Stability of the 2025 culture budget (for now)
The 2025 draft budget presented yesterday by Prime Minister Michel Barnier indicates a virtual stability of payment appropriations for the…
good but could do better
France. In around twenty years, French museums have evolved from culpable ignorance to voluntary proactivity in terms of restitution of…
Lyon, facing the challenge of global warming
Lyon (Rhone). On the slopes of Croix-Rousse, in the Haussmannian buildings of the Presqu’île or in Renaissance Old Lyon, summers…
Disappearance of Yves Paumelle, founder of Profilculture
Yves Paumelle fought cancer for many years with courage and determination without ever giving up. Just a few days ago,…
Fire at the Saint-Hilaire church in Poitiers
A fire broke out on the morning of October 3 in the nave of the Saint-Hilaire church in Poitiers. Although…
Controversies surrounding a new Oscar Wilde sculpture in London
London. A new sculpture by Oscar Wilde is causing controversy in London, although it has not yet been revealed. Conceptualized…
How Thailand organizes its restitutions
Bangkok (Thailand). If restitution of cultural property aims primarily to repair damage, it can also lead to opportunities. The return…
A Guyanese association requests the restitution of six remains kept at the Museum of Man
Pékapé, Couani, Emo-Marita, Mibipi, Makéré and Miacopo: these six Amerindians of the Kali’na people received, on September 17, a tribute…
The two activists who attacked Les Tournesols were sentenced to prison
The trial of October 14, 2022 concluded with the conviction of the two Just Stop Oil activists who had sprayed…
Australian women’s exhibition back in court
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Hobart (Tasmania), initially convicted of discrimination, has obtained a reprieve. THE…
Olivia Bourrat new cultural attaché at the Villa Albertine
Olivia Bourrat is appointed “museums and heritage” cultural attaché at the Villa Albertine in the United States. Attached to the…
“Everything starts with housing”
At its annual congress on June 13 and 14, the Sites & Cités association adopted a motion calling on the…