Articles for Public Museums

New exhibition in Beijing offers glimpse into ancient Greece
1 month ago

New exhibition in Beijing offers glimpse into ancient Greece

China Daily  

An exhibition featuring hundreds of collections from Greek museums opened to the public on Thursday in Beijing, the capital of China, offering a panoramic view of the history and culture of ancient Greece. The exhibition features 270 pieces or sets of collections from 14 Greek museums and institutes, including pottery, stone statues and gold artifacts, according to the ambassador of …

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Is it ever ethical for museums to display human remains?
11 months ago

Is it ever ethical for museums to display human remains?

BBC  

Is it ever ethical for museums to display human remains? When the Human Remains Working Group of the German Museums Association drew up its first guidelines in 2013, "for our recommendations, it really didn't matter if a person died 100 years ago or 1,000 years ago", says ethnologist Wiebke Ahrndt, the chair of the working group. Getty Images Like many …

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Three new spaces for art and culture and pondering the museum’s changing mandate
1 year, 2 months ago

Three new spaces for art and culture and pondering the museum’s changing mandate

The Hindu  

Last year, on a whim, I wrote to British-Indian sculptor Anish Kapoor, inviting him, along with dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and award winning West African architect Francis Kere, to create public artworks in India. But, what had driven me to this illogical invite was the fact that both Indian gallery art and public art rarely ever make magnanimous and …

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Curator Alka Pande believes museums are laboratories of ideas
1 year, 6 months ago

Curator Alka Pande believes museums are laboratories of ideas

The Hindu  

Art historian and curator Alka Pande admits that August 7 is going to be a very busy day. Three events will be coinciding that day: the second edition of the Bihar Museum Biennale 2023, which will witness a slew of Indian and international museums showcasing their work across four days of symposiums; the Together We Art exhibition, which will spotlight …

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Showtime returns
2 years, 5 months ago

Showtime returns

China Daily  

Shanghai Museum welcomes the first batch of visitors on July 1 after its reopening. GAO ERQIANG/CHINA DAILY Art scene rebounds as venues open their doors to a grateful and enthusiastic public, reports Zhang Kun. Theaters and museums in Shanghai are busy holding events after reopening their doors to the public following the latest COVID-19 outbreak that resulted in a citywide …

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Where are India’s textile museums?
2 years, 7 months ago

Where are India’s textile museums?

Live Mint  

While India is home to many relics that reflect its rich cultural history, our textiles are among the true vanguards of our values and living traditions. Barring the Calico Museum of Textiles and a handful of galleries, India lacks adequate or suitable homes for our textile archives. Why can't some of the textile budget be used to create singular professionally …

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Hope takes flight: L.A.’s Natural History Museum will reopen its Butterfly Pavilion & gardens
4 years, 3 months ago

Hope takes flight: L.A.’s Natural History Museum will reopen its Butterfly Pavilion & gardens

LA Times  

One can only hope that an exhibition of fluttering butterflies — a mess of gold-speckled, zebra-striped and shimmering silver wings swooping through the garden air — brings a resurgence of levity and hope to Angelenos more than five months into a pandemic. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County announced Monday that it will open its Butterfly Pavilion and …

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9/11 Museum to Reopen on September 11 with Restrictions after Six Months of Lockdown
4 years, 4 months ago

9/11 Museum to Reopen on September 11 with Restrictions after Six Months of Lockdown

News 18  

New York: Nearly six months after the coronavirus forced its closure, the 9/11 Memorial Museum will be reopening on the anniversary of the terrorist attacks next month, first to those who lost loved ones and then to the general public, museum officials announced Thursday. The memorial plaza had been open to the public with social distancing restrictions since early July, …

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