint Isaac's Cathedral. And if the pendulum that Jean Foucault hung beneath the dome of the Paris Panthéon on a 67-metre
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
If you hurried through the Egyptian hall of the Louvre to get to the tiny Mona Lisa sooner, I advise you to correct the mistake and make the acquaintance, at the very least, of the figure of the Seated Scribe Kay. He is undeservedly neglected, although many historians and art
Museums · Observations · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography · Humour
The essence of the Kunstkamera, Peter's legendary cabinet of curiosities, in a single sentence. Our museum is about the culture and way of life of the peoples of the world, and therefore it does not display the freaks, dwarfs, giants and other monsters who amused the grandees of
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Museums
The Etruscan deity of the rising sun, Cavatha, depicted on a bronze chariot plaque. One of the most powerful figures in the Etruscan pantheon, to whom 80 sacrifices were offered each year
Museums · Heritage · Society · Paris
Today the Louvre was forced to close owing to a staff strike. The strike is the outcome of a mounting crisis that began several months ago, after the leak of a letter from the museum's director, Laurence des Cars, to the French Minister of Culture. In it she
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage
An incredible medieval crucifix of copper alloy by the craftsmen of Limoges, which returned a couple of years ago to York, where it was long kept in St Mary's Abbey, now no more. The Yorkshire Museum bought the figure at auction for 8,500 euros. For more than
Art · Museums · Heritage
Participants in the theft of the golden lavatory have been sentenced. The landmark work by Maurizio Cattelan, the very Italian-American who taped a banana to a wall, entitled "America", was stolen straight out of a museum in 2019. At around five o'clock on the morning
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
In the spring of 1885, a magnificent bronze sculpture of a resting boxer was found during excavations on the Quirinal Hill in Rome. The most interesting thing is that, unlike many finds from antiquity, this sculpture was originally hidden on purpose. Its excellent state of preservation is explained precisely by
Museums · Paris · Ethnography
What Do Henpecked Husbands Have to Do with Birds of Prey? The klobuk is not only a monk's headdress: it is also the name of the little cap placed on a hunting bird, covering its eyes completely and its ears in part. The hood is needed to calm
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Archive · Books · Moscow · Museums
Nikolai [Rogozhin] From the exhibition in the Rare Books Department of the Historical Library
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Former director of the Frida Kahlo Museum in Mexico City, Hilda Trujillo Soto, accuses the museum's board of trustees of concealing the disappearance of the artist's works. Trujillo claims that during her time at the museum she discovered discrepancies between the inventory of works compiled by