An Italian museum has called on patrons to “respect art” after a couple was filmed breaking a chair covered in hundreds of glittering crystals. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei, in Verona, shows a man and woman taking pictures of each other while pretending to sit on the so-called “Van Gogh” chair. The man then...
James Copnall BBC Newsday presenter AFP The Sudan National Museum (pictured here before it was looted) is home to important pieces from ancient Nubian civilisations Imposing statues of rams and lions used to stand in the grounds of Sudan’s National Museum – priceless artefacts from the time when Nubian rulers conquered what is now Egypt...
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order targeting the Smithsonian Institution, which operates more than 20 museums and research centres visited by millions yearly in Washington DC and New York City. The order directs the vice-president to “eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology” from the institute’s museums, centres and the National Zoo in...
Following a long-term commitment to accessibility across the museum, Exeter’s Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) has been nominated for a Visitor Accessibility Award in the prestigious Museums + Heritage awards. Over the past two years the museum has created an Accessibility Champions group of 11 colleagues from the Audience Development, Collections and...