#museumsheritage — Public Fediverse posts

Smithsonian races to finalise site for national Latino museum https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/21/smithsonian-institution-latino-museum-arts-industries-building-washington?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #NationalMuseumoftheAmericanLatino

Smithsonian races to finalise site for national Latino museum https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/21/smithsonian-institution-latino-museum-arts-industries-building-washington?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #NationalMuseumoftheAmericanLatino

More than 100 works from Canada’s federal collection of Indigenous art are ‘unaccounted for’ https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/21/canada-federal-indigenous-art-collection-111-works-unaccounted-for?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Indigenousart

More than 100 works from Canada’s federal collection of Indigenous art are ‘unaccounted for’ https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/21/canada-federal-indigenous-art-collection-111-works-unaccounted-for?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Indigenousart

Colombia earthquake damaged 40 protected sites and dozens more cultural assets, report finds https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/19/colombia-earthquake-ministry-culture-report-heritage-damage?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Naturaldisaster

Colombia earthquake damaged 40 protected sites and dozens more cultural assets, report finds https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/19/colombia-earthquake-ministry-culture-report-heritage-damage?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Naturaldisaster

US National Gallery of Art acquires paintings, sculptures and photographs spanning five centuries https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/19/national-gallery-art-us-acquisitions-wifredo-lam-marie-bracquemond?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #NationalGalleryofArtWashingtonDC

US National Gallery of Art acquires paintings, sculptures and photographs spanning five centuries https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/19/national-gallery-art-us-acquisitions-wifredo-lam-marie-bracquemond?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #NationalGalleryofArtWashingtonDC

Donald Judd’s retrofitted Artillery Sheds in Texas to undergo extensive restoration work https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/19/donald-judd-artillery-sheds-marfa-texas-restoration-chinati-foundation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #TheChinatiFoundation

Donald Judd’s retrofitted Artillery Sheds in Texas to undergo extensive restoration work https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/19/donald-judd-artillery-sheds-marfa-texas-restoration-chinati-foundation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #TheChinatiFoundation

Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/stolen-matisse-works-recovered-sao-paulo-brazil-heist?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #SãoPaulo

Police recover eight Matisse works stolen in Brazil heist https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/stolen-matisse-works-recovered-sao-paulo-brazil-heist?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #SãoPaulo

Human skull featuring elaborate mosaic ornamentation repatriated to Mexico https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/human-skull-turquoise-mosaic-repatriated-netherlands-mexico?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Repatriation

Human skull featuring elaborate mosaic ornamentation repatriated to Mexico https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/08/17/human-skull-turquoise-mosaic-repatriated-netherlands-mexico?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Repatriation

How museum funding in Denmark has become reliant on visitor numbers

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How museum funding in Denmark has become reliant on visitor numbers

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/31/how-museum-funding-in-denmark-has-become-reliant-on-visitor-numbers

Arts organisations taking part in the general strike include the ... The general strike and mass protest come just over two weeks after an ...

In protest of federal immigration enforcement officers’ violent campaign in the city, hundreds of local business and organisations will shutter on 23 January#USpolitics #Protests #WalkerArtCenter #MinneapolisInstituteofArt #Minneapolis #DonaldTrump #Museums&Heritage
Museums and galleries in Minneapolis join citywide general strike in protest of Ice operations

Protecting North America’s oldest cave art after an historic flood raised new alarms https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/31/protecting-north-america-oldest-cave-art-after-historic-flood?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Caves

Houston's Rothko Chapel reopens after hurricane damage is repaired https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/16/rothko-chapel-reopens-hurricane-beryl-repairs-houston?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #MarkRothko

Vancouver Art Gallery scraps plan for new, $444m Herzog and de Meuron-designed building https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/04/vancouver-art-gallery-scraps-herzog-de-meuron-design-new-building?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #VancouverArtGallery

Caravaggio portrait, unseen for decades, goes on view in Rome https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/caravaggio-portrait-public-view-rome?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Exhibitions #MuseumsHeritage

Controversial Science Museum sponsor charged in US over alleged bribery scheme https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/controversial-science-museum-sponsor-charged-over-alleged-bribery-scheme-in-us?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Sponsorship

Rotterdam’s new museum of migration, Fenix, to open in May https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/22/rotterdams-new-museum-of-migration-fenix-to-open-in-may?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Fenix

