An illuminated play text from the fifteenth century, has been acquired for the nation and allocated to the British Library by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax under the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme [Read More]
Antiquities
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Radiant Light: Stained Glass from Canterbury Cathedral an exhibition on view February 25 – May 18, 2014. A splendid array of six near-life-size enthroned figures in stained glass from [Read More]
Joslyn Art Museum presents Poseidon and the Sea: Myth, Cult, and Daily Life an exhibition on view February 8 through May 11. The realms of Poseidon encompassed virtually every aspect of life in the ancient [Read More]
The AUB Archaeological Museum opened a special exhibition on January 29, 2014, showcasing a reconstruction of a Phoenician man, whose 2500-year-old skeleton was discovered in Tunis, in 1994. The reconstruction uses criminal investigation techniques and [Read More]
The reopening of the Royal Norfolk Regimental Museum at Norwich Castle, has been marked with a brass band raising the roof of the Castle Keep. The stories of soldiers who served with the Regiment are [Read More]
The New York State Museum presents an exhibition featuring a selection of important New York State decorative and fine arts artifacts that were recently donated to the Museum by Peter Wunsch, President of the Wunsch [Read More]
A new display showcases highlights from the collections while their permanent home, Room 41, is being refurbished. The new gallery will reopen in Spring 2014. The British Museum’s collections covering the period AD 300 to [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York presents Cleopatra’s Needle an exhibition on view through June 8, 2014. This exhibition celebrates the Central Park Conservancy’s upcoming conservation on the obelisk of Thutmose III, popularly [Read More]
The new Stonehenge exhibition and visitor centre opens on Wednesday 18 December. For the first time, visitors will have a proper introduction to one of the world’s most important prehistoric monuments. Over 250 objects of [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art, Roma Capitale, and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC, present one of the most famous works from antiquity, the Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman sculpture created during the first [Read More]
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago presents The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archeology an exhibition on view March 9, 2014, a group exhibition tracing contemporary artists’ pervasive interest in history, archaeology, and archival [Read More]
Institut Valencia d’Art Modern (IVAM) presents Tea with Nefertiti: The making of an artwork by the artist, the museum and the public open November 8, 2013–January 26, 2014. After a critically acclaimed run at Mathaf, [Read More]
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC presents Heaven and Earth: Art of Byzantium from Greek Collections on view through March 2, 2014. In the first exhibition devoted to Byzantine art at the National [Read More]
More than 100 years after they were first on view to the public in museum-founder Charles Lang Freer’s Detroit home, two rare antique biblical manuscripts will return to view at the Freer Gallery of Art [Read More]
The Museum of Western Colorado presents Distant Treasures in the Mist a new exhibition opening NOVEMBER 8, 2013. The exhibition will feature Spanish Colonial artifacts found at the Redoubt Site by the Western Investigations Team. [Read More]
The National Museum of Australia in Canberra has acquired the 1866 Melbourne Cup won by The Barb, regarded as the first great Australian racehorse trained by ‘Honest’ John Tait, the ‘Father of the Australian Turf’. [Read More]
The Dallas Museum of Art presents a set of art objects from a 5th-century B.C. burial site in Spina, Italy, go on view at the museum from November 1, 2013. The exhibition is the first [Read More]
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents Silla: Korea’s Golden Kingdom an exhibition on view November 4 – February 23, 2014. In the ancient world, the Korean kingdom of Silla (57 B.C.–A.D. 935) was renowned as [Read More]