The thousand year-old Fatimid rock crystal ewer from the Keir Collection of Edmund de Unger The discovery of this intricately crafted rock crystal ewer recently caused a sensation on the British art market. The priceless [Read More]
Antiquities
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The British Library and Google have announced a partnership to digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books from the Library’s collections. This major project plans to digitise up to 40 million pages from 1700-1870, from the French Revolution [Read More]
Dassault Systèmes, announced that the Giza Archives Project at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), was selected by the IDG Computerworld Honors Program as a 2011 Laureate. The annual award program taking place tonight [Read More]
Edwin Davies OBE has donated one of the world’s finest collections of Japanese cloisonné enamels to the V&A. Thanks to his significant gift, the V&A is now able to show the most wide-ranging selection of [Read More]
Explore ancient Egyptian beliefs about life, death, and the afterlife in To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum , while celebrating the birthday of the Nevada Museum of Art – commemorating the 80th [Read More]
The Frick Collection Summer Presentation Explores Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette. exhibition on view June 7 through September 11, 2011. Small Console Table with Supporting Figures of Nubians (detail of one of a [Read More]
Under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan, The Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) in Los Angeles, and World Monuments Fund (WMF) are launching the Middle [Read More]
In 2010, 90,146 archaeological objects were recorded through the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), a 36% increase on 2009, and 859 Treasure cases, up 10%; the British Museum manages the PAS, and also administers the Treasure [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Presents Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son on view through November 13, 2011. Astonishing archaeological discoveries made during the extraordinarily successful excavations [Read More]
US$200,000 GRANT PART OF AMERICAN EXPRESS-WMF SUSTAINABLE TOURISM INITIATIVE World Monuments Fund (WMF), American Express, and the Corporación Nacional Forestal de Chile (CONAF) celebrated the completion of a sustainable visitor reception center on Easter Island [Read More]
The Cleveland Museum of Art has acquired two noteworthy objects of the ancient Andean Wari people at auction. The unique and celebrated Bag with Human Head is a painted animal hide pouch in superb condition [Read More]
The Lost City Museum will be hosting Adult Archaeology Day on May 28th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., which will allow adults to learn the process of archaeology by participating in a mock excavation [Read More]
The Frick Art & Historical Center will present an exhibition Fabergé: The Hodges Family Collection. Open October 22, 2011–January 15, 2012. This exhibition features a splendid group of over 100 objects made by famed Russian [Read More]
The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy, on view May 8, 2011–July 31, 2011, features thirty-seven sculptures from the tomb of John the Fearless (1342–1404), the second duke of Burgundy. His elaborate tomb, [Read More]
The Canadian Museum of Civilization (CMC) have announced that the two institutions will host Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World, a remarkable exhibition highlighting the ancient Mesoamerican civilization’s Classic Period (250 to 900 AD) and [Read More]
Exhibition showcases hidden Venetian treasures from Isabella Gardner’s rare books collection From May 3 to June 19, visitors to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum are invited to take a closer look at seven Venetian manuscripts [Read More]
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco presents Marvelous Menagerie: A Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel, Exhibition open April 23 to July 24, 2011. First unearthed in 1996 in a rescue excavation in Lod, ancient [Read More]
The Norton Simon Museum presents Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu-Buddhist World. On view April 22, 2011 – August 01, 2011. Before ancient objects enter a museum collection, they often travel vast [Read More]