Vancouver Art Gallery expands Asian art programme with $1.1m gift https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/20/vancouver-art-gallery-centre-global-asias-donation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #VancouverArtGallery

Unesco steps in to protect Lebanese heritage sites https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/19/unesco-steps-in-to-protect-lebanese-heritage-sites?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #Unesco

Smithsonian American Art Museum’s director removed following staff complaints https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/18/smithsonian-american-art-museum-director-stephanie-stebich-removed?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #SmithsonianInstitution

Toledo Museum of Art uses cryptocurrency to acquire digital art piece https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/11/18/toledo-museum-art-cryptocurrency-acquisition-yatreda-nft?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #ToledoMuseumofArt

Notre Dame's fresh interior—cleaned with controversial latex paste—will deliver a 'shock', restoration chief promises http://dlvr.it/Sd9lpG #MuseumsHeritage #CathedralofNotreDame

Canada's National Gallery abruptly lays off four senior staff, including chief curator and Indigenous art curator http://dlvr.it/Sd8ZHt #Appointmentsdepartures #MuseumsHeritage

Canada's National Gallery abruptly lays off four senior staff, including chief curator and Indigenous art curator http://dlvr.it/Sd8ZHt #Appointmentsdepartures #MuseumsHeritage

Gainsborough’s new home: museum dedicated to artist reopens in 'sweet' English village http://dlvr.it/Sd6tSv #Museums #MuseumsHeritage

Climate activists target billionaire François Pinault's private collection in Paris http://dlvr.it/Sd6mDq #Climateprotest #MuseumsHeritage

Washington, DC’s National Gallery of Art acquires Leonardo da Vinci drawing that helped inspire centuries of caricature artists https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/18/national-gallery-art-washington-dc-acquires-leonardo-da-vinci-drawing?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #LeonardodaVinci

Massachusetts museum repatriates Wounded Knee Massacre artefacts to Lakota and Sioux nations https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/17/founders-museum-massachusetts-native-american-repatriation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage

With the threat of cuts, unions get militant in UK museums—and their membership is growing rapidly https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/17/with-the-threat-of-cuts-unions-get-militant-in-uk-museums?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #Museums

Historic London foundry that made Big Ben's bells could be saved from hotel development https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/17/historic-london-bell-foundry-could-be-saved-from-hotel-development?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #Heritage

Are museums becoming more inclusive? New surveys of museum workers and trustees provide modest hope https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/16/mellon-foundation-black-trustee-alliance-art-museums-surveys-diversity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #AndrewWMellonFoundation

Climate activists in Vienna pour oil over Gustav Klimt painting in Vienna https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/15/climate-activists-in-vienna-pour-oil-over-gustav-klimt-painting-in-vienna?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #Climateprotest #MuseumsHeritage

Activists 'severely underestimate the fragility' of objects: 92 global museum directors speak out against climate protests https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/10/activists-severely-underestimate-the-fragility-of-objects-92-global-museum-directors-speak-out-against-climate-protests?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #Climateprotest

Miami Beach’s Bass museum receives $20.1m municipal bond to build new wing https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/10/bass-museum-municipal-bond-20m-miami-beach-midterm-election-new-wing?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #MiamiBeach

San Francisco museums will waive admissions for a weekend thanks to anonymous donation https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/09/san-francisco-free-museums-weekend-donation?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #SanFrancisco

'A discovery that will rewrite history': 24 exceptionally well preserved bronzes unearthed by archaeologists in Tuscany https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/08/a-discovery-that-will-rewrite-history-24-exceptionally-well-preserved-bronzes-unearthed-by-archaeologists-in-tuscany?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #Discoveries #MuseumsHeritage

'Don't expect us to be passive in the face of restitution': British Museum chair defies return of looted artefacts https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/08/british-museum-chair-george-osborne-defies-restitution-movement-in-speech?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #Museums #MuseumsHeritage

Antiquities trafficking charges against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and curator Jean-François Charnier could be dropped https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/08/egyptian-antiquities-trafficking-charges-against-former-louvre-director-jean-luc-martinez-and-curator-jean-francois-charnier-could-be-dropped?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=%5Btwitter%5D&utm_campaign=%5Brogue_corq%5D #MuseumsHeritage #JeanLucMartinez