The European Heritage Association is to host a conference in Dubrovnik on 27 – 29 September 2012 in partnership with EUROPA NOSTRA. This event serves to identify and promote the best museum, heritage and conservation [Read More]
Antiquities
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The National Palace Museum, the Shenyang Palace Museum and the Cartier Collection are proud to jointly present the dazzling exhibition entitled “Royal Style: Qing Dynasty and Western Court Jewelry,” to be held at the National [Read More]
Swedens Nationalmuseum has acquired a very rare Jugendstil table lamp from 1915. It is one of only two known objects designed by Axel Enoch Boman for Orrefors. The lamp can be seen in the exhibition [Read More]
A monumental synagogue building dating to the Late Roman period (ca. 4th-5th centuries C.E.) has been discovered in archaeological excavations at Huqoq in Israel’s Galilee. The excavations are being conducted by Jodi Magness of the [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art in Washingtom presents a New Installation of Early American Furniture and Decorative Arts from the Kaufman Collection to be Unveiled October 7, 2012. When this installation opens on October 7, [Read More]
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has received the Robert Owen Lehman Collection of 34 rare West African works of art. Thirty-two objects are from the Kingdom of Benin in present-day southern Nigeria and [Read More]
The Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art presents a temporary exhibition on view on view from June 30 through September 17, 2012, of rare early-American documents. The exhibition, titled “Declaration: Birth of America,” will include [Read More]
The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana presents Faberge. Imperial Jeweler to the Tsars, an exhibition on view June 23, 2012 – January 6, 2013. Faberge Wedding Clock Perhaps best known for Imperial Easter Eggs created [Read More]
Ten years in the making, from the artisans of the Pharaonic Village in Giza, Egypt and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this dazzling collection of Tutankhamen’s (King Tut) legendary treasures recreates the richest archaeological find [Read More]
English Heritage and the Royal Commissions on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland and Wales have launched the Britain from Above website a four year project aimed at conserving 95,000 of the oldest and [Read More]
The El Paso Museum of Archaeology presents A Cultural Portrait of the Maya, an exhibition on View June 19 through September 9, 2012. The exhibit includes twenty-eight photographs of Maya people, their ancient sites and [Read More]
For centuries in the Islamic world, books have been treasured as precious objects worthy of royal admiration. This was especially true for India’s Mughal emperors, who reigned over a vast and wealthy empire that extended [Read More]
The Hyde Collection presents Tiffany Glass. Painting with Color and Light an exhibition on view June 17–September 16, 2012. Organized by The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York City, the exhibition is comprised [Read More]
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown presents Unearthed. Recent Archaeological Discoveries from Northern China, an exhibition on view June 16, 2012 – October 21, 2012. Civilian Official and Military Officer, Tang Dynasty. [Read More]
The San Diego Museum of Art presents The Invention of Glory. Afonso V and the Pastrana Tapestries, an exhibition on view from June 10 to Sept. 9, 2012. The Conquest of Tangier, (detail) c. 1471-1475, [Read More]
A rich and extraordinary hoard that includes jewelry and silver and gold coins from the Roman period was recently exposed in a salvage excavation in the vicinity of Qiryat Gat. The excavation, undertaken on behalf [Read More]
Thomas P. Campbell, Director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced that distinguished curator, scholar, and archaeologist Dorothea Arnold will retire on June 30, following 21 years as head of the Department of Egyptian Art, [Read More]
Buckingham Palace presents Royal Faberge, an exhibition of over 100 masterpieces from the finest collection of Fabergé in the world, on display from Saturday, 23rd July as part of a special exhibition at Buckingham Palace [Read More]