Tag: museums
Chabouté imagines the hidden life of museums in a graphic novel
Do you know what happens in museums when the visitors are no longer there? This is what the author and designer Christophe Chabouté imagined in his graphic novel entitled Museum.…
Unique collection of taxidermied birds part of St. Marys Museum’s 2023 seminar series
News Local News A century-old collection of taxidermied birds will be part of the St. Marys Museum’s upcoming seminar series, including its passenger pigeon – a specimen collected before the…
The museums are losing visitors
In January, visits decreased by between 10 and 67 percent at the state museums that introduced entrance fees, compared to an average of the previous four months. Visits to the…
In France, museums have (almost) found their visitors
Everywhere in France, museums and monuments are reviving attendance. The return of foreign tourists, with the exception of the Chinese, has a lot to do with it. And even if…
Dear bills, Sangiuliano (Culture): 40 million for cinemas, theatres, museums and concert halls
(Finance) – The Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano signed a decree, with the aim of mitigate the effects of expensive utility bills and to support with a contribution of 40…
Museums benefit from rainy Christmas holidays: ‘Again a bit like before corona’
At the National Military Museum in Soesterberg, the “old-fashioned feeling” from before corona is also back, says Michaela van Grinsven. “The entire museum is full of children. We now have…
Museums fear a large loss of visitors after the end of free admission
After the turn of the year, it will cost adults to enter state museums after the government decided to remove the subsidy. And the museums expect a drop in visitors…
The new government will return admission fees to Sweden’s state museums – the director of the national museum is also concerned about the crisis preparedness of cultural sites
STOCKHOLM The Swedish National Museum, or Nationalmuseum, is in Stockholm on the parade ground: on the opposite bank is the Royal Palace and a stone’s throw away is the modern…
The ancestor of lizards came out of the museum’s closet! Labeled as another reptile
UK-based Bristol University and Natural History Museum officials announced yesterday that they had identified a ‘mislabeled’ fossil from the 1950s as the ancestor of today’s lizards in the museum’s storage…
Exhibition: “Museums in exile”, the importance of art for the identity of peoples
/ Podcasts / Cultural meeting Three art collections and as many acts of resistance to dictatorship, war or colonization are the subject of an exhibition at the contemporary art museum…