Artnose Museums and Cultural Heritage Archive
The top stories on museums and cultural politics, edited by Artnose cultural heritage correspondent Tom Baroli
Elgin Marbles Made by Englishman: Shock report
THE ELGIN MARBLES were made by an English sculptor and are therefore definitively English and should stay in Britain, according to new research by the renowned Oxford archaeologist Dr Rex Tooms. more...
British Museum director Neil MacGregor to be repatriated to Scotland
The international
museum and heritage communities were reeling this morning at the news that
the
Encyclopaedic Museum 'Starter Kit'
Now even developing nations, tiny countries and insignificant source communities can have their own sprawling encyclopaedic museum just like the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the British Museum in London or the Louvre in Paris! more...
British Museum boss turns down job at New York Mets
The British Museum's head coach, Sir Neil MacBraveheart (left) has rejected an invitation to move to America to manage the beleaguered New York Mets. more...
World-beating encyclopaedic museum to open in downtown Kinshasa
In a dramatic development that has stunned the world’s museum community, an ‘encyclopedic’ museum will open early next year in Kinshasa, the capital of the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo in Central Africa. more...
Rioting Greeks set fire to New Acropolis Museum
The New Acropolis Museum in Athens, designed by award-winning architect Socrates Carbunclifidis, has been set on fire by Greek university students determined to sabotage their government’s attempts to secure the return of the famed Parthenon 'Elgin' Marbles. more...
MacGregor: Empire and Conflict
This special exhibition explores the life, loves and legacy of the world's most powerful and enigmatic museum director, St. Neil MacGregor of Caledonia (reigned AD 2002-forever). more...
Children responsible for looting Iraqi cultural heritage
Children
armed with buckets and spades are responsible for the global black
market in illicit Mesopotamian cultural heritage, according to a
leading Iraqi archaeologist.
Iraq was not invaded after all, say experts
A team of eminent American and British archaeologists who recently inspected a series of Iraqi cultural heritage sites found “no evidence of looting” and have concluded that the allied invasion did not actually take place, but was “just a media fantasy,” according to a new report. more...
Coptic Shock: Brooklyn Museum comes clean over authentic works
Two
thirds of
Private museums "more ubiquitous than satellite dishes" says new report
Private museums are being opened at a rate of one every ten seconds, according to a new report from the Paul Gascoigne Institute of Social Research. more...
Federico da Montebello named as French national soccer coach
Philippo da Montecristo (left), the flamboyant out-going director
of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, is being widely tipped as the
next manager of the French national soccer team
'Elgin' Marbles will be visible from Athens, say experts
Visitors
to the
The British Museum, the world's first 'Universal Museum', a living, breathing, pulsating 'encyclopaedia' of world culture containing numerous examples of every single thing ever made by humankind, has announced its acquisition of the Pacific island archipelago of Melanesia, north east of Australia. more...
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