An employee at the British Museum has been dismissed — and the Metropolitan Police has launched an investigation — after a number of items from the museum’s collection were found to be “missing, stolen or damaged,” the museum said in a statement
London’s Science Museum Group, which includes five UK-run museums, has ended its sponsorship deal with the oil company Equinor following calls for its board to divest from the energy giant. Since 2016, the Norwegian company had sponsored the UK museum’s Wonderlab gallery,
Several museums in the UK have acknowledged the loss, theft, or destruction of hundreds of items from their collections over the past five years, shedding light on a widespread issue in the sector following last year’s British Museum thefts scandal. Among the
Museums have taken on the responsibility of reflecting on everything that is happening in society. They have become a platform for various activities and cannot escape the latest events in the world. Instead of taking to the streets, activists have started to
Two climate activists were recently arrested at the Natural History Museum in London after spraying a dinosaur skeleton reproduction with orange cornstarch while demanding the UK government halt oil and gas projects. Gastroenterologist Dr. Will Stableforth and physiotherapist Steve Fay sprayed the
For the first time, an exhibition will uncover the major contribution of Jewish designers in making London an iconic fashion city. Museum of London Docklands’s exhibition discovers the stories behind the Jewish fashion makers who became leaders in their industries, founded retail
Shanay Jhaveri has been appointed the new Head of Visual Arts at the Barbican, Barbican Art Center reported. Shanay joins the Barbican from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he was Associate Curator of International Art from 2016-2022, after
In the era of technological developments with mind blowing speed , we as human beings had a delusion that we would find immortality in near future. Then we all experienced the pandemic. It has been a year since we first locked down
Murat Daltaban’s play titled Meet Me at Dawn, staged at the London Arcola Theatre was selected for the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Theatre and Performance Collection. Daltaban is an actor and he is also the art director of the independent theatre company
In the rarefied world of Old Master drawings, few names ignite as much fascination—and controversy—as Michelangelo. The most recent addition to his oeuvre, a long-debated sketch titled Study of Jupiter, has finally emerged from the shadows and onto the market. This delicate
