カテゴリー: Museums
Pitcairn Register details lives of ‘extraordinarily resilient’ Tahitian women enslaved during notorious mutinyIt is a book that records the 19th-century descendants of some of the most notorious troublemakers in naval history: the sailors responsible f…
British Museum, LondonA lovable elephant deity and a floating serpent goddess are just two of the highlights in this sensual show about three of the country’s great religionsAbout 2,000 years ago, Indian art went through a stunning transformation led, …
Nasreen and Hasan Askari open Karachi museum with her 1,000-piece centuries-old collection from trade crossroads As a young medical student in 1970s Pakistan, Nasreen Askari had an encounter that would shape her for ever.After asking the mother of a si…
Openings across Africa and Asia offer new cultural experiences in stunning architectural surroundingsFrom a noisy, performative and unapologetically non-European Yorùbá cultural centre in Lagos, Nigeria, to the much-delayed Grand Egyptian Museum in Giz…
British Museum will host treasures from Samarkand in a bid to dispel cliches of camels, spices and bazaarsA monumental six-metre-long wall painting created in the 7th century, and 8th-century ivory figures carved for one of the world’s oldest surviving…
Indian high commission made claim bronze depicting Tirumankai Alvar which it believes may have been lootedOxford University has announced it is to hand back a 500-year-old sculpture of a Hindu saint to India.The almost 60cm-tall bronze statue, which de…
Exhibition features objects never before seen in Europe and draws lessons from Mongol empire relevant to todayIt was a major cultural row between France and China, prompting a history museum to pull the plug on one of its most important exhibitions of …
A lesson from India | Superficial self-care | On yer bike | Sunak SunkRe commemorating slave traders (Letters, 22 September), wandering out the back of the Government Museum in Chennai, India, I chanced on a couple of abandoned statues of imperial maje…
From cobra-headed deities behind tills to the farmers who invaded Delhi, set up camp and stayed for a year, these uncompromising images reveal a side to the country that is rarely seenGauri Gill started out in her 20s, a Delhi-based photojournalist cov…
‘It’s time for a whole host of other perspectives,’ says museum’s director after £15m redevelopmentAfter 18 months of closure and a £15m redevelopment, Manchester Museum will reopen to the public on Saturday.Alongside the existing collection of about 4…
A bowl, teacup and plate – dating from 15th and 17th centuries – were broken in three separate incidentsTaiwan’s national palace museum has admitted to previously undisclosed breakages of three artefacts from the Ming and Qing dynasties, worth a report…
Director says it’s ‘time to tell new stories’ as people from south Asian diaspora contribute experiencesA museum with a dizzying, encyclopaedic collection that spans Egyptian mummies, dinosaur skeletons and live Costa Rican frogs is to reopen next year…
From music to movies, technology to food, the world has fallen in love with everything South Korean. Ahead of a big London exhibition, Tim Adams visits Seoul in search of the origins of hallyu – the Korean waveOur critics on where to start with Korean …
Even as the pandemic rolls on, Te Papa Tongarewa is assembling objects that will chart Aotearoa’s coronavirus journeyOn a table in a back room of New Zealand’s national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, is a canvas bag emblazoned with an image of prime minist…
Remains returned from UK Natural History Museum as well as from across New Zealand, a century after being dug up as curiosities by explorersThe skeletal remains of more than 100 Moriori ancestors, the Indigenous people of Rēkohu – or the Chatham Island…