Rachida Dati and the national domains
Paris. Did the Pantheon, the Arc de Triomphe or the Hôtel de la Marine need additional heritage protection? These three…
The new director of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium wants to bring the museum out of compartmentalization
Kim Oosterlinck, 50, with a degree in art history and a doctorate in economics and management from the Free University…
The Museum of West African Art gradually opens its doors
4 years after the project was announced, the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) opened its first building – the…
Wind turbines, still an abomination for sites and monuments
France. Among the latest projects which caused a lot of noise: that of building three wind turbines in Porspoder (Finistère)…
The first Concorde registered as a Historic Monument
The Concorde Historic Monument! This has been done for a few weeks. The Air and Space Academy founded by André…
Moscow Gulag History Museum closed “temporarily”
The Gulag History Museum in Moscow closed its doors “temporarily” on Thursday, November 14, 2024 due to alleged technical problems….
The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco will temporarily close
The Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco (CJM) announced its temporary closure in a press release dated November 13, 2024….
The British Museum received a priceless donation
The Sir Percival David Foundation has donated 1,700 pieces of Chinese ceramics worth £1 billion (€1.2 billion) to the British…
Miren Arzalluz future director of the Guggenheim Bilbao
After a career in cultural institutions devoted to fashion, Miren Arzalluz (46) will leave her position as director at the…
The extension of the Guggenheim Bilbao hotly contested
Basque Country (Spain). The project to create a second Guggenheim Museum (already established in Bilbao) in the Basque Country, in…
Serquigny Castle acquired by the City for €1
The 21 owners of the Serquigny castle, which was seriously damaged by the fire on December 31, 2023, signed an…
New Holocaust Museum to open in Thessaloniki in 2026
A Holocaust Museum will open in 2026 in Thessaloniki (Greece), in memory of the city’s Jewish community, massacred during the…