Philippe Jost takes charge of the Notre-Dame construction site
The Élysée is banking on continuity for the restoration site of Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral, partially destroyed in 2019 by…
The British Museum under pressure from TikTok to return Chinese objects
A three-part miniseries, airing on the Chinese version of TikTok, fuels calls for the repatriation of artefacts held at the…
A petition submitted to UNESCO against the Stonehenge tunnel
The associations The Stonehenge Alliance and Save Stonehenge World Heritage Site (SSWHS) went to Paris on Tuesday, September 5, to…
Crimean museum director on Western sanctions list
The list of personalities sanctioned by the European Union (EU), Switzerland and France for their involvement in the war in…
Tunisia will reopen the National Bardo Museum
The Tunisian Ministry of Culture announced the upcoming reopening of the Bardo National Museum, which was forced to close its…
A statue of Marcus Aurelius seized from the Cleveland Museum
The New York District Attorney’s Office recently seized a bronze statue from the Cleveland Museum of Art in Ohio as…
“contemporary African art will bring a lot to the Parcours des Mondes”
Belgian lawyer Yves-Bernard Debie, who succeeded Pierre Moos at the head of Parcours des Mondes, intends to continue to integrate…
World heritage sites also protect endangered species
A joint study by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural…
The director of the Hermitage targeted by Canada
Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, was recently added by Canada to the list of people…
In Brest, an auctioneer killed in a private home
Gilles Grannec, a 55-year-old Brest auctioneer, was found stabbed to death in an apartment in downtown Brest on Tuesday morning….
Ukraine tracks Russian artwork under sanctions
The Ukrainian government has set up a database managed by the National Corruption Prevention Agency (NACP) to prevent Russian oligarchs…
British Museum director leaves earlier than expected
The director of the British Museum, Hartwig Fischer, announced Friday August 25 his immediate resignation. He admitted that he had…