The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts has returned a Toi Moko to the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (Te Papa) in Wellington New Zealand. The return to New Zealand of this Māori head [Read More]
Antiquities
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Metropolitan Museum of Art presents 18th–Century Mechanical Furniture by Abraham and David Roentgen in an exhibition on view trough January 27, 2013. Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, is the first comprehensive survey [Read More]
National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh opens Dr Livingstone I Presume? an exhibition on view Friday 23 November 2012 to Sunday 7 April 2013. Raising the curtain on a national celebration of the 200th anniversary [Read More]
Legion of Honor presents Royal Treasures from the Louvre. Louis XIV to Marie-Antoinette, an exhibition on view November 17, 2012–March 17, 2013. he Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor will present Royal [Read More]
Arthur M. Sackler Museum presents Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, an exhibition on view tNovember 17, 2012 – February 24, 2013. Featuring newly discovered artifacts recently excavated from [Read More]
Museum of Ethnology presents PENACHO: pomp and passion, an exhibition on view from from 15 November 2012. Feather head-dress Mexico, Aztec, early 16th century Quetzal, Cotinga, roseate spoonbill, Piaya feathers; wood, fibres, Amate paper, cotton, [Read More]
Boulder History Museum presents Chief Niwot Legend & Legacy, an exhibition on view through Sunday, February 10, 2013. One of the most notable Indians of the plains, a man about whom legends were made. Niwot’s [Read More]
The Ashmolean Museum presents Threads of Silk and Gold. Ornamental Textiles from Meiji Japan, an exhibition on view 9 November through 27 January, 2013. Cormorant ® Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Many of us are [Read More]
Cutty Sark has been named best new tourism project in the UK at the 2012 British Guild of Travel Writers Awards. The awards were announced last night at an event at the Savoy Hotel in [Read More]
Fort Pitt Museum presents Veterans Day Weekend events on November 10-11, 2012, where learn about the people who built and defended Fort Pitt during the 18th century. Interact with costumed interpreters, who will help you [Read More]
American Textile History Museum in Lowell presents Homefront & Battlefield. Quilts & Context in the Civil War, an exhibition on view through November 25, 2012. The American Textile History Museum (ATHM) is contributing to the [Read More]
Gary Tinterow, director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah, director of the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah (DAI), Kuwait, and co-owner with Sheikh Nasser Sabah al-Ahmed al-Sabah of The al-Sabah [Read More]
The National Museum of the American Indian will launch Living Maya Time – Viviendo el tiempo maya—a bilingual website dedicated to highlighting Maya culture and dispelling doomsday myths about the end of the Maya calendar [Read More]
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts opens China’s Terracotta Warriors. The First Emperor’s Legacy, an exhibition of rare works of art from one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time, on view October 28, 2012, [Read More]
The greatest Canadian maritime disaster will soon take centre stage at the Museum of Civilization. Canada’s national history museum has acquired the most comprehensive collection of artifacts and archival material related to the sinking of [Read More]
Cleveland Museum of Art presents Wari. Lords of the Ancient Andes, an exhibition on view October 28, 2012–January 6, 2013. Figure Pendant, 600–1000. Peru, Wari. Wood, shell, stone, and silver; 10.2 x 6.4 x 2.5 [Read More]
Peabody Essex Museum presents The Invention of Glory. Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries, an exhibition on view October 27, 2012 to December 31, 2012. Pastrana Tapestry Peabody Essex Museum Monumental in scale and meticulous [Read More]
Confederate flag, torn down by a Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, a soldier born in Saratoga County and widely remembered as the first Union officer killed in the Civil War, is now on display at the New [Read More]