Source link The institution allegedly failed to disclose key details about Ethiopian Orthodox altar tablets looted in the 1860s The British Museum is under investigation for allegedly hiding a collection of sacred Ethiopian artefacts from public view for more than 150 years, a watchdog that gathers information on cultural restitution reported on Sunday. The probe […]
Source link Some of the existing sculptures represent “Bolshevik propaganda,” officials said Ukraine’s leading World War II history museum will remove Soviet-era monuments as part of the ongoing push to erase centuries-old ties to Russia. “The museum space must get rid of the Soviet narrative, which has been used for decades to promote the myth […]
Source link Pyotr Poroshenko vowed to bankroll repairs to a site dedicated to Roman Shukhevich in Lviv, which was destroyed by Russian strikes Former Ukrainian president Pyotr Poroshenko has vowed to fund the restoration of a house museum dedicated to World War II Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevich. The Ukrainian “national heritage site,” located in the […]
Source link Two sites associated with WW2-era Nazi collaborators who have been hailed in present-day Ukraine as national heroes were damaged in the western city of Lviv overnight on January 1st. The development was confirmed on Monday by the city’s mayor, Andrey Sadoviy, who attributed the damage to Ukraine’s “national heritage sites” to Russian drone […]
Source link The head of the Metula council has called for moving Palestinians into Lebanese refugee camps The Gaza Strip should be completely leveled and transformed into an empty museum like the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, discouraging the Palestinians from ever trying to live there again, the head of a town council in northern […]
Source link The renowned Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg is rethinking the way museums manage crowds, according to comments by its director. In an interview with Russian media outlet RBK published on Saturday, Mikhail Piotrovsky cited the way access to Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘The Last Supper’ is arranged at the Santa Maria delle Grazie church […]
Source link Elagabalus will reportedly be referred to as ‘she’, as a classical author claims he asked a lover to call him a lady The North Hertfordshire Museum in Hitchin, England, has announced that the Roman emperor Elagabalus, who ruled Rome from AD 218 until his assassination at the age of 18 in 222, was […